From: Jasper
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Time: 11:44:29 PM
Does anyone know whether Rocky Bateman smoked cigarettes or had any connection to pool tables, the state of Maryland or a Mercedes Benz? ……… I’m asking this compound question because of a “Batman” typo I made in my first draft of a recent post when I intended to write “Bateman.” As soon as I caught the error I flashed on “Lou Phillips” and “Batman” that Fuhrman gave as pseudonyms for different informants in his Murder in Greenwich book. ……….On page 278 Fuhrman says that Lou Phillips was with Michael at the Elan clinic in Main for two years. He says that Phillips called the Unsolved Mysteries tip line to tell his story of Michael admitting that he killed Martha Moxley with a golf club. Fuhrman indicates that he got this information from an Unsolved Mysteries tip line transcript. He gives no indication that he ever talked to the man or ever learned his true identity. On page 280, Fuhrman introduces his “Batman” character (rich man, double identity, black cape) who says that he met Michael at Father Martin’s rehab facility in Aberdine, Marilyn. Fuhrman attributes quoted text Batman’s story, which he does not do with “Lou Phillips”. Without saying it explicitly, Fuhrman lets you know that he got the story directly from “Batman,” the man from Maryland, not the man from Main. ………….I haven’t forgotten Rocky Bateman. ……….In the Murder in Greenwich movie, Fuhrman squishes “Phillips” and “Batman” into one character. He does not give this character a name but from the facts of the case Fuhrman could not have gotten the words he attributes to Lou Phillips and Batman directly from anyone except Greg Coleman. Is it possible that Fuhrman was saying something about Bateman in his book and saying something to him in his movie? ……… Consider all four scenes where Fuhrman’s wealthy, coke-addicted Maryland man appears… 1st: He sits on a bar stool in a black coat smoking a cigarette and looking furtively at Fuhrman. When Fuhrman confronts him, he puts out his cigarette in an ASH tray and walks out of the bar. With the letters you see on Fuhrman’s suspect list as this scene opens you can spell Lou Phillips, Batman and Rocky Bateman. You cannot spell Greg Coleman. 2nd: Fuhrman watches the man smoking a cigarette in a Mercedes Benz drive away (implied ashes) and notes his Maryland license plate. 3rd: From Fuhrman’s motel room he spies the man sitting in his car smoking a cigarette and spying on him. 4th: The man drives up to Fuhrman in a driving rain and says, “Detective. Get in. I know who killed Martha Moxley.” When Fuhrman gets in, the Maryland Man lights a cigarette and tells Fuhrman a Lou Phillips/Batman story about Michael Skakel. ……… To make Bateman work as Batman you need more than “Batman” and ash (Bateman customarily backed into O.J.’s estate through the Ashford gates). How about a chauffer in uniform, a Lincoln and an ash tray in the same segment with the Maryland Man’s story? You get all of that in 96 seconds. Lest than a minute later the Maryland man lets Fuhrman out of his car and drives backward out of the scene. –Jasper