From: Junot
Date: 5/1/02
Time: 6:51:21 PM
Jasper wrote:
Re: 10:15pm -11:15 pm on 6/12/94 From: Jasper Date: 4/28/02 Time: 8:33:18 PM
Comments "Jolana,
The killings must have occurred sometime between 10:28 (when Nicole got off the phone with her mother) and the time Schwab found the Akita with he bloody paws. So, we know that we have a "window of opportunity that opens at 10:28 and closes sometime before 11:00.
Time is not a variable. As Kari once said, it doesn't move. Therefore, we cannot move time around to fit the testimony or any plausible scenario we are especially attached to that fits MOST of the hard evidence. We have to see what movement there is in the testimony and adjust or scenarios to fit THE timeline. There can be only one.
The timeline was the first thing I figured out before I started work on Iago. If you don't have that, you don't have anything. That's why I was so miffed at Wagner's long delay in realizing that the Heidstra timeline had to be pretty damn close to the mark.
When I finished sorting through all of the conflicting and reinforcing testimony and hard evidence I came up with 10:34 as the start time and 10:47 as the time Heidstra saw the mystery SUV. And yes, I'm convinced that the barking Akita marked the beginning of the attack and the SUV that Heidstra saw the vehicle that the killer drove too and from Bundy. If the objective was to frame O.J. the killer had to drive a vehicle similar to O.J.'s Bronco in case he was see coming or going.
You can therefore safely discard Pablo Fenjves' and Eva Stein's 10:15 start time of the wailing (Fenjves) or barking (Stein). In fact, their testimony about how they arrived at that time should be enough to tell us that they just plane got it wrong.
And look at the wide window that Karpf leaves open. It's wide enough to fit a lot of scenarios into. But it just happens to fit the only one that works with all of the hard evidence and five other independent witnesses to the same timeline - plus or minus no more than a minute at the start and three minutes on the end. It's that's what I believe we're down to right now and I think we're closing in on it. -- Jasper"
Jasper:
I anchored my own timeline with two events: OJ's 10:03 call to Barbieri on his cell phone at 10:03, which he said he made while standing at the back of his Bronco, and the phone call to Officer Merrin about "two bodies on the west side", which took place between 10:30--10:45. That phone call was ipso facto from the murderer trying to see how close the cops were on his trail. Also, Wagner AND Vannatter both estimated Goldman's earliest arival time at 10:09.
I have always thought that 10:15 was an excellent guess for the exact time the murder sequence started. The whole crime took about five minutes, and to that add another five to drive back to Rockingham, and another two or so for Kaelin to sneak back to his room.
There is simply no way to parse things down to fractions of a minute. But the evidence is overwhelming that it took place between 10:15 and 10:30.
That said, and realizing that it is simply impossible to do much better in terms of estimating the time of the murders. I therefore have largely disregarded the ongoing debate about the barking dogs and so forth.
So what of Heidstra and Shively? I have always said that Shively was a liar and her 'encounter' with OJ never happened. This is simply a 'given' that one has to accept for my theory to be true.
There are two more. One is that Heidstra was 15 minutes off (late) in his estimate for when his dog walk started, or that what he heard really didn't have anything to do with the crime at all. I simply can not explain H's certainty about the times in his testimony.
The third is that the method of planting blood that I discovered would, in fact, produce the blood drops at Bundy with their suspicious characteristics.
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