Garment Bag with "OJS" monogram (a.k.a. : large black duffle bag )

 

 

Bag Cover Containing Golf Club Bag (a.k.a.: golf bag, duffle bag, large duffle bag, sheath)

 

Golf Bag

 

Louis Vuitton Garment Bag (a.k.a.: garment bag, Gucci bag)

 

Allan Park with unidentified woman during a break in his criminal trial testimony

Allan Park's Memory -- Nothing O.J. said about his actions when Park was on Rockingham can stand alone in reconstructing  what actually happened on the night of June 12, 1994 because of his obvious self-interest. Similarly, nothing that Allan Park said can stand alone because of his demonstrably poor memory of things that were not important to him at the time. Yet, the only standard of comparison between the bags that were put in the limo and the ones that returned from Chicago has always been Allan Park's memory combined with Marcia Clark's incriminating characterization of his testimony.

Park's testimony changed from one court hearing to the next after conferring with Marcia and his mother about his previous testimony. Only the small black duffle bag and the blue cloth one with the beige leather trim match his memory but the blue one was not counted because it was not allowed into evidence. He recalled the two black "duffle bags" he saw when he entered the Ashford gate being identical even though he thought he loaded both of them in the passenger compartment of the limo and one was twice as long as the other. They were the same color and had the same fully loaded diameter. Both were black. The trouble with that scenario is that one of the bags he originally thought was a duffle bag was a golf bag sheath and everyone, including Park, agreed that Kato put the bag with the golf bags in the trunk.

Park's memory of his June 12th encounter with O.J. was tested numerous times against hard evidence and Kato's testimony. On every point that mattered to him when he went to Rockingham, his memory measured against that evidence and Kato's testimony was consistent. On every point that mattered only after the Bundy murders his memory was not consistent. He did not recall seeing O.J.'s Bronco on Rockingham when he left for LAX although it must have been there. He recalled O.J. saying something that Kato said. He recalled Kato standing on the north path when no one disputes Kato was down by the south path. Park recalled seeing a duffle bag open but described the contents of the golf bag sheeth. He recalled Arnelle's SAAB parked behind the Bentley when it could not have been there. He marked where he saw the blue bag almost dead center of where he recalled seeing the SAAB.

Marcia Clark's summary of Allan Park's testimony and the meaning that she attached to it was incriminating to O.J. Simpson. The testimony itself was not.

If you're wondering what happened to the small black duffle bag, this sequence from an KCOP/ ABC film clip of O.J. returning to Rockingham from Chicago should leave no doubt. Mark Fuhrman said that he found a key to a locked room of O.J.'s house  where he witnessed the beginning of this sequence. The man carrying the bag in the photos at the bottom of the page with uniformed Officer Donald Thompson, attorney Howard Weitzman and O.J. is Det. Phil Vannatter. The car Vannatter is opening in the last picture where you see the bag in his hand is the police car he used to take O.J. to Parker Center for interrogation. This bag is the one where Vannatter and Lange said they found keys on a ring that matched Faye Resnick's description of Nicole's missing keys on a ring with a "little bear."

No one else described the missing key ring the way Faye Resnick did. It could not be entered into evidence because it was not logged in. Therefore, no record exists of the date when Lange or Vannatter actually took the key ring from the bag. In Evidence Dismissed Vannatter said that he got O.J.'s bag from Det. Brad Roberts. Inescapable circumstantial evidence confirms that he did.

Thompson testified that Vannatter ordered him to handcuff O.J. before O.J. arrived. Vannatter denied it. There is no conflict, however, in any account of what could have happened to the bag before Vannatter joined O.J., Thompson and  Roberts. Thompson said that he turned O.J. over to other detectives. He did not name Roberts. He didn't have to. The bag had to be somewhere while Thompson was handcuffing O.J.  It had to be somewhere when Roberts was telling O.J. that there was a blood trail from Bundy to Rockingham. O.J. didn't have it. Thompson didn't have it. Vannatter wasn't there yet. Vannatter did not get the bag from the ground. He said he got it from Roberts and that's the only explanation of where he could have gotten it. The only incriminating evidence in any of the bags was the key ring that Faye Resnick described in that one. But the only evidence connecting the key ring to anyone is between Faye Resnick and Mark Fuhrman's partner Brand Roberts.   

 

(O.J. hangs bag from left shoulder on long straps. Vannatter carries same bag by handle, straps hanging)

Click on any picture in the sequence above to enlarge all of them and to see more screenshots in the sequence and the location of the playhouse in the shot with O.J. in handcuffs. --Jasper