From: Jasper
Date: Monday, April 16, 2007
Time: 01:14:22 PM
Solitairea1, … “Detective” Tom Nolan seems solid enough in Phillips’ testimony. But the more you attempt to trace his movements in real time and space the less substantial he becomes. The transcripts make a total of six references to him. Phillips makes four of them (he tells us that Nolan is a detective trainee). Fuhrman makes two (he tells us that Nolen is a Detective 1). But Boztepe testified that he was already at the police station with his wife when “a” detective questioned him there. And his testimony combined with Schwab’s tells us that TWO detectives drove them home from the station where “detectives” questioned Schwab. But from Boztepe’s testimony and Schwab’s it sounds like only Roberts did any questioning. I don’t think Boztepe, Rasmussen, Schwab or Schwab’s wife ever go a good look at “Nolan” or ever heard his voice. ………… Look at the roles and responsibilities of officers on Bundy and the order in which they arrived (Iago table, page 457). You get a field supervisor, Sgt. Marty Coon, arriving at 12:25. His job was to insure that the patrol officers secured the scene for detectives, which meant keeping people out of the crime scene who weren’t needed there. And that would have meant getting Boztepe and Rasmussen to the police station as soon as possible. This is consistent with what we know happened with the kids and what Boztepe said about being at the station when Roberts questioned him. ………….Roberts most likely went to the police station to pick up his police car before he arrived on Bundy at 2:30 (around the time Lt. Spangler did) but there is no evidence that he met Nolan there at that time. There is no evidence that Nolan was ever on Bundy (as a detective) apart from statements made by Phillips, Fuhrman, Roberts and somebody calling himself Tom Nolan in ’97 who could have been anybody. Nobody else on the murder scene even alludes to seeing anyone who could possibly be Tom Nolan. ………….Lieutenant Spangler was a command sergeant major in the Army (Darden told F.L. Bailey that he was an ex-Marine). This is the highest ranking noncommissioned officer in the Army on a divisional level (his boss is a general) or higher. It is an administrative position and you can’t get there without knowing your stuff and doing it day in and day out for decades. That leads me to believe that he could not have been on the LAPD very long at the time of the murders and might not have known all of the 38 detectives under his command. In fact, he doesn’t even nail down the NUMBER when telling Bailey why he decided to call in RHD to take over from West L.A. ……..…Spangler Feb 15 ...Because I have, counting detective Phillips, a four-man homicide unit, and the -- I don't have the resources to adequately investigate a crime that was of this magnitude. I mean, I have something like 38 detectives in my entire division. We would have had to shut down everything and handle nothing but this case.” ………..The four-man homicide unit is not a reference to Phillips, Fuhrman, Roberts and Nolan. It’s a reference to four “slots” for detectives in that unit, only three of which were filled if you count Phillips. There was room for one more. Only Phillips had to know who he was unless he did something to get Spangler’s attention. He didn’t. –Jasper