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From: Jasper
Date: 1/13/03
Time: 9:57:31 PM
Remote Name: 66.72.162.82
Jean,
The real Jack the Ripper and the one of legend didn’t have much in common as far as the details of the murders are concerned. The experts don’t even agree on the number of his victims, although most of them put the number at five.
The most striking thing about the Bundy murder scene is how much it had in common with the 1988 made for television movie Jack the Ripper, starring Michael Caine. That’s why I started The Smoking Gun with that movie. I gave it the title The Great Detective because of how much Fuhrman’s part in the Bundy Murder investigation resembles that of the lead detective (Michael Caine) in the ’88 Jack the Ripper movie – historical errors and all. The movie concludes that Jack the Ripper was a physician to the royal family (Think “Kennedy family” as royalty in Fuhrman’s movie) with the help of an ambitions coachman (cab driver). It listed artists as suspects.
The one real similarity in the Bundy case and the Jack the Ripper case is in the photo of Nicole’s face after the ’89 incident and the photo of Elizabeth Stride in the morgue. In Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie he works in a scene with Martha ELIZABETH Moxley on a mortician’s table. She, too, resembles the photo of Elizabeth Stride.
I cannot overemphasize the importance of the victim’s names in Jack the Ripper (’88): Mary Nicholes, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherine Eddoes and Mary Jane Kelly. I found many links to Fuhrman just by following the names.
Mary, for example, comes from Mary Steenburgen in anther Jack the Ripper movie (Time After Time ’79). In Back to the Future III, Mary Steenburgen is Clara. The links I was following at the time should have led me to a pizza connection (Fuhrman’s note Cara California Pizza Kitchen). Back to the Future III takes place mostly in the California of the 1880s so I thought I had struck out until I saw the name Clara on a tombstone (Tombstone Pizza). Later in the movie I knew I was right when a man on a train tried to remember her name. He thought that it might have been Sara or CARA. From there when I was looking for a pizza link, I knew to look for the names Mary as well as anything close to Cara on a tombstone. From there I came to expect a number of things associated with a tombstone (Fuhrman’s pizza note together with his “Mothers” poem propped up like a tombstone on Bundy), which included the names of Jack the Ripper’s victims.
In From Hell (2001) the first Jack the Ripper victim is named Martha.
Fuhrman’s movie begins with a blanket of fall leaves slowly being blown away as the credits roll. By the time Mark Fuhrman’s name comes up as the author of the book that the movie was based on, enough of the leaves have been blown away to reveal a tombstone. The name on the tombstone, of course, is Martha Elizabeth Moxley. --Jasper