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 Some bloody shapes in Fuhrman's pointing finger photo were drawn by hand

From Mark Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood

How do you get a blood flow pictogram (a puzzle) by accident that reads "love triangle"

You don't; not by accident  (look for the triangle on the tile and the heart on the paper).

Murder in Brentwood, page 42: "I looked toward the television and VCR... The videotape that I pulled from the machine was the movie Ghost. Although it had no evidentiary value, the tape's being left in the VCR indicated that Simpson had probably just watched this story about love, jealousy, and murder." Othello was about love, jealousy and murder. Ghost was about love, greed, and murder. Jealousy had nothing to do with it. That would be enough to show a love triangle in Fuhrman's mind -- but he did more.

Page 173: "... They did not present the far more credible theory of a love triangle murder (even if the triangle existed only in Simpson's mind)..." In "Simpson's" mind?

Really?

Page 189: "...There is one profile that often produces cases involving multiple victims: the love triangle."

Page 190-191: "I also pointed out that there was one person who would be outraged at the fact that Nicole chose a mere waiter to replace him in bed, and that was O.J. Simpson.... Jealousy was a better motive than domestic violence... Here is one possible scenario: Simpson could not deal with the fact the a twenty-five-year-old waiter had taken his place in Nicole's bed. He stalked her, and when he saw them together, flew into a jealous rage and killed them both."

The color of dried blood tells you how concentrated it was when it was wet, the darker the color, the heaver the deposit. You can determine the order in which each of these elements appeared by the fact that the later elements overlap the earlier ones.

Before the large pool of blood was guided into the area, smaller ones were present. A small pool lay along the edge of the pavement where you see the glove (no glove yet because the glove overlaps the blood / no heart-shaped blood pool up to this time because it overlaps the heel print) A small bat-shape in blood looks like a smear that was made above the heel before he heart was formed on the back edge. It appears in the photo as a medium-dark smudge getting lighter as it nears the heel.

The triangular imprint came next. It is impossible to identify from the photo. Dr. Lee would not say that it was a partial shoeprint and he would not rule it out.

Then came the clear heel print identified as being made by a size-12 Bruno Magli Lorenzo shoe (technically a boot). The notch that it fits into suggest that something under the other imprint (like a piece of paper stuck to a show) was removed before the clear heal print was carefully imprinted.

Last to appear in sequence near the glove and the cap were the largest blood pool, the heart on the heel, the arrow (triangle) pointing to where the glove will be, the glove, and the blood drops going from the glove to the heart.

Liquids flow as their viscosity, the force of gravity, the contours of the surface and the distribution (shape and continuity) of a compatible liquid that it empties into dictate. Straight, even lines away from the pull of gravity do not form naturally from blowing blood. The short shaft of the arrow-shaped pool of blood inside of the dotted blue lines should therefore point in the same direction as the blood-filled grout (solid blue arrow). The bloody arrowhead should not point to the glove. The irregular blood arrowhead (triangle) and the nearly symmetrical blood heart could have been drawn and filled in only by hand.

-- Jasper