From: Jasper
Date: 2/22/02
Time: 12:17:19 PM
Allita,
There is more to this than I can say in a single post so I'll just hit a few of the high points about the missing keys and garage door opener.
The missing keys had a tremendous value for the killer. Actually it was one key and a duplicate of that key on the same key ring that was a master key to the house, the front gate and the rear gate where Fuhrman claims to have found the bloody fingerprint. The prosecution argued that the killer used the key to open the gate and the RHD detectives found a set of keys in O.J.'s bag that matched a reconstruction of that lock.
O.J. said that he got the key that he used and returned when Nicole was sick, off of the kitchen counter top. Nicole's housekeeper was questioned by a detective assigned to the Prosecutor's Office. She said the missing key was kept on a hook above the kitchen counter. However, the time that she said it came up missing did not correspond to the time Nicole was sick. It corresponded to the time Cora said that Nicole's OTHER key, the one she kept in the planter when they went jogging, came up missing.
Cora said that Nicole made the discovery. She said the Nicole first blamed O.J. then decided that Faye was the thief. That was the day before Nicole kicked Faye out of the house, the day before a woman claiming to be Nicole called the women's shelter and a week before the murders.
Faye is the one who claimed the key was kept in the drawer along with the missing garage door opener. Faye said that she was the one who made the discovery and added details (the way all accomplished liars do) to make the story believable. She said that the key ring had a little bear on it. Cora said that there was no bear on the key ring she knew about and she could only remember one key.
The missing garage door opener is also an area were Faye's story comes up short. Nicole kept that one outside where visitors she knew could get to it, park in the garage and enter the house through the rear. By the way Goldman's borrowed car was parked, it seems to me that he drove through the alley expecting to come into the house that way but drove on to Dorothy when he couldn't find the door opener. His car was parked with the rear toward Bundy, leading most people to conclude the he drove down Bundy, turned right on Dorothy and parked. But the front of the car was facing the alley which makes it more likely that he turned right from the alley and backed up for a return trip the way he came - through the alley. I'm pretty sure that the killer with his light colored SUV was in the garage waiting for Ron to appear.
All of this is consistent with a military tactic called "channeling the enemy." When you set an ambush you want to make sure that the enemy goes to your chosen ambush site. You do this by blocking off alternate routes of travel. This way you know where the enemy is going to be and when he's going to be there. By fixing the front gate so that it didn't open electronically (very simple to do) the killer could be assured that he could kill Ron and Nicole with no trouble at all. The only hard part was making the double kill look like a struggle. For a homicide cop, that's no problem at all. -- Jasper