From: Jasper
Date: 10/22/01
Time: 3:40:01 PM
Miss Marple,
How did I miss this?
"About Fuhrman's "inability to let go", what do you think of the blue plastic bag? In the "Hypothesis of a murder" he says O.J. throws a small bandage wrapper over the cyclon fence. On Pg. 33 he describes it as "a small light blue paper package" and goes into great detail. And all wrong, all of it misrepresentations.
"When Fung went to collect the glove from behind the guest house, Fuhrman followed him on the other side of the cyclon fence (Fung testimony), and handed him a blue plastic bag (Property report, Item #10, bag, plastic, blue - recovered from the ground..........on the south side of the chain link fence.
"Why even mention it and in such detail. Nobody on either side in the trial seemed to care about this plastic bag, but Fuhrman wouldn't let go. It must mean something to him and his story.
Miss Marple
Pippi Longstocking's father was the chief of an African tribe, her mother was an angel. But I don't think that has anything to do with anything."
Two things here (with a bunch of other things inside of them)….
1) This is more than another example of Fuhrman's inability to let go. It's also another example of his tendency to have a backup story ready for takeoff if the first story crashes and burns (redundancy, overkill). And it's another example of Fuhrman telegraphing his next BIG discovery. First, he discovers the package and the plastic sheeting in the Bronco, which turns out to be a plastic bag that has no significance. THEN he discovers a plastic bag, which has tremendous significance. It's the same thing on a smaller scale, including the real use and the implied use of the shovel (page 32 of Murder in Brentwood: "I looked further along the path and noticed a dark object At first I thought it was dog droppings, but as I walked closer, the object began to resemble an old gardening glove.") In the trial transcripts the bag is described as a large enough rectangle to have accommodated the glove with the obvious advantage of not have any blood on it. In the book, it has become a 2" x 2" package (remember the package in the Bronco) for O.J. to wrap his bloody finger in.
Pippi Longstockings father was an African chief and her mother was an Angel? That has a LOT to do with EVERYTHING. More about that later. --Jasper