Evolution of an Idea: The Map

First post under Blackenstein on Iago – June 13, 2007

I checked the transcripts to see where I got the idea that Phillips called Fuhrman at 1.05 shortly after Rossi called him. It didn’t come from Riske, who called Sgt. Rossi before 12:30. It didn’t come from Rossi, who subsequently spoke with Sgt. Coon and left a message on Lt. Spangler’s answering machine. These were the only phone calls Rossi made before he called Phillips. Is it conceivable that Rossi spoke to Coon for twenty or thirty minutes and left a five or ten minute message on Spangler’s answering machine? This is a rhetorical question. The answer IS the question.

Incredibly, no records were produced to show when Rossi called Coon, how long they spoke or what time Rossi called Phillips. The idea that Rossi called Phillips at 1:00 comes only from the unchallenged testimony of Ron Phillips.

117 (the Swiss Army watch code for 1.05) gives you the date of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The earthquake’s worst hit area was Simi Valley where Phillips lived and commuted over 40 miles to work. The earthquake also gives you the damage to Nicole’s front gate that made it necessary for her to go outside to open it. It puts you at the mouth of O.J.’s Rockingham south path where the gate was knocked off of its hinges. It gives you Fuhrman pointing to the bloody glove on Bundy and finding the matching glove on the Rockingham south path.

It also gives you Fuhrman’s baseball bat incident letter to the city attorney on 1 18, 1989.

You can see this clearly on a map showing Phillips’ rout from his home in Simi Valley to the West LA Police Station. The first and longest stretch of highway he drove was California State Highway 118. Coincidentally, 1:18 is the time his cell phone record shows he started making other calls after he said he called Roberts. He said that he made them from his car on his way to the police station to meet Fuhrman. –Jasper

Correction – June 14

Ron Phillips did not live in Simi Valley. He lived in Santa Clarita Valley. Tom Lange of Robbery Homicide Division lived in Simi Valley.

However, this is another example of how correcting bad information makes a tighter case than the one you started with if your major premise is correct.

Using the date of the '94 Northridge earthquake region of major damage gives you the same map with Lange AND Phillips. The first leg of Lange’s route to Brentwood was California Highway 118. Phillips route was straight down Interstate 5 (California Highway 170). That’s where Lange and Phillips come together on the map – where Lange turns off of 118 onto the I-5 It is at this point that they would have been driving the same stretch of highway to the crime scene.

Now we have everything we had before, plus the involvement of an RHD detective in the same case before Phillip supposedly knew which RHD detective would get the assignment. We also have a new emphasis on Interstate 5 (State 17) [Note: the highway is 170 but if you are superimposing the watch code onto the map, you simply drop the 0]. With Lange, you get his partner Phil Vannatter and with Vannatter and Lange you get the four detectives who went to Rockingham at 5 a.m. while Roberts and “Nolan” were banging on Steven Schwab’s door. According to the Swiss Army watch code, 5 = 17. –Jasper

Note: If Kevin Devries played the part of Det. Tom Nolan, the Northridge map gives you all of the West LA detectives that Phillips testified he called on the case. Before DeVries moved to Ukiah, he lived in Northridge. When and why he moved is unknown.

Follow-up to Correction – June 14

With the map correction, I now believe I know what the message is and why a code was used to deliver it to Fuhrman over the phone.

To set up O.J. as the killer, Phillips and Fuhrman had to set up the RHD detectives who would be taking over the case. They had to know which RHD detectives they would be dealing with and how THOSE detectives habitually processed evidence.

Lange and Vannatter’s book shows how predictable they were in their methodology, in their conclusions, and in their willingness to “cheat” a little with inconvenient facts. Although they were not likely to go along with framing an innocent man, they were sure bets for turning a blind eye on evidence that a “stupid” cop framed a guilty man. Its all in the title and subtitle of their book; Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. SIMPSON.

These investigators showed that they never saw the irony of their book title. For them, it had to be an allusion to the O.J. criminal trial jury’s dismissal of evidence against O.J. because that was the only reasonable interpretation they thought anyone could make of the title. And that means they never looked at tainted evidence the way the jury did. The subtitle says everything else you need to that.

They followed the many big clues that shouted “O.J. DID IT!” They dismissed the little clues that whispered, “He didn’t.” They were grade III detectives who would never allow an arrogant grade II detective with a tenth of their experience to take credit for solving their case. That immutable fact comes through loud and clear in their book. It was their case. They solved it. They didn’t even need Fuhrman to make their case.

If you knew these things about these RHD investigators before the West LA murder investigation started, you knew that they were going to follow the clues that pointed to O.J., as any competent homicide detective would. You also knew that they were going to downplay the significance of anything a Detective II (Fuhrman) and a Detective I (Roberts) did to make the case against the man THEY saw as the killer.

The 1:05 code tells Fuhrman that Phillips knew Lange and Vannatter were going to lead the investigation when West L.A. was relieved. It tells him how to play the evidence already on Bundy and where to “find” evidence on Rockingham with the help of an “earthquake” (Kato’s thumps).

So, why was it necessary to communicate all of that in a code? Fuhrman had a considerable amount of Internal Affairs heat on him going back to the KKK / Martin Luther King incident with Fuhrman and York. Fuhrman’s phone conversations could have been monitored. If so, the conversation would have supported his story of knowing nothing about the murders until Phillips told him about them on the phone at 1:05 a.m. – the Swiss Army watch code for January 17, Martin Luther King Day. –Jasper