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From: Jasper
Date: 6/27/03
Time: 4:12:52 AM
Remote User:
Miss Marple,
I’m with you.
John thinks Kato is guilty as much as Eliot thinks O.J. is. That’s why I wanted to hear it from John (I’m sure you figured that out). If there was any way that he could have put it in a favorable context for Fuhrman, he would have done it – but he would not have lied.
The last time I checked, Rose still believed that O.J. made the thumps. That’s why it was good to get the quote from her with all of her accompanying notes and cautions. If Fuhrman did lead Kato into telling him about the thumps (now I know exactly how he did it) it becomes less likely that O.J. was the source and more likely that it was someone acting for Fuhrman.
If you look closely you will see that Kato’s repetition to other detectives of what he told Fuhrman (lots of irrelevant details) painted Fuhrman into a corner. He had to say that he asked Kato if anything unusual happened the night before to hide his real method of getting Kato to tell him about the thumps. It was not a routine “cop show” question.” It seems like one only in retrospect with Fuhrman’s input on the Bronco, his partner’s discovery of the Rockingham blood trail – which takes up where Fuhrman’s bleeding killer theory on Bundy leaves off – and Fuhrman’s discovery of the bloody glove. In retrospect the order of things and the significance of that order often get jumbled up.
I thank you and I thank your slow boat to Canada for getting us into this. –Jasper