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From: Jasper
Date: 9/17/04
Time: 2:27:18 AM
Remote Name: 68.255.166.44
Ludwig and Buster,
The center of gravitational pull for everything I wrote about Fuhrman and Sydney is on page 310 of Murder in Greenwich:
“My family did nothing wrong…I made some mistakes and said some awful things. Even I it’s a stretch, and irrelevant to the case, you can’t say I was an entirely innocent victim. But my wife and kids should never have been brought into it. My wife suffered pain, embarrassment, and hassles that still haven’t ended. We had to cover our children in their coats and sneak them in and out of the house. My daughter would look through the blinds and ask, ‘Are the bad people still out there?’ That’s something she will always remember, something I will have to explain. A five-year-old girl should never have to go through this. But at least I have my kids, and I didn’t murder their mother. O.J. Simpson also has a young daughter. On her birthday, the Juice, played golf.”
Up to that point I could see an obvious personal connection and many not-so-obvious movie connections between Fuhrman and the evidence he selected to put in his notes. Why did this passage sound so familiar and why couldn’t I find a link to any movie?
Then it hit me. He didn’t get it from the movies. He got it from a “news story.”
In Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood prolog he gave an “apology” for his use of the n-word that reminded me so much of Jane Fonda’s “apology” for what she did to earn the title “Hanoi Jane,” that I knew where he got his. Three pages later, he mentioned the name Jane Fonda and her ex-hubby Tom Hayden (in a different context, of course).
Fuhrman never mentions Jane’s 1983 “apology,” which she repeated wearily and effectively for the next three years while she was promoting her exercise videos and books in tours around the country with her husband and her young son. The paragraph on page 310 is only a minor variation of what Jane said on an exercise tour in a wealthy suburb of Detroit. Her son peaking out from behind his mother’s coat asked about the “bad people” harassing his mother. Latter I saw the same story with Jane on tour in a wealthy suburb of another city. It was a formula [I am not entirely blameless…I said some awful things…I’m proud of my involvement in a just cause…I’m sorry for any pain I caused…]. The LOCAL media ate it up everywhere she went.
By the time I got to page 310, I was certain Mark Fuhrman killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Nothing else explained the blanks in my Iago hypotheses that he filled in with his book. In that context, “I didn’t murder their mother” looked a lot like a veiled threat. The comparison he made between his daughter and Sydney just looked odd.
Already I was finding movie connections between Furman’s notes, the murder scene and a young girl’s birthday without looking for them (A Moonlighting episode/A Fight for Jennifer). But the name Sydney did not came up. The name Jennifer did. The actress starring with Jane Fonda’s niece in Single White Female, where her character’s birthday is crucial to the plot, shares MF’s birthday. Her father Vic Morrow, the n-word-using bigot with the knife in Blackboard Jungle and the n-word-using bigot hunted by Nazis and bigoted American soldiers in The Twilight Zone movie, was born on Valentines Day. His daughter was born on Fuhrman’s birthday. Her name is Jennifer Jason Leigh. –Jasper