From: Jasper
Date: 7/22/01
Time: 3:09:51 PM
Allita,
The prosecutor you are trying to think of is Vincent Bugliosi. He wrote the foreword to Fuhrman's book Murder in Brentwood. One of his great claims to fame is that he saw through the evidence planted by Manson to make the Tate/Bionca killings (a drug hit) look like they were done by the Black Panthers.
Lange could not identify the man embracing Nicole in any way except to say that it was a man. He did not get a good enough look at him even to say what color he was. In Killing Time, however, Freed's investigator Ian Bowater interviewed witness who said that it was a black man. Neighbor Lange's statement about the incident is a bit confusing, partly because it has never been shown in its entirety. In one report, the man he identified as a bodyguard was a huge black man. In a section of his statement highlighted on A&E, the black man was not mentioned, but a white man of average height was mentioned as making a threatening gesture toward Nicole.
I don't know what to make of Lange's statements or the reports about his statements. They all seem to have been edited to make a point. Because we don't have all of his statements in context what we do have may be less than useless. --Jasper