From: Jasper
Date: 1/11/01
Time: 8:43:07 PM
Jolana,
1) Lange: When you get a chance, please check out the exchange on the Iago board dealing with "coincidence" and "Lucky Accidents." The know that Celeni was talking about Det. Lange. What bothered me is that he said NOTHING about neighbor Lange but tells a story that has so many of neighbor Lange's elements in it. He gives no indication of knowing that there were two people with the same name but every indication of having heard about neighbor Lange's story second-hand. 2) The Bronco: I don't recall Bosco saying anything about neighbor Lange and the Bronco and I can't find it in his book A Problem of Evidence. I'm the guy who works for Ford (Maybe Lange does, too, I just don't know about it). Robert Heidstra is the guy who knew about cars because of his work as a detailer. He washed the car of O.J.'s next door neighbor and knew O.J.'s Bronco because he saw it parked on the street from time to time and saw O.J. getting in and out of it. He could identify a Blazer because he drove one. He could identify a Jeep because he detailed lots of them. He could not identify the SUV that he saw turn right onto Bundy from Dorothy. The best he could say was, "It was something like a jeep." He said that it could have been a Bronco, a Blazer or a Jeep. He just couldn't tell. The easiest way to spot a Bronco is by the tire on the back. From where he was when he saw the SUV turn onto Bundy, he should have been able to see a tire on the back if one had been there. The one SUV he didn't name is one that looks something like a Jeep, a Blazer and a Bronco without the tire. That's a 1980 International Harvester Scout. They were extremely rare in California in 1994. Most people would have had a hard time identifying it - probably less than one person in a thousand. 3) The People: This is the core of the problem with Celeni's story (see note 1). It is too much like neighbor Lange's to ring true to me. If Neighbor Lange witnessed something that close to what Celeni described, he would have seen the killing himself and heard the two dogs barking that Heidstra heard. 4) Bruno Maglis: Bruno Magli was a brand name that Nicole liked. Nicole bought Bruno Magli shoes for herself at different times and in different styles. Bruno Magli Lorenzos were most likely what the killer wore (Silga tread pattern in a low heel) Only 300 of these size-12 men's shoes where sold in the United States. One pare each went to various stores all over the country (Bloomingdale's in New York, New York, Sax Fifth Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, etc). They were made and sold only in 1991 and 1992. 299 of them were accounted for. The closest connection the prosecution could draw to O.J. and the shoes (they are technically called boots) is that he looked at a pair once in December of '92. It is physically impossible for two people to have worn that shoe on Bundy where two people were slashed to death "without premeditation" on the 12th of June 1994. The timing of the first dog barking "hysterically", the second dog baring followed immediately by the Hey! Hey! Hey!, the fifteen minutes of arguing, and the sound of the gate slamming, don't match up with two people wearing the same shoes leaving by different gates. It all matches up with a man stepping in blood who wasn't wearing the "right" kind of shoe. Somebody there wore smaller shoes and did not leave by the back. The path he had to have left by was covered by blood. 5) The Dog: Robert Heidstra walked his dogs every day on the same rout, at the same time, for years. He knew the Akita and he could tell where it was by the sound of its bark. He normally walked down Bundy but when he heard the Akita barking from where he was on Gorham near the intersection of Bundy, he could tell the dog was on the street. That's why he altered his rout. In the book I have him going down the ally in back of Nicole's condo. That's wrong. He turned around and went down the alley on the opposite side of the street where the second dog was (I owe that correction to Charlie - that's the value of having a forum like this). The killer could not have taken the risk of crossing the yard where the dog was kept. To insure that the dog would not interfere, he would have had to be let out before the attack began. This was not an incident that got out of hand. I was an incident that was though out well in advance. The only things don't match up to a good frame are the things the killer could not have anticipated. 6) At Rockingham: You have to see a layout of the estate in proper scale and proportion to know that no variation of that theme could be correct. From where Park was situated (at the Ashford gate) it would have been physically impossible for him to see anyone jump the fence next to the driveway, the garage or the bungalow. Mark tells two stories about this one of O.J. jumping the fence (that's he one Marcia used in court) and another of him going through the Rockingham gate (the story he uses in his book). O.J. was spotted about three steps from his front door, which was about a half a step from the portion of his circular driveway that passed in front of his door. The fence was about twenty times farther to the south where the driveway ran parallel to the fence an terminated at Rockingham. It would be really helpful if you could see the pictures in Iago. They are the only scale drawings of the property anywhere. The printer didn't give me the contrast I wanted but you can see where everything is in relation to everything and every one at different times. Nobody jumped the fence, and the thumps were made long before Park saw anyone. The first person he saw was Kato walking toward the south fence. 7) The super-camera: NONE of what Celeni described could have been seen with a camera or a human eye, thus, no fragments of memory to put together. The gate had to be closed (for a lot of reasons), there would have had to be room to maneuver (five people in that area would have been packed shoulder-to shoulder because the killing ground really was THAT small). The bowie knife does not match the wounds inflicted on Nicole or Ron. Two killers would have gotten in each other's way. Three would have stopped the show. That's a fact. Celeni doesn't know a thing about hand-to-hand combat. His description of the "struggle" is a dead giveaway. There could have been only one active killer in that space and he was in full charge from the instant he attacked with a stunning blow to left rear of Ron's head and a crushing blow to the right rear of Nicole's head as Nicole started UP the stairs with Ron behind her. --Jasper