From: bobaugust
Date: April 10, 2006
Time: 06:35:43 AM
Evidence Dismissed Before Lange left the Brown's home, Juditha also tells him that Nicole had complained less than two weeks before the murders that an extra set of two keys to her house was missing . Each key fits both Nicole's front door and front gate. Nicole believed that Simpson has stolen them. Rosa Elvia Alonzo, who had worked as Nicole Brown's housekeeper since December 1993, later confirmed the missing keys scenario to Detectives Bert Luper and Cliff LeFall. The detectives wrote in their report "(Alonzo) stated Ms. Brown had a habit of leaving her keys (key ring with many keys, including house and car keys) on a hook in the kitchen. These keys were were missing between 6-4-94 and 6-5-94." Within days after Lange's interview with the Brown family, while examining the times on the official property report seized from Cowlings Bronco on the night of Simpson's arrest, Lange and Vannatter focus on a second set of two keys found in Simpson's possession at the time of his arrest, which were still unidentified. They wondered if there is a connection with Brown's missing keys. Talking to other sources, Lange and Vannatter learn that on June 8, four days before the murders, Brown had attended a personal intervention for a close friend, Faye Resnick, who was badly strung out on cocaine. While at Resnick's home, Brown was still concerned about her missing set of two extra keys. Resnick stayed with Brown for a short period of time and left on Friday, June 3. While at Resnick's home, Brown went through Resnick's purse to see if she had the keys. Resnick did not have them. And that concerned Nicole even more, because she feared that Simpson really might have taken them. The two detectives open their official investigation of the extra set of keys shortly after Lange's June 22 interview with the Browns. Earlier, Lou Brown had told Lange that on Friday, June 17, he had changed the locks on her condominium and discarded the old locks and keys. Consequently, the old locks no longer exist, so the keys Simpson had cannot be checked. However Lange and Vannatter obtain Nicole Brown's original key from Cora Fischman, one of Nicole's neighbors, who kept an extra set in case of an emergency. Using this key, Lange and Vannatter have a lock constructed which that key will fit. Then, the detectives take the two keys in Simpson's possession and insert them in the newly constructed lock. Both keys fit the lock perfectly. In fact, they are identical keys that would have fit all of the residential doors at Nicole Brown's home, as well as her front gate. In other words Simpson had two identical keys to Nicole's front gate and front door in his possession at the time of his arrest. To Lange and Vannatter, this is even more damning evidence against Simpson. bobaugust