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From: Jasper
Date: 6/8/03
Time: 1:37:50 AM
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John,
I did reply to your question. You just didn’t think it through. You were looking for a list of particulars. When you didn’t see it you assumed that I sidestepped the question. We simply do not think about things like this in the same way. Please see my reply to Miss Marple. She said what it would take for her to change her mind and then why it might not work. That’s the problem, separating what is theoretically possible from what can really happen.
Have you noticed that information that requires a lot of work to find is the information you tend to miss? That’s okay in itself because hard information to locate is, by definition, easy to miss. But then you state flatly that it is wrong and go straight to something that is very easy to find to prove your point or you demand a source instead of looking for it yourself. That would be okay, too, if the information in question didn’t take hours, days or weeks of hard work to find and unscramble in the first place.
Kato’s height is a case in point. This was one of my critical questions when Kato was my prime suspect. I worked it out during the criminal trial. There is no single, easy-to-locate source. Instead of trying to duplicate what I had to do to get it, I will give you an easy source and show you the quickest way I can think of for YOU to do it.
To me, over 6’ means 6’ 1’’, 6’ 2” or 6’ 3” – a difference of three inches or more from 5’ 10". That’s the difference between a size 9 or 10 shoe (with rare exceptions) and a size 12, as well as the difference in stride that determined the killer’s height at OVER 6’.
In Alan Park’s preliminary hearing testimony he estimated Kato’s height at 5’11”. He estimated O.J.’s height at 6’ – a one-inch difference. This might be where you got the idea that Kato and O.J. were roughly the same height. O.J.’s actual height is 6’ 2”. In Robert Shapiro’s cross-examination he suggested that Park earlier estimated Kato’s height at 5’ 10”. Park said that he might have done that. Shapiro did not give his source. The thing to note here is that Park could SEE a difference. Kato was noticeably shorter.
This is where the work comes in.
The recent A&E special How O.J. Won shows Fuhrman and Kato exiting the same door and walking down the same path at Rockingham. Fuhrman is 6’3. Note how high his head comes relative to the diamond-shaped lead-work on the glass in the background. Do the same thing with Kato. The rest is a simple matter of dividing Fuhrman's body – what you see and what you know is there – into 75 equal parts. Now you have a “ruler” so you can work with inches. Subtract the difference between the top of Fuhrman’s head and the top of Kato’s and you have Kato’s height; 5’ 10” (counting his hair and rounded to the highest inch).
If you need the relevant portion of the A&E tape, e-mail me your address and I will send it to you. –Jasper