From: Jasper
Date: 1/9/01
Time: 4:34:20 PM
Jolana,
I am ready to accept the possibility that Fuhrman and Arnold knew each other and may have worked together to kill people in some kind of covert government-sponsored operation. That much is consistent with Fuhrman's record and what Fuhrman himself said to his shrinks, his second wife, Laura Hart McKinny and what he did after pumping five pieces of hot lead into Joseph Britton. Then again, that may be where Celeni got his story. Don't know enough about the man to judge.
However, there are some BIG problems with Celeni's story about Nathan Arnold and his Bowie Knife. Have you ever seen one of those things? It has a very thick, single-edged, long, wide, heavy blade. The blade is so heavy that easily beat somebody to death with flat edged. I'm not talking about pounding someone with the butt of the handle, the way Nicole and Ron were pounded; I'm talking about the blade. The overall length of a bowie knife is about fifteen inches long. The blade is about ten inches long and a good two and a half inches wide. It is fixed solidly in the handle. It has to be carried in a special sheath. You don't just walk around with a thing like that on your hip even if you're 6' 6'' and built like a gorilla.
The two knives that were used in the Bundy killings were very similar in terms of the width and the thickness of the blade. A bowie knife is at least twice as thick and almost three times as wide. One set of wounds in Ron's body were consistent with a single-edged, Swiss Army knife just as Fuhrman says in his book (see the autopsy report). But Lange and Vannatter had it right about he German Stiletto. The butt of that knife is consistent with the severe blunt force injury to the back of Nicole's head and the blade is consistent with wounds that appear to have been made with a double edged knife because of its long, thin taper at the tip.
There was no way a bowie knife or anything like it could have been used on Ron or Nicole. There had to have been two knives. The long blade (a little over six and a half inches long) with the tapered end had to have been held in the killer's right hand. The short blade (the one about three and a half inches long with one sharp edge and one flat edge) had to be held in the killer's left hand. This is why some people who have examined these wounds closely are so sure there were two active killers. As I explained in Iago, I'm convinced that there was only one active killer with a knife in each hand - thus the drawing on the cover. --Jasper