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Edited on Tue Aug-22-06 05:09 AM by tiptoe
My belief is that Kato's "Thump Thump Thumps" -- terminology, btw, introduced by Marsha Clark -- were from OJ's accomplice, chased to the side of the house, away from the driveway area by the headlights of Alan Park's early-arriving limo... shining through the gate, directly up the Rockingham driveway, for Park's assessing the feasibility of maneuvering his 11PM-due limo around TWO cars he saw parked within the gate (...one vehicle with its rear-end jutting into the driveway, as if it had first been backed into the Rockingham driveway before being moved forward into the parking space directly behind the Bentley. At trial, Judge Ito had Park's problematic, telestrator two-car testimony erased (!), since "the jury knew what the area looked like"). Park noticed no one fleeing the driveway as he peered through the gate, only that he couldn't make the driveway turn with the limo "given the way the cars were parked" and would have to opt for entrance via the Ashford gate around the corner. Meanwhile, OJ's accomplice had fled the headlighted driveway area to the safety of darkness along the side of the house. In that area of the property was an external air conditioner wall-mounting platform that the accomplice was able to grab, climb, extend a grip onto the horizontal seam-slot of the bungalow siding, and then slide himself left to the area of the enclosed walkway connecting Kato's bungalow to the main house. The height of that connecting structure was scaleable, as opposed to the high backwall of the bungalow. It was around 10:43pm when Kato heard sounds and saw a picture shake while on the phone with a GF.
I think an accomplice of OJ gained entrance to the house around that same time by way of the backyard door, unlocked (I suspect, but not confirmed in testimony) since it was the same backdoor only about an hour earlier thru which Kato followed OJ into the house...out the front kitchen door...to the driveway...and into the Bentley for their brief junket to MacDonalds. (The Bronco was not in the driveway at that time. It had already been staged outside the Rockingham gate in preparation for OJ's eventual trip to Bundy just before 9:36pm. Inside the Bronco was a flathead shovel and plastic bag [presented as evidence during trial, but blithely dismissed as pooper-scooper and tire storage bag]. OJ would eventually begin his Bundy excursion immediately upon returning Kato from MacDonalds. On a schedule, he would not even bother accompanying Kato to the same front door Kato expected to pass through again for easy access to his bungalow. At the front door, Kato would turn to see OJ still standing in the driveway, next to the Bentley, and realize he'd be trekking around the Ashford side of the house for return to his bungalow instead of via the front and back doors, as before. Kato would see OJ neither exit the Rockingham gate on foot nor depart in the Bronco parked along the curb.)
Geraldo Rivera asked Kato to demonstrate the "thumping sounds" on his midafternoon "Geraldo" show. Very curiously, what Kato demonstrated on that show was nothing resembling his televised courtroom slapping of his podium three times: "Thump, thump, thump" (as per Ms Clark's training, no doubt). On Geraldo's prompting, cameras followed Kato as he stepped to the very back of the stage...to its back wall...where he then spread-eagled his arms, pressed his body flat against the wall and proceeded to cancersans/slide himself across the stage's back wall surface. Kato had mimmicked the very actions I suspect OJ's accomplice would have made scaling the outside backwall of his bungalow! This was thoroughly different from what Kato had demonstrated in court.
So much for Marsha's "Thump, thump, thump."
Anyway, I was curious if any of your pics of Rockingham captured the connecting structure between the main house and the bungalows in back? How about the front porch area...with the benches??
Yeah, I "followed" the case as well. :eyes:
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