From: Jasper
Date: 11/10/00
Time: 8:23:49 PM
JoJo,
I'm ten chapters into The Smoking Gun 2. In the process of writing the three books on the Bundy murders I've learned that there is almost nothing in the story of the murders as told by Mark Fuhrman that wasn't seen before on stage, screen and television. Where you don't see in the crime scene photos that Fuhrman says was there, you do see on television or in the movies. Some of the Greek tragedies and at least three of Shakespeare's plays (Richard III, MacBeth and, of course Othello) are all over the case. But the biggest source of inspiration appears to have come from The Naked Gun movie series, the Police Squad television series, Matlock, Moonlighting and Twin Peaks. I'm not talking about an item here and an item there. I'm talking about a whole sequence of events or a particular context in which these things appear that match up with the sequence or the context in which they appear on the crime scene or in Fuhrman's version of the crime scene. They fit the crime scenes pretty well. They fit Fuhrman's interpretations of all the evidence against O.J. perfectly.
You get the dark blue knit cap, the bloody gloves, the blood shoeprints, the panicky flight, the sudden stop, the bleeding killer, the car parked at an extreme angle, the stick found in front of the car, the blood on the handle of the car. You get lots of "Nick's," lots of Bruno's and a lot of male/female double homicides with the bodies in close proximity. You get the body at the foot of the stairs, the body of a woman on her left side, a jealous ex, rage killings, clever frame-ups and numerous references to a phone number very similar to the one in Fuhrman's fifth note about he pizza. You get a woman performing oral sex on a man in combination with a jealous observer, a woman with a butcher knife in a kitchen, a pizza (Fuhrman said that Nicole was going to order the pizza for Ron) or an exhibitionistic display again and again.
It turns out that oral sex on TV and in the movies has A LOT to do with Fuhrman's reference to the pizza and his use of the ten letter word starting with "c" that he used to kick off the tapes with Laura Hart. That's pretty damn specific. I had no Idea how many of those references there were until I started paying closer attention to O.J.'s supposed motive for killing Nicole (what he said on the 911 tape about seeing Nicole with Keith Zlomsowitch) and Fuhrman's connection to Monica Lewinsky. Fuhrman he gave the advice about the stain on the dress (see the stakeout scene in Sins of Desire ('93) with Tanya Roberts and Nick Casavettes). You get references to that specific sex act together with other references to the Bundy murders in The Hotel New Hampshire, Popeye, To Have and Have Not, in all of the Phillip Marlowe movies I've seen and almost all of the women who have played Mike Hammer's girl Friday Velda. You get it in The Naked Gun, in Airplane and in five of the six episodes of Police Squad. This is what Fuhrman said on the McKinney tapes that Judge Ito's wife Peggy York did to get ahead in the LAPD. It's the word he chose to use with Laura Hart (at the time he said he was having an affair with her). Talk about "a mountain of evidence," the next time you hear that phrase, think, "Paramount." --Jasper