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Chapter 17

Play for Pay

     

Now think Dean Martin singing, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s amore…"

That’s Fuhrman’s story of Nicole talking on the telephone and planning a meal for her lover from the Italian restaurant down the street, a lover who worked at the California Pizza Kitchen the year before. This analysis works only if Fuhrman could equate a man like Goldman to something Italian and to a rich woman’s prized dog. For a nazi that’s not a problem.

There was no evidence of the pizza menu that Fuhrman said he saw under Nicole’s leg. It existed only in his mind. And in the movies.

There was no evidence at the time Fuhrman wrote his fifth note that it had anything to do with the unidentified dead man in the front yard with Nicole’s body. There was no evidence of anything distinctly Italian on the murder scene including the Bruno Magli shoeprints or the fact that Bruno Magli was the brand of shoes that Nicole bought for herself. If the shot of Phoebe’s face meant something to Fuhrman while she is talking on the phone in Once Upon a Crime, so did the shot of her shoes. It tells me that he was thinking way ahead.

Fuhrman doesn’t say whether the handwritten note on Nicole’s coffee table that said "Cara, CA Pizza Kitchen was written in pencil or pen, but we know that his note was written with a pen. He used a pen to give Kato the test for intoxication and to pick up the wad of chewing gum that he said he found under the foliage in a flowerbed in front of Nicole’s garage. Fuhrman’s pen is therefore associated with Kato as well as Goldman, the name of a man, which is also the name of a male dog with a "gold nameplate." Moreover, the "dog" named Kato "belonged" jointly to O.J. and Nicole, his German ex-wife.

The owner of the male dog with the gold nameplate in Once Upon a Crime, is a woman in Monte Carlo named Mme. Van Dougen. The dog is named after a famous Frenchman, Napoleon. Which brings us back to "Murder – According to Maggie" with Maggie’s desire to do a show called Love in Naples, and to the lyrics of Dean Martin’s hit song, "Pardon me but you see down in old Napoli, That’s Amore."

"Napoli" is not Napoleon anymore than a plaza is a pizza, but they are close enough to make the connections if you see them in the same context and their importance to you is a matter of either great rewards or death. When Phoebe is making her call to her Italian lover in Once Upon a Crime Napoleon is stealing her lunch. She is out of money so she can’t say where her next meal is going to come from. Soon after she shoos away the dog with the gold nameplate (Goldman), she learns through an ad in a paper printed in English that it is worth $5,000 in reward money. She makes the valuable discovery while she is circling ads with her pen. As in Fuhrman’s fifth note about the Pizza Kitchen, the ad offering the reward includes a woman’s name (Cara) and a phone number. The man that the dog ends up with happens to be talking to a woman named Carla.

The next biggest item on the page is an ad for something "better than a hotel" called Bristol Plaza. Next to that is a column of ads under the heading "Aviation." When O.J. flew to Chicago after Nicole’s murder, he stayed at the O’Hare Plaza Hotel. These are all good reasons for Fuhrman to have made such a big deal out of the handwritten note on the coffee table. These are good reasons for everything else associated with Fuhrman’s pen and anything resembling a valuable discovery, a pizza or a plaza. But to mean anything to Fuhrman at the time he was writing his notes, he had to know about Ron Goldman’s job at the Italian restaurant and at the pizza place. He had to know his "gold nameplate" and Nicole’s relationship with him. He had to know about O.J.’s flight to Chicago to play golf for Hertz. He had to know where O.J. was staying and why all of these things mattered to his apparent guilt of innocence.

Dean Martin’s song That’s Amore comes from the 1954 Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis movie The Caddy. If you only skimmed Chapter 7: Code Breakers or skipped it altogether, I urge you to go back and read it in full. You’ll see how "The Foursome" episode of Matlock leaches into the opening sequence of Police Squad! with Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln. The point is, there is a Hamilton connection between the pennies found behind Nicole’s garage and the dimes by way of a character in Police Squad! (Rex Hamilton) playing another character (Abraham Lincoln) from a twisted historical event.

According to Fuhrman the coins came to rest where they did in front of the garage door because the killer dropped them in a panic after the murders when he reached in his pocket for his keys. Fuhrman said that the coins should have been checked for fingerprints. He was confident that they would have matched O.J. Simpson’s. In Once Upon a Crime, it appears that the killer left a book of matches in front of a murdered woman’s garage door. The matches actually belong to someone else and have nothing to do with the murder.

The real story of the matches in Once Upon a Crime is Fuhrman’s story of the pizza and the coins with details from the movie that include the man in the car with the matches falsely accused of murder. The coins are what you get when you put the accused murderer in a telephone booth using a pay telephone (you have to drop the coins into the coin slot of the phone). That’s Phoebe’s fellow American Richard Lewis as Julian Peters. He took the dog when Phoebe shooed it away and recognized its value by the gold nameplate, thus, forcing Phoebe to team up with him to share the reward.

Julian sold the dog to John Candy as a compulsive gambler named Augie Morosco on the car of a train to Monte Carlo. Augie gave it back when the conductor told him that the dog had to have papers from a veterinarian before he could cross the border with it. He wrote his name and number on a matchbook and gave it to Julian. That’s the matchbook that Julian dropped when he lit a match to verify his discovery of another valuable item – a diamond necklace – poking partially out of the victim’s garage door. He tugged at it, and the dead woman’s hand came with it. Julian didn’t know it while they were talking on the phone, but it was then that she was interrupted by her killer (Fuhrman has Nicole being interrupted by the sight of her killer during her last phone call and getting killed shortly thereafter). Julian thought she was having sex.

Julian and Phoebe went to the house with the dog expecting to receive a big reward. Instead, they found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time under circumstances so incriminating that they couldn’t conceive of being believed if they told the truth. Inspector Bonard, the police detective in charge of the case expected them lie. He told his assistant, "Guilt or innocence is quite often not the issue. Persuading the suspect to say what you want is. They tend to lie anyway. It’s human nature; the fear of self incrimination. Only when they have painted themselves in a corner or when you have carefully guided them there do they point their finger in the right direction."

That’s just what happens in Once Upon a Crime with everyone aboard the train to Monte Carlo who came in contact with Augie Morosco. James Belushi as New Jersey businessman Neal Schwary and Cybill Shepherd as his wife Marilyn come off looking particularly bad when Neal steels a suitcase in an irrational moment of panic thinking that it might be full of money. You can imagine their horror when they open it and find pieces of Mme. Van Dougen inside. Do they call the police and report what happened? Of course not. Most of us can see ourselves behaving as foolishly as they do, trying to cover ourselves for a crime we didn’t commit because of real circumstances that are hard to believe. It’s human nature.

Neal and Marilyn put the suitcase on a baggage cart for a train going to Spain and hop on a train going in another direction. A "helpful" porter notices the "mistake" and runs after them with the bag as the train pulls away. Despite their best efforts to wave him away, he persists and shoves the suitcase into the window of their car on the run. So, there they sit with the body in the bag and a man in the car sitting directly across from them. Their next effort to get rid of the suitcase is another fiasco. The conductor opens it and they’re busted.

Augie Morosco behaves just as badly when the matchbook that Julian dropped near the garage seems to point to him as the killer. He goes to his beautiful young wife for an alibi but things get complicated when she tells him that she was having sex with Alfonso at the time of the murder. Augie has to enlist Alfonso’s aid to correlate his story with the male prostitute’s actions. His elaborate plan to distance himself from the murder ends up putting him right on the spot. The only thing that saves him is the fact that Julian recognizes Alfonso’s shoes. The thing that saves Alfonso is the brilliant deductions of inspector Bonard. He realizes that the unconvincing stories he’s getting from the people who look guilty are because they don’t know enough of what really happened to tell a convincing lie. The maid and the butler did it.

O.J. said and did things following the phone call he received in Chicago telling him that his ex had been murdered that were as foolish and as predictable as what Augie and the Schwary’s did when the finger of guilt seemed to point to them. He tried to put as much distance as possible between himself and his blood drops that he knew were on his driveway by making an "accidental" cut on his finger much bigger than the one that could have left the blood drops he was worried about. The small cut verified his alibi and proved that he was framed by someone with access to the blood samples in the lab, someone who knew he was cut but not to what extent. The big cut on O.J.’s finger is what the prosecution needed to show that Fuhrman’s bleeding killer theory was correct and the blood drops on Bundy came from O.J.

A student of human nature like the Monte Carlo police inspector in Once Upon a Crime would have expected O.J. to do what he did in a panic. That is not to say that Fuhrman didn’t get lucky with his bleeding killer theory and the size of the cut that matched the size of the blood drops on Bundy. It is to say that he did not have to rely on luck. It was a good gamble that would have worked whether or not O.J. made the cut in Chicago that could have left the blood drops on Bundy. We know that because we know that the prosecutors and most of the public ignored the evidence that ruled out the possibility that he could have made a cut that size on his finger before he checked into his room in Chicago.

As soon as the argument about the size of O.J.’s pre Chicago cut begins to break down, the argument shifts to the DNA and the location of the blood drops on the left side of the killer’s unusual Italian shoes. O.J. is pigeon-toed and you sometimes see him standing that way. However, the way his heel and toe make contact with the ground when he walks makes a pattern closer to what you would expect if his toes pointed straight ahead like Mark Fuhrman’s – or George Hamilton’s.

One good look at "the Italian’s" shoes in Once Upon a Crime might tell you something about Fuhrman’s scenario of the Bundy murders and O.J. retreating from the Bundy murder scene. According to Fuhrman, O.J. knocked Nicole to the ground then ducked into some bushes when he heard Ron Goldman coming. In Once Upon a Crime, George Hamilton as the Italian gigolo Alfonso ducks in the bushes when he hears Julian coming back for Phoebe’s suitcase. Julian sees the shoes under the foliage and beats a hasty retreat thinking that he has seen the shoes of the killer.

In Crimes of Passion, the "Hamilton" in the flowers is a ten-dollar bill. The wad of bubble gum that Kathleen Turner as the whore China Blue puts in the ten-dollar bill and tosses over her shoulder hits the wall. The wall is covered in paper with a floral design. In Whore (’91) you see the flowered wallpaper again behind Theresa Russell as Liz a devoted wife and mother before she leaves her cheating husband, goes to work in a restaurant and then becomes a whore. As a hooker, she chews bubble gum and blows a bubble as she visits a client named Charlie in a nursing home. Charlie is an old man who has just had a stroke. You don’t see how her bubble gum has anything to do the with Fuhrman until Liz pulls the supermarket label off an avocado and takes it to Charlie with the story that she got it out of his garden.

Among the minor pieces of evidence found on Bundy before Fuhrman said he found the discarded bubble gum in a flowerbed overgrown with vegetation was a fruit label. The label said, "Bonita Ecuador." Would you be terribly surprised to find an Ecuador movie connection here to Fuhrman’s Bundy crime scene notes? I didn’t think so…

Vibes (’88) is the Ecuador connection. It is loaded with actors who, in turn, have many connections to other movies and TV shows related to Fuhrman’s presence on Bundy and Rockingham. It has Julian Sands as Dr. Steele (he is the warlock in Warlock – Pierce Bosnan is Remington Steele) and Jeff Goldbloom (the writer in the ’78 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the lawyer in Deep Cover) as a psychic named Nick. Cyndi Lauper is a platinum blond named Sylvia. She wears a blue dress in the last scene and sings a song with the lyrics "I’ve got a hole in my heart that goes all the way to China…" You may recall what the heart has to do with Kathleen Turner as China Blue in Crimes of Passion. You will see shortly what it has to do with Theresa Russell as Liz in Whore.

The first Vibes link to the Bonita Ecuador fruit label found on Bundy is in the opening sequence with Michael Learner as Burt Wilder in the mountains of Ecuador wearing a dark blue knit cap. He and his partner Eli are looking for a lost city with a room of gold (lost dog with a gold nametag). When they think they have found what they are looking for Eli shoots the native guide only to learn that what they have really found is something quite different. It’s a source of psychic energy powerful enough for someone who can control it to rule the world. The glowing object they uncover with chisels and hammers seizes Eli in an invisible hold and sends him to oblivion while Burt, who merely touched Eli when he his caught in the objects grip is knocked senseless.

The next thing you see in Vibes is a chimp in New York with a baseball bat (Fuhrman’s story of O.J. and the Mercedes) and a black man in a cap and a glove on one hand trying to induce suckers to play a game of Three-Card Monte. Anytime you see New York City in the Fuhrman collection, you should look for a conspicuous glove (Nicole bought gloves like the bloody ones left on Bundy and Rockingham in New York City a week before Christmas) or shoe. The redhead Googy Gress as Ingo, a man of many talents, pointing his finger at the red nine, needs no explanation. Neither does the door he walks through after the takes the money of the black man with the glove and the cap. The number on the door is 32. Behind the door is a psychic research lab.

We first see Jeff Goldbloom in Vibes as Nick seated at a table with a wide assortment of knives fanned out in front of him (Fuhrman said that O.J. was rumored to have a large collection of knives – which he did). A butcher knife like the one Fuhrman said Nicole picked up to protect herself from O.J. is pointing toward the female researcher on the other side of the table. The butcher knife on Nicole’s kitchen counter pointed toward the edge, as it would if she had picked it up to deliver an overhand jab then laid it back down by the handle with the tip of the blade pointing toward her. That’s the only way the female researcher can pick up by its handle the butcher knife on the table in front of her right arm and Nick’s right hand.

You can follow Fuhrman’s stories of O.J. planting the German Stiletto that had never been used and Nicole ordering food for Ron before she picked up the butcher knife through Goldboom’s handling of the knives. Goldbloom as Nick picks up each knife and comments on it before he puts it back on the table. The first knife, he says, is fresh out of the package, never been used. The second one is from the college cafeteria. The third one he examines is the butcher knife. Nick gestures with overhand jabs how a woman used it to stab her husband to death.

Nick works at a museum where everyone tries to exploit his psychic talent. Bill McCutcheon as his boss Mr. Van Der Meer is no exception. When the museum trustees drop by, Van Der Meer tries to distract their attention from the books by getting Nick to put on a show for them. He tells them to "take out your keys or other personal items and Nick will tell you all about yourselves." Nick wants no part of it and runs away where he meets Sylvia who tries to talk him into going to Ecuador to find a lost boy. He wants no part of Ecuador, either.

In Mr. Destiny Bill McCutcheon is Mr. Hansen, the murder victim carrying the envelope (like Ron Goldman) who dies because he is in the wrong place at the wrong time. The killer frames Jim Belushi as Larry Burrows for his murder. Considering the coins in front of Nicole’s garage door that Fuhrman said fell there when O.J. turned his pocket inside out for his keys, McCutcheon’s role as Mr. Van Der Meer in Vibes takes on a broader meaning. The name is just too close to Mme. Van Dougen the murder victim in Once Upon a Crime (Kathleen Tuner is the voice of Lt. Van Devanter in Dear America: Letters from Vietnam). When Sylvia tells Nick, "Fine. I’ll go to Ecuador, become rich and famous while you stay here with everything that’s dead" Van Der Meer walks in on them to tell Nick to apologize to the museum trustees. Furthermore, he tells him to, "Do what you did at the Christmas party; you know, with the keys and the coins…."

Suddenly Ecuador sounds to Nick like a great place to go and he and Sylvia are on their way. They are met at the airport in Ecuador by Peter Falk (Sgt. Rossi in Castle Keep and Lt. Colombo in Colombo) as a fortune hunter named Harry who has persuaded them that they are there to find his lost son. Harry’s real aim is to find the city with the room of gold where Eli vanished and Burt got his brain scrambled like Dolores in The Man with Two Brains and Nordberg in The Naked Gun. Nicole was hit in the head so hard that she would have required brain surgery if she hadn’t had her throat slit.

Michael Lerner is very big in the Fuhrman collection. You can read more about him in The Smoking Gun…Movie Guide as the gangster in Harlem Nights and the owner of the white Akita in Amos and Andrew. He’s a sane mental patient in Strange Invaders with Nancy Allen as a reporter and Dee Young as a bubble gum-blowing teenager who puts her wad of gum on the steering wheel of her boyfriend’s truck. Fuhrman found the bubble gum near the area where Nicole’s Jeep Cherokee was parked the night she was murdered. All of these associations flow from the characters in various movies played by Michael Learner.

In Vibes Michael Learner as Burt is hospitalized in a vegetative state. Peter Falk’s character Harry calls him "…a cucumber with lips." Through the intervention of Sylvia’s spirit guide Louise he is brought to consciousness long enough to skip from one random thought to another – from Eli and the mountains to pudding and ice cream to disbelief that Cary Grant never won an Oscar. He tells Harry that he found the lost city and that he had sex with Harry’s wife. Harry asks, "Which one, Estelle or Vivian?" The answer is, "Both." Nick, who is speaking of the lost city asks Burt if he can think back to where he was and put himself there. You know where Burt has put himself when he looks down toward his crotch and says, "Estelle, please. You’re married to Harry."

This could not have been a laughing matter to Mark Fuhrman when Vibes was released in 1988. Like Peter Falk’s character Harry, Fuhrman had been married and divorced twice. His second wife, Janet, had clandestine sex with another man while they were married. Furthermore, the form of sex that Burt relives with Harry’s adulterous ex-wife Estelle when Louise brings him to is represented in the Fuhrman collection out of all proportion to any other from of sex in the movies in general.

One place in the Fuhrman collection where you would expect to see a hint of a woman performing oral sex but you never do is with Stella Stevens. As far as I can tell, she never did a scene like that. Still, there are indications by way of Kathleen Turner’s link to the hospital scene in Vibes and Fuhrman’s references on the Laura Hart McKinney tapes to Peggy York performing oral sex that Fuhrman saw Stella Stevens with Burt as Harry’s ex-wife Estelle. He would have "seen" her as clearly as he would have seen Turner as Jane Blue in Undercover Blues (’93) just because of her character’s name as well as her performance as China Blue in Crimes of Passion.

In The Man with Two Brains (’83) Kathleen Turner as Dolores is lying unconscious in a hospital bed (like Michael Learner in Vibes and O.J. in The Naked Gun) when Steve Martin as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr inadvertently puts his finger in her mouth. Her unconscious reaction tells you as much about her as Burt’s hospital scene in Vibes tells you about Harry’s ex-wife Estelle. Now, look again at the scene in Vibes with Burt leaning forward in his hospital bed to remind "Estelle" that she is married to Harry. This time do it with the knowledge that Kathleen Turner is Stella in A Breed Apart (’84) and Stella Stevens’ real first name is Estelle.

The more you know about Mark Fuhrman’s ex-wives and his role in the Bundy murders the more likely you are to flash on images of Stella Stevens as Harry’s ex-wife "Estelle" as well as Kathleen Turner and Barbara Nichols. It’s not something you would choose to do, but rather a product of the associations in your brain that get touched off like falling dominos when you hit the right one first.

You know about Dan Blue the black athlete who Fuhrman said dated a white cheerleader in the town where they grew up. You know that Fuhrman’s first wife was named Barbara (as in Barbara Nichols who is Liz in "Twenty Two") and his second was Janet (much like Jane, as in Jane Spencer, Frank Drebin’s finger-sucker in The Naked Gun, and Jane Blue, the mother of Jane Louise Blue in Undercover Blues). You know how Fuhrman’s story of the twenty-two cents on Bundy relates to his twenty-two day suspension by Margaret (Peggy) York. You know that Fuhrman said that Peggy York "fucked and sucked her way to the top" and that Kathleen Turner is Peggy in Peggy Sue Got Married.

But did you know that Kathleen Turner’s first name is Mary, as in Mary the boxer’s wife played by Tessa Richarde in the second episode of Police Squad!? Tessa Richarde and Kathleen Turner have something else in common besides the name Mary and the extent to which they were associated with simulating oral sex onscreen in their early careers. It’s the incest connection. You saw it with Tessa Richarde as Billie in Cat People (’82) when she tells Malcolm McDowell’s character, "Let Momma take care of that for you," as she goes down on him. In Crimes of Passion, China Blue makes the incest connection simply by telling her John a story about her father tying her up and having his way with her. She tells him that she still has the scars on her wrists and by insisting that they are there she eventually gets him to "see" them. This is how much of the so-called evidence in the Simpson-Goldman murders came to be associated with O.J. – through the power of suggestion.

Whore (’91) has an incest link that you have to see to believe. A John named hires Liz to read a message over and over while he masturbates and kisses and caresses her high-heel shoe. The message is, "You naughty boy Johnnie! You dirty little boy! Mommy is going to be very, very, very, very, very angry with you!" You know how sensitive Mark Fuhrman was to his MF initials during this taping session with Laura Hart McKinny, so that part of it needs no elaboration. Similarly, you don’t have to be told how important the shoe is on Bundy. But it never hurts to remind you that it was Nicole’s brand of shoe (Bruno Magli) and it was Fuhrman who managed to get his picture taken with the heel print of the shoe.

Like the pizza menus, the twenty-two cents, the bubble gum, the flowers, and the word "cocksucker," the woman’s shoe has to have a tremendous amount of symbolic importance to Mark Fuhrman. We don’t have to know the whole story to know that much. If you came in around the last third of Whore and saw the shoes of the man with his toes pointed straight ahead and his heel on Antonio Fargas’ chest, no one would have to tell you that the shoes belong to a pimp. Nobody else wears shoes like that. In Wore Fargas is Rasta, a derelict with a heart of gold and Benjamin Mouton (BM – as in Bruno Magli) is Blake the vicious redheaded pimp. When Antonio Fargas played the pimp Huggy Bear in the 1975-’79 TV cop series Starsky and Hutch his platform shoes were an essential part of his costume. Blake’s weapon of choice is a knife. In the end Blake, who killed one of his whores, gets his throat cut by Rasta.

We don’t have to know the whole story about Fuhrman and prostitution to know how he felt about pimps. They belonged to a class of people that he told Laura Hart he murdered. His description of O.J. with the baseball bat told me that he saw O.J. as a pimp and Nicole as a whore.

The fact that Nicole is the one who was murdered does not change the essential pattern in the movie because the name of the game is substitution. That’s why so much of the Fuhrman collection ties into Nicole’s preference for fellatio and Fuhrman’s peculiar associations with the word, the act and the idea that women who do it are whores. In Whore, Liz tells all about it as she gives herself a birdbath out of a sink in a strip club toilet and a hooker with long, frizzy, red hair (more about her later) takes a man into the stall. You can see the redhead on her knees as Liz talks to the camera and puts things into perspective.

Liz hooks a finger in the direction of the couple in the stall and says, "Most of the men who come in here must be married. And they come here because we’ll do the things their wives and girlfriends won’t do. Head. That’s what most of ’em ask for. I mean I don’t see why a woman would have a problem with sticking a man’s cock in her mouth. I mean, I guarantee you, if he ain’t sticking it in her mouth he’ll be sticking it in someone else’s. Could be hers. Could be mine. We’re substitutes. I be he’s got his eyes shut thinking of his wife right now. Me, I don’t what to see another dick as long as I live…Yuck."

I’m sure you noticed the contradiction even if Liz didn’t. She says that before she became a Whore she used to love it. She "used to love everything about sex." I don’t know how many people picked up on what was going on there, but I’m sure Mark Fuhrman did. It wasn’t the act itself that bothered Liz; it was the symbolism. It had now come to symbolize her life as a low class whore. You now that for a fact when Blake takes her to a fine restaurant and orders food for her that she doesn’t recognize. She attracts a lot of attention when she announces in a loud angry voice, "It looks like a dick!" Then she tastes it and says, "It tastes like a dick!"

Liz equates fellatio to cops who demand it to stay out of jail but sometimes run her in anyway. Pimps cannot protect their women from cops like that but they can bail them out of jail and protect them from abusive clients. Blake hooked Liz by "rescuing" her from a man he hired to beat her. The fancy meal was another way for him to manipulate her. As a part of that program he had the top of her right breast tattooed with two hearts pierced by an arrow. Talk about symbolism… a cop (Fuhrman), a heart (Laura Hart) and a "boob job" (Nicole’s breast augmentation surgery and Fuhrman’s boast about seeing them "up close and personal").

The heart brings us back to the pay phone in Once Upon a Crime and everything associated with it. In Crimes of Passion You see the heart in the background as you hear the profane ravings of Anthony Perkins as a psychotic, self-styled preacher obsessed with China Blue. He calls her a "cocksucker," the word that Mark Fuhrman used to set the tone for the Laura Hart tapes.

The man who plays Blake in Whore is Blue in the 1988 film And God Created Woman. We have established the fact that Blake killed one of his women with a knife. You see the murder weapon in his hand long after the murder when he has tracked down Liz to the house of her new friend Kate and threatens to kill Kate if Liz doesn’t return to his stable. Two things you notice about the knife right away is how much the handle looks like a German Stiletto and how much the blade looks like a Swiss Army knife. When I was researching Iago in Brentwood I found compelling evidence that the killer of Ron and Nicole used both. You will notice that Blake pulls Liz by the hair and he holds the knife to Kate’s throat. You will notice Kate’s black socks on the rug in front of the fireplace and you will recall that Fuhrman said he found O.J.’s socks on his rug in front of his fireplace.

This is where the significance of Blake being a redhead might grab you – when you recall that the planted item in The Dark Corner with Mark Stevens and Lucile Ball is a fireplace poker. In Five Came Back (’47) Lucile Ball is a whore.

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