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“...BillPavelic was especially proud of his street sense. He had been one of the few(LAPD) Caucasian cops; he liked to tell friends, who understood how thingsreally worked in the black community. He got so deep into it that he sawthings, he was certain, through nonwhite eyes. He discovered thatAfrican-Americans and dark-skinned immigrants of all backgrounds had a lot tofear from the LAPD.  When the departmentcouldn't prove something, some cops had no problem framing people who couldn'tfight back. Pavelic complained loudly, and soon enough he was seen as disloyal.Before long, he was out...” "...Iknow (LAPD) Robbery-Homicide Division. I've actually seen them frame innocentpeople.  You can't take anything forgranted..."  “...Pavelicstudied the LAPD's crime-scene logs. He called friends at LAPD to see what elsehe could learn. He put in twenty-hour days, and finally what happened in theearly hours of June 13 started to come together...” “...Pavelicgot a call from an officer on another matter. As they spoke, he realized thatthe cop was connected to the Simpson investigation. He said the departmentthought there was more than one killer. The wounds suggested each victim wasmurdered with a different weapon. Goldman's injuries indicated he had foughtfiercely before he died...” “...Pavelicfelt that there was no private investigator in town better at living inside thecollective mind of the LAPD than himself. He was an expert on the department'srules and procedures. He'd been on the force for eighteen years, won hundredsof medals, commendations, favorable incident reports...” “...It wasPavelic who gave them their first real hope, however elusive: He saw corruptionin the police casework...” “...Underany circumstances, Pavelic would have looked for it. His career with the LAPDhad ended in angry protest.  In 1984,Pavelic had testified against fellow officers who killed a fleeing suspect. Onecop was fired, another suspended for six months.  Pavelic assumed he was stigmatized forever.But by 1990, he'd made it to supervising detective in the Southwest Division.Then he got in trouble again. His menwere investigating a date rape at USC when their bosses began showing aheavy-handed interest.  Pavelic, hispartner, and their immediate supervisor eventually concluded that then-chiefDaryl Gates and a deputy chief were listening to the suspect's father, aprominent lawyer with influence inside the department. Pavelic andhis men protested publicly. And Bill raised similar charges again before a"people's tribunal" when activist groups held hearings on the LAPDafter the Rodney King beating.  Pavelictold the crowd that lying and covering up were the norm in the department.  That earned him a desk job. In 1992, he andthe brass reached an accommodation.  Hetook a disability pension for asthma and chest pains. He told one doctor he'drather spend time in a gulag than go back to work...” “...When Shapiro called, Zvonko "Bill"Pavelic was in his basement office at home in Glendale, cut off from everything. Pavelicfinished his investigations that way. He isolated himself with his computer andhis tapes from mid-morning till midnight or later. He allowed himself only onebreak, for dinner with Maria and the kids. He was proud of his tight, loyalfamily.  That was one reason he worked athome in the big house that Maria kept so well...” “...Robert Shapiro called just before eleven P.M.They'd worked together three years. Pavelic liked the lawyer'sstyle-intellectual, highly organized, well prepared. Shapiro's particulargenius, he thought, was laying a foundation so solid that the case was a winnerno matter who presented it. They had won every case they'd worked on...” “...Would Pavelic like to join the defense team inthe Simpson case? Shapiro asked. "Are you available?" NaturallyPavelic said yes. He apologized because he couldn't make Shapiro’s firstmeeting the next day. But he shifted into gear mentally while he was stilltalking. He'd need Maria to clip newspapers. He knew he had to identify thedocuments already being generated in the case. The prosecution's discovery filewould undoubtedly be voluminous..." “...Bill Pavelic met Robert Shapiro at his office inCentury City. Elegantly appointed with originalart, Baccarat and Lalique crystal. Polished and expensive, like its occupant.Then they moved to a conference room. Their forty-five-minute meeting rangedover the entire case.  Nothing would beeasy, Shapiro said. An arrest might be coming soon. He needed the investigatorto do what he did best, run parallel with the police detectives and figure outhow they saw things; then, as soon as possible, move their own investigationahead of them. As always, the first days were the most important...” “...His one experience with O.J. Simpson was part ofhis police history. When Simpson was one of the runners carrying the Olympictorch before the 1984 games in Los Angeles. Pavelic was assigned to protect VIPs. He and Simpson had talked brieflyin the special seating section. Around that time, the International OlympicCommittee's Life President, Lord Killenin, nearly died choking on his food.Pavelic had saved his life and he thought Simpson might remember theincident...” “... He put his background to work as a privateinvestigator and learned to make his computer think like a cop. That was why hewas so concerned with early discovery material. If you took the documents, thecrime reports, the logs, the affidavits and connected them to each piece ofevidence, then considered how each cop might view it, then you could make apretty good guess where the department was going with the case. You could seewho'd like one thing, who favored another. Sometimes you could see theirdestination and arrive there ahead of them...”“...As an ex-cop, he drew on his knowledge of whatthe police do at a crime scene. They don't always go by the book. They cutcorners-some officers more than others-but their reports make them sound likeBoy Scouts.  Pavelic knew how to readbetween the lines of police verbiage and find the hidden stories in thephotographs the D.A. had turned over...” “..Pavelic knew that Robbery-Homicide, the elitecorps of detectives from LAPD, would be assigned the case when it became knownthat Simpson's ex-wife was involved...” “...As a private investigator, Pavelic wasparticularly good at following law enforcement paper trails. He was immediatelysuspicious of the lack of specifics in the Bundy and Rockingham reports.Pavelic's red alert signals flashed as he studied Phil Vannatter's affidavitfor the Rockingham search warrant. No indication who found the bloody glove. Nothingabout going into Kato Kaelin's room. Very little information about the murdersat Bundy. Nothing about climbing the wall. Vannatter's affidavit said theylearned, after talking to Arnelle and Kato, that Simpson had left on an"unexpected" trip to Chicago.More important, the information about Arnelle and Kato was a handwrittenaddition to the typed affidavit. Had the judge or someone else asked a questionduring the hearing that prompted Vannatter's addendum? Bill knew they'd calledCathy Randa and learned from her that Simpson's trip was a planned businesstrip. The detective had misrepresented the facts about the departure in orderto obtain the search warrant. O.J.'s departure was not "unexpected."Vannatter knew that. Pavelic knew then that Vannatter had been forced into afurther material omission, the omission of the fact that they had scaled thewall at Rockingham before obtaining the search warrant.  He also noticed that the affidavit said thatSimpson took the flight "in the early morning hours of June 13, 1994."That expanded the window available for the killings. The cops further"observed" the glove on the back walkway "during the securing ofthe residence." Whether intentional or not, the language suggested thatthe LAPD investigators had assumed at once they had a crime scene. Vannatter wrote that "scientificinvestigation" confirmed that human blood was found on the Bronco. Pavelicknew that at the time he wrote the affidavit, only a routine presumptive testhad been done. Detective Vannatter had more than twenty years onthe force, but his affidavit was amateurish. Why had he omitted so manydamaging details? Pavelic suspected that the LAPD was rearranging things andembellishing information. Vannatter and Lange, for example, had failed to logthemselves out of Bundy when they went to Rockingham. The police logs showedthem signing out at ten A.M. as if they'd never left Nicole's condo. He also noticed that the criminalists didn't listhow many samples of each bloodstain were taken. A deliberate omission? No doubtin Pavelic's mind. A few days before the preliminary hearing, Shapiroreceived a twenty nine-page memo outlining every mistake Pavelic saw...”“...The week before, only two days after the Broncochase, Pavelic had put together a memo for Shapiro asking for sixty-eightpieces of LAPD paperwork, ranging from communication tapes and follow-upinvestigative reports to the watch commander's daily reports. He also requestedthe table of contents for the murder books, which contained virtuallyeverything the detectives had...” “...Earlier in the week, when Mark Fuhrman said hehad found the glove, Pavelic was stunned. This was the guy who found the glove?That night Pavelic went to his computer. By now he had a program in place thattracked every individual involved in the case: what evidence each person lookedat, what reports each one filed...” He couldn't find a single LAPD report identifyingFuhrman as the cop who found the glove. Not even the search warrant affidavit.As far as you could see in the paperwork, Fuhrman hadn't noticed the blood onand in the Bronco. He hadn't gone over the wall, hadn't interrogated KatoKaelin. In fact, he hadn't been at Rockingham that morning.The Bundy crime-scene log listed Fuhrman arriving at2:10 A.M., leaving at ten A.M. Period. At Rockingham, he was logged in at 5:l5the following afternoon and left at 7:10 P.M. If the logs were to be believed, Fuhrman had neverleft Bundy to go to Rockingham with Vannatter, Lange, and Phillips. He hadn'treturned to point at the Bundy glove while a police photographer snapped apicture. He didn't take a Polaroid of the Bundy glove to Rockingham soVannatter could make a comparison. The man who wasn't there. Pavelic started to put the facts together. RobertDeutsch, a lawyer Pavelic knew, called him that night. "Bill, do yourealize who this Fuhrman is?" "I guess I don't." Fuhrman hadbeen part of the Britton case, which Deutsch and Pavelic had worked together. Ablack man armed with a knife had robbed and brutally beaten people at automaticteller machines on L.A.'s West Side in 1988. Fuhrman was part of a CRASH Unit stakeout team thatspotted Joseph Britton threatening someone with a knife at an ATM. Britton ran.He claimed he tossed the knife over a hedge before the cops chased him down.The CRASH team said Britton waved the knife at them. They shot him six times. Most of the bullets camefrom Mark Fuhrman's gun. Britton claimed that Fuhrman walked back to the hedgeto get the knife and dropped it beside him. "Are you still alive,nigger?" he sneered at the wounded man. Britton went to prison and suedthe LAPD for using excessive force. Fuhrman was that cop. Once reminded of theconnection, Pavelic remembered that the Britton incident was just one item in ahefty dossier. Years earlier, Pavelic had checked out everyone onthe CRASH team and found pure gold under Fuhrman's name. The detective hadfiled for a disability pension in September 1981. He wanted out because ofstress. The records said that a department psychiatrist had given him atemporary medical leave a month before he filed. The detective complained thathe was getting angrier and angrier at "low-class" people, notablyLatino and black gang members-angry enough to kill someone. In one of theinterview summaries, a doctor reported that Fuhrman used the word"nigger." Pavelic knew that in April 1982 the Workers CompensationAppeals Board had judged Fuhrman temporarily disabled and given him time off.But a year later the Board of Pension Commissioners looked at a thick stack ofcontradictory psychiatric reports and concluded Fuhrman should go back to work. "I'm going to need the pension reports andFuhrman's psychological profiles," Bill told his friend. Deutsch was happyto send them to Shapiro. Some therapists wrote that Fuhrman shouldn't carry agun. Others felt he was exaggerating the street trouble he saw in hopes ofbailing out of a job he didn't like with a golden parachute. The LAPD had anunusually large number of officers applying for stress pensions in those days.It was getting expensive. The force wasn't about to let anyone out easily.Fuhrman appealed the Pension Board judgment to Superior Court. That put hispsychiatric evaluations on the public record. Bill also began hearing from LAPD friends who hadwatched the preliminary hearings. "Please be advised that several LAPDpolice officers and detectives have contacted me and are eager to helpO.J.," he wrote in a memo to Shapiro. "If there is one commondenominator in these phone calls, it is that Mark Fuhrman is a pathologicalliar." Of course, nothing is ever simple in aninvestigator's life. Pavelic began to suspect that the LAPD was sending himdisinformation. Anything to make the defense waste time and money. A letter signed "Blue" from a writerclaiming to be a black LAPD lieutenant advised O.J. to hire Johnnie Cochran,and concluded: “All stops are being pulled in your case. Strings are beingpulled across the country.  The L.A.P.D.and the D.A. do not want to lose your case, so beware. I know for a fact thatlies are being blended into your case."