[Bill Pavelic - Famous Investigator]
Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPDLOOKING BACK 1984 OLYMPICS DAY 4 IN L.A.;Plenty of Stars for Stars and Stripes
2008-05-28
Los Angeles Times
July 31, 2004 Saturday
Home Edition
BYLINE: Bill Dwyre
SECTION: SPORTS; Sports Desk; Part D; Pg. 5
LENGTH: 478 words
The American Olympic happy days continued, and Richie Cunningham and the Fonz undoubtedly were around to cheer.
ABC suffocated its viewers with celebrating American athletes, and the TV viewers seemed to love it. The Times, reacting to a late-breaking event of some magnitude, headlined the victory by the U.S. men's gymnastics team "The Miracle of L.A."
The team, with Mitch Gaylord seeking additional points by risking his signature move, the Gaylord III, and hitting it, not only won gold for the first time in men's gymnastics, but got an Olympic men's gymnastics medal for the first time in 52 years.
Richard Hoffer, now of Sports Illustrated, waxed eloquent on deadline: "They had flown, flared, floated ... would they ever come down?"
The next day, critics speculated that, had the Soviet-bloc countries competed, the Americans never would have won the gold. It was pointed out, however, that China, which had finished second, had beaten the Soviets along the way.
Life was just as red, white and blue at the swim venue at USC. Five finals were held, and five Americans won.
Rowdy Gaines, one who had been victimized by Jimmy Carter's boycott of the Moscow Olympics, took the 100 freestyle, his time of 49.80 seconds beating the Olympic record of 49.99 set by Jim Montgomery in the '76 Games. Theresa Andrews took the 100 backstroke, then marched over and presented her gold medal to her 20-year-old brother, two years younger than she. He had been paralyzed after a bike accident and she had taken a year off from swimming to help with his care.
The demonstration sport of baseball was contributing greatly to the L.A. committee's bottom line, drawing 52,319 at Dodger Stadium to watch the U.S. team beat Taiwan, 2-1.
The rowing venue at Lake Casitas was having so much trouble with midday wind that some of its events were started at 7:30 a.m.
Vonnie Gros, the U.S. women's field hockey coach, was pleasantly surprised by the lack of smog. She had trained her team in Pennsylvania, and to get ready for Southern California, had asked officials at Ursinus College to back up four cars to the door of the gym and turn on their engines. Ursinus officials had refused.
News leaked out that Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee until 1980, and the man who had threatened to take the Games from Los Angeles because of lack of public funding until Mayor Tom Bradley called his bluff, had been rescued by an LAPD officer named Bill Pavelic. Killanin, choking on food at an L.A. restaurant, was saved when Pavelic pounded on his back five or six times. Several unidentified members of the LAOOC said they wished they had been there to help.
Sen. Bill Bradley, the former basketball star, was quoted as saying that Athens should be made the permanent home of the Olympics. Twenty years to the day later, the Greeks were finishing the main Olympic Stadium.
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INVESTIGATOR HIRED BY O.J. DESCRIBED AS BITTER EX-COP
2008-05-26
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
July 22, 1994, Friday , FINAL
SOURCE: P-I News Services
SECTION: NEWS
LENGTH: MEDIUM: Pg. B1
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
A top investigator for O.J. Simpson has been portrayed in court papers as a bitter ex-cop with a vendetta against a former Los Angeles Police Department colleague assigned to the Simpson case.
Zvonko Bill Pavelic gave up a generous pension package when he quit the department 18 months ago after nearly 20 years on the force. He contends he was forced out because he had complained about racism and corruption in the department.
"I was sick and tired of watching innocent people get framed, especially members of minority groups, and that includes African Americans and Mexicans," Pavelic told The Associated Press. "I was disturbed about officer-involved shootings, and how they covered up the incidents."
Bill Pavelic was hired to review the police investigation in the case, looking for mistakes, violations of LAPD policy and skeletons in investigators' closets.
Simpson, 47, is charged with murder in the June 12 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and Ron Goldman, 25. He faces arraignment today .
Court papers describe Bill Pavelic as angry, bitter and paranoid.
"Bill Pavelic thought there was a big conspiracy among the supervisors at Southwest Detectives and command staff officers of LAPD who were 'out to get him,' " prosecutors wrote in a case in which the defense was considering calling Bill Pavelic as a witness.
In recent days, the Simpson camp has leaked unflattering details about Detective Mark Fuhrman, who testified at a preliminary hearing that he found a bloody glove at Simpson's estate.
The defense reportedly was going to argue that Fuhrman planted the glove. However, an internal police investigation has concluded that scenario is virtually impossible, police sources told the Los Angeles Times.
Many of Fuhrman's defenders suspect Bill Pavelic was responsible for revealing details to the media of a 1983 lawsuit that portrays Fuhrman as racist and violent.
A review of his personnel file suggests, however, that Bill Pavelic enjoyed a successful career. He strongly defended his reputation, pointing to 175 commendations.
But his career apparently took a turn for the worse in his latter years, when he started openly criticizing command staff, including former Chief Daryl Gates.
Pavelic retired in 1992 on a service-related disability pension of half pay, claiming his working conditions aggravated his health.
On Wednesday, the defense launched a toll-free tip line and a $500,000 reward for "the real killer."
Simpson's lead defense attorney, Robert Shapiro, said hot-line operators were receiving 100 calls a minute. Earlier, an AT&T operator had said technical difficulties were blocking some calls.
"This is done totally outside our office. . . . This is totally O.J.'s thing," Shapiro said yesterday, adding that a message on the hot line had been changed to delete a referral to Shapiro's office for legal representation.
Meanwhile, officials said yesterday that a notebook detailing Nicole Simpson's activities last winter was found in the car of O.J. Simpson's girlfriend and has been turned over to Los Angeles police.
Police in Newport Beach, 40 miles south of Los Angeles, said the notebook was recovered from Paula Barbieri's car Jan. 31 after the vehicle had been stolen and used in four armed robberies.
Newport Beach police spokesman Sgt. Andy Gonis said the notebook was handed over on July 12 to the lawyer of William Wasz, who stole the car, and was now in the hands of Los Angeles police.
Wasz's lawyer, John Stewart, told CNN that the notebook contained a detailed schedule of Nicole Simpson's movements.
"I found the contents very, very interesting as it relates to possible scenarios relative to O.J. Simpson (and) . . . the ongoing prosecution of O.J.," he said.
TV coverage
ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC plan live coverage of O.J. Simpson's arraignment on murder charges today in Los Angeles. The court session also can be seen on Court TV. It is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. PDT.
- The Associated Press
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Kato Kaelin Chastised for His Testimony
2008-05-19
CNN
March 27, 1995
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BYLINE: GREG LaMOTTE
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HIGHLIGHT: Prosecutor Marcia Clark has issued a public scolding of Kato Kaelin, who she says has withheld information in his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial. Kaelin seems to have selective recall in his testimony.
DONNA KELLEY, Anchor: Welcome back to our CNN Morning News. About 8 minutes after the hour. It's a new week, and there are some new developments in the O.J. Simpson double murder case. CNN's Marc Watts is in Los Angeles with the details for us. Marc?
MARC WATTS, Anchor: Donna, the Simpson trial resumes in about one hour with more testimony from O.J. Simpson's former houseguest. Now, with more on the trial, let's go live to the courthouse and CNN's Greg LaMotte. Greg?
GREG LaMOTTE, Correspondent: Well, Marc, the last time we were in the courtroom, prosecutor Marcia Clark had launched a blistering attack on the world's most fa-mous houseguest, Brian 'Kato' Kaelin. Clark appeared to be trying to show that Kaelin may have been willing to hide the truth in order to protect O.J. Simpson.
Now, Kaelin is a prosecution witness who has been able to support the prosecu-tion's contention that no one knew the whereabouts of O.J. Simpson for at least an hour and a half the night of the killings. Kaelin is the one who says he heard the three thumps at about 10:40 to 10:45 the night of the killings, and then about 10 to 15 minutes later, saw O.J. Simpson in front of Simpson's home. Now, near where Kaelin heard those thumps, a blood glove was found that matches one found at the crime scene. Kaelin says he heard the thumps while talking to a friend on the telephone. That friend's name is Rachel Ferrara. She is ex-pected to follow Kaelin on the witness stand and corroborate Kaelin's testimony about hearing unusual noises. Her testimony is expected to be brief. We then anticipate hearing from limousine driver, Alan Park. He says no one answered the phone at Simpson's estate when he arrived to take Simpson to the airport. Park said only after he saw a 6-foot-tall African-American enter Simpson's front door at about 11:00 p.m. did Simpson then answer the telephone and let the driver into the gated estate. Joining me this morning is Jim Willwerth with Time Magazine. Good morning, Jim.
JIM WILLWERTH, 'Time' Magazine: Good morning, Greg.
GREG LaMOTTE: Your assessment of how Kato Kaelin performed on the witness stand last week?
JIM WILLWERTH: Well, I think Kato did a fine job for the prosecution in the sense that he provided the timeline they were looking for. He made it clear that he cannot be an alibi witness for O.J. in terms of having been in the house that night, and he also saw the blood drops early that morning, which means it would have been pretty hard for the police to plant them later in the day.
On the other hand, Kato is being extremely fuzzy in some key areas. He could have provided a much better timeline. And a number of Marcia' questions where she said, did you not say to 'Friend X' or 'Friend Y' the next day or that day or the following day that, you know, so-and-so - those friends say, my informa-tion at least is, those friends say he said those things. So why isn't he say-ing them now? It's a pretty good question.
GREG LaMOTTE: Kaelin also has, certainly, hedged on the issue of O.J. Simpson's demeanor the day of the killings and after he saw him the next day.
JIM WILLWERTH: Yeah. Again, I mean, Kato seems to be developing a selective fuzziness. He has said a number of things, including one particular thing to friends that O.J. was extremely frazzled that night. He'd never seen anything like it, he told at least one friend. And yet, now, on the witness stand, he doesn't seem to be able to remember telling those things to those friends. Again, what's going on here?
GREG LaMOTTE: O.J. Simpson's demeanor certainly changed in the courtroom with Kaelin on the witness stand.
JIM WILLWERTH: Well, I think he sees Kato as friendly. I think he likes Kato. I think Kato has provided a certain amount of tension relief. And also, O.J. has to be pleased that Kato doesn't seem to remember some of the things which are quite so incriminating, at least in mood. And a lot of this trial is about mood and motive and opportunity. So that O.J. finds himself being depicted in a much, you know, friendlier, a much less frantic way than the prosecution would like to depict him.
GREG LaMOTTE: Thank you very much. That's Jim Willwerth with Time Magazine. I might add that today will be a shortened day in the courtroom. Apparently, a juror has a prior commitment that they must attend to - some sort of meeting or appointment that they had - we don't know if that's with a doctor or not. At any rate, court will be ending today at 12:00 noon Pacific, 3:00 p.m. Eastern. Marc?
MARC WATTS: All right. Greg LaMotte at the courthouse. Thanks, much. We'll see what happens later today in the courtroom. Besides what Greg mentioned, to-day's proceedings in the Simpson trial will also include a hearing on a defense team request that Judge Ito reconsider his punishment to defense attorneys. CNN's Charles Feldman reports now, the actions that got the defense attorneys sanctioned are not the only thing troubling other defense lawyers.
CHARLES FELDMAN, Correspondent: When O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark blew up at defense attorney F. Lee Bailey on the 'ides of March,' she gave voice to something a growing number of defense lawyers already think.
MARCIA CLARK, Prosecutor: That shows you what kind of- what we have over here in the way of ethics on this side of the table. They'll get up and they'll misrep-resent till their heart's content until they get caught, and then they have ex-cuses. And then they start splitting hairs. And then they have - well, this means this, and oh, no - that means that. I felt like we were in Alice in Won-derland-
CHARLES FELDMAN: The Simpson defense team has been sanctioned twice by Judge Lance Ito for violating California law - a law that requires defense lawyers to turn over certain information to prosecutors to insure a fairer trial. Johnnie Cochran and Carl Douglas have been fined $950 each for telling the Court there was no audiotape of investigator Bill Pavelic's interview with Rosa Lopez.
F. LEE BAILEY, Simpson Attorney: It's a situation where we told the truth. We didn't know. There was no malice there. Nobody intended to withhold anything. I mean, when we discovered these things, Bill Pavelic simply forgot to mention that he had a tape.
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Hotline shut down as 'tips' plummet
2008-05-17
Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)
August 25, 1994 Thursday Final Edition
SOURCE: FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A8
LENGTH: 320 words
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
Calls to a hot line created for tipsters with possible leads in the O.J. Simpson murder case have dropped off so precipitously in recent weeks that his attorneys have decided for now to pull the plug on the highly publicized effort, members of Mr. Simpson's defence camp said yesterday.
"Like anything, the initial impact was the biggest," said Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson's attorneys. "Since then, it's worn off some."
In its first week of operation, the toll-free number generated thousands of calls -- Mr. Simpson's attorneys say they logged more than 250,000 tips within days, a rush so intense that they were forced to install extra lines to capture the recorded comments deluging the hot line.
Many of the calls came from people sympathetic to the football star charged with murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. Others sought to cash in on Mr. Simpson's offer of a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the "real killer or killers."
But in the weeks since that first burst of phone calls, members of Mr. Simpson's team say the quantity and quality of calls have tapered off dramatically. In recent weeks, tantalizing tips mostly have been replaced by wackier offerings and meddlesome wanna-be investigators, Mr. Simpson's representatives say.
"Initially, it was a very good idea," said Bill Pavelic, an investigative consultant working with the Simpson team who recommended that the hot line be shut down. "We got a lot of good leads. But the calls lately have not been as good. We get people who want to tell us how to do things, not people who have information."
Because of that, the service was temporarily disconnected, and Mr. Shapiro said Mr. Simpson's attorneys expect to decide later this week whether to leave it off permanently. Tuesday, callers to the number got a recorded message saying that the number was "temporarily out of service."
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HELP FROM LAPD DETECTIVE
2008-05-02
Los Angeles Times
February 14, 1988, Sunday, Home Edition
SECTION: Opinion; Part 5; Page 4; Column 6; Letters Desk
LENGTH: 394 words
I know how difficult being a police officer is and how an individual can fall through the cracks when there is no one who cares. I am a former New York newspaperman whose paper closed down and I went into public relations for the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn.
My letter has to do with the Los Angeles Police Department, in particular, the Mental Health Evaluation Unit run by Detective Walter J. DeCuir. This is a unit that has outstanding police professionals who care for human life. They help people in trouble get the proper medical attention so that they can take their rightful place in society.
One such police officer is Detective Bill Pavelic, a man who cares and has helped this New York family save our son and assisted us in getting the proper medical attention for him.
My son Thomas, a graduate from a top Ivy League school and who attended New York Medical School, had a breakdown. He was taken into custody while in Los Angeles for driving without a license -- actually one that was suspended because of many traffic violations.
We knew Tom needed help. We knew he needed to be hospitalized, but we didn't know how to do it because of the mental laws being what they are. Pavelic and an attorney we hired, Eric Epstein, a former New York City assistant district attorney, were of tremendous help. The traffic case and other minor charges were handled by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, especially Assistant Dist. Atty. Tom Herman, who, with the help of the court, insisted that as part of the probation, my son receive the proper medical attention.
Tom is now in New York-Cornell Hospital. We now see the light at the end of this long, long tunnel. We are grateful that he is now receiving the help he needs in order to return to society.
But without a caring Police Department, especially Detective Pavelic, this wouldn't be possible. This wonderful human being cared for my wife and I who traveled 3,000 miles seeking help for our son.
Tom was in Central Jail and we refused to bail him out, "hard love."
Pavelic helped us to help our son, and we are going public to thank him and all of the others who helped. I am sure that when my son gets well he'll come back to the city he loves, Los Angeles, and do something to thank the people for their outstanding Police Department.
GEORGE T. DOURIS
New York City
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JUST COLOR HANKS UNIMPRESSED: STAR REFUSES ROLE AS CHIEF EXEC
2008-05-01
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
September 04, 1996, Wednesday
BYLINE: ERIC E. HARRISON, Democrat-Gazette Critic at Large
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If elected, I will not serve: Tom Hanks has turned down the lead role in "Primary Colors," the film version of the best seller written anonymously by Newsweek's Joe Klein. Director Mike Nichols hoped to cast Hanks as the Clinton-esque candidate and Emma Thompson as his hard-charging wife. But the actor, reportedly a chum of the president's, has bolted. No word yet on a second choice.
School daze: Comedian Dennis Miller on education: "Our culture has gon e from the 'G.E. College Bowl' to the guy on 'Wheel of Fortune' who asks, 'Is there an F, as in Pharaoh?' "
Speaking of game shows, it must be really hard to play "Wheel of Fortune" in Poland (and no, this is not a Polish joke, so simmer down). Imagine: "I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat." "Sorry," Pat replies, "there aren't any."
Culture vulture: In the September issue of GQ, a piece by Joe Queenan called "How Bad Can It Be?" delineates the different levels of American popular culture. Queenan decides to go outside his "elite, effete" tastes, which include Elvis Costello, Igor Stravinsky, Tom McGuane and Henry James, and plunges into "the culture of the masses," which includes Michael Bolton, "Cats," Dean Koontz and the movies of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler: "Until I saw 'Billy Madison' and 'Tommy Boy,' I'd always thought that the three scariest words in the English language were 'starring Dan Aykroyd.' " Queenan also describes John Tesh's recent CD as sounding "so much like dentist's-office music that I inexplicably found myself flossing in the middle of the day." That's pretty bad.
No sex, please, we're British: In Britain, 60 percent of the women sur veyed in an opinion poll said they would rather go out to a restaurant for dinner than stay home and have sex. Here's a little tip, folks: Even if you're British, it's possible to do both. And on the same night, too.
Not just no, but ... Remember the May offer of Hal Lipset and five oth er private detectives to investigate O.J. Simpson's claims that the murderers of his late wife were in San Francisco?
About a week after the offer was made, Lipset says, he received a fax from Simpson's investigator, Zvonko Bill Pavelic too strongly worded for a gentleman to read aloud.
"He could have just said he discussed this with his client and thanks, but no thanks, but his letter was very mean," Lipset notes.
P.S.: Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange, lead detectives in the Simpson case, have signed with Pocket Books to write their version of the whole saga.
Tie food: Venture Initiative of Dallas offers Tie Cuisine, a selection of 100 silk ties in patterns that mimic common food stains.
"For years, men everywhere have struggled with the universal fashion problem: spillage," says the brochure. Patterns on the ties match the "drops that spot their best tie just as they're about to make a remarkable point during a meal."
The ties, $ 15, are available in Chinese Food, Wine, Club Sandwich, Buffalo Wings, Cordials, Salad and Dessert. Previous offerings have included Tacos and Quesadillas, Pasta, Pizza, Barbecue Ribs and Soup du Jour. Perfect for folks like us, who only wear ties to keep food off our shirts.
Son of a you-know-what: Rottweilers are the most popular dogs in Russi a.
"It's the Mafia's favorite breed," Anatoly Glebov says, by way of an advertisement for his $ 350 puppies. "She's a killing machine, and she'll fight to the end. A terrifying dog. She'll guard your house, your car, your family. And she's very good with children."
Short stuff: Carol Burnett will play Jamie's (Helen Hunt) mom in an episo de of NBC's "Mad About You," to be taped this month for broadcast later in the season ... Diane Sawyer has scored a coup: She'll interview the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, on Nov. 13; it'll be Fergie's first TV chat since leaving the royal family.
Partially compiled from Democrat-Gazette wire services.
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