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Chapter 20 The Good Witch
You have to watch a high stack of movies in the Fuhrman collection to see the Fuhrman links to Sergeant Rutledge… plus one episode from the TV series Police Squad! and the first story line in Twin Peaks. What do they all have in common? The Wizard of OZ. What is the Fuhrman link to The Wizard of Oz? It’s Zardoz
(’74), the story of a Those of you who have read Iago and The Smoking Gun have the whole picture right there. You know about Fuhrman the artist, the puppet master and the magician. If you read Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood you know about the magic show that his friends treated him to after his performance on the witness stand. You saw how he manipulated everyone around him into putting him in a position to pose for a picture with one bloody glove, to search O.J.’s property without a warrant and to "find" the second bloody glove and the socks. If you read the available transcripts of his tapes with Laura Hart you know that he boasted of being smarter than anyone else, that he boasted of killing people and that he called himself "God." In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman had much to say about being a hunter He wrote about blood sports and riding horses in the same paragraph. In the McKinny tapes he had much to say about shooting people. He said that he shot to kill. According to his second wife Janet Hackett, he told her that his job was to "exterminate" gang members. Zardoz features Sean Cannery as Zed, an exterminator
with a prodigious IQ. You see Fuhrman’s implied body-in-the-plastic-sheet link to Zardoz
in the first Ten minutes into the movie you see a slight variation on Fuhrman’s story of O.J.-the-killer entering his house through the maid’s quarters and seeing himself in the bathroom mirror. One of the first things Zed sees when he enters the first house he comes to is his reflection in a mirror. You will recall that Fuhrman served aboard a Navy ship in 1975 as a military policeman in the deep blue South China Sea. A toilet on a ship is called a head. Like Fuhrman, who climbed over the wall of O.J.’s Rockingham estate and let his fellow police officers in, Zed’s job was to get over the wall of the vortex to let his fellow exterminators in. To accomplish is mission he had to allow himself to be captured to find out how to do it. With his vastly superior physical and intellectual prowess he had good reason to believe he could pull it off. May, the community scientist, learns Zed’s secret and keeps it quit. She claims that she is doing it for scientific reasons. That’s partly true, but it’s not the whole story. The people of the vortex are immortal. They can die, but they can’t stay dead. As soon as they expire they are reborn into bodies that rapidly mature to adulthood. There are no children, as such, in the vortex and the only old people are the "renegades" who have been artificially aged as punishment for thinking antisocial thoughts. However, a creeping affliction is leaving more and more of the general population in a catatonic state. They are called the apathetics and the grain in the head was to feed them because they can’t do anything for themselves. May hopes that Zed’s DNA contains some property that will keep others from becoming apathetics. She is also hot for his body. Enter Consuella. Charlotte Rampling is Consuella in Zardoz.
She is the The violence they see outside the vortex through projections of Zed’s memories is simple entertainment. They don’t know what else to call it. To them, sex is rape, period. The closest thing they have to sex is communal mind links. As you can imagine, that doesn’t quite get it. The first time I saw Zardoz after the O.J. criminal trial, I noticed very few Fuhrman connections. They were all there, of course, I just didn’t see them because I hadn’t seen enough movies in the Fuhrman collection to see the patterns. This was before I stumbled onto the birthday link to the name Jennifer in the first episode of Moonlighting. Even then I thought the name links were absolute, rather than situational and related in some way to Sydney Simpson because of the inappropriate emphasis that Fuhrman put on Sydney Simpson’s birthday. It took Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ray Wise as "Nash" in The Hitcher and Robocop before I saw the light there. I was looking mostly for MF links, incest links, leather glove links, and ski mask or knit cap links. For a long time, I though that Jennifer was one of a small number of names in the Fuhrman collection that mattered. Then I noticed that some actors and actresses were popping up with a frequency that seemed to go beyond chance. Kathleen Turner, Theresa Russell, Barbara Hershey and Jennifer Jason Lee all fell in that category. Theresa Russell as Jenny in Physical Evidence seemed to fit the pattern. It slowly dawned on me that the names Kathleen, Turner, Jason and Leigh (or Lee) were every bit as significant as Jennifer was. Leading the pack, however, was Charlotte Rampling. The name Consuella didn’t seem to fit anything or anyone but Charlotte Rampling in Zardoz. After seeing Charlotte Rampling in D.O.A. (’86), Angel Heart and The Verdict, I decided to see what other films she did where she might have played a character named Kathleen, Jennifer, Lee or Sydney. I didn’t find it, which left my entire "birthday hypothesis" on shaky grounds until I saw that her birthday was the same as Jennifer Jason Leigh’s, Barbara Hershey’s – and Mark Fuhrman’s. What birthday could be more important to Mark Fuhrman than his own? None. Surely there were other birthdays that were also important to Mark
Fuhrman, like his three wives’ his children’s and his mother’s. On the
other hand, the Fuhrman The blood trail that Fuhrman claimed led from the murder scene to
Rockingham was not yellow and had little to do with bricks. Nicole’s driveway was
made of The next time you see The Wizard of Oz bear in mind that
the magic slippers that fit Dorothy’s feet so perfectly belong to the woman
she killed. By all rights, the This is another one of those cases where you might think I’m reaching for a movie connection to Nicole’s Bruno Magli shoes and her killer’s unless you know a thing or two about the way the police linked O.J. to her killer’s shoes. Dominique Brown, one of Nicole’s sisters happened to be wearing a pair of Nicoles Bruno Magli shoes when Detective Tom Lange showed her several pictures of men’s Bruno Magli shoes and asked if she had seen O.J. wearing them. Lange reported, erroneously, that she picked out the killer’s shoes. What caught her attention, though, was the Bruno Magli logo. She told Lange that she was wearing a pair of Nicole’s shoes that bore the logo. She pulled off one of them to show the logo to Lange. Nicole’s older sister Denise said that she saw O.J. wearing the killer’s Bruno Magli Lorenzos. The killer’s Bruno Magli Lorenzos magically showed up on O.J. feet in the words of her two sister when there is no evidence that he ever bought them or that anyone gave them to him as a gift. They magically disappeared and they magically transformed O.J.’s image from a universally loved and respected celebrity to a monster. In other words, Nicole and Ron were not the only ones who were killed on Bundy, so was O.J.’s image. You will find the idea of image assassination combined with physical
assassination Would you believe that there is a bubble gum connection in The
Wizard of Oz? By now it may be evident to you why the Smoking Gun…Movie Guide had so many references to television and The Smoking Gun 2…Television Guide has so many references to the movies. I should have known it would turn out that way long before the web of crossover links took on a life of its own. If Fuhrman did get his murder/frame-up ideas from movies, videos and television shows there is no way his thinking would have followed straight lines from movie to movie, video to video and TV show to TV show. You need some movie links to make sense of all the television links and some television shows to make sense of the movies. Moreover, Fuhrman could only have seen some movies on television. So, the best we can do to separate them is to compile a composite list with a preponderance of movie links in one volume (The Smoking Gun) and a preponderance of TV links in another (The Smoking Gun 2). The Wizard of Oz could be considered a movie link because it was made only three years after Adolph Hitler broadcast the 1936 Olympic games, the first television show in history. Hardly anyone had a TV set back then although television had been around since the 1920s. Commercial television networks didn’t emerge until after WW II and the medium didn’t become popular until TV sets became affordable and widely available in the early 1950s. Mark Fuhrman was born in 1952 so he couldn’t have seen and appreciated The Wizard of Oz when it was re-released to the theaters in 1953. The only time he could have seen it in color was when color television sets became affordable to a waitress like his mother Billie Fuhrman was in the mid-1960s. Zardoz, on the other hand, was released in 1974 when Mark Fuhrman
was in the Zed is a sharp observer but he doesn’t know enough to make the Wizard of Oz connection to Zardoz until Arthur Frayn leads him into a library and teaches him to read. Not even a scarecrow in quest of a brain or a tin man seeking a heart would have helped him. He hadn’t seen the movie or read the book. He didn’t even know his ABC’s. The first book he shows him is a picture book of the alphabet with an ink stain on one page and a picture of an inkbottle over the word "ink" on the opposite page (Fuhrman’s ink pen). The next page he flips to shows the letter "l" on one page and a light truck over the word "lorry" (O.J.’s Bronco). The "m" on the next page has two mice across from it on the opposite page over the word mice. It’s the old association trick that makes reading possible. If you didn’t think just then of Allie Sheedy’s children’s book She Was Nice to Mice, perhaps you flashed on the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz singing, "I could show my prowess, be a lion not a mou-es (mouse) if I only had the nerve." Mark Fuhrman had a lot of was nerve. He had a superior brain and a Hart, Laura Hart. Zed is a fast learner and reads everything in the library that
he can get his hands "They," of course, were Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Ten Man,
the Cowardly Lion and Dorothy’s little dog Toto Zed’s companions were all
exterminations. Film director Victor Fleming’s 1939 movie version of Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz drops the "Wonderful" from the title and gives us a Dorothy who is much older than the one in the book. The Wiz, Sidney Lumet’s 1978 version of the book and the ’39 movie musical, leaves out the second syllable in Wizard and drops both the Wonderful and the Oz from the title. But you don’t have to be the world’s greatest thinker to figure out where the idea came from. Diana Ross is Dorothy in The Wiz ('78). To
fully appreciate what that meant to Mark Fuhrman of the LAPD you have to remember that in Lady
Sings the Blues With all of that, you don’t really need to see Diana Ross
as Dorothy and Now do you see why Fuhrman’s use of the word "brick" to
describe the blood The Wiz and The Wizard of Oz have composite
characters like Fuhrman said he was creating for "his" screenplay on the McKinny
tapes. In The Wiz with its all-black cast, the Scarecrow the Ten Man, the Lion and
the Wiz are all easily discernable aspects of Dorothy’s character. In the Wizard
of Oz with its all white cast they are other people Dorothy knew. Fuhrman’s
bubble-gum-on-the-murder-scene discovery has similar flexibility. It could stand Zed knew that there was a faker behind the stone head mask of Zardoz for the same reason I knew there were popular movies behind the mask on South Bundy with black African hair inside. The only mask on the murder scene was the ski mask in Mark Fuhrman’s notebook. When you see the mask that Richard Pryor hides behind as The Wiz, the hair might be the first thing to grab your attention. Zed could see for himself that the idea for the mask in the image of Zardoz that he and his fellow exterminators wore when they shot, stabbed or slashed their victims to death came from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Victor Fleming’s Wizard of Oz has an all-white cast with a
cleverly woven theme about family, friendship, wisdom, compassion, courage, and
self-confidence in the Mark Fuhrman was a Republican. Sydney Lumet directed ten other movies with substantial links to Fuhrman and the Bundy murders and to men and women who loom large in the Fuhrman collection. He directed: 12 Angry Men (’57) with Martin Balsam, King: A Filmed Record… (’70), with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Child’s Play (’72) with Brad Dourif, Murder on the Orient Express (’74), with Lauren Bacall, Lovin’ Molly (’74) with Anthony Perkins, Deathtrap (’82) with Michael Caine, The Verdict (’82) with Charlotte Rampling, The Morning After (’86) with Jane Fonda, Q&A (’90) with Nick Nolte and Guilty as Sin (’93) with Don Johnson. He wrote Q&A. We can’t go down that road without adding many more chapters to this book. With that in mind I must tell you that I had to leave a bunch of stuff from The Wiz on the cutting room floor to keep this chapter from getting too long and crowding out the points I wanted to make about Billie Burke and Sergeant Rutledge. A good example of what I decided not to pursue was the Michael Jackson trademark – one glove. I’ll let you work on that one yourself. The thing you have to know, however, about Michael Jackson as Scarecrow in an all black cast is that he and Dorothy are forever seeing cabs bound for Oz that won’t pick them up. Billy Dee Williams drives a taxicab in Deadly Illusions (’88) with Vanity and Morgan Fairchild as Billy Dee’s love interests. A white woman at a New Years Eve party mistakes him for Reggie Jackson the baseball star. He tells her that he is Jessie Jackson the Presidential candidate. She buys it. Driving a taxicab requires a chauffeur’s license. The chauffeur in Deadly Illusions wears leather gloves. The Fuhrman collection is loaded with chauffeurs who wear leather gloves. Fred, the driver for the Remington Steele Detective Agency founded by Laura Holt is a prime example. We will be seeing much more of Laura Holt and Remington Steele… The glove link from Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz to the four detectives on Rockingham is a matter I have to address. Think of Fuhrman, Phillips, Vannatter and Lange ringing the bell to O.J.’s hose and getting no answer. Think of the three thumps Kato said he heard that led to Fuhrman’s discovery of the glove that matched the one he was photographed pointing to on Bundy…. Frank Morgan (MF in reverse) is a cabby with the horse of a
different color that starts off white and turns different colors with different shots.
He’s The Wizard of The fake Wizard of Oz sends the foursome on a suicide mission. To "prove themselves worthy" of his generosity, they must bring back the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. By sheer luck they succeed. Dorothy gets herself another kill and returns to the castle of Oz with the broomstick…. Remember that the witch used the broomstick to fly on. Remember that Mark Fuhrman said the stick on O.J.’ parkway came from an alley near the murder scene and "flew" onto the parkway when O.J.’s Bronco came to a sudden stop in front of his home. Now what does the stick on O.J.’s parkway look like to you? In the end, Dorothy finds that she had the power to
return to Kansas all along just The more you watch The Wizard of Oz the easier it is to see Glinda as the real power in Oz who used Dorothy to get rid of her rivals. By killing two people and destroying the reputation of a many who had once been an object of worship, Glinda is now the undisputed power in Oz. If your name is Mark Fuhrman and your mother’s name is Billie,
you’re going to see Glinda as Billie Burke. Even if you grant that Glinda is
just another aspect of
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future society in which a man named Arthur Frayn models himself after
the title character in the children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to
write a story in blood with real people and real blood. He breeds a race of men called
exterminators, to worship him and to hunt and kill the poor, suffering masses who live
outside of an idyllic community called a vortex. His best friend calls him "an
artist." He calls himself Zardoz "…a fake god by occupation and a
magician by inclination." He says, "Merlin is my hero. I am the puppet master. I
manipulate many of the characters and events you will see…" Need I say more
about the link between Arthur Frayn and Mark Fuhrman?
He rides a horse. He calls himself a hunter
and equates his job of shooting people to death for Zardoz with being a policeman.
He arrives in the vortex as a stowaway in an airship disguised as a giant stone head that
he and his fellow exterminators have worshiped as their god Zardoz. The stone head flies
into the vortex over a high invisible wall that shields the wealthy class from the rabble
in "Outlands." The privileged people of the vortex have never seen anyone like
Zed. When they capture him one of the leaders wants to kill him. Another wants to study
him and to extract whatever useful material she can find for the betterment of their
society in his DNA.
five minutes of the movie when Zed rises out of a pile of grain
stored in the stone head and begins looking for Arthur Frayn. Frayn is transporting bodes
wrapped in plastic, presumably for scientific study. You see two of the bodies clearly
enough to tell that one is a man’s and the other is a woman’s. When Frayn shows
himself at the mouth of the stone head, Zed puts a bullet in him and sends him plunging to
his death. 
community leader, and its most gifted psychic,
who wants Zed destroyed. She has the hots for him too, but she doesn’t know what it
is and it frightens her. You see, another price for immortality in the vortex is a loss of
sexual feelings (remember Liz in Whore?). Sex hasn’t been used for procreation in so
long that the immortals have forgotten what it’s for and the men are all impotent.
They don’t have a clue as to the mechanism of penal erection. They equate it with
violence and violence of any kind is strictly forbidden – in the vortex. 
collection is so rich in links to the names of Fuhrman’s three wives (Barbara, Janet
and Caroline) and his mother (Billie) that we don’t need to know their birthdays to
see their place in the movies and in the Bundy murders. Once you know that Billie Burke,
as a redhead, is Glinda the Good Witch of the North, in The Wizard of
Oz (’39) all you have to do to see the other Fuhrman links is to follow the
yellow brick road. 
concrete. The
only bricks on Fuhrman’s blood trail were the ones that lined each side of
O.J.’s circular driveway and divided the irregularly shaped stone tile sections with
strips several feet apart that ran from side to side. No blood drops were fond on the
brick. Yet, in Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman said that the blood drops were found on
O.J.’s brick driveway. Fuhrman’s story is better suited to Dorothy’s
journey to the Emerald City in the ruby slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East to see The
Wizard of Oz. 
evil witch’s corpse should have been a
bloody mess. If you love blood as much as Mark Fuhrman said he did in the Laura Hart
McKinny tapes, I doubt that you would have missed that. If your mother’s name was
Billie, you might also take special notice of the fact that it is Billie Burke as Glinda
who magically transfers the ruby slippers from the feet of the dead woman to the feet of Judy
Garland as Dorothy – the killer from Kansas. You should also note Glinda’s
advice to Dorothy when the Wicked Witch of the West flies in to claim her sister’s
shoes. Glinda says, "Keep tight inside of them. Their magic must be very powerful or
she wouldn’t want them so badly."
on the murder scene in The Wizard of Oz
when Munchkin Land officials in the county of OZ question whether Dorothy
has really killed the Wicked Witch of the East. They are not satisfied that a house has
fallen on her or that Glinda has pronounce her dead. They demand an official examination,
"To see if she is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, absolutely,
positively, undeniably and reliably dead." 
There
is. I never thought of it and I surely wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t seen
the redhead spitting out the gum in Whore. You don’t see her blowing a bubble
but the piece she spits out is "a very large piece" like the gum Fuhrman said he
found with adult molar impression under a leafy plant in a flowerbed. How did I know it
was bubble gum? How did Fuhrman know? There are all kinds of gum, including bubble gum,
that come in many colors. When you see a large wadd of pink gum, though, it’s a safe
bet that it is bubble gum. Still, the redhead in Whore didn’t blow a bubble
and it didn’t land near anything that resembled flowers or leaves. The Wizard of
Oz has the flowers, the leaves and the bubble with the redheaded adult inside. The
redhead is Glinda, the Good Witch of the North coming in for a landing in
Munchkin Land.
Marine Corps
and the price of a movie ticket for American servicemen on base was next to nothing. By
then, showing The Wizard of Oz on TV every Thanksgiving Day had been an
American tradition for a decade. A sharp observer might have noticed the parallels between
the giant stone head in Zardoz and the giant mask of "the great and powerful Oz"
through the fire and smoke of his reception chamber. 
on. One day he finds a book that turns his
life inside out. It’s called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Zed tells May the
scientist that "The Wizard of Oz was fairy story about an old man who
frightened people with a loud voice and a big mask." She says, "That was Arthur
Frayn’s idea, a simple way of controlling the Outlands." Zed answers, "But
remember the end of the story, they looked behind the mask as saw the truth. I looked
behind the mask. 
There were no young girls, no men made of
straw or tin, no cowardly lions or little dogs – although dog Kato did make an
appearance on a street named Dorothy. There was no yellow brick road to follow, but the
yellow grain was close enough. All he needed to know about Zardoz was on the
cover of the book. He ignored the first two words, put his thumb and his finger over the
first two letters in Wizard and the "of" before the Oz and he knew
the truth. It wasn’t a good guess or a mere theory. It was a fact. 
(’75), Diana Ross, the former Motown
lead singer for the Supremes, is Billie Holiday. In The Wiz Dorothy is a
24-year-old schoolteacher in New York who lives with her Aunt Em and her Uncle Henry. She
has a dog named Toto. She gets swept away in a blizzard-spawned vortex that sends her
crashing through a huge sigh in the junkyard land of Oz. A piece of the sigh breaks off
and crushes the Wicked Witch of the East. A magical numbers lady transfers the witches
magical silver slippers to Dorothy’s feet and advises her never to take them off. On
her way to see the Wiz she meets up with a brainless scarecrow, a heartless tin man and a
cowardly lion. 
Michael
Jackson as the Scarecrow singing and dancing on a yellow brick road or a man
who landed in Oz in a hot air balloon to see The Wizard of Oz movie musical
connection. You have more than enough to work with. The yellow brick road in The Wiz
just happens to be laid out in the same irregular tile pattern as O.J.’s Rockingham
driveway. You see the same pattern in tiles of different colors throughout the movie.
Therefore, whether it’s Dorothy’s magic slippers, the scarecrow’s large
boots or the lion’s paws (Bruno Magli Lyons had the same Silga tread design as Bruno
Magli Lorenzos) you get a connection to the killer’s shoes and O.J.’s driveway. 
trail he said went from Bundy to Rockingham was
so arresting? I wouldn’t’ have to ask that question if you had recently seen a
photo of O.J.’s circular driveway after the murders in ’94 and the movies
Innocent Blood, Warlock, The Wizard of Oz (’39) and The Wiz (’78).
Innocent Blood and Warlock give us a killer wearing someone else’s
shoes. Innocent blood gives us shoes associated with blood on brick. Warlock gives
us the killer wearing his victim’s shoes. So does The Wizard of Oz and The
Wiz. The Wizard of Oz gives us a road circling to the left like O.J.’s
driveway and The Wiz gives us the Michael Jackson and Diana Ross discovering the
bricks lining the sides of a path that lead to the pattern on the stone tiles between the
bricks. 
for
Glinda’s transport bubble as well as the hot air balloon of the showman behind the
mask in The Wizard of Oz or the failed politician behind the mask in The Wiz.
face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Sidney Lumet’s Wiz with its
all-black cast uses the same abstract threads to weave a similar story, only with more
literal and figurative garbage thrown into the game. Scarecrow’s head, for example,
is filled with garbage. The Crows, who can best be described as niggers, do nothing
useful themselves and discourage Scarecrow from bettering himself. They tell him that he
cannot get off of a pole that he could easily get down from by himself with a little
effort and self-confidence. They make him recite defeatist Crow commandments and to sing
the Crow anthem, "You can’t win, you can’t break even and you can’t
get out of the game." If you’re a Republican you should love The Wiz….
Oz, of course, and he is also the guard at the gate of the
Emerald City and at the door of the wizard’s castle. Dorothy, Scarecrow,
Tin Man and Lion crowd around the castle door. When Dorothy rings the bell,
the guard opens a hatch on the door and tells her to read the sign. When she points out
the fact that there is no sign he gets one, hangs it up and closes the hatch again. The
sign says, "
by clicking her heels three times and repeating the magic words,
"There’s no place like home." If you’re not a Republican you will
notice that Dorothy did not have that power until Glinda The Good Witch
of the North told her how to use it. You will also notice that she is waving around a
magic wand with a glittering star on top behind Dorothy’s head while Dorothy is
clicking her heels and repeating the magic words. What is one to make of that? Is the
power really in the ruby slippers, in Dorothy clicking her heels properly and saying the
proper words – or is the power in Glinda’s magic wand?
Dorothy’s
character, you run smack into Diana Ross as Dorothy in The Wiz, Ross as Billie
Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, and Billie Fuhrman as an aspect of Mark
Fuhrman’s subconscious mind. All of which gets extremely interesting when you see the
gloved hand of the prosecutor and the star witness in Sergeant
Rutledge (’60) pointing an accusing finger at Woody Strode, a black, former
football player a the title character. Rutledge is on trial for a crime of passion that
escalates to a double homicide when a man stumbles upon the crime in progress. The star
witness is Billie Burke.