I was in a hotel room in Quebec Canada breaking up with the man I had been living with on and off for five years, and when that white Bronco came on the TV at the foot of our bed we stopped breaking up and stayed together through most of the trial, bonded in our sense of shock and inevitable injustice. And when Simpson was acquitted we broke up, disgusted with just about everything.
Living in Miami I’d hear tales about the hobbling double-murderer hanging out in the coffee shops in Kendall, and little old ladies putting down their bagels and pinching him on the cheek. My sister once ran into him at Gulfstream race track and gushed, ”Oh you’re him,” and he liked it of course. She gets star struck, but that was a low. I like to think that I would have spit on him or at least given him the finger.
And now, lucky thirteen years to the day, justice has peeked behind her blindfold, given us a Palinesque wink, and the double murderer is heading for the slammer, maybe for life.
I may not understand the psychological underpinnings of why this ultimate sociopath wrote a book describing how he (might) have murdered Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, or why he engineered a two-bit robbery with a weapon along with a bunch of shady witnesses. I’m just happy he’s finally getting his, in a story that seems improbably wrapped up like 1940s film noir.
The problem is: now that the Juice is toast who will be hunting diligently and ceaselessly on the south Florida golf courses for the “real murderer”?
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O.J. had them bounced from KMart.
"......and when that white Mustang came on the TV at the foot of our bed we stopped breaking up and stayed together through......"
I think it was a Ford Bronco; and I agree with you. why was Goldman's blood in the Bronco?
Don, Yes, sometimes justice prevails. Let's hope there aren't appeals and we can close out this abominable case. Being from Miami, he was still in the news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFCEymCFy4
Apparently even more evidence has been uncovered since that documentary was completed and it's supposed to be released in the next couple of months -- unfortunately that won't help O.J. in his Las Vegas conviction.
Here is the SF Chronicle's Review of "The Overlooked Suspect" -- a documentary that was released last year, followed by a short clip from the film on youtube. I am not a fan of O.J. Simpson, but I'd like have seen justice' in both the LA and Las Vegas trials. I don't think we got it in either.
After almost 13 years William C. Dear, internationally renowned private investigator has released his documentary titled, The Overlooked Suspect with his book following in June, 2007, with the intention to build public awareness and ultimately justice through the creation of a Grand Jury in the State of California and the indictment of the “overlooked suspect” for the killings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Within days of the killings Bill Dear spearheaded an investigation into the murders, assembling and collaborating with a team of experts known throughout the world.
Bill’s investigation has resulted in evidence never seen and made public, that identifies a major suspect never to date investigated by the public law enforcement; how the murders happened; producing the potential murder weapon; obtaining the suspect’s forged time card the night of the murders; the suspect’s diaries; a picture of the black seaman’s cap on the suspect’s head prior to the murders and what possible role O. J. Simpson played in these murders.
Through private screenings of the documentary it has been shown and repeated, that an extremely high percentage of viewers prior to seeing the documentary were convinced that O.J. Simpson was the killer. Following the viewing of the documentary 100% of the same viewers reversed their conviction that O.J. was guilty of the murders and wanted the “overlooked suspect” indicted. They want the public law enforcement officials in the State of California to listen and take action and exercise the process of justice.
The public authorities, notably the L.A.P.D.; the District Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles and The Attorney General’s Office in the State of California have to date not been willing to take action."
Hope, you got to do what I always wanted to do! I live near the area he does (did!), but don't play golf and never saw him ...
Calethia Hill
Uh, maybe because the court said he didn't do it?
The thing that's really bugged me all along about this is that most of you would have absolutely no problem considering him guilty if he'd been found guilty. But he wasn't. He was found not guilty.
So why is the system absolutely trustworthy when it give you the result you want, but untrustworthy when it goes against you?
For the record, I think OJ probably did it. I also think he's a complete idiot for hanging around and giving the justice system another shot at him after making them look stupid the first time. Didn't he realize they'd be gunning for him? At least Michael Jackson had the good sense to leave the country.
Joe Mommasan, One court DID find him responsible to pay the Goldmans --it's a draw on that. I feel, just as many blacks and minorities are convicted unnjustedly by juries to death, sometimes people are let go unjustly. I do think he murdered those people, whatever the first sentence was. The DNA showed it. The blood. He himself wrote it out. In my mind, he's a psychopathic killer. I don't care if we don't say "guilty."