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Perry Mason Toast A Fuhrman Toast Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) From the Novel "The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree" by Stuart Palmer
Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Inspector Oscar Piper in Murder on a Honeymoon, say enough about Mark Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood stories and pictures
New York City school teacher Hildegarde Withers is taking a vacation to Catalina Island off the California coast.. She is one of seven passengers on a seaplane taking off from Los Angeles Harbor. The other six passengers are: A retired rumrunner who plans to start a chartered fishing boat business, a honeymooning couple, a movie producer, an aspiring actress and a man known only as Forrest. Shortly after takeoff, Forest becomes violently ill. By the time the plane lands in Catalina he is dead. His body is taken to a room in the island infirmary to serve as a temporary morgue. Hildegarde is certain that someone on the plane slipped him a deadly poison. Ultimately she learns that it was done by a team of killers using a poison cigarette.
The examining doctor hastily decides that Forrest died of heart failure. Hildegard believes he was poisoned. The body is stolen from the infirmary in the foggy night to keep an autopsy from revealing the cause of death. Outside of the infirmary window, Hildegard sees a distinctive heel impression clue and points it out to Inspector Piper.
Piper responds, "Well I’ll be; a nice clean heel mark with a K in it. Hummm. Have you got a list of the suspects?" He assumes that the killer moved the body and has a theory about who it is.
Compare Hildegarde's heel print discovery outside the makeshift morgue to the photos below in Mark Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood book. Read his caption, which draws attention to "the distinctive heelprint." [A closeup of the same glove and the black knit cap (note the distinctive heel impression in the foreground).] Instead of a K, his "heel impression" has a Heart in it.
This is a Jumble puzzle It is different from a Scrabble game in two critical aspects: 1) All of the characters have to be used in the solution. 2) They have to provide a suitable caption for a picture. A Jumble puzzle is composed of several anagram clues. If you unscramble them correctly you get the letters in blank circles that you need to spell out the solution below the picture FYI: a heel impression is not stamped on a hard surface like the artificial stone tile; it is sunk into a soft surface like sand, snow, mud, loose soil or wet cement.
To spot the Jumble puzzle code on the page of Mark Fuhrman’s first "murder book" showing his pointing finger photos, you need to have seen Jack the Ripper (’88) and Murder on a Honeymoon (’35). You have to know the Fuhrman/Roberts allusions to Jack the Ripper’s signature in blood. You have to wonder why Fuhrman called a shoe imprint an "impression" and made a parenthetical reference to a heelprint and a "black knit cap" (it was blue) in the caption below his close-up photo of his finger pointing to the glove and why he left the hyphen out of close-up (he spelled it "closeup"). These are things that word game-makers sometimes have to do to make the game solution come out right.
Hint: On page 127 of Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman did something similar to calling the blue knit cap “black” by misidentifying the rank of retired Army Sergeant Major Robert C. Hurd Jr. Fuhrman never gave his name. He identified him as a former “Master Sergeant.” Hurd was killed with a hammer. The end credits in “The Hammer” episode of Dragnet 1967 contains a consecutive letter code about Hurd that works with “Master” but doesn’t work with Major.
This isn't necessarily the solution. Here's another one:
(149 letters – 7 punctuations) MURDER ON A HONEYMOON: HILDEGARDE SUSPECTS PEOPLE ON PLANE / FLIGHT VICTIM MOVED AT NIGHT AND K HEELPRINT CLUE (K TM) SEEN BACK OF CATALINA ISLE INF. OSCAR PIPER PUT HEAT ON THE DEVINGS B/G.
There could be other valid solutions. There might not have been enough time to perfect the setup or the solution. Furthermore, nothing you come up with can take into account a spelling error on the part of the puzzle maker or a little cheating here or there to force-fit a bothersome leftover or omission.
Any relevant solution shows that it is a Jumble puzzle with a solution that can be found without an apostrophe, a J, a Q, a W or a Z and only one Y. If you think you can make a Jumble puzzle out of any two or three sentences selected at random, try it and see how far you get with punctuated sentences, phrases and abbreviations relevant to the heelprint in Murder on a Honeymoon.
If you followed the Simpson-Goldman murder case, you might have noticed that the wound to Nicole's throat that was almost identical to the wound that Jack the Ripper inflicted on Marry Nichols. Fuhrman took the Jack the Ripper parallel a giant step further in his pointing finger photos and his reproduction of those photos in Murder in Brentwood. In his Murder in Greenwich movie, he signs his name in red ink, as Jack the Ripper did in his "Dear Boss" letter to simulate a signature written in blood. He also makes a pointed Jack the Ripper wisecrack about a suspect that he crossed off of his suspect list.
In the 1997 interview that Fuhrman's partner Brad Roberts did with Diane Sawyer, he referred to a fingerprint in blood that he said he saw on the back gate. He said that the killer signed his name with it. The heel print in Fuhrman's photo is less than a foot away from the front gate post that happens to have blood on it. On page 33 of Murder in Spokane, Fuhrman defines the "signature" of a serial killer (like Jack the Ripper) as, "...a distinct method of torture, killing, or staging -- arranging the body or crime scene--common to all crime scenes." The beauty of a distinctive shoeprint as a signature in any type of homicide is that a name is sometimes baked into it -- the name of the company that manufactured the shoe.
In the
Murder on a Honeymoon case it was a heelprint embossed
with the "K" trademark (TM)
of the manufacturer.
Inspector Piper is certain that the killer signed his name with
the "distinctive" heel of his shoe. Acting on his theory that the
most innocent-looking people on a murder suspect list are probably
guilty,
(124 letters / 4 punctuation marks) INSPECTOR
PIPER: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
DEVING DID IT AND HE STOLE THE BODY.
HE’S GOT HEELS
MARKED WITH A K
AND I SAW TRACKS JUST OUTSIDE
THE INFIRMARY.
(103 letters / 2 punctuation marks) INSPECTOR
PIPER: DEVING DID IT AND HE STOLE
THE BODY. HE’S
GOT HEELS MARKED
WITH A K AND
I SAW TRACKS JUST OUTSIDE THE INFIRMARY.
MUST SIT EVIDENCE INSIDE OF GATE WITH SHOES THAT
READ LIKE JACK THE RIPPER’S SIGNATURE IN BLOOD: MAKE TWO YRD TRIPS.
(5 letters / one punctuation mark left over) D D H H Y. r
INSPECTOR PIPER: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? DEVING DID IT AND HE STOLE THE BODY. HE’S GOT HEELS MARKED WITH A K AND I SAW TRACKS JUST OUTSIDE THE INFIRMARY. SIT EVIDENCE DOWN INSIDE OF GATE. WEAR SHOES THAT MIGHT READ LIKE JACK THE RIPPER’S SIGNATURE IN BLOOD: MAKE TWO TRIPS TO BUNDY YARD? STUDY IT.
A HULK HAT H or the hulk ha ha or Study The Incredible hulk Theme (or Transformation)
[Note: the letters for the words in caps after the question mark were leftovers from a scrabble game. A Jumble puzzle has no leftovers. All of the scrambled words have to be unscrambled correctly to put the key letters in the correct order. The correct order of letters encircles the letters used to solve the puzzle. The solution is an answer to a stated or implied question in a caption below a cartoon. The cartoon illustrates the caption.
SIT EVIDENCE INSIDE BUNDY GATE WITH SHOES THAT READ LIKE JACK THE RIPPER’S SIGNATURE IN BLOOD: MAKE TWO TRIPS ON WALK. A DUTY GUARD* HAT. IHS [International Harvester Scout] AT DOROTHY? MF *See Jack the Ripper, 1988 - An actor named Mike Lewin is listed in the full credits of this movie as " Duty Guard ." Lewin is shown briefly in his British "bobby" hat as the coachman awaits the Ripper. He is shown again when the Ripper's heels sound on the cobblestone street as he walks to the coach. A detective named Mike Lewin worked at the West Valley Division of the LAPD in 1994. --Anonymous HAT [Figuratively speaking, a hat suggests one of various jobs, as in, "Being self-employed meant that he had to wear different hats."] Figuratively speaking, all actors wear different hats.
A HULK HAT is thus a coherent phrase meaning, somebody playing a role. In this case, "a Hulk," a bodybuilder playing the role of monster accused of killing a man and a woman in a rage (pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk).
The H now makes sense as a standardized abbreviation for Hospital. It makes sense as the silent letter in Fuhrman, the first letter in Heart, the middle initial of Fuhrman's LAPD partner, Bradford Harold Roberts.
The heelprint that Hildegard (another H) finds outside of the infirmary window leaves a one-letter impression, a K. Some people think it's a production error because a K in the heel would be reversed in the print. But the shoe company could have designed it that way to produce a rubber stamp effect on contact. Looking at the heel itself from back to front, it would simply look like the K in the screenshot had a short "foot." The H is consistent with the K on the heel in that the K, as well as the H identify a shoe company with a very odd name, the Koke Shoe Hospital. H, in the jargon of illicit street drugs, also stands for Heroine. The common denominator in
all of these Jack the Ripper word game solutions is his signature in
blood. This link will take you to the original letter th So, what's with the Murder on a Honeymoon screenshot of Hildegard Withers opening an envelope containing ten $1,000 bills. It's not just money in that envelope, it's "blood money." And where have you seen a $1,000 bill associated with an envelope, a word puzzle and the blood of someone we know.
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at Jack the
Ripper wrote to the Central News agency and the envelope it came in
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In The Naked Gun, O.J. Simpson as Nordberg eavesdrops on a conversation aboard a cargo ship in the LA Harbor carrying heroine. In trying to make the big arrest aboard the ship himself he gets shot full of holes and falls overboard with his foot in a bear trap. Drebin goes to the crime scene and questions the dock foreman outside of his Pier 32 duty shack. He shows the foreman a photo of O.J. in a police uniform and asks if he is familiar with the face. Drebin gets him to cooperate by offering him one twenty dollar bill and then another (familiar face, 32 , "bills " -- get it?) He asks Drebin, "Why do you want to know.
After some silliness with two twenties in snitch money, the dock Forman asks, Drebin says, "Alright, his name is Nordberg. He's a cop. The foreman retorts, "He was no cop! He was dealing H!"
When MP Mark Fuhrman served in Vietnam, heroin was commonly sold as "coke" under the widespread belief that heroin was addictive but cocaine was not. Another myth about cocaine in wide circulation among enlisted military personnel was smoking it, rather than snorting or injecting it was the real key to avoiding addiction (I swear to God that I'm not making that up). They did it in full view of everyone by removing a third or so of the tobacco, replacing it in the paper tube with the white power, then twisting the end to keep the nicotine -heroine cocktail in place. When the smoker lit up, it burned like regular tobacco.
You get a hint of this history in Murder is Easy with Bill Bixby as a MIT probability expert searching a murder-by-heroine-overdose suspect's desk drawer. He opens a gold case containing fat, hand-rolled cigarettes or marijuana joints with twisted ends. But when you know the trick of adding heroin to tobacco in cigarette paper tubes, the packages of white powder that Bixby's character finds in the drawer delivers a different message. It's about the cigarette-smoking-man at the bar in Murder in Greenwich while Fuhrman is crossing off a name on his suspect list.
Pre-packed heroine-cigarettes were sold to American servicemen in Vietnam as "coke" in popular brand name filtered (yes, filtered) cigarette packs. I heard that they were sold as Kools, Newports and Camels (all filtered). The ones I remember seeing were Camels and Marlboros.
I thought about them when I read Item # 3 in Dennis Fung's formal property report [Evidence Dismissed, page 96]: "Butt, cigarette, 'Marlboro' – recovered from the street..." The street is 360 North Rockingham. I hadn't thought much about it since then. I'm thinking a great deal about it now.
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The Incredible Hulk 1977 - 1982
A HULK [A Jekyll and Hyde-like comic book character brought to life in a 1977-1983 TV series]. Bill Bixby plays Dr. David Banner, a scientist accidentally transformed into a mindless, shirtless, shoeless, green monster. When he learns what anger overload does to him, he gives a rueful nod to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel that became an 1887-'88 play on a London stage, by declaring, "I wanna be Dr. Banner, not Dr. Jekyll."
In 1973, Bill Bixby is Anthony Dorian, The Magician. In the pilot episode he is putting on "a first-rate magic show" when a man clutching his chest stumbles over to a woman sitting alone at a reserved table and drops dead of a heart attack. The actress at the table, like the Kim Hudson character in Witch Hunt, has a K and an H in her name. Her name is Kim Hunter.
In a subsequent conversation with the mystery woman, Tony says, "One mustn't study a magician too closely. Never look up his sleeve and never look under his hat." Is "A HULK HAT H" starting to make more sense to you? Would it make more sense if the dead man's ID papers said, "H October."
To bring The Magician as well as The Incredible Hulk into an Oscar Piper code looks like two sources too many for a snug Jack the Ripper fit. Not so when you view "A HULK HAT H" as a signpost deliberately inserted by the puzzle maker to multiple source destinations. Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde story is, furthermore, a variation on the ancient werewolf legend. Only his beast was created by a doctor doing research into extreme manifestations of human potential. Hummm... Why does that variation of the werewolf theme sound familiar? And why am I thinking that it has something to do with "footprints"?
The actor who played
Jekyll and Hide in 1888 London was
Richard Mansfield. His
transformations in full view of the audience caused some people
You need a relevant portion of Jack the Ripper '88 to make a perfect puzzle piece fit for the word game in Fuhrman's Murder on a Honeymoon picture page, Inspector Piper planning code and Dr. Banner's invocation of Dr. Jekyll. You will find it inside of 40 seconds of a tabloid-style newspaper reporter named Bates telling a police supervisor who the men are arriving outside of a Scotland Hard field office. He says, "The one in the hat is Richard Mansfield." You have little waiting time to see the bottom of Mansfield's shoe, with Inspector Abberline holding it by the heel.
Three actors were considered for the role of the green giant in The Incredible Hulk series, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Kiel and Lou Ferrigno. The part went to Schwarzenegger's fellow bodybuilder, Lou Ferrigno.
Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner, Jack Colvin as tabloid newspaper reporter Jack McGee and Lou Ferrigno as The Incredible Hulk are all you need to tell the footprint / shoeprint story of the American actor who transforms himself on stage in Jack the Ripper '88.
In the pilot episode, Banner has been shot but he tells his research assistant that he can't go to the hospital. He sits at her breakfast nook table and drinks a glass of orange juice instead. He soon learns that he doesn't need hospital care. His blood chemistry is causing the bullet wound to heal on its own at a phenomenal rate. He has a lot of explaining to do after a cop tells him that his car was found smashed up and McGee doesn't buy his story that he thought a friend took it. Holding up a plaster cast of a gigantic footprint, McGee asks Banner, "Does your friend take a shoe in this size?" |
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Bill Bixby is billionaire Tony Dorian, The Magician Elizabeth Ashley is Sally Baker, a.k.a. H. October
The Magician learns who H. October really was by following his step-mother, the woman who picked up his body under the name, "Mrs. H. October." The release date for the series pilot was October 2, 1973.
He doesn't know what she looks like so he pages her by that name in the airport to answer a white courtesy phone near Gates A-5 and A-6.and watches the phone. Before all is said and done, he will be shot at in a speedboat chase, and rescued in a seaplane by his private pilot. His pilot usually takes him around the country in his mobile home, a 737 passenger jet – with a ramp in the back where he parks his white Corvette...
Tony tails the new mystery woman in his Corvette to a pier where she gets on a yacht with the body. After some silliness with two tens that he pulls out of the parking attendant's ear, Tony finds out that the man in the coffin supposedly died three weeks before his heart gave out in the magic club.
You might have seen this bit before you saw The Naked Gun. If you did, now you know why the Pier 32 foreman scene looked familiar. Or was it something they said to each other after Tony pulled into the parking lot and the attendant came out of his shack to charge him a dollar? Tony: That boat that just pulled away – Who does it belong to?" Attendant: Who wants to know?" Tony answers with the ten dollar bills.
Tony enlists the aid of Sally Baker, the bad guy's young wife, to get him into a first year anniversary party. He begins with a trick in which he appears to produce a full martini glass on his palm from a silk scarf. He then picks up the glass by the stem with the hand holding scarf, offers a toast to Mr. and Mrs. Baker on their first anniversary. He drinks the cocktail, gets into a clear acrylic chamber that fills with smoke and escapes to rescue the missing girlfriend of the man who dropped dead in his club. She's being heal in a room by Mr. Baker's henchmen. Tony just walks in with his hands to his sides appearing to bring lit cigarettes between his fingers from his palm. While he distracts the kidnappers with meaningless conversation, he drops the lit cigarette to the floor a few seconds apart. A cigarette explodes filling the room with white smoke through which he and the kidnap victim escape. They have to duck some bullets and jump from speeding boat onto the pod of a seaplane to reach safety aboard Tony's 747 home. From there, they go to the San Francisco home of a wealthy and powerful friend for happy reunion of mother and daughter.
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Experiment in Jumble Puzzle Making
–Jasper
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