VINCE FOSTER - Fuhrman tackles this case next

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PageSix.com FUHRMAN TACKLES FOSTER NEXT

By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON

O.J. Simpson detective-turned-author Mark Fuhrman is trying to "solve" the mysterious suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster.

Rumors and theories about Foster's 1993 death have long been ridiculed as far-out fantasies of Clinton-hating conspiracy-mongers. But Fuhrman - whose true crime tome "Murder in Greenwich" is credited with unearthing information that led to Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's indictment for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley - tells PAGE SIX he plans to put the Foster case under the same intense scrutiny.

The death of Foster, a close friend and former law partner of Sen. Hillary Clinton, has been clouded by controversy ever since he was found dead of a gunshot wound in Washington's Fort Marcy Park.

"If he killed himself, he didn't do it there," insists Fuhrman, who is looking for a publisher. "If he committed suicide, than someone moved him to Fort Marcy Park.

"Someone tried to stage a crime scene that is not believable in the least, and to make it work they gave it to an investigative body like the Park Police who can be ordered around and be bullied. It's crazy. That's why there's been so much controversy surrounding it."

Fuhrman suggests White House cronies may have hindered the investigation. "Webster Hubbell talked to Foster's wife before the police did and then ordered them out of the house. What's going on with Hillary cleaning out Foster's office afterwards? There's a lot of things going on here that just don't add up."

Fuhrman, who first talked about his Foster project in Details magazine, claims there are signs of foul play - "little things going on that could be major things. Foster drove into the sun that day but he left his sunglasses on the dashboard, yet he puts his bifocals on to walk up that hill.

"There was no brain matter, no skull fragments, not anything behind his head or blood on the vegetation around it. It was a sunny day, the light was good, yet there was nothing noted, nothing photographed."

Fuhrman, who also penned "Murder in Brentwood" about the Simpson case, said he's swamped with requests from families seeking help in solving murders - "especially murder cases where women were killed by their husbands."

The ex-detective, of course, was disgraced during the Simpson trial after he was forced to admit he had used the "N-word" while working on a screenplay about racist cops. But now he considers himself a member of the media. "It just kills me to say that, but yes, I am," Furhman laughed.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Answers

I watched a lot of the OJ trial and I must admit that I rather liked Furhman. I thought he came across as a savy cop. As far as the racial slur business, I just chalk that up to the whole scenario manufactured by Cochran to obscure the basic evidence collected. I also think the Foster death was not the simple suicide presented to us.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

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