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From: Jasper
Date: 7/9/03
Time: 6:30:38 PM
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Miss Marple,
I’m sure that the blood drops in the foyer came from O.J.’s finger. They contained no EDTA and the pattern was consistent with a small cut, which is why Lee called them “droplets” instead of drops.
Before Rose pointed me to the good photo on Dick Wagner’s site of where they were located, I thought they were on the opposite side (because I thought the poor photo I got from another site was taken from the outside in rather than the inside out). At that time I guessed that they came from O.J. lifting his bags with his fingers when he was about to load them into the limo, opening the tiny cut from earlier, which had skinned over. Now I believe he reopened the cut just before Park saw him going back inside after dropping off his golf clubs (same situation – weight of the bag stretching open the skin).
I hate to side with John on this but I, too would like to know Charlie’s source for the taco sauce or ketchup on the floor and Kari’s source for Kato asking where did all the blood come from. These are critical points. They should not be trusted to memory because there are so many associated facts that could throw the memory off. My memory is the same as Charlie’s here, though quite a bit hazier and I have not been able to find the source.
If it turns out that the spots Charlie recalled being ketchup or taco sauce were actually the dark pegs in the floor design you still get an “impression” scenario that fits Fuhrman’s style. No one needed to tell Kato not to step in the blood. The detectives could have guided him around them to make damn sure that he didn’t stop in them.
You don’t have to create evidence to create impressions if you can use what’s there to do the same thing with a few choice words. Three little blood drops clustered tightly together near several dark spots on the fool would have created the impression of many blood drops once the cluster was pointed out. Even if you know what the dark spots are, you have to think about blood drops you don’t see because of them. You “see” blood drops that aren’t there.
Fuhrman did this with Officer Thompson. He pointed to a blood drop behind O.J.’s Bronco and told him not to step in it. He then told him about blood being all over the inside of the Bronco and invited him to look. Thompson “saw” blood there, too. Most people would have seen it whether it was there or not. It’s the same deal as the 2-degree parking angle of the Bronco. Fuhrman said that it was suspicious because the rear end stuck out “maybe a foot: from the curb. Vannatter and Lange went with it. Lange even adopted the “funny” parking angle observation as his own. --Jasper