From: Jasper
Date: February 10, 2006
Time: 05:32 PM
Prien, …I’m not saying what you think I am about Fuhrman and the number 17. …….Fuhrman was not trying to play the Oracle of Delphi in his notes. He was trying to play The Great Detective. He was inventing a character for himself with the rare abilities of fictional super sleuths in popular TV series like Columbo and Murder, She Wrote and the works of Agatha Christie that became movies. The only historical character he used was Fred Aberline of Scotland Yard who, according to a two-part 1988 television movie starring Michael Caine, solved the Jack the Ripper murders (Animations/Jack the Ripper). His only Sherlock Holmes character comes from a 1965 Jack the Ripper movie with Holmes substituting for Aberline. The number 17 comes from Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow and Cliff Robertson. ………..In Three Days of the Condor Redford, as Joe Turner, works for the C.I.A. http://www.smartfellowspress.com/smokinggun/A_Few_Good.htm#few . Everyone in his section has the codename of a bird. Turner’s codename is “Condor.” This is how Turner explains his job: "We read everything that’s published in the world. We feed the plots, dirty tricks, codes, into a computer and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks. I look for new ideas…" …………Turner is on the run from assassins who killed everyone in his New York City section – section 17 (Nicole purchased gloves like the killer’s in New York City). The section 17 chief in Washington D.C. was in on the multiple murders and Turner found a clue to what was going to happen in an obscure book. He highlighted “East, wing 17” but didn’t know what it meant. ………..In that movie you get everything Fuhrman wrote or should have written in item 17 of his notes. My questions (before I saw Three Days of the Condor) were, why did Fuhrman call the knit cap a “ski mask” and why did it and the glove appear on the bottom of the last page rather than near the top of the first page? My question after seeing the Pier 17 view of the New York City skyline in Murder in Greenwich was, did the number 17 in Fuhrman’s Bundy notes have a specific bearing on the evidence noted in item 17? ………..The question should have been, did the number 17 have something to do with all of the evidence that SHOULD have been named in that item. Rovaan’s observation about the envelope was the key. While the killer planted evidence to call up images of O.J., Fuhrman used his notes to distance himself from the killer. Misidentifying the cap and omitting the envelope were easy ways of doing it with the evidence items themselves to “correct his innocent mistakes.” Meanwhile the “little” things he noted that later proved to be significant make him look like a great detective when they did become significant. ………..The downside to doing things like this deliberately is the subconscious information that comes with it in multiple, elaborate and meaningful patterns that cannot occur randomly. The upside is that 9 people out of 10 reject it out of hand. –Jasper