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From: Jasper
Date: Friday, April 27, 2007
Time: 05:10:05 AM
June 13, 1994: Sukru Boztepe and his wife Benita Rasmussen give statements to a detective at the West L.A. Police station about an abandoned dog leading them to the bodies of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. They do not note the detective’s name. The detective who signed the report was Mark Fuhrman’s partner Brad Roberts. Detective Roberts and another detective that Boztepe and Rasmussen could not name drove the couple home on Montana St. around 5:00 a.m. where Roberts banged on the door of their building complex neighbor Steven Schwab, who found the dog on Bundy. Schwab does not get the names of the detectives, either. However, according to Ron Phillips’ testimony that he called three detectives in his West L.A Homicide unit to the scene and the presence of Phillips and Fuhrman elsewhere, the man with Roberts had to be Tom Nolan. ………….The first public mention of Nolan comes in Ron Phillips’ February 15, 1995 criminal trial testimony where he claims that he called Fuhrman, Roberts and four trainee detectives. He said that the first two trainees were not available and he did not recall who the fourth one was. His phone records showed that he called a fifth number before he reached Nolan and told him to meet Roberts at the station OR on the crime scene. He said it was a wrong number. He said that he believed he called Nolan on his cell pone en route to the police station to meet Fuhrman. He mentions Nolan again on the 16 and the 17th, each time only with regard to “West L.A. detectives” he called in on the case. He testified that he sent detectives (plural) FROM BUNDY to interview ONE witness before RHD detectives arrived to take over the case from West L.A. He did not name the detectives or THE witness. The only detectives he could have sent were Roberts and Nolan ……………No record was presented in court of Tom Nolan ever being on Bundy. There is no record that he ever signed in or out of that location. The only mention of him being there was in Fuhrman’s March 10, 1995 testimony where he included Nolan in a crowd of detectives, lieutenants and uniformed officers standing at the corner of Bundy and Dorothy waiting for RHD detectives to arrive. Boztepe testified that he was at the police station when he was first approached by A detective and that detectives (plural) drove him and his wife home. Schwab said that two detectives he could not name were with Boztepe and Rasmussen when he answered his door. The police station is therefore where Nolan’s first appearance on the case can be traced but only by a process of elimination. ……………The Montana St. housing complex where Boztepe and Schwab lived is the last place Nolan was seen no later than 5:10 a.m. Roberts’ was next seen over an hour later at Rockingham about five minutes after Fuhrman found the bloody glove at 6:20. ……….…..Pre-publication publicity for Murder in Brentwood begins around the first of February, 1997 with excerpts in the Globe. No mention of Nolan. The book is published in hardback on February 16, 1997. No mention of Nolan in the book. On February 19, 1997 Dianne Sawyer interviews Fuhrman and Roberts on ABC’s Primetime Live. No mention of Nolan. Later that night on MSNBC’s Geraldo, Fuhrman says that Roberts helped him with the book and reminded him that Tom Nolan saw the fingerprint in blood on Nicole’s back gate. On February 28, 1997 an Internet story appears that claims Tom Nolan gave a Reuters interview in which he is quoted as saying he saw the fingerprint in blood -- and that he went packing for detectives school THE NEXT DAY. –Jasper