p>COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman was escorted to the Montana crime scene where Joseph Edward Duncan III is believed to have held kidnap victims Shasta and Dylan Groene, Duncan's attorney contends.

Public defender John Adams said yesterday that Fuhrman's visit to the remote Montana campsite was broadcast on Fox news network's "At Large with Geraldo Rivera," which aired on July 10.

Fuhrman, now a true crime author and radio personality in nearby Spokane, Wash., was accused during the O.J. Simpson murder trial of planting a bloody glove as evidence against the former football star.

Adams is seeking information on Fuhrman's visit to the crime scene, which defense attorneys contend took place before authorities finished collecting evidence. That is among 40 requests for information that Duncan's attorneys have filed with the state as they prepare for his Jan. 17 trial for killing three people.

Fuhrman has talked on his radio show and Rivera's show about visiting the crime scene in Montana, as well as the rural Coeur d'Alene-area home where the bodies of Brenda Groene, her son, Slade, and her boyfriend, Mark McKenzie, were found.

Authorities contend Duncan, 42, killed the three so he could kidnap Shasta, 8, and Dylan, 9, for sex. Shasta was eventually rescued but Dylan's burned remains were found at the campsite.

Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson said Fuhrman showed up at the home where the bodies were found in mid-May and offered to help detectives.

"We thanked him and asked him to go away" without letting him near the home, Watson told The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane.

The FBI processed the Montana crime scene, and Watson said he didn't know if Fuhrman was allowed to visit it. FBI spokesman Brent Robbins would not comment on the Duncan case.

Duncan, a registered sex offender from Fargo, N.D.,was on the run from a molestation charge in Minnesota when he was arrested. He faces the death penalty if convicted of the three counts of first-degree murder he faces in Idaho.

Federal prosecutors are waiting until the state case is resolved before charging Duncan in federal court with kidnapping Shasta and Dylan, killing Dylan and possibly other crimes.