Fuhrman got no help from police

The FBI said Friday that law enforcement never escorted Mark Fuhrman to Montana crime scenes where Joseph Edward Duncan III allegedly held two young kidnapping victims.

Duncan’s defense team raised the issue this week in a request for information to help prepare a defense for their client, who is charged with three counts each of kidnapping and murder. Public defender John Adams said he’d learned of Fuhrman’s visit, allegedly before police had finished collecting evidence, because it was on the Fox News program “At Large with Geraldo Rivera.”

Fuhrman said Friday that was “an outright lie” and that he was offended.

“This is why public defenders get a bad name,” the former Los Angeles homicide detective said.

During the murder trial for O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles, Fuhrman was accused of planting a bloody glove as evidence.

Fuhrman said that the North Idaho crime scenes had been processed and no law enforcement were at the scene when he, a producer and a photographer found their own way to the Montana crime scenes.

“Nobody led us anywhere,” Fuhrman said. “Nobody even told us anything.”

Except for a couple of little red marker flags, Fuhrman said, the crime scene was “as clean as a Safeway chicken.”

FBI agent Donald Robinson said Friday that law enforcement did not escort Fuhrman to the scene and that Fuhrman “was not involved in any way, shape, fashion or form in any aspect of the investigation.”

Robinson said there may have been some references to a Fuhrman on crime scene visitor logs because the FBI’s special agent in charge of the investigation is Timothy Fuhrman.

Mark Fuhrman also said Friday that he never offered to help detectives at the Wolf Lodge home where the bodies of Brenda Groene, her boyfriend and her 13-year-old son were found.

Sheriff Rocky Watson said Thursday that Fuhrman offered his help but was asked to leave. Watson said Friday that if Fuhrman didn’t offer to help, perhaps a deputy “may have exaggerated.”