From: Jasper
Date: 1/12/01
Time: 8:37:40 PM
Jolana,
I want you to know how much I appreciate your Celeni post and your critique of my critique. Together, they explain a lot that I never would have been able to think about, much less figure out on my own. I'd never heard of Nathan Arnold, but he sounds like a real person. Either he is or he isn't. Either he knows Fuhrman or he doesn't. Either way, getting the answer to those questions will tell us something valuable.
I have a hard time believing that Lange was lying about not knowing Fuhrman. I heard his testimony. I read the transcripts of his testimony. I heard him interviewed on television and I read the book that he and Vannatter attached their names to ("as told to") with the writer Dan e. Moldea. He makes a lot of big mistakes (the blanket, the Reeboks, the jacket, etc.). He lies. But he does not lie well. He claims credit for discoveries Fuhrman said he made (the "extreme" parking angel of the Bronco stands out in my mind) and he disputes crucial testimony that could have kept him and Fuhrman out of hot water. If he knew Fuhrman before the 13th of June 1994, I gotta believe he would have tripped himself up.
Though it is tempting to cherry-pick Celeni's story for the parts I like, I can't do that. There are just too many things that don't add up to accept any of it without strong corroboration. I think that's what Jean was talking about with the people essential to my thesis that Celeni didn't mention. You are right, of course, about Faye. And it is possible that Brad Roberts was the unidentified man in the truck. But Roberts is so important to so many aspects of my analysis that I can see no reason for not mentioning him. The same is true of Ron Shipp and Denise. Maybe he didn't mention them because I got that part wrong. That's what I was looking for. I couldn't find it.
It all goes back to the big "if." If not O.J., who? If not Fuhrman, who? If not Roberts, Resnick and Shipp, who, when, where, why, what and how? --Jasper