BY MR. COCHRAN: THIS BAG AND THE ENVELOPE AND THE GREEN LIST IS NOW IN EVIDENCE -- IS NOW MARKED FOR EVIDENCE; IS THAT CORRECT?
ALL RIGHT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE LIST, WE DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT WHOSE HANDWRITING THAT IS?
AND IS THERE -- I WAS ASKING JUST BEFORE THE COURT CALLED US OVER, IS THERE A BANANA ON THE TOP OF THAT LIST ON THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE LIST?
NOW -- NOW, WITH REGARD TO THESE CLOTHES, WERE THESE CLOTHES RECOVERED BY THE TWO DETECTIVES FROM THE APARTMENT THAT NIGHT?
AND THEY THEN BOOKED IT INTO EVIDENCE THERE AFTER IN THE CONDITION WE JUST SAW IT; IS THAT RIGHT?
DID YOU -- IN THE COURSE OF YOUR INVESTIGATION AND THE GENTLEMEN THAT YOU USED IN THIS INVESTIGATION, DID YOU EVER TRY AND ASCERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT AFTER MR. GOLDMAN LEFT WORK HE WENT SOMEPLACE AND ATE?
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT CAME UP DUE TO THE FACT WE BELIEVE HE WENT DIRECTLY TO HIS HOME AND CHANGED IN THE TIME THAT HE LEFT THE MEZZALUNA.
ALL RIGHT. NOW, IF HE HAD A FULL STOMACH OF FOOD, UNDIGESTED FOOD, WOULD THAT INDICATE TO YOU THAT IF HE DIDN'T EAT AT MEZZALUNA AND STILL HAD A FULL STOMACH OF FOOD AT THE TIME OF DEATH, THAT HE MAY HAVE EATEN SOMEPLACE?
BY MR. COCHRAN: AS AN INVESTIGATOR, DON'T YOU WANT TO DETERMINE ALL KINDS OF POSSIBILITIES, SIR? CAN YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION?
WELL, LET ME REPHRASE IT, SIR. WITH REGARD TO MR. GOLDMAN'S STOMACH CONTENTS, THAT'S AN INDICATION HE HAD EATEN SOMETHING SOMEWHERE THAT NIGHT. DID YOU GO BACK AND CHECK AT MEZZALUNA AND DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD A MEAL AT MEZZALUNA BEFORE HE LEFT?
ALL RIGHT. SO YOUR ANSWER IS YES, YOU CHECKED THAT, AND HE DIDN'T. ALL RIGHT. IF HE DIDN'T EAT AT MEZZALUNA, AS AN INVESTIGATOR, DID YOU THEN SAY, WELL, I'D BETTER CHECK AND SEE WHERE HE HAD THIS MEAL, IF ANY? DID YOU CHECK THAT OUT IS MY QUESTION.
ALL RIGHT. AND SO WHEN YOU WERE AT THE CORONER'S OFFICE AND AT THE TIME OF THE AUTOPSY, WITH REGARD TO THESE STOMACH CONTENTS, YOU HAVE NOT HAD ANYONE IN THE CORONER'S OFFICE TO TRY AND DETERMINE BY LOOKING AT THE STOMACH CONTENTS WHEN MR. GOLDMAN MIGHT HAVE HAD HIS LAST MEAL AS WE SIT HERE NOW; IS THAT CORRECT?
ALL RIGHT. AND DID YOU HAVE ANY EXPERT MEDICAL FORENSIC PERSON LOOK AT THESE STOMACH CONTENTS TO TRY AND DETERMINE HOW LONG HE HAD HAD THIS MEAL BEFORE HE DIED? DID YOU DO THAT?
I BELIEVE THE CORONER'S OFFICE DOES THAT. WE DON'T NORMALLY DICTATE TO THEM HOW TO DO THEIR INVESTIGATIONS.
DID YOU EVER HAVE OCCASION TO LOOK AT MR. GOLDMAN'S BEEPER ENTRIES? REMEMBER YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT HE HAD A BEEPER THERE AT THE SCENE? DID YOU GO BACK AND TRY TO LOOK AT EARLIER BEEPER ENTRIES ON JUNE 12TH, 1994?
NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE ITEMS FOUND AT THE GOLDMAN APARTMENT, DID YOU FIND ANY INFORMATION WHERE MR. GOLDMAN HAD MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S PHONE NUMBER THEREON?
AGAIN, I DIDN'T INVESTIGATE OR EXAMINE ANYTHING AT THAT LOCATION. THAT MAY -- THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED. I DON'T RECALL SEEING IT.
ALL RIGHT. HAVE YOU HAD OCCASION TO LOOK AT THE NOTES OF ITEMS TAKEN FROM I GUESS THE GOLDMAN APARTMENT?
ALL RIGHT. DO YOU RECALL THAT MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S PHONE NUMBER APPEARS TWICE IN THESE COPIES? DO YOU RECALL THAT?
I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT. BUT THEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE APARTMENT AGAIN.
BY MR. COCHRAN: I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS. READ THIS TO YOURSELF FIRST OF ALL. IT'S DA003953. YOU SEE THAT?
AND THERE'S APPARENTLY A PHONE NUMBER THERE. WITHOUT READING THAT PHONE NUMBER, THERE IS A PHONE NUMBER THERE ALSO, RIGHT?
AND SO YOU SEE AT LEAST ON TWO OCCASIONS HER NUMBERS FOUND ON THESE DOCUMENTS THAT WERE ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN MR. GOLDMAN'S APARTMENT?
AND IN FAIRNESS TO -- THERE ARE OTHER FEMALE NUMBERS -- OTHER FEMALE NAMES WITH NUMBERS THERE ALSO; IS THAT RIGHT?
BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU HAD OCCASION TO REVIEW THESE DOCUMENTS HERE WHICH PURPORT TO HAVE COME EITHER FROM SOME KIND OF A BOOKLET OR SOMETHING INSIDE THE APARTMENT?
DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT MR. GOLDMAN MAY HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF THE ASSASSIN OR ASSASSINS THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT? DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT AT ALL?
BY MR. COCHRAN: -- OF THE PERPETRATORS ON JUNE 12TH, THE PERPETRATOR OR PERPETRATORS ON JUNE 12TH, 1994 WHEN HE CAME TO MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S RESIDENCE? DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT AS A POSSIBLE THEORY?
YES. LET ME SEE IF I CAN MAKE IT SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT. DID YOU EVER, AS THE INVESTIGATING OFFICER IN THIS CASE, EVER CONSIDER ANY OTHER THEORY THAN THAT O.J. SIMPSON WAS THE ONLY PERPETRATOR IN THIS CASE?
DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT MR. GOLDMAN COULD HAVE BEEN A PERSON FOLLOWED TO THAT LOCATION? DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT AT ALL?
ALL RIGHT. DO YOU THINK -- DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT SOMETHING REGARDING HIM OR HIS BACKGROUND MAY HAVE LED SOME PERSON OR PERSONS TO FOLLOW HIM THERE TO THAT LOCATION?
YOU NEVER LOOKED AT ANY -- YOU NEVER LOOKED AT ANY OF THE PEOPLE IN HIS BOOK OR MADE ANY DETERMINATIONS ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND. YOU DIDN'T DO THAT?
AGAIN, I BELIEVE I DID GO THROUGH THE BOOK INITIALLY. I BELIEVE TIPPIN AND CARR DID, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING IN THAT BOOK TO LEAD IN ANY OTHER DIRECTION.
ALL RIGHT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO MR. GOLDMAN, YOU I BELIEVE SHARED WITH US THAT HE DROVE A VEHICLE TO MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S RESIDENCE THAT NIGHT; IS THAT CORRECT?
DO YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT -- WHEN DID TIPPIN AND CARR GET THERE? WAS IT -- WERE THEY ABLE TO MAKE ANY KIND OF DETERMINATION BY GETTING TO THE SCENE OR MR. GOLDMAN'S RESIDENCE QUICKLY AFTER THESE BODIES WERE DISCOVERED?
ALL RIGHT. SO AT ANY RATE, YOU CAN'T TELL US WHETHER OR NOT HE SHOWERED OR WHATEVER; IS THAT CORRECT?
YOU CAN NOT TELL US -- AND THEN YOU CAN'T TELL US WHETHER OR NOT HE WENT AND HAD A MEAL OR ATE WITH SOMEBODY, CAN YOU?
ALL RIGHT. BUT YET YOU KNOW THAT HE HAD A STOMACH OF FOOD, UNDIGESTED FOOD; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
ALL RIGHT. YOU CAN'T -- AS YOU SIT HERE NOW, YOU CAN'T TELL US WHEN HE ATE THAT FOOD, CAN YOU?
BUT, SIR, DID YOU NOT TELL US YOU SPOKE AT MEZZALUNA AND THEY TOLD YOU HE HAD NOT EATEN THERE THAT EVENING? DID YOU CHECK ON THAT? DID YOU TELL US THAT?
NOT A -- NECESSARILY TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A MEAL. BUT WHETHER HE WAS OBSERVED DURING HIS ENTIRE TOUR OF DUTY THERE, I DON'T KNOW. HE MAY HAVE WELL EATEN SOMETHING THERE.
WELL, PERHAPS HE DID. BUT IF HE ATE AT 6:00 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING, YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIGESTED; WOULD YOU NOT HAVE?
BY MR. COCHRAN: WITH REGARD TO -- AS A HUMAN BEING, AS AN INVESTIGATOR, AS SOMEONE WITH COMMON SENSE, IF ONE EATS A MEAL AT 6:00 O'CLOCK P.M., WOULD YOU EXPECT THAT THAT MEAL THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE PROCESSES WOULD HAVE STARTED TO BECOME DIGESTED OVER A PERIOD OF FOUR OR FIVE HOURS?
BY MR. COCHRAN: AS A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR FOR 20 PLUS YEARS, YOU'VE ATTENDED A NUMBER OF AUTOPSIES; HAVE YOU NOT?
AND YOU KNOW THAT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, THE BODY WILL DIGEST FOOD AND PROCESS THAT. YOU KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU?
AND YOU KNOW THAT IF A PERSON HAS RELATIVELY UNDIGESTED FOOD, THAT'S AN INDICATION THAT THEY HAVE RECENTLY HAD A MEAL; ISN'T THAT CORRECT, SIR?
IT'S SORT OF A RHETORICAL -- I MEAN ARGUMENTATIVE QUESTION IN THE SENSE THAT IF YOU HAVE FULL STOMACH CONTENTS --
BY MR. COCHRAN: AND YOU KNOW BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE THAT IF A PERSON HAS A RELATIVELY FULL UNDIGESTED STOMACH OF FOOD, IT'S AN INDICATION THEY HAVE PROBABLY EATEN RECENTLY BEFORE THEY MET THEIR DEATH. ISN'T THAT A FAIR STATEMENT?
SIR, IF YOUR DIGESTION -- OF COURSE, WHEN YOU DIE, THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS STOPS; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
ALL RIGHT. AND IF YOU -- ARE YOU TELLING US THAT THIS STRESSFUL SITUATION OF THE FIGHT THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN MR. GOLDMAN AND WHOEVER THE PERPETRATOR OR PERPETRATORS WERE THAT NIGHT LASTED FOR HALF HOUR OR SO DO YOU THINK?
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TIME BEFORE THE STRESSFUL SITUATION WHEN YOUR BODY WOULD NORMALLY PROCESS AND DIGEST FOOD. OKAY? IN THAT INSTANCE, IN THIS CASE, HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO ANY EXPERT FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS ABOUT THE STATE OF THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF MR. GOLDMAN THAT NIGHT AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT EXPERT CAN HELP US AND ASSIST US IN DETERMINING WHEN MR. GOLDMAN HAD HIS LAST MEAL?
YES. THAT AND THE OTHER FACTORS, AND A TIME OF DEATH WAS GIVEN TO ME BETWEEN 9:00 P.M. AND 12:00 MIDNIGHT, CLOSER TO 9:00.
-- DID YOU TALK TO A FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST WITH REGARD TO MR. GOLDMAN'S STOMACH CONTENTS AND WHETHER THAT FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST WOULD BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE STATE OF THOSE STOMACH CONTENTS AND ASSIST US IN DETERMINING WHEN MR. GOLDMAN HAD HIS LAST MEAL?
AND SO HERE WE ARE AND YOU -- STRIKE THAT. WHAT DOCTORS HAVE YOU TALKED TO WITH CONNECTION -- FORENSIC DOCTORS HAVE YOU TALKED TO IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CASE IN YOUR INVESTIGATION? CAN YOU GIVE US THEIR NAMES?
ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE CORONER'S OFFICE HAS PREPARED A LIST OF AT LEAST 16 ITEMS THAT THEY THEMSELVES --
BY MR. COCHRAN: ALL RIGHT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO DR. GOLDEN -- GIVE US THE NAME OF THE OTHER DOCTORS.
AT ANY RATE, WHEN YOU WERE AT THE SCENE AT BUNDY IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS, YOU WERE NEVER -- YOU NEVER DISPATCHED ANY POLICE OFFICERS TO GO TO MR. GOLDMAN'S HOME AND SEARCH FOR ANY CLUES AT THAT TIME, DID YOU?
NOW, WITH REGARD TO MR. GOLDMAN, I BELIEVE YOU'VE INDICATED TO US THAT THERE WERE NO BLOODY FOOTPRINTS WHICH MATCHED HIS SHOES AT THE SCENE THERE AT BUNDY; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE AREA WHERE YOU SHOWED US EARLIER WHERE THIS ALTERCATION TOOK PLACE AND WHERE THE GROUND WAS DUG UP; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND WAS THERE SOME SORT OF -- DID YOU FIND SOME SORT OF A STAIN OR BLOOD DROP UNDER HIS SHOES AT ALL?
AND WERE YOU -- IN THE COURSE OF YOUR INVESTIGATION, WERE YOU ABLE TO ASCERTAIN HOW THOSE BLOOD DROPS OR DROPLETS GOT UNDER HIS SHOES?
HOLD ON, COUNSEL. YOU GUYS ARE DRIVING THE COURT REPORTER NUTS THIS MORNING. YOU'RE BOTH TALKING OVER EACH OTHER.
BY MR. COCHRAN: WITH REGARD TO -- WAS THERE MORE THAN -- WAS THERE ONE BLOOD DROP OR MORE THAN ONE BLOOD DROP UNDER MR. GOLDMAN'S SHOES?
ALL RIGHT. AND DID YOU CONDUCT SOME TESTS ON THOSE BLOOD DROPS OR TRY TO CONDUCT SOME TESTS TO DETERMINE WHEN THOSE BLOOD DROPS WERE PLACED THERE UNDER HIS SHOES?
IT WAS CLEAR TO YOU HE HAD NOT WALKED THROUGH ANY BLOOD ON THAT WALKWAY THAT PARTICULAR NIGHT; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND SO IN THAT INSTANCE, YOU NEVER -- YOU -- STRIKE THAT. YOU'VE DESCRIBED FOR US EARLIER THAT YOU DON'T RECALL SEEING ANY BLOOD UNDER THE FEET OF MISS NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON EITHER; IS THAT CORRECT? DID YOU TELL US THAT?
AND ONCE YOU MADE YOUR -- ONCE YOU CAME TO YOUR CONCLUSION OR YOU DEVELOPED YOUR THEORY THAT SHE WAS KILLED FIRST, IT'S TRUE, IS IT NOT, YOU NEVER LOOKED AT ANY OTHER POSSIBLE THEORIES; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
MY THEORY THAT SHE WAS KILLED -- THAT'S NOT MY THEORY, THAT SHE WAS KILLED FIRST. THAT WAS IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION AS TO SOMETHING THAT MAY HAVE POSSIBLY HAPPENED. I CAN'T TELL YOU WHO WAS KILLED FIRST.
AND ISN'T THE WHOLE REASON -- AS A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR, DON'T YOU TRY TO GATHER ALL OF THE FACTS TOGETHER AND THEN TRY TO PUT THOSE FACTS TOGETHER AND COME TO SOME KIND OF A WELL-REASONED CONCLUSION? DON'T YOU DO THAT?
IF YOU JUMP TO A CONCLUSION SOMETIMES, DON'T YOU FIND OUT LATER THAT THERE WERE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU COULD HAVE LOOKED AT BY MAKING A QUICK DECISION IN A PARTICULAR CASE? ISN'T THAT TRUE?
BY MR. COCHRAN: YOU WOULD AGREE WITH ME THAT IT'S NOT GOOD INVESTIGATIVE PRACTICES TO RUSH TO JUDGMENT IN A CASE. WOULD YOU AGREE WITH THAT?
AND IN THIS CASE, YOU'VE DESCRIBED FOR US THAT THESE CRIMES OCCURRED ON THE EVENING HOURS OF JUNE 12TH, 1994; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND I BELIEVE YOU SHARED WITH US EARLY ON THAT THE COMPLAINT IN THIS CASE WAS FILED ON JUNE 17TH, 1994; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND MISS CLARK WAS AT THE SCENE OF ROCKINGHAM ON WHAT DATE? WHAT'S THE FIRST TIME SHE CAME TO ROCKINGHAM THAT YOU KNEW OF?
WHEN YOU CAME BACK FROM BEING DOWNTOWN AT PARKER CENTER AFTER ABOUT 5:00 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING, WAS SHE THERE AT THAT TIME OR HAD SHE LEFT BY THAT TIME, IF YOU KNOW?
ALL RIGHT. LET ME ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT ROCKINGHAM. YOU DESCRIBED FOR US THAT YOU'RE GOING OVER TO ROCKINGHAM FROM BUNDY. YOU RECALL THAT.
AND CAN YOU DESCRIBE FOR THE JURY THE SIZE OF THAT -- THIS PURPORTED RED SPOT ON THE BRONCO?
I -- AS TO SIZE, I -- IT CERTAINLY WASN'T WHAT I WOULD CALL A DIME SIZE. IT WOULD PROBABLY BE MUCH SMALLER THAN THAT.
AND DID YOU -- WAS IT -- WHEN YOU WERE SHOWN THIS BY MARK FUHRMAN, DID YOU HAVE YOUR FLASHLIGHT OR WAS IT LIGHT OUT BY THIS TIME?
ALL RIGHT. AND HE CALLED YOU OVER TO SHOW THIS TO YOU. AND AFTER YOU SAW THIS SMALL PERHAPS ERASER HEAD SIZE SPOT OR SPECK, DID YOU AT THAT POINT LOOK INSIDE THE CAR YOURSELF, LOOK INSIDE THIS VEHICLE?
NOW, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE -- YOU HAD INFORMATION THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT THE MAID WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT INFORMATION FROM?
AND YOU -- THIS WAS HEARSAY INFORMATION YOU GOT FROM DETECTIVE PHILLIPS ABOUT THE MAID SUPPOSEDLY BEING THERE; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND AT THE TIME THAT -- BEFORE -- AT THE TIME THAT YOU DIRECTED MARK FUHRMAN TO GO OVER THIS WALL, AT THAT POINT, HAD YOU FOCUSED ON MR. O.J. SIMPSON AS A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE?
SO THE THINGS YOU HAD SEEN UP TO THAT POINT DID NOT CAUSE YOU TO BELIEVE HE WAS A SUSPECT, RIGHT?
I SPECIFICALLY RECALL DISCUSSING IT WITH PHILLIPS, FUHRMAN AND VANNATTER THAT WE FELT WE HAD AN EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND THAT SOMEONE INSIDE COULD BE BLEEDING OR WORSE.
AND BEFORE YOU WENT INSIDE, DID YOU LOOK INSIDE THE BRONCO ANYMORE AT ALL, EITHER VISUALLY OR THROUGH THE USE OF YOUR FLASHLIGHT?
WHEN BOTH YOU AND VANNATTER WERE AT THE ROCKINGHAM SCENE BEFORE YOU WENT OVER -- HAD FUHRMAN CLIMB OVER THIS FENCE, WHO WAS IN CHARGE?
IT WOULD BE VANNATTER AND MYSELF WORKING AS PARTNERS. IT WASN'T ONE PERSON THAT WOULD BE IN CHARGE.
NOW, YOU SHARED WITH US YOUR NOTES THAT WERE WRITTEN CHRONOLOGICALLY AT THE SCENE ON THAT PARTICULAR DATE, JUNE 13TH, 1994. WITH REGARD TO THE ALLEGED BLOOD SPOTS THAT WERE ON THE REAR GATE, DID YOU EVER WRITE DOWN OR LOG THAT THE BLOOD SPOTS WERE -- THAT THERE WERE BLOOD SPOTS ON THAT REAR GATE IN YOUR NOTES?
AND THAT EVIDENCE, IF IT WAS THERE, WAS NOT COLLECTED UNTIL APPROXIMATELY THREE WEEKS LATER ON JULY 3RD; IS THAT RIGHT?
AND ON JULY 3RD, YOU WERE GOING TO SHOW THE D.A.'S WALK THROUGH AT THAT LOCATION; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND YOU CALLED, AS I UNDERSTAND, THE CRIMINALISTS TO THE SCENE AFTER YOU GOT OUT THERE ON JULY 3RD, IS THAT CORRECT, AFTER 10:00 CLOCK IN THE MORNING?
ARE WE GOING INTO SOMETHING NEW ON THIS BECAUSE WE VISITED THIS ONCE THOROUGHLY BEFORE.
WITH REGARD TO THE LIGHTING THAT YOU SAW AT THE BUNDY LOCATION, DO YOU RECALL TESTIFYING BEFORE THE GRAND JURY IN THIS MATTER REGARDING THE LIGHTING AND THE CONDITION OF THE LIGHTING AT THE BUNDY SCENE?
LET ME ASK YOU IF YOU WERE ASKED THESE QUESTIONS AND GAVE THESE ANSWERS. I THINK IT'S PAGE --
BY MR. COCHRAN: "QUESTION: SIR, WHEN YOU ARRIVED, CAN YOU TELL ME IF YOU NOTICED THE LIGHTING IN THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING THERE? WAS THERE ANY? "ANSWER: THERE WAS A PORCH LIGHT UP THE PORCH. "QUESTION: UP ON THE LANDING? "ANSWER: YES. "QUESTION: DOES THAT ILLUMINATE THE WALKWAY? "ANSWER: YES. "QUESTION: IN ANY EFFECTIVE WAY? "ANSWER: IT WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED IT SOME WAY. THE LIGHTING I WOULDN'T SAY WAS EXCELLENT, BUT IT WAS FAR FROM BEING DARK. IT WAS ILLUMINATED." DOES THAT -- DOES THAT REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION OF YOUR TESTIMONY AT THE GRAND JURY?
BY MR. COCHRAN: AND WENT ON TO SAY: "THAT WAS THE CONDITION YOU FOUND IT IN? "ANSWER: YES." NOW, AS YOU THINK ABOUT IT AS YOU SIT HERE NOW, IS THAT A FAIR AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIGHTING THAT YOU SAW OUT ON BUNDY ON THAT NIGHT OF JUNE 12TH, IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF JUNE 13TH?
I KNOW THERE'S OTHER LIGHTS. BUT IS THAT A -- WITH REGARD TO THE LIGHTING THAT CAME FROM THE PORCH LIGHT, IS THAT A FAIR AND ACCURATE STATEMENT OF THE LIGHTING THAT CAME FROM THAT PORCH LIGHT?
AND OVERALL, WOULD YOU SAY THE LIGHTING THERE WAS -- MADE THE PREMISES FAR FROM BEING DARK?
WELL, THAT WOULD BE A SUBJECTIVE CALL. I -- IT CERTAINLY WASN'T PITCH BLACK TO THE EXTENT YOU COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. I WOULD SAY THE LIGHTING WAS POOR, BUT STILL LIGHT ENOUGH WHERE YOU COULD SEE CERTAIN THINGS.
ALL RIGHT. WITH REGARD TO THE BLOOD SPOTS THAT WERE GOING IN A WESTERLY DIRECTION TOWARD THE REAR OF THE 875 LOCATION, DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE?
YOU DESCRIBED FOR US I BELIEVE ON DIRECT EXAMINATION THAT AT ONE POINT, YOU SAW FOOTSTEPS THAT TURNED TOWARD THE HOUSE. DO YOU RECALL THAT?
AND IT WAS -- CAN YOU POINT OUT IF I WERE TO SHOW YOU, WHICH I BELIEVE IS 43-A OR HAVE 43-A PUT UP.
BY MR. COCHRAN: DETECTIVE LANGE, I AM GOING TO PLACE A PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE YOU. I'M NOT SURE OF THE NUMBER OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH, BUT I SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S NUMBER 112 IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH OFF TO THE LEFT TOWARDS THE HOUSE. I'M GOING TO PLACE THIS BEFORE YOU. CAN YOU LOOK AT THAT PHOTOGRAPH? DO YOU RECOGNIZE WHAT'S DEPICTED THERE?
ALL RIGHT. CAN YOU LOOK AT THAT PHOTOGRAPH AND BEFORE I PUT IT ON THE ELMO, AND CAN YOU SHOW ME WHERE THOSE FOOTSTEPS ARE THAT POINT TOWARD THE HOUSE --
ALL RIGHT. I BELIEVE YOU WERE SHOWN THIS PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE AND YOU WERE ABLE TO SAY THERE WAS A DISTANCE OF PERHAPS THREE FEET BETWEEN WHERE THERE'S A FOOTPRINT AND WHERE YOU FOUND A DROP OF BLOOD; IS THAT CORRECT, APPROXIMATELY?
ALL RIGHT. AND WHAT IS YOUR RECOLLECTION REGARDING -- THERE WAS A BLOOD DROP FOUND AT THE NUMBER OF THE CARD THAT INDICATES 112; IS THAT CORRECT?
WHAT IS YOUR BEST RECOLLECTION OF HOW FAR BEHIND THAT PURPORTED BLOOD DROP WAS THE CLOSEST SET OF FOOTPRINTS?
I DON'T RECALL. I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE STRIDE ANALYSIS OR THE SCHEMATIC OR SOME BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS THAN THIS.
DID YOU NOT TELL US THERE WAS SOME KIND OF A MEASUREMENT WITH REGARD TO THE TILE OR WHATEVER, HOW FAR EACH OF THOSE TILES -- WHAT'S THE DISTANCE OF EACH TILE?
AND YOUR RECOLLECTION, YOUR BELIEF WAS THAT THAT 112 WAS PERHAPS THREE, THREE AND A HALF FEET FROM THE NEAREST FOOTPRINTS; IS THAT CORRECT?
I BELIEVE THE NEAREST FOOTPRINTS DEPICTED HERE. THIS IS A VERY POOR PHOTOGRAPH. IT'S HARD TO TELL WITH THE SUNLIGHT ON THERE.
ALL RIGHT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE -- YOU MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES A STRIDE ANALYSIS. DO YOU USE SOME KIND OF AN EXPERT TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON WHO WAS -- DROPPED THIS BLOOD, WAS THAT PERSON RUNNING OR WALKING? DID YOU FIND -- USE SOMEBODY TO TRY TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION?
IT'S YOUR OPINION THAT THE PERSON WHO WAS HEADING WESTBOUND TOWARD THAT ALLEYWAY WAS DRIPPING BLOOD; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND IN THAT CONNECTION, YOU AND I DISCUSSED THAT THAT WAS A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 120 FEET GIVE OR TAKE; IS THAT CORRECT?
AND IN THAT 120 FEET DISTANCE FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK, YOU FOUND WHAT YOU BELIEVED TO BE FOUR BLOOD DROPS; IS THAT CORRECT?
WELL, THIS ONE IN THE ALLEY WHICH I'M SEPARATING OUT, THAT'S IN THE ALLEY. BUT FOUR IN THIS WALKWAY AREA; IS THAT RIGHT?
AND WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER, DID YOU HAVE AN EXPERT WHO DID ANY KIND OF BLOOD SPATTER ANALYSIS REGARDING THESE BLOOD DROPS?
BY THE WAY, WITH REGARD TO THE EYEGLASSES, WERE THE EYEGLASSES EVER CHECKED OR ANALYZED FOR ANY TRACE EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT BE ON THEM, ON THE GLASSES?
I DON'T BELIEVE SO. I BELIEVE IN FACT THAT THEY ARE STILL IN THE ENVELOPE BECAUSE TESTS ARE BEING CONDUCTED AND WERE BEING CONDUCTED ON THE ENVELOPE.
ALL RIGHT. SO YOUR ANSWER IS, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE EYEGLASSES HAVE BEEN EXAMINED FOR TRACE EVIDENCE?
ALL RIGHT. AGAIN -- BUT NOW, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE CRIMINALIST. THE CRIMINALIST WORKS HOWEVER UNDER YOUR DIRECTION; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
I DID NOT CALL THE CRIMINALIST. THE CRIMINALIST I BELIEVE WAS CALLED BY SOMEONE ELSE TO THE ROCKINGHAM LOCATION.
I HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM MY PARTNER THAT THE CRIMINALIST WAS EN ROUTE THERE. SO IT WAS EITHER HIM OR HE HAD SOMEONE DO IT.
BUT AT ANY RATE, SO WE'RE CLEAR, THE CRIMINALIST WENT TO THE ROCKINGHAM SCENE BEFORE EVER COMING TO THE BUNDY LOCATION, RIGHT?
AND WHAT WAS YOUR BEST APPROXIMATION OF WHAT TIME THE CRIMINALIST ARRIVED AT THE BUNDY CRIME SCENE?
THE BUNDY CRIME SCENE, I BELIEVE THE CRIMINALIST ARRIVED AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00, 10:15, SOMEWHERE IN THERE.
AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR AFTER THE CORONER'S INVESTIGATOR ARRIVED THERE AT ABOUT 9:10; ISN'T THAT CORRECT?
IN YOUR INVESTIGATIONS, DO YOU NORMALLY LIKE TO HAVE A CRIMINALIST THERE BEFORE THE CORONER ARRIVES?
SO IN THIS INSTANCE, IF THE -- IF RISKE ARRIVED TO THE SCENE AT 12:10, THE FIRST CRIMINALIST ON THE SCENE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ABOUT -- AFTER 10:00 CLOCK, 10:15. SO PERHAPS THAT WOULD BE 10 HOURS AND FIVE MINUTES LATER; IS THAT RIGHT?
I BELIEVE THEY ARRIVED AT THE TIME THAT THEY WERE GETTING EXAMINED BY THE -- AND MOVED, YES, ABOUT THAT TIME.
I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER EVIDENCE THAT WOULD POINT ME IN ANY OTHER DIRECTION.
THAT DID NOT COME INTO PLAY, NO.
THE CRIMINALIST WENT TO THE ROCKINGHAM SCENE BEFORE EVER COMING TO THE BUNDY LOCATION, RIGHT? ... YES.
I BELIEVE IT'S THE WAY IT FIGURES, YES.
DETECTIVE FUHRMAN.