"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of FourThe Impossible It is clearly impossible for someone to be in two places at one time. Robert Heidstra tesified the killer was at Bundy at 10:40. He further testified to seeing a White Blazer, possibly Bronco leaving the area around 10:45. The vehicle was headed AWAY from Rockingham.
The 10:32.5 start of the Heidstra timeline sequence was confirmed in testimony by Denise Pilnak.
The Prosecution -- Darden & Clark -- attempted to discredit both Pilnak and Heidstra in order to force at 10:15 start to the timeline sequence.
Unfortunately for the prosecution, Heidstra hand checked his clock PRIOR to walking his dog -- the time was 10:15.
Thus, in summation, Christopher Darden brings Simpsaon to Rockingham AFTER the testified time of Kato's "earthquake", proclaiming,
"If they want to push the time to 10:30, push it to 10:30, because anyway you look at it, he has still got time to get to Bundy ... He has got to time to get to Bundy and do these killings and get back to Rockingham by 10:54 or 10:45. ... So it doesn't make -- it makes us no difference. Makes us no difference at all as far as all of the timing is concerned."Brian "Kato" Kaelin initially told the police the "earthquake like noise occured around 10:45. He later testified that it had been at 10:40; which was collaborated by Rachel Farrera, who had been on the phone with Kato at the time the noise occured.
In summation, lead prosecutor Marcia Clark used an inverted time sequence to assert the noise had really been at 10:50.
During pre-summation motions, Judge Lance Ito told Clark she made that argument at risk of her credibility, and inferred that the phone records indicated the Farrera/Kaelan conversation had ended prior to 9:50. Kaelin's phone records have not been made public.After the Criminal Trian verdict of NOT GUILTY, "Kato" Kaelin was given a talkshow which paid him $400,000 -- it ended after one uneventful year.
Unemployed and experiencing his Sixteenth Minute -- which became the title of his book -- Kato was granted an exclusive hour on GERALDO.
In exchange for a renewed Fifteen Minutes, Kato made two statements:1. With what he has learned since the trial, he now believed Simpson was guilty. 2. As an after thought -- an apparent omission during the program -- as Kato left the stage, Geraldo as asked him what time the noise was. As he disappeared off camera, Kato responded 10:50.
Kato had adopted the time invented by Clark for her summation.Thus we see the "impossible" defined. Eliminate Kato's "earthquake": Be it at 10:40, Simpson can return at 10:45; Be it at 10:50, Simpson can return at 10:54. "Makes us no difference at all as far as all of the timing is concerned." Eliminate the Glove: Clark has repeated stated she didn't need it; Darden excludes Simpson's presence when the "earthquake" was experienced. Conclude that the Glove was planted by person, or persons, unknown. Support that conclusion with the published statement of the officer who discovered the glove: Both pathway gates were open at 6:05 AM on the 13th. According to Kato, both pathway gates were closed at 11:05 PM on the 12th. The Rockingham Gate was unlocked at 7:30 AM on the 13th. According to Kato, The Rockingham Gate was locked by the remote control device at 11:15 PM on the 12th. The altered status of the individual gates which form a linear connection -- between Bronco & Glove -- which establishes the glove was planted after Simpson departed for LAX, and prior to (or concurent with) its discovery by Fuhrman. Improbable Having eliminated the impossible, the improbable becomes:
Someone tampered with the evidence, creating the illusion of intent to frame O.J. Simpson -- effectively Framing a Guilty man.How Simpson Did it
The Night of June 12th 1994 10:00 While walking his dog, Nicole's neighbor, Tom Lange, sees Nicole Brown -- dressed in a bathrobe -- hugging a man in front of her house.
The man's chauffeur gives Lange an ominous look -- Lange decides to walk in another direction.10:03 OJ Simpson attempts to call his soon to be ex-girlfriend Paula B.
It is important to note, At approximately 6:55 PM, Simpson retrieved a msg from Paula which established she was not available. In fact, it has been established she had left for Nevada after leaving the voice-mail msg.
Since Simpson conrolled the timing of the call, and had reason to be aware of the time because of the expected arrival of the Limousine -- did he know the call was placed at exactly 10:03 PM?Nicole Brown Simpson's analogue watch is broken -- the time reads 10:03. Given that only OJ Simpson would know the time of his attempt to reach Paula, and that the broken crystal/stopped watch is a classic "defense" ... Is this a coincidence? 10:12 Rosa Lopez walks her employer's dog. Standing outside, she sees the Bronco parked near the Rockingham Gate.
Simpson's private detective would later encourage Rosa to state the time was 10:15 to 10:20. However, in testimony reconstruction, Lopez establishes the time was closer to 10:10.10:13 Simpson goes into Rockingham with the cellphone -- which he leaves in the kitchen. He then collects a knife, Bruno Magli shoes and Aries gloves Nicole purchased for him. He muses over the irony of the use to which they'd be put -- he'd always believed the shoes were "ugly-ass", and the gloves were always a size too small -- Nicole never did learn either his taste, or clothing sizes.
He also takes with him his bathrobe. He plans to wear it on his return into the house -- just in case he is seen, he will be able to assert he had been hoime, and had just stepped outside.
As is customary with many dog walkers, Rosa Lopez talks to the dog while awaiting its doing its business. This alerts Simpson to her presence -- he delays leaving until she goes inside.10:15 Robert Heidstra checks the time and takes his dogs for a walk.
For eleven years he has walked the same route and has gotten to know the dogs, and the times between locations.10:20 True to form, Simpson is about to commit a monumental act of murder with last minute timing. Be it rushing a line, or through an airport, Simpson has always been organized to the point of last minute precision. If all goes well, the Sydney and Justin will be asleep; Nicole will be alone; and he will be back at the estate minutes before the Limousine arrives to provide him his alibi. Eleven to fifteen minutes -- that's all he needs. 10:25 Alan Park arrives at Rockigham five minutes before Simpson expected the limousine. The location previously occupied by the Bronco is vacant. BUNDY MURDERS 10:33 Killer attacks Nicole Brown, her Akita begins to bark.
Approaching Bundy, Heidstra identifies the sound as that of the Akita, and decides it would be safer for his dogs if he were to avoid walking down Bundy -- he takes the alley behind the houses opposite Nicole's residence.10:36 With Nicole's body on the stairs Killer notices she is wearing her watch -- and that it has stopped -- he resets the time to read 10:03. The change in time created an alibi -- the only alibi which is meaningful -- the Killer could not be dialing a cellphone and attacking someone at the same instant.
As the Killer exits to rear, he hears Nicole moan -- his bloody shoeprints establish he stopped, turned and stood with his back to her house before returning to the front. There he discovers she is still alive. Grabbing her by the hair, he slits her throat.
As he begins to leave, Ronald Lyle Goldman arrives, carrying Juditha Brown's glasses.10:38 Robert Heidstra hears the confrontation between Killer & Goldman -- than the slamming of the iron gate.
Unarmed, in tight quarters, Goldman stands little chance against the panicing Killer
Restraining Goldman with his left arm, the Killer stabs Ron in the neck, severing the left jugular. Ron's blood flows down his left side and onto the Killer's sleeve.
As Goldman collapses against the "garden" fence ajoining the neighbors property, the killer stands by the gate -- he isn't going to leave this one alive. Taking the knife in his left hand, the KILLER removes his right glove -- disgarding it against the gate fence. The glove falls into the low plantings.
Stepping forward, the Killer pokes Goldman with the knife; he then uses his bare right hand to check for a pulse on Goldman's neck -- blood from the neck wound attaches to the Killer's fingers.10:40 Alan Park moves the Limousine to the Rockingham Gate -- the Bronco isn't there -- still, Park's attention is on the inside of the gate, he had no expectation of seeing a vehicle outside the gate. Influeneced by early media reports -- and televised shots of the Rockingham property on the morning of the 13th -- he will later tell police he saw a second vehicle inside, behind the Bentley. 10:42 The Killer exits to the rear of Bundy, dripping Goldman's blood to the left of his bloody shoeprints; he also leaves a bloody fingerprint on the rear gate. This print will be discovered by Detective Mark Fuhrman and shown to Detective Brad Roberts. Furhman will include it in crime scene notes made at 2:30 AM on the 13th -- just four hours after being left by the Killer.
Two hours after that, too busy smoozing with his superiors, Detective Phillip Vannatter will refrain from reading Fuhrman's notes. Vannatter will also fail to make a proper crime scene examination, or to take any notes of his own -- as a result, the absolute evidence of guilt will vanish two days later, when Louis Brown orders the locks changed.10:44 Robert Heidstra sees a white Blazer or Bronco turn south from the murder area. 10:45 Killer drives south, away from Rockingham. He drives to a nearby location where he disposes of the knife, shoes and blood stained clothes. Without noticing, Killer drops a glove on the floor of the Bronco.
Determined to ignor Heidstra, the LAPD & LADA will systematically search the area between Bundy and Rockingham -- even extending the search to a vacant lot in Chicago -- for any traces of the murder weapon or clothes. Of course, they discover nothing.10:47 Killer drives -- based on time constraints, at most -- two minutes south of Bundy before discarding the evidence.
He had removed his blood stained shirt and set it on the drivers side seat prior to entering the Bronco. Into it, he had tossed the knife, left glove and his blood soaked shoes.
The Killer wrapped the knife and shoes inside the blood stained shirt he was wearing; when he moves the items to the passenger side, the glove falls to the floor where it will pick up asome carpet fibers, and leave a stain that will later be interpreted as a shoeprint.
A little blood drips down between the seat and console -- this will be discovered & documented when the console is removed at the impound yard
Upon arriving at the dump site, the Killer discards the evidence10:50 Alan Park is out of Limousine, buzzing house.
Kato Kaelin is off phone and fearfully headed to check his noise.
While attempting to reach the market before it closes, Jill Shively witnesses a near accident involving Bronco -- she identifies O.J. Simpson as the driver -- and an unidentified third car -- this places Simpson, and the Bronco, near the Bundy murder scene. Because Shively was paid for an interview which aired after she gave her grand jury testimony, Marcia Clark branded her a liar and withdrew the Shively testimony.Simpson arrives back at Rockingham 10:54 Alan Park is on phone with his boss.
Dripping blood from a small cut he sustained, Simpson enters the house. Ironically, Simpson had escaped injury during the murders and sustained the cut while disposing of the incriminating evidence. As a result, he left bloodstains in the Bronco.Where the Glove was. The LAPD is involved: June 13th 05:15 While Lange makes cellphone calls, Phillips rings the Ashford Gate intercom. Fuhrman, followed at a distance by Vannatter, goes to examine the Bronco.
Fuhrman determines the Bronco is "improperly parked"; on closer examination, he identifies a redish spot which could be blood and shows it to Vannatter.
It should be noted that Vannatter will later go to extremes to indicate he didn't "recall" the blood drop.05:30 After the arrival of representatives from the private Security Company responsible for the property, Vannatter orders Fuhrman to jump the fence and open the Ashford Gate.
The detectives spend the next few minutes ringing the front door bell at Rockingham, before going around the side and discovering the guest quarters.05:45 Brian "Kato" Kaelin tells the detectives of the noise & "earthquake" which occurred at 10:45 PM on the 12th.
We know the location of all the detectives except Phillip Vannatter -- whose location is only established when Arnelle Simpson & Detective Thomas Lange exit the guest complex to enter the main house; at which time Vannatter is known to be in the pool area.Working under the assumption that Detective Mark Fuhrman did NOT tamper with any evidence, consider:
Only someone who knew of the noise, and had access to the glove, could have placed it behind Kato's room. To do so,he would need the opportunity -- Vannatter had five minutes when his exact location is unknown. he would need access to the glove -- if it was on the floor of the Bronco, they would have it. This provides a second bebefit -- the glove would NOT be at Bundy, and thus not have been seen by the four officers who were in a position to see it. he might leave evidence of what he did -- evidence unique to an LAPD detective. That evidence might be observed -- even documented -- by another Detective. 06:00 Arnelle Simpson & Detective Thomas Lange exit the guest complex to enter the main house; Vannatter is in the pool area.
We have no evidence of Vannatter's whereabouts for the previous five minutes.06:05 Vannatter follows Arnelle & Lange into the main house; they are followed by Detective Fuhrman who is accompanied by Kato.
Inside the house, Fuhrman tells Vanatter he should talk to Kato; Fuhrman then goes to investigate the area associated with the "earthquake"06:10 Per his book, Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman reports that both gates on the south pathway were OPEN. Kato has testified that both gates were CLOSED when Simpson left for LAX. This indicates someone had accessed the south pathway after Kato, and possibly while Simpson was in Chicago.
Fuhrman also reports, he and Detective Roberts discovered the Rockingham Gate was unlocked at 7:30 on Monday, June 13th, 1994. Unless the gate had been tampered with, this is impossible. The Rockingham Gate is automatically locked whenever the remote gate control is engaged -- it was engaged, & used, at 11:15 PM on the 12th when Kato closed the gate after the limousine deperted to take Simpson to LAX.If the Fuhrman book is honest, it establishes that -- after 11:15 PM on the 12th, and prior to 6:05 AM on the 13th -- someone accessed the Bronco + property + southern pathway. These create a linear path where the known state of the gates had been altered.
An additional fact points to the individual being an LAPD detective -- the interior light bulb of the Bronco was removed and placed on the floor. Detective Tom Lange has identified this as a tactic used by LAPD detectives on stakeout. The bulb is removed to avoid attracting attention to themselves.
Given:the darkness of rockingham at 6:00 AM, the existance of multiple individuals in the vacinity of the Ashford Gate, the visibility of the Rockingham Gate from Ashford, A seasoned detective might automatically act in an instinctive manner developed over years of survailance work.
Effectively, the individual who tampered with the glove location left an identified LAPD signature.06:15 Fuhrman reports the discover of the second glove What caused Kato's noise?
Does it really matter?
There an the ancient prayer which illustrates how long people have been scared by noises in the night, "From Ghoulies and Ghosties
and
long-legged beasties
and
things that go boomp in the night.
Good Lord deliver us."In a cinematic version of Jules Vern's, "Journey to the Center of the Earth the professor -- played by the late British actor, James Mason -- dismisses a noise as "mice in the attic". "Mice in the attic." An explaination for the noises which have, through the centuries, causes millions of wives to wake their husbands from sound sleep. "Mice in the attic" or "Things that go boomp in the night." Noises which predate modern plumbing, heating & air conditioning systems, or the wealth of automatic devices which oft trigger disnerving events. There have always been "things that go boomp in the night," be it a Neanderthal Cave, a Scotishes Castle, a place deep in the bowels of the earth, or a millionaire's home in Brentwood. No place has ever been exempt from strange noises and events which disnerve the fearful. Sometime in the future, maybe, the new owner of Simpson's Rockingham Estate will hear a noise in the night and find a picture has moved. Possibly they will identify the cause; but it's unlikely they will share their knowledge with us. Does it really matter? Q.E.D.
An Lapd, whose sloppy casework has earned him and his partner the LADA nickname Dumb & Dumber, attempts to make his last case. In the effort, he will later plant EDTA contaminated blood at Bundy -- a reaction to the time conflict between Kato's "earthquake", 10:45 (later changed to 10:40), and the Heidstra statement which places the killer at Bundy during the same period.
Had he been a competant detective and attended to his duties, he would have discovered the fingerprint. Upon going from Bundy to Rockingham, he would have simply noted the glove in the Bronco -- and having personally observed its mate at Bundy -- he would have immediately have had an airtight case against Orenthal James Simpson.If we assume Detective Phillip Vannatter innocent, the evidence still works with Detective Mark Fuhrman as the individual who tampered with the evidence in this case.
Regardless of which detective tampered with the evidence, the fact remains, no one has been able to present a coherent and factual scenario -- supported by & incorporating all the know facts -- which allows for the glove NOT to have been planted.
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