Fuhrman said his main goal was to determine estimated time of death (but oddly, he didn't talk any about the TOD). Fuhrman spoke to the medical examiner and said they refuted the COD of stabbing or broken neck; and said it was basically hemorrhage of the brain from blunt force trauma. They learned that the scene wasn't bloody. Stephany had blood from the left ear and the nose.
He said the thing with the coffee cup was a very interesting twist. After a time, they finally learned that Joran and Stephany went into the room @ about 5:15, 5:20 AM; and at 8:10 Joran leaves and comes back with 2 cups of coffee and 2 rolls. He stated that could be a two-prong reason for that. Joran could try to establish on video that Stephany was alive when he left; or he is actually going out and she's already dead and he's simply trying to show that there was nothing wrong.
Martha McCallum mentioned the eerie report about JVDS sitting there on the bed, eating rolls and drinking coffee while Stephany is lying there dead. Then she asked Mark about his notes about a tennis racquet. Fuhrman said there was a tennis raquet in the room; and they'd tried to get the ME to commit to that early on last week, and the ME said "it could be", but they hadn't confirmed it. Fuhrman says forensice evidence - tissue, blood, hair
would be embedded in that tennis raquet in some way; adding that that has been confirmed by JVDS as part of the murder weapon.
Mark then went back to Martha's comment about the Peruvian press having said JVDS sat there drinking coffee and eating rolls while Stefany was dead. He said that in JVDS's own statement he said that when he came back with the coffee and she was on his laptop, that the the struggle and the fight ensued. MF said the coffee cups were on the floor and the coffee was spilled. So that would indicate that the coffee came there and was part of the struggle and that forensics on the cups will tell you if somebody actually touched them with their lips and their hands.
Then Martha played a clip from O'Reilly the other night with Bo Dietl, about why JVDS wasn't nabbed right then and there. Fuhrman pretty much said you can't in retrospect look at a paper crime vs a homicide. Said it is tragedy in Peru but you have to look at this. The FBI is no different than every large or small metropolitan police department. When you have a money case, the procedure isn't to go chase the suspect half way across the world and spend $100,000 doing it. The process is that you make the case, you get a warrant, you give the warrant to Interpol, and if he's picked up, then you go through an extradition process. He kind of disagrees with chasing someone down on a hot crime, like wire fraud, when it's not a case of national security involved. It's just not the process that goes on most of the time, he said. That's just the way it goes.
That's about covers Mark Fuhrman's appearance on Fox's American Newsroom earlier.
