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    PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson
    PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson
    PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson
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    PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson

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    PEOPLE Magazine presents PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeople
    Release dateMay 31, 2019
    ISBN9781547847594
    PEOPLE True Crime Stories: The Trial of O.J. Simpson

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      PEOPLE True Crime Stories - The Editors of PEOPLE

      Darden.

      Part One: The Crime

      ‘WHY DO I END UP LIKE THIS?’

      IN THE EARLY HOURS OF JUNE 13, 1994, TWO PEOPLE WERE FOUND SLASHED TO DEATH OUTSIDE A BRENTWOOD HOME. FROM THE BEGINNING THE ONLY SUSPECT IN THE DOUBLE MURDER WAS A CELEBRATED PRO ATHLETE

      JUNE 13, 1994 Upon returning home from Chicago, the day after the murders, O.J. Simpson was handcuffed outside his mansion on North Rockingham Avenue.

      THE CRIME & ARREST

      DOUBLE HOMICIDE

      A SPRING WEEK IN A VIRTUALLY CRIME-FREE LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD BEGAN WITH THE VIOLENT KILLINGS OF A YOUNG MOTHER AND HER FRIEND—AND ENDED WITH A STAR ATHLETE CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER

      THE CRIME SCENE The walkway of Nicole’s South Bundy Drive home remained awash in blood on the day after the murders.

      SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT on Sunday, June 12, 1994, a brown-and-white Akita was found wandering loose in the quiet streets of Brentwood. His snowy paws splashed with blood, the dog led some local residents to a shocking discovery. Responding to their 911 call, LAPD officer Robert Riske and his partner Michael Terrazas arrived within minutes to find the body of a woman in a black cocktail dress crumpled on a blood-washed walkway in front of a townhouse condominium. Her head had been all but severed in a knife attack. Nearby, the remains of a young man who had suffered more than 20 stab wounds in a ferocious fight for his life lay in the lush shrubbery that shrouded the scene at 875 South Bundy Drive. One veteran cop later said, It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen.

      Close to the man’s body the uniformed officers saw a knit watchman’s cap, a white envelope and a lone brown leather left hand glove. Bloody footprints and, to their left, a trail of blood drops led the length of a walkway to a rear gate, also marked by blood, that opened on a back alley. Detectives summoned to the scene later surmised that the killer, his bare left hand dripping blood as he exited the scene, likely made his escape in a vehicle parked in the alley.

      Finding the front door of the four-bedroom condo standing open, Riske later testified, he entered and came upon a contrasting scene of calm and tranquillity. There was no evidence of mayhem or that a robbery had taken place. Candles burned in the downstairs living room. A partially melted carton of Ben & Jerry’s chocolate-chip cookie-dough ice cream rested on the banister of a staircase. More candles lighted the master bedroom upstairs and flickered in the bathroom, where water had been drawn for a soak in the tub. Two young children, a boy and a girl, were sound asleep in their own bedrooms, oblivious to the carnage outside.

      From family photos and other items in the condo, Riske came to a shocking realization. The woman who lay dead across the threshold was Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, the ex-wife of the famous former football star O.J. Simpson, 46. The male victim, investigators later learned, was Nicole’s friend Ronald Goldman, 25, a waiter and aspiring model. Riske telephoned his superiors; once more officers arrived, Brown and Simpson’s children, Sydney, 8, and Justin, 5, were awakened and taken to a west Los Angeles police station while police tried to reach their father.

      By the time veteran LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman arrived at South Bundy Drive shortly past 2 a.m., more than a dozen officers were already on the scene. As they searched for evidence, no match for the left-hand glove that lay near Goldman’s body was found. At 5 a.m., in an attempt to locate Simpson and notify him of his ex-wife’s death and the whereabouts of his children, commanders dispatched Fuhrman, along with his boss Ron Phillips and lead investigators Thomas Lange and Philip Vannatter, to Simpson’s walled estate on Rockingham Avenue in Brentwood Park, two miles away. The ultraexclusive enclave was home to stars such as Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and also Los Angeles County’s district attorney Gil Garcetti.

      Nine years earlier, Fuhrman, then a patrol officer, had been called to Simpson’s $5 million Tudor-style mansion in response to a 911 call made by Nicole Simpson, who said her then-husband had smashed the windshield of her car with a baseball bat. O.J. was still agitated when Fuhrman arrived that night. Though shaken and sobbing, Nicole declined to file a report.

      On arrival at Rockingham the night of the murders, the detectives found a white Ford Bronco registered to the Hertz company parked at an odd angle, as if hurriedly, at the curb, according to Vannatter. While the other detectives repeatedly pressed an intercom buzzer at the gate and got no response, Fuhrman, inspecting the Bronco, discovered apparent bloodstains on the driver-side door. Fearing Simpson himself might be in trouble—I felt that someone inside that house may be the victim of a crime, may be bleeding or worse, Lange later testified—the fit 6'3" Fuhrman was enlisted to vault over the 5-ft. wall and open the gate from the inside.

      After repeatedly knocking on the door of the main house and getting no answer, the detectives woke one of the occupants of Simpson’s guesthouse. Told that the men at the door were police looking for O.J. Simpson, Brian Kato Kaelin, 35, said he didn’t know where he was but that Simpson’s daughter Arnelle, who lived in the guest room next door, might.

      Detectives Vannatter, Lange and Phillips then woke Arnelle, 25 (O.J.’s daughter from his first marriage). With her help they learned that her father was in Chicago, where he was to appear in a Hertz-sponsored golf event later that day.

      While Arnelle led his colleagues into the main house, where they would try to reach Simpson in Chicago, Fuhrman spoke further with Simpson’s houseguest Kaelin, an aspiring actor and sometime babysitter for Nicole. Her kids, Sydney and Justin, had the family’s Akita, Kato, named after him.

      Kaelin told Fuhrman that at around 10:40 or 10:45 the previous evening, as he talked on the phone with a girlfriend, he was startled by a series of loud thumps on the rear wall of his room. Following that lead, Fuhrman walked the narrow passageway between the rear of the guest rooms and the property’s fence. There he found a man’s brown leather right-hand glove, which appeared to be sticky with blood. It looked similar to the glove on the [South] Bundy scene, Fuhrman would later testify. And then my heart started pounding.

      Soon after sunup, Vannatter discovered more blood drops on the Bronco and along the walkway to Simpson’s front door. Once criminalist Dennis Fung arrived at Rockingham shortly after 7 a.m. and confirmed that smears on the Bronco were indeed blood, Vannatter determined, he later testified, that the property was a crime scene.

      At about 8 a.m., believing that he now had enough evidence to justify a thorough search of Simpson’s home by investigators, Vannatter set out to obtain a search warrant.

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