From: Jasper
Date: 1/5/01
Time: 11:47:05 AM
John,
I am the first one to admit when I have made a mistake. I look for my mistakes When I find them I correct them. When someone else finds them I thank them for the correction. The "Bill" Gates matter is a case in point. This is a case from very recent history that you know well. .. So why are you suggesting that I lied about your blood scenario fitting all of the facts?
The truth is, it doesn't. But I hope everyone will check it out with an open mind and draw their own conclusions.
The problem I have with your theory of the killer driving the Bronco, is that it was my theory, too, for over a year and a half. In fact, your entire appoach to figuring out who did what and how is the first approach I took (see Occam's Razor in Iago, page 667). Both of us know that applying Occam's Razor is the most logical approach to solving the problem. The difference between us is not how we started looking for the killer, but where and why we stopped. You have to stop somewhere or the search will go on forever and the killer will never be prosecuted for what he did. But if you stop too soon there is good scientific evidence to show that the likelihood of you ever pursing another path if very remote (your brain cells become resistant to forming new networks of association).
Up to the point where O.J.'s cut finger was starting to pile up more explanations of "coincidence," "lying witnesses" and complex conspircy theories than a credible expanation could stand, the one killer theory seemed to work. From a stricly logical point of view, the best way to frame O.J. would have been for one person to do it (the fewer people involved the better) and for that person to have used shoes and a weapon that could be traced to O.J. and to have driven O.J.'s Bronco and parked it in an incriminating way. It was a neat solution that seemed to fit all of the "important" evidence. There were a lot of "little" things that didn't fit, but there were explanations for ALMOSTall of them that left the one killer theory intact -- until I tried to nail down the "little" things that I couldn't get to work. Every time I tried to resolve the details associatied with the cut finger and the blood that was supposed to have come from it on Bundy and in and around the Rockingham estate, I ran into a logical inconsistency that ruled out everyone except O.J. and Ron Shipp.
Then I ran into a problem with Ron Shipp's ability to have done some of the things the killer did and a problem with the timeline and O.J.'s cut finger that one killer could not explain away.
The only way someone could have acted alone was if the killings happened closer to 10:00 than 10:30. But if that were so the only timeline witness that could be trusted were Eva Stein and Pablo Fenjves. That's where the one killer theory falls completely apart and you have to start taking a closer look at the evidence as it is rather than how it should be if the killer were smart -- which he had to be.
John, your timline is demonstrably incorrect. The Bronco did not move from the last time O.J. drove it from his driveway to the street and O.J.'s blood INSIDE of the glove creates a host of problems for explaining the amount of DNA (a mixture of O.J.'s, Nicole's and Ron's) that was not found in the blood on the steering wheel. These problems have to do with when O.J.'s blood was deposited on the steering wheel.
O.J. said that the didn't know when he cut himself. His best guess (which happens to give him an alibi that everyone can appreciate) is that it didn't happen until he was dressed and ready to go to the airport at 11:03. That was the first time he said he noticed it. The real blood trail at Rockingham consisting of the bloodrops that Fung, not Roberts, marked say he cut himself shortly before he walked the dog at 10:04. That was right after his second cell phone call to Paula Barbiari. His first stop was the Bronco where he looked for a missing golf club while Chachi was reliefing herself across the street. It seems likely that he did get some of his blood inside the Bronco at that time. The amount of it that was found in the Bronco was consistant with a small cut like the droplits of his blood that Fung collected on the driveway. Between 10:04 when O.J. went to the Bronco to 10:15 or 10:20 when went into the house, he was outside in the front yard chipping golf balls (Iago, page 475). When you factor in the 2-degree angle at which the Bronco was parked and the acute angle between the driveway and the curb, the only story that fits all of the facts is O.J.'s. That includes what he said about not knowing when he was cut. The blood drops prove that he didn't know -- but the killer did. --Jasper