From: Jasper
Date: 10/10/01
Time: 9:49:45 PM
Allita,
The blood drops on Bundy without the EDTA were consistent with a cut even smaller than yours. That kind of cut usually opens and closes right up again unless you do something that stretches the skin around it. O.J. didn't do anything that would have stretched the skin around his finger after he went looking for his golf club and took Chachi for her walk around the block. The only blood found in the house was a tiny amount in the shower drain - an amount so small that the prosecution just touched on it and kept on stepping.
The fact that Kato and Park didn't notice the cut at all when O.J. was helping to load his bags into the trunk means that it most likely stopped bleeding by itself for some period of time. All of that is consistent with O.J.'s account of his movements between 10:00 and 10:15. My best guess is that the cut finger was beginning to bleed again when he carried the heavy bags out to the limo. If the police had searched thoroughly, I think they would have found a small amount of blood (like the speck on the Bronco door) on his suitcase handle. Moving the bags in the trunk would have opened the cut up more, so that by the time he got to his Bronco again to look for his cell phone equipment it would have been bleeding enough for him to notice.
If you had looked closely at your blood drops you would have seen little finger-like projections in the direction you were moving and round splats with the finger-like projections pointing in all directions where you stood still. The only close-up of a blood drop at Bundy was the one on the driveway just in front of the gate. The direction was toward the street.
The mystery of how O.J. got that small cut in the first place seems to me to be related to the dog. O.J. said that he talked to the dog before he went out of the gate with her at 10:04. But if he played with her, she could have easily given him a little scratch without him noticing.
The biggest issue with the Rockingham blood drops is that there were two distinct sets of them, the ones that Fung collected and marked and the one's Fuhrman said his partner marked and Fung ignored. If you read Vannatter and Lange's book carefully, you can see that they could tell the difference. The only ones they showed in the book were the three drops Fung collected at the gate. The only ones Vannatter said he found on the driveway and the pavement leading to the front door were also consistent with the ones Fung collected.
Contrary to all appearances with Vannatter carrying the blood vile to Rockingham (on television) it seems highly unlikely to me that he was set-up. I don't believe he planted the blood that Fung refused to collect and that was not tested for EDTA. But he, Lange and Fung had to know that those other blood drops were planted. And they all had to know who did it. --Jasper