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It is no accident that the first murder victim we see in Twin Peaks is named Laura. It's no accident that she has a diary and a double who is murdered or that a framed portrait of Laura appears in the background of the series' closing credits. The name is an homage to the 1944 classic Laura starring Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, Dana Andrews as Det. Mark McPhurson (pronounced McFurson) who falls in love with her through her portrait and her diary, and Clifton Webb as the jealous killer Waldo Lydecker. The Laura reference in Twin Peaks is made clear when Dale Cooper traces bite marks on Laura's neck to a Mina Bird named Waldo at a clinic called Lydecker's. Other key names in the cast are Grant Mitchel, Dorothy Adams, Cara Williams and Judith Anderson as Mrs. Ann Tredwell.

Waldo Lydecker's victim is the secret lover of Laura's lover and Ann Tredwell's secret lover Shelby Carpenter (Cassandra Peterson’s old friend Vincent Price). Mark Fuhrman said that he and Laura Hart were secret lovers. He said that he and Juditha Brown's daughter Nicole were secret lovers, too, although Nicole's raven-haired sister Denise could have easily doubled for Nicole in a blond wig.

Waiting for Shelby in Laura's apartment the other woman looks enough like her in the dark for Lydecker to believe that he had killed her. Mark Fuhrman's father Ralph was a carpenter. Sgt. Mark Fuhrman was an MP in the Marines. In Not for Hire Ralph Meeker is Army MP Sgt. Steve Dekker. In Kiss Me Deadly he is Mike Hammer. Leo Johnson's abused wife in Twin Peaks is Madcheon Amick as Shelly. She is Tanya Robertson in Sleepwalkers with black actor Dan Martin as Sheriff's Deputy Andy Simpson. Dana Ashbrook as Shelly's secret lover Bobby Brigs uses a hammer to knock the heel off of one of Leo's new boots. Baseball's greatest home run hitter of all time, "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron, shares Fuhrman's birthday of February 5. So does Charlotte Rampling, who is Laura in The Verdict. February 5 is "Day One" in Laura Palmer's diary.

When Laura Hunt returns from a visit to a lodge deep in the woods Det. McPhurson, Laura's maid (Lori's maid?) and her look-alike's killer think they are seeing a ghost. The only one who doesn't is Shelby who knows what really happened and fears that he will look like the man who did it.

We ended the previous chapter with Harry and Dr. Hayward in the pilot episode of Twin Peaks turning over the newly discovered body. Harry parts the plastic and we see the victim’s face as he says, "Good Lord…Laura, Laura Palmer." Sheryl Lee, the Good Witch in Wild at Heart is Laura Palmer. We will see her again as Laura’s brunette cousin Maddy Ferguson (MF). So now we have on the Packard Mill crime scene a Ford Bronco and a body wrapped in plastic (like the plastic Fuhrman "discovered" in O.J.’s Bronco that was suitable for wrapping a body). We have a Billy (Mark Fuhrman’s mother Billie), a black hat (the color of the Bundy cap according to Fuhrman) and leather gloves (Fuhrman associated himself with black gloves and brown ones at the crime scenes).

We know about Fuhrman’s sensitivity to his initials MF (motherfucker) that he showed on a Laura Hart tape in 1985 and the incest theme that pervades the Fuhrman movie collection. And we’ve talked about Fuhrman’s experience with police psychiatrists (doctors) in the early ’80s when he told them about extreme acts of violence he committed and his dreams of committing other acts of violence. That’s why we had to get into Sharon Stone’s role as incest victim Angela Anderson in Scissors and Ronnie Cox (Dick Jones in RoboCop) as her psychotic psychiatrist Dr. Stephan Carter before we could continue with Twin Peaks. We have to do more of that here, keeping in mind Lucy Moran’s ramble about the phone, the little table in the corner with the lamp, the red chair next to the wall and Nicole’s handwritten note, "CARA, CAL PIZZA KITCHEN" on her coffee table.

In Scissors, Angie is waiting for a bus (O.J. under the bus to Detroit in The Naked Gun 2 ˝) and misses it when she is distracted by a big sign on the side that says, "Ann Carter for Congress." Michelle Phillips (Fuhrman went to Bundy with Ron Phillips) is Ann Carter, Dr. Carter’s cheating wife (Fuhrman told his psychiatrist that he would have killed his ex-wife Janet Hackett and her lover if he had caught them). To kill time, Angie goes into the Olympic movie house (Fuhrman’s number one athlete George Forman was an Olympic champion). She is sitting in the nearly empty theater eating popcorn when Dr. Carter, wearing his redheaded "Billy" disguise, surprises her from behind and threatens her with the scissors that she bought at the store next to Ross Cutlery.

Angela runs from the theater in a panic (as O.J. was supposed to have run from Bundy) and ducks into a restaurant across the street from a pizza place. The restaurant has an open kitchen. Badly shaken she asks for a glass of water (in 1994 O.J. said he cut his finger on a water glass when he was badly shaken by the phone call about Nicole’s murder). She picks it up then puts it back on the narrow counter and rushes out (Fuhrman’s 1997 story of Nicole and the butcher knife) to call Dr. Carter. As she passes two men eating at a table by the window you see the pizza place again. The doctor wasn’t in so Angie has to call him back later from her apartment. If you read Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood, all of this should sound very familiar.

By the way, the "CARA" in Fuhrman’s note about Nicole’s pizza note comes very close to Sharon Stone’s name in Above the Law (’88) with Steven Seagal as Nicolie Toscani. Her character’s name is Sara Toscani.

Fuhrman never has one explanation for anything involving the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson when he can use two or more to cover more bases. In reference to the note on the coffee table he said that, "Sometime after 10:00," Nicole might have been talking on the phone or preparing to order a meal for someone she expected to see. Nicole was talking on the phone to her mother from 10:17 to 10:28 but that fact didn’t come to light until well after Fuhrman’s book was in print.

Mark Fuhrman had no logical grounds for that kind of speculation and no way to know that it was more than just speculation unless he, or an accomplice was monitoring Nicole’s calls. That was essential to a successful frame-up. And it was easy to do in 1994 with nothing more than a police scanner if the person you wanted to monitor used a mobile phone the way O.J. and Nicole did on June 12. When Angie gets through to Dr. Carter in Scissors, she is using a cordless phone. In the background you can see a lamp on a little table in the corner. You do not see a red chair against a wall – yet.

Steve Railsback has a duel role in Scissors. He is Alex Morgan, an actor who plays a psychiatrist in a soap opera and his identical twin brother Cole Morgan who is having an affair with Alex’s ex girlfriend Nancy. The Morgan brothers live in the same apartment building as Angela with a window that faces hers. Cole is in a wheelchair (like O.J. as Nordberg in The Naked Gun and Allie Wheeler in No Place to Hide. Bridget Fonda as Ally in Single White Female, with Jennifer Jason Lee posing as her double to kill a man with the heel of Ally’s shoe, has red hair). Cole spies on Angie and paints a picture of her nude, with a doll in her arms and the man with the red hair looming over her menacingly with a pair of scissors. The scissors in Cole’s painting have red handles like the ones Angie’s mother used to kill her stepfather Billy.

Angie uses dozens of scissors of all sizes to repair damaged dolls. All of them have red handles. The large collection of Swiss Army knives (with foldout scissors) that Fuhrman said O.J. had in his home came in all sizes – except for the one that Fuhrman said O.J. used to kill Ron and Nicole. All Swiss Army knives had red handles.

Cole Morgan is a freeloader. He is faking his need for a wheelchair to sponge off of his twin brother Alex. After Angela talks to Dr. Carter about the incident in the theater, she makes an abortive attempt at sex with Alex. The reason that she is seeing a psychiatrist in the first place is because her experience as a child with her redheaded stepfather has left her incapable of having sex with any man. Dr. Carter is seeing her to frame her for the murder of his wife Ann’s redheaded lover Richard (Dick) Bailey. In RoboCop with Ronny Cox as Dick Jones, Peter Weller as Alex Murphy and Miguel Ferrer as Bob, Nancy Allen is Ann Lewis).

When Alex leaves Angie’s apartment, Angie sees Cole having a candlelit drink with Nancy through his half-closed blinds. She sees nothing incriminating in what they’re doing until Cole stands up.

Cole sees that he has been caught and threatens to come after Angie. She grabs a statuette of a fish to defend herself then calls 911 but hangs up when the 911 operator answers. She consoles herself with a hand puppet of a pig. Billy used the pig puppet to seduce her as a little girl but her conscious mind has not made the connection to what it means. Filled with nameless conflicts and terror, she gets a call from a man named Bob who says he has a job for her. She writes the information down on a notepad. It’s the name and address of the man her doctor’s wife’s is having an affair with. He is an architect named Richard Bailey. He lives in the penthouse of a six-story apartment building under construction on West 23^rd street. Like Sherilyn Fenn in Diary of a Hitman with Forrest Whitaker, he is the only tenant.

Mark Fuhrman said that his second favorite athlete was Michael Jordan, number 23 of Chicago. Jordan was a perennial first team choice for the NBA West All-Stars along with Magic Johnson, number 32 of LA and Isiah Thomas number 11 of Detroit. Mark Fuhrman played basketball with a black LAPD officer who wore a jersey with Thomas’ name and number on the back. Opposing Jordan, Johnson and Thomas on the East/West All-Star court was Fuhrman’s third favorite athlete Larry Bird. Are you going to see a significant bird connection in Scissors? You bet. He’s a talking raven named Jimmy.

James is the J in O.J. The J in Laura’s diary stands for LeO Johnson who beat his wife with the bar of soap in the sock. James Hurley drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle (a "Hog"). Wearing black leather gloves he literally plants evidence that points to him as Laura’s killer under a rock (Rockingham). Laura’s mother Sarah has a vision of the "planted" evidence, half of a gold heart necklace that Laura gave to James on February 5 (Mark Fuhrman’s birthday). In her diary she calls February 5 "Day One." Sarah sees the rock, a flashlight and the necklace in a brown leather glove. The matching half of the broken heart was found on the murder scene. The brown glove belongs to Laura’s psychiatrist Dr. Jacoby. In Basic Instinct (’92) Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell writes a murder novel called Love Hurts with a broken heart on the cover.

In Scissors, Angie goes to the designated building, rides the elevator to the 6^th floor and knocks on the door. The door swings open. She steps inside and sees a handwritten note asking her to wait. The rest of the movie revolves around Angela trapped in the apartment without food or water and no way to get help. Dr. Carter systematically manipulates her environment to drive her crazy. In the room with the body is a draped birdcage. When Angie takes off the shroud, Jimmy the raven says, "You did it. You did it." When Det. Tom Lange called the Brown’s home in Dana Point to tell them about Nicole’s death, raven-haired Denise Brown exclaimed, "O.J. did it! O.J. did it!"

Seeing a pigeon on a ledge (Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye) Angela gets the idea of using the raven as a carrier pigeon to take a note about her predicament to the outside world. Drawing on all of her inner resources, she pulls the scissors out of the dead man’s back and uses them to open the cover of a small ventilator shaft. She attaches her note to the raven’s leg and sends him up the shaft.

Dr. Stephan Carter eventually succeeds in driving Angie nuts. One of the last stages of his process is turning on a bank of television monitors with recent scenes from her life and a clip from a soap opera starring Alex Morgan as a psychiatrist. His soap opera character is counseling a woman who says, "I feel like taking a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Jim would certainly be happier…" Then Angie goes into the kitchen and sees the dead man propped up at the table with the dead raven on a platter. She faints, and falls to the tiled floor against the wall on her left side. She flashes back to the buried memory of her stepfather Billy with his pig puppet the night her mother killed him and she stays there.

Sometime later you see the apartment door open and a woman’s body from the hem of her black dress down to her black, high-heel shoes. It’s Michelle Phillips (Billie Frechette in Dillinger – ’73, Denise in Burke’s Law –’94) as Ann Carter. There to greet her in his pasted-on beard and moustache is her husband Dr. Carter who calmly explains that he killed her lover. She knows her husband well enough to know that he is serious. He knows her well enough to know that she will help him cover up his crime to save her political career. He convinces her that Angie will take the blame as Angie wonders aimlessly around the room locked in a world within her own mind.

The only flaw in Dr. Carter’s plan is the fact that Angie found the guts to pull the scissors out of the murder victim’s back and use them to try to escape. The scissors are missing and the Carters have to search for them. If they don’t find them the frame-up won’t work. If the frame-up doesn’t work it will be exposed for what it is and point to the only person with the motive and means to set it up. While Dr. Carter and his wife are searching for the scissors, Angie slips on the doctors discarded false beard. That snaps her back near enough to reality for her to realize the door is open. She wanders out and shuts the door on the Carters, a door that locks when it closes and can be opened only from the outside….

At this point it will be useful to remember that we are talking about Scissors only to make more sense of what we can see and hear with respect to the Bundy murders in Twin Peaks. Just by scanning either of The Smoking Guns you can see how some films and TV shows routinely borrow scenes from each other to form a more complete picture of the Bundy murders according to Mark Fuhrman. The situation at the Packard Mill "by the dock" and a "doc" on the scene to examine the body is a good example. It works well enough on its own to link it to Fuhrman and the Bundy murders but it works better with Scissors.

Twin Peaks has a black hat near a dock in place of the blue knit cap on Bundy, like the blue one on O.J.’s head in the Naked Gun. O.J. "loses" the black one in The Naked Gun 2 1/2. The Twin Peaks episode we’re talking about does not have a killing cage the size of the one on Bundy or a square tile pattern. Scissors has two blondes at different times in black dresses. It has the square tiles and the violent struggle in the tight space (the elevator), the stabbing, the two blades and the bleeding killer. Because Laura Palmer’s body is nude, it has bare feet, bare legs and a bare back. The clincher for the proposition that Twin Peaks and Scissors should be thought of together is Pete Martell’s call to the sheriff’s office and Lucy Moran’s fumbling attempt to get Harry on the right phone. Scissors gives us the phone, the little table in the corner with the lamp – and, in the last two minutes of the movie – the red chair against a wall.

For even more details that tie into Twin Peaks and Fuhrman’s version of the Bundy murders with the blood, the gloves and the plastic linked to O.J. we can bring in a few scenes from RoboCop 2. Actually, we can bring in quite a few scenes from RoboCop 2. But, to keep from getting too far away from Angie Anderson, Ann Carter and Alex Morgan in Scissors, and Pete Martell’s discovery of Laura’s nude body in plastic in Twin Peaks, we’re going to look at only three of them for now.

To put this in context you should see the name links in the cast of RoboCop 2. It’s a list so telling with respect to Fuhrman, Laura Hart, Twin Peaks, Scissors and the Bundy murders that it couldn’t have been more so if someone had made it up after the fact:

Peter Weller Alex Murphy

Anne Lewis Nancy Allen

Angie Gaylyn Gorg (Nancy O’Rielly in Twin Peaks)

Jimmy Murphy Clinton Austin Shirley

Ellen Murphy Angie Bolling

Dr. Julie Faxx Belinda Bauer (Juditha Brown’s maiden name)

Officer Duffy Stephen Lee

Johnson Fulton Perry (a black actor)

Mayor Kuzak Willard Pugh (Harpo in The Color Purple)

Dr. Weldman James McQueen

Cain Tom Noonan (Last Action Hero, Collision Course)

Whittaker Roger Aaron Brown (the captain in China Moon)

The Old Man Dan O’Herlihy (Andrew in Twin Peaks)

Let’s begin with Fuhrman telling Laura Hart that he was God and his justification for searching O.J.’s Rockingham estate that set the stage for his discovery of the Rockingham glove, People vs. Cain. Dr. Julie Faxx working for the head of OCP (Dan O’Herlihy) pulls up the record on Cain, a murderous drug cult leader headquartered in Detroit. He is wearing a black knit cap. She notes, "Subject is violently antisocial, given to delusions of godhood. And he is hopelessly addicted to narcotics." Fuhrman was a narcotics cop at the time he said he responded to the baseball bat incident on Rockingham with O.J. and Nicole "in the fall or winter of 1985." Fuhrman actually showed up on Rockingham in 1984. No record exists of the 911 call that he said cause him to be there.

We established the links between O.J., planted evidence, and the fifty-dollar bill through "The Foursome" episode of Matlock and actor Tom Duffy as Stewart the cop on the take getting orally serviced by a whore in To Protect and Serve (’92). That’s the movie with the LAPD cop who wears a Detroit Tiger (Allan Tramell, Lou Whitaker, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, Sparky Anderson, Ty Cobb) baseball cap.

RoboCop 2, which is set in Detroit, has Stephen Lee as a cop on the take named Duffy, who is tortured to death by Cain in the presence of his girlfriend Angie and his 12-year-old protégé Hobb. It combines the fifty with Fuhrman’s description of the Rockingham glove (he said it was "shiny") in a bomb disposal truck loaded with gold bars and cash. RoboCop finds the precocious child drug lord, who was hiding in the truck from a rampaging Cain cyborg, bleeding to death on a pile of money. The boy is the age of Alex Murphy’s son Jimmy and his heart goes out to him. He takes the boy’s bloody hand in his shiny metal glove as the life drains out of him. The boy’s hand falls on a stack of fifty-dollar bills.

In an earlier scene were RoboCop is recalling his happy life with his wife Ellen in their beautiful home, she is dressed only in a short black slip like the black dress Nicole Simpson was wearing when she was killed. He playfully chases her up the stairs and tickles her bare feet. In a continuation of his flashback, he kisses her as she is getting into the shower. When she draws the plastic shower curtain he sees himself in the mirror as Alex Murphy, the man he was before he became a cyborg.

One more thing about Scissors before we get back to Twin Peaks… You should know the names of three actors who played miner characters. The actress on the soap opera with Alex Morgan is played by Laura Ann Caufield. The cop who investigates the attempted rape in the elevator is a tall, black actor named Albert Powell. Angie’s mother is Ivy Jones. Chris Mulky as Hank Jennings in Twin Peaks is married to Peggy Lipton, as Norma, the working owner of the RR restaurant. Baseball’s all-time home run champ "Hammering Hank" Aaron’s birthday is the same as Mark Fuhrman’s. Peggy Lipton was married to the black musician, composer and arranger Quincy Jones for 17 years. He wrote the score for In the Heat of the Night and The Color Purple. Whenever you see Norma Jennings you know that through the eyes of Mark Fuhrman you are looking at a famous black man’s ex-wife.

Sara, Beth and Leland: Grace Zabriskie (the female third of the trio of killers with native Detroiter David Patrick Kelly and Calvin Lockhart in Wild at Heart) is Laura Palmer’s mother Sarah. When she can’t find her she starts making calls on her kitchen telephone (Mark Fuhrman wrote that he took the call about the Bundy murders in his kitchen).

Sarah calls Charlotte Stewart as Elizabeth Briggs, the wife of Air Force Major Garland Briggs and the mother of Laura’s boyfriend Bobby. Beth (the name of the police psychologist played by Jeannie Tripplehorn that Catherine Tramell frames for murder in Basic Instinct) is in the kitchen with Garland when the phone rings. She picks it up and idly plays with a pair of scissors as Sarah says, "Beth…I just went up to wake Laura and she’s not here. Is she with Bobby?" Beth replies, "Well, she could be. He leaves every morning at five to go running and then he goes to football practice."

Sarah calls the Twin Peaks High School field house and the football coach tells her that Bobby didn’t show up for practice. Thinking that Laura might be with her husband Leland Palmer (Ray Wise, the soap opera actor in Cat People, Nash in RoboCop, Alec in Swamp Thing), she calls the Big Northern Hotel. Leland was in an early morning meeting with Ben Horn to help sell Norwegian investors on his Ghostwood Estates project. Leland breaks away from his meeting and responds to his wife’s questions about Laura’s whereabouts with no sense that anything is wrong despite the worry in her voice.

Calmly assuring Sarah that Laura is probably with Bobby, Leland doesn’t see Sheriff Truman pull up in his Bronco. When he does see the sheriff his confidence begins to slip. There is a moment when Harry walks past him that he stops talking to Sarah and braces himself for bad news. Sarah is beside herself, trying to get Leland to tell her what’s going on. Then Harry, who had not seen Leland, tells the desk clerk that he want’s to see him and Leland knows that something is terribly wrong. The pained look on Harry’s face tells him what it is. Without Harry having to say another word, Leland and Sara know that their daughter Laura is dead.

O.J. was in a hotel in Chicago, a big Northern city, when Ron Phillips called him early on the morning of the 13^th to tell him that Nicole had been killed. Fuhrman was outside finding the glove at the time. Like Leland Palmer with his involvement in the Ghostwood Estates, which include a golf course, O.J. was in the hotel on business involving golf. His job in Chicago was to play golf for Hertz Rent-A-Car, the company that owned the Bronco (with the plastic bag inside) that Fuhrman said O.J. drove to Bundy to kill Nicole and parked at an odd angle on Rockingham when he returned. Fuhrman noted O.J.’s Heisman trophy right after he "discovered" the Ghost video in O.J.’s VCR. A "wood" is a type of golf club. Leland Palmer is also a golfer.

Like the double set of shoeprints, the double identification of the knit cap (one color for each Naked Gun movie), the golf gloves were close enough to the Aris Lights to make a double connection there, too. O.J. played golf at a country club on the morning of the murders and he was scheduled to play again the next day. In Twin Peaks, Leland Palmer kills his daughter’s raven-haired double Maddy Ferguson, wraps the bloody body in a plastic sheet and stuffs it in his golf bag. When he leaves the house he is not wearing black leather gloves. When he gets to his car parked near a white picket fence he is wearing them. He puts the golf bag with the body in the trunk of his Cadillac (Hog) convertible and drives happily away.

Think this story needs the killer driving his car recklessly away from the murder scene or a Bronco parked at an "extreme" angle? Ok….

According to Mark Fuhrman O.J. drove recklessly away from Bundy to an alley where he got a piece of an old, white picket fence caught under the Bronco or in the grille. Then he drove recklessly back to Rockingham, almost hitting another car and came to a sudden stop. Thus, the stick on the parkway in front (off to the side) of the Bronco parked at an extreme angle. In Twin Peaks the stick is a tree. Leland Palmer weaves his convertible (two kinds of car in one) from one side of a two-lane highway to the other singing a jaunty Broadway song. Rounding a bend in the road, he swerves into the oncoming path of Sheriff Truman’s Bronco. The two cars nearly collide next to Leland’s country club golf course. Harry brings His Bronco to a sudden stop, turns it around and pulls Leland over – parking his Bronco at a noticeably greater angle to the white line on the street than O.J.’s Bronco was parked on Rockingham.

You’d figure that the big continuity boo-boo with Deputy Andy Brennan’s black leather gloves would be enough to insure no similar mishaps in the future. You’d be wrong. When Leland goes to the trunk of his car and unlocks it to show Dale Cooper one of his new golf clubs he is wearing his gloves. When he reaches into the trunk to get the club out of the bag with Maddy’s plastic-wrapped body inside, both of his hands are bare. When he pulls it out a fraction of a second later he’s wearing both gloves.

Harry has arrested Ben Horn for Laura Palmer’s murder because some entries in Laura’s secret diary and other circumstantial evidence. With a frame-up in mind as well as Jodie Foster’s role as Frannie, the Dairy High cheerleader in The Hotel New Hampshire, see what you can get out of this exchange between Leland, Harry and Dale Cooper….

Leland: Ah! (he says pointing his gloved finger) I did remember something – as you asked – about the night Laura died. I was working late at the office with Ben. It was about ten o’clock. He left the room to make a phone call. I don’t know who he was talking to but his voice was raised – he was angry. I heard him mention something about…a dairy.

Harry: A dairy?

Leland: That’s what I think, yes.

Dale: A diary.

Leland: (pointing again) That could be.

Leland’s dairy "mistake" served two useful functions (doubles again). It distanced him from any knowledge of what Laura’s diary contained and it damned Ben for the connection that the police already thought was there. Harry, being nowhere near as sharp as Dale, wasn’t fooled by Leland’s trick with the time, the phone call and the diary because he just didn’t get it. He would have gotten in eventually but Dale went for it right away. Once any of us on any scale of intelligence is impressed with the correctness of an idea, it is extremely difficult to change it.

Most people trip over Leland’s "dairy" maneuver every time with respect to Fuhrman’s extensive use of it. Fuhrman’s letter to the city attorney, his Bundy crime scene notes, and his O.J. book are well-crafted patchworks of useful "errors" like that. They include his note about possible gunshot wounds, his misidentification of the knit cap in his notes as a ski mask and the color of the cap in his book. In his book, he called attention to the killer’s distinctive heel print on Bundy then called the Bruno Magli boots "loafers." I stopped counting "errors" like this at two dozen or so.

The odds of making all of these perfectly coordinated mistakes are about the same as getting twenty-four out of twenty-four answers wrong on a true or false test. That’s statistically the same as getting them all right. In other words, you have to know the right answers to get that many answers wrong. Fuhrman’s masterstroke of useful errors had to do with many things he said and did to make it look as though he found both gloves on Bundy and planted one on Rockingham – as opposed to using them on Bundy and giving them to his partner to plant. The Rockingham glove is Mark Fuhrman’s only real alibi for the Bundy murders.

Bobby, Shelly and Leo: Sometimes in Twin Peaks, as it happens in the scene with Harry and Dale in the Bronco pulling Leland over by the golf course, links to Fuhrman’s role in the Bundy murder case jump out at you. At other times they sneak up on you. The latter was the case with the bar of soap that Leo Johnson put in the toe of the black sock to beat Shelly – a big bar of soap that looked like it came fresh from the box. From the condition of her face after Leo attacked her in a jealous rage you can safely infer that the sock had Shelly’s blood on it, just as one of the socks that Fuhrman and Roberts "found" in O.J.’s bedroom eventually tested positive for Nicole’s blood. The only photos of the so-called Swiss Army knife box that Fuhrman claims he discovered in the bathroom adjoining O.J.’s bedroom, are so fuzzy that the only thing you can make out for sure is the bathtub. The box on the rim appears to be the size and shape of a soapbox. For all we know, that’s what it is.

Wearing a black sweatsuit, a ski mask and gloves, Fuhrman was close enough to O.J.’s size and shape to double for him. Fuhrman went into his racist rant about killing "niggers" when Kathleen (a traditional Irish name) Bell told him about a girlfriend named Andrea Terry who liked men who fit his general description. She used O.J.’s friend Marcus Allen (who had often been compared to O.J.) as an example. Fuhrman met Andrea Terry at an Irish bar in the spring of 1986. Irish Spring is not only the name of a popular bar of soap, Iris Spring commercials in the early ’90s featured a man cutting into a bar of soap with a pocket knife.

Some of the most popular brand names of bar soap in 1994 had something to do with Fuhrman and the Bundy murders. Fuhrman first went to Michael Viner the publisher of Dove Press to try to sell a book about the O.J. case but Viner backed off when the Laura Hart McKinny tapes came out. Dove Press did publish Faye Resnick’s book about O.J.’s supposed jealousy and abuse of Nicole like Leo Johnson’s jealousy over Shelly’s affair with Bobby Briggs and his abuse of her. Faye’s book is called Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted. Her co-writer is Michel Walker of the National Enquirer and frequent guest of Geraldo Revera.

Like Irish Spring and Dove, Dial is a well-known brand name for bar soap. Captain Constance Dial, who headed the Field Enforcement Division of the LAPD’s Narcotics Group, was the highest-ranking officer on Bundy. As the dispatch officer, it was her job to send police units as needed to Bundy and Rockingham.

Johnson & Johnson makes soap products. You have seen that "soap" refers to a soap opera in Scissors with the supposedly wheelchair-bound Cole Morgan’s identical twin brother Alex in a starring role. Soap has a double meaning in Twin Peaks with Eric DaRe as the truck driving drug dealer Leo Johnson. It’s the bar of soap in Leo’s sock as well as a soap opera called Invitation to Love with a character in dual roles that’s playing on the TV set in his living room when he is trying to kill Bobby Briggs with an ax. Hank Jennings shoots Leo through his window from the outside as he raises his ax for the killing blow. Leo lays paralyzed on the floor watching what has just happened to him happen to an actor in the soap.

In subsequent episodes of Twin Peaks Leo Johnson is confined to a wheelchair just as O.J. Simpson is in the last scene of The Naked Gun. Meanwhile, Deputy Andy Brennan has become a hero by shooting one of Leo’s drug couriers Jacques Renault when Renault was about to shoot Sheriff Truman. You see an allusion to O.J. in The Naked Gun (’88) scene where a doctor tries to smother Nordberg in his hospital bed with a pillow, when Leland Palmer succeeds in smothering Jacques Renault in his hospital bed with a pillow. Leland is wearing leather gloves.

In the bed next to Jacques is Laura Palmer’s psychiatrist Dr. Jacoby, recovering from a heart attack induced by a double shock. Believing that Jacoby was involved in Laura’s death, Laura’s friends James and Donna had drawn him away from his house to search it by getting Maddy Ferguson in a blond wig to pose as Laura. When Jacoby sees Maddy he thinks he has seen Laura’s ghost. Then he is struck on the head from behind by a man wearing a black ski mask and black leather gloves.

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