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From: Jasper
Date: 2/23/01
Time: 8:05:49 PM
Kari,
Kari,
I believe that Elizabeth Short was a hermaphrodite. Neither the male nor female genitalia were properly developed but everything else about her was female. Maybe it's in that URL you posted.
As for as making mistakes in what happened in one movie vs. another with a similar names or similar content, it happens to every one of us. It can't be helped simply because of the way our brains are wired. There is no such thing as a "complete" memory, only an occasional association of the correct facts in the correct order. This is what grabbed me about the cap, the leather gloves, the pizza menu, Mark Fuhrman's theories to explain them and all the different movies they came from when I started to do some serious research on the subject for the Fuhrman at the Movies chapter of Iago.
I was stunned by how many of those elements in the Bundy murder case came from only four movies that I had happened to see. Then there were aspects of the Murder scene or Fuhrman's stories about them, which reminded me of other movies that I'd seen. Often I would have bet big bucks that an actor in one movie said or did something that actually came out of another movie - or something that was simply implied and never shown at all. No one is immune to this crossover effect or the problem of filling in the blanks with things that weren't really there. Fuhrman's entire act at Bundy and Rockingham depended on people "seeing " things that weren't there and recalling things that didn't happen. That also happened to be the power of the particular items so incriminating to O.J. and so helpful to Fuhrman that were arranged so conveniently for Fuhrman's pointing finger photo.
Why was it so easy for people to picture O.J. wearing the cap? Because they had seen him wearing it - in the movies.
Why was it so easy to picture him wearing the gloves? Because he wore gloves that looked just like them when he did Monday Night Football.
How could anyone "see" him running to the back of the house when the killer's shoeprints clearly indicated the was walking. Because O.J. was famous for being a star running back.
Why was it so easy for so many people to buy the story of Ron getting killed because he showed up at the wrong place at the wring time? Because of the glasses. Where have we seen that before? In the movies.
How come so many people remember "seeing" a blood trail going into O.J.'s driveway? And why do they remember the Bronco being parked at such an extreme angle after "O.J.'s reckless flight" from the murder scene? Because we have all seen those scenarios on television and in the movies more times than we can count.
At some point the killer had to make the same mistakes we did in getting one story mixed up with another. He made them at every point it appeared to make O.J. look like more of a monster and Fuhrman look like "one of the great detectives of our time." --Jasper