Simpson: Week-by-week: Week 5", "CourtTV.com Trials O.J. Simpson Case? Paul Sakuma/AP/Shutterstock. Nicole Brown met O.J. Park said the "shadowy figure" initially approached the front door before heading down the southern walkway which leads to where the glove was found by Fuhrman. [59], The front door to Brown's condominium was open when the bodies were found, but there were no signs that anyone had entered the building, by breaking in or otherwise. Robert Rozier. According to NBC News, who cited the York . Former NFL player Phillip Adams kills five, then himself Posted by Mike Florio on April 8, 2021, 10:20 AM EDT Via the Associated Press, Adams killed Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife Barbara, two of their young grandchildren (Adah and Noah), and James Lewis. His remaining assets were seized and auctioned off with most being purchased by critics of the verdict of the criminal trial to help the plaintiffs recoup the costs of litigation. (Reuters) -A former professional football player shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, his wife, two grandchildren and another man before taking his own life at his home. [66] A trail of the assailant's bloody shoe prints ran through the back gate. The manager found the glasses and put them in a white envelope, which Goldman took with him as he left the restaurant at the end of his shift at 9:50pm, intending to drop it off at Brown's place. In 2002, he abused and shot a sixteen year old Steve Thomas to death in a Louisiana nightclub. Later on, he left the Akita with a neighboring couple who offered to keep the dog overnight; as the dog was agitated, the couple decided to walk it back to where it had been found. Simpson Trial Wasn't The Only Thing That Put Her On The Map", "Faye Resnick Videos Addressing The Drug Cartel Theory On 'The People V. O.J. He began to buzz the intercom at 10:40, getting no response. [190] He then discarded the glove, came back and went through the front door. There, he took off his blood stained clothes, put them in the knapsack (except his socks and the glove), put clean ones on, and left towards the limousine. [76] Another witness not heard at the trial claimed he saw Simpson at the airport discarding items from a bag into a trash can. Simpson film: Serial killer murdered Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman", "Television Review; Now a Film About You-Know-What", "The People v. O.J. Simpson", "Simpson tormented, beat wife, papers say", "Worker at Women's Shelter Tells Simpson Trial of a 'Nicole' Call", "Women's shelter worker testifies against Simpson Dec. 4, 1996", "Inside the Short, Tragic Life of Nicole Brown Simpson and Her Hopeful Final Days", "100 Reasons Why The OJ Trial Is The Most Absurd Event in American History", "Victim Thrived on Life in Fast Lane, His Friends Recall", "Dreams of Better Days Died That Night: Ronald Goldman: A young man was finding his way through the maze of L.A.", "On Fatal Night, Nicole Simpson Was Seen With a Man in a Shop", "Dog Led Neighbors To Body The Akita Took The Couple to the Slain Nicole Simpson. Simpson in 1997 and defended themselves against allegations of corruption and incompetence. 1:59. Carruth, a former wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers, was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in 2001 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to murder Cherica Adams. . [165][166] After the verdict, the jurors called the domestic violence portion of the case a "waste of time". Simpson: Week-by-week: Week 4", "CourtTV.com Trials O.J. The letter concluded, "Don't feel sorry for me. He attributes the acquittal to bad rulings by Judge Ito, unethical behavior by the defense and unreliable testimony from Gerdes, Rieders, Lee, and Baden. It doesn't lead you to a false positive". [42] She drafted a will. The prosecution stated they believed the gloves shrank from having been soaked in the blood of the victims. Simpson: The Incriminating Evidence", "O.J. Near Goldman's body were a blue knit cap; a left-hand, extra-large Aris Isotoner light leather glove; and the envelope containing the glasses that he was returning. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It, which was adapted into the BBC documentary O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, National Football League player conduct policy, "12 Simpson Jurors Are Sworn In: Trial: The eight-woman, four-man panel is predominantly black. [86][89][90] In the letter, Simpson sent greetings to 24 friends and wrote, "First everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder". 54: Coping With Race Distinctions", "PROPOSITION 54: IMPACTS ON HEALTH, LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIANS", "The Defeat of Prop 54 Against the Current", "African Americans are very concerned about what's happening in Ferguson. [95][86], News helicopters searched the Los Angeles highway system for Cowlings's white Ford Bronco. [127] Ito was later criticized for this decision by other legal professionals. Former NFL player Phillip Adams has been identified as the suspect in the shooting. In 2000, Simpson left California for Florida, one of the few states where personal assets such as homes and pensions cannot be seized to cover liabilities that were incurred in other states. Simpson in 1977[22] when she was 18 and working as a waitress at the Daisy (a Beverly Hills private club). [144] On April 21, thirteen of the eighteen jurors refused to come to court until they spoke with Ito about it. [413] The physical evidence did not change but additional evidence of domestic violence was presented as well as 31 pre-1994 photos of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes,[414] including one that was published 6 months before the murders, proving it could not be a forgery. investigator cringes at case's TV retelling", "Was O.J. [185] Allan Park testified on March 28 that he arrived at Simpson's home at 10:25 pm on the night of the murders and stopped at the Rockingham entrance: Simpson's Bronco was not there. A 25-minute tape of the pilot, which did not include the knife scene, was found by investigators and watched on Simpson's television as they searched his house. [43] Brown telephoned Sojourn, a women's shelter, on June 8, 1994. [453], The video game Duke Nukem 3D has several allusions to the Simpson trial, including a television playing the Bronco chase. Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. ATLANTA >> A former NFL player's mistress, apparently jealous that he was taking his wife on a trip to Las Vegas, drove to his home near Atlanta, kidnapped her romantic rival and led o SIMPSON GUILTY OF MURDER -- COMPARED TO 38% TO 32% IN JULY", "The Revolution Against Affirmative Action in California: Politics, Economics, and Proposition 209", "In California, Foes of Affirmative Action See a New Day The New York Times", "Research and Analyses on the Impact of Proposition 209 in California | UCOP", "Prop. The jury dismissed Shipp's claims after defense attorney Carl E. Douglas accused him of being an alcoholic who was testifying against Simpson because he wanted to promote his acting career. [191][192] Marcia Clark stated in her opening statements that there was a "trail of blood from the Bundy Crime scene through Simpson's Ford Bronco to his bedroom at Rockingham". "[405], In the documentary O.J. Simpson's Infamous Shoes From the Trial", "Salesman Says He Can't Remember What Kind of Shoes He Sold to Simpson", "DNA Evidence Discounted By Simpson Defense", "O.J. The video from the Dance recital that Simpson attended earlier that night shows him wearing a similarly colored shirt. [347], After the verdict, polling showed that 75% of White Americans thought Simpson was guilty while 70% of African Americans thought he was innocent. references the trial. [365] The murder of George Floyd revived empathy for racial injustice among white liberals[366][367][368] but the unsuccessful attempt to repeal prop 209 in 2020 is credited to the trial's legacy of undermining race relations. Clark claimed that Simpson was acting when he appeared to be struggling to put on the gloves, yet Cochran replied "I don't think he could act the size of his hands". [67] Forensic evidence from the Los Angeles County coroner alleged that the assailant stabbed Goldman with one hand while holding him in a chokehold. Meet The 12 People Who Found Him Not Guilty", "Race factor tilts the scales of public opinion", "Simpson Jury Mutiny Casts Doubt on Trial", "O.J. [80] A broken glass, a note with a telephone number on it, and bedsheets with blood on them were all recovered from Simpson's room at the O'Hare Plaza Hotel. Shapiro noted that an increasingly distraught Simpson had begun treatment for depression. Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before later killing himself, authorities said Thursday. [356] Opponents of civil rights seized upon the situation and rebranded themselves as advocating "race neutrality", instead of "separate but equal", which appealed to white liberals now due to the verdict and is credited with why voters in California passed proposition 209 in 1996 that ended affirmative action in the state. Over the course of the trial, ten were dismissed for a wide variety of reasons. The glove found at Simpson's home that belonged to the murderer had hair and clothing fibers consistent with Simpson, Brown and Goldman as well as fibers from a 19931994 Ford Bronco and Brown's Akita dog. Simpson Trial", "2nd State Scientist Backs DNA Results: Simpson case: Criminalist Renee Montgomery says a new, more sensitive type of test corroborates earlier evidence. The prosecution implied that Gerdes was not a credible witness: he had no forensic experience and had only testified for criminal defendants in the past and always said the DNA evidence against them was not reliable due to contamination. [232] The remaining three exhibits were planted by the police and thus "corrupted" by police fraud. Kaelin let the limousine in, and Simpson finally came out through the front door a few minutes later, claiming he had overslept. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution was dependent on DNA as the only physical evidence linking Simpson to the crime. Simpson: The Lost Confession?. [256] Gerdes testified that because of the LAPD's history of contamination, he would not consider any of the PCR DNA matches in this case reliable because the tests were carried out by the LAPD. [159] Although a home videotape taken immediately after the dance recital showed a cheerful Simpson being given a kiss by Brown's sister,[160] Kato Kaelin corroborated Brown's sister claim that Simpson was "upset" with Brown because of the black dress she wore, which he said was "tight". [282], After McKinny was forced to hand over the tapes to the defense, Fuhrman says he asked the prosecution for a redirect to explain the context of those tapes but the prosecution and his fellow police officers abandoned him after Ito played the audiotapes in open court for the public to hear. Her Testimony In The O.J. American hip-hop and rap-artist. All the proceeds went to the Goldman family who said they have received only 1% of the money that Simpson owes from the wrongful death suit. Simpson: The Key Players in His Murder Trial", "O.J. Simpson's Blood Planted at the Murder Scene? So much work stopped that the verdict cost an estimated $480million in lost productivity. [443], Episodes of sitcoms, such as The Simpsons, South Park, Roseanne, New Girl, Family Guy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ("Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense") and Seinfeld ("The Big Salad", "The Caddy"), have mocked the case, or more specifically, Simpson himself. A passenger on the plane and the pilot testified to not noticing any cuts or wounds on Simpson's hands. [6][7][8] The trial is often characterized as the trial of the century because of its international publicity, and has been described as the "most publicized" criminal trial in human history.[9]. The LAPD also declined to reexamine the evidence with modern methods because Simpson can not be tried for the same crime again under the Fifth Amendment. Simpson criminal trial, The People v. O.J. The ex-NFL player had been instructed not to consume drugs and to avoid drinking establishments. Simpson's defense was said to have cost between US$3million and $6million; the media dubbed the group of talented attorneys the Dream Team,[227][228] while the taxpayer cost of prosecution was over US$9million. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.In . [93][90] At 5:51pm, Simpson reportedly called 9-1-1; the call was traced to the Santa Ana Freeway, near Lake Forest. Adams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said. Phillips noted that Simpson only asked if the children had seen the murder or Brown's body, but was not concerned about whether the assailant(s) had harmed the children either. [23][24] They began dating although Simpson was already married. A former professional football player sliced his wife's neck and then crawled on the ground outside their rented Utah condominium before flagging down a police officer, prosecutors said in. [409] Juror Anise Aschenbach, who initially voted guilty before changing her vote, stated she regrets the decision and believes Simpson is guilty because he is not looking for the "real killer" like he promised he would. [14][331] Darden then told Ito of his concerns that Simpson "has arthritis and we looked at the medication he takes and some of it is anti-inflammatory and we are told he has not taken the stuff for a day and it caused swelling in the joints and inflammation in his hands". During cross-examination Bailey suggested the murderer deliberately wore shoes that were the wrong size, which Bodziak dismissed as "ridiculous". Prosecutors then spoke with Guerra, who said Lopez was lying and claimed the defense offered both housekeepers $5,000 to say they saw the Bronco that night. After the trial, Goldman's father filed a civil suit against Simpson. The media outlets served an enthusiastic audience; one company put the loss of national productivity from employees following the case instead of working at $40billion. Simpson Was Guilty", "What OJ Simpson's Relationship with Robert Kardashian Was Really Like", "Videos Of Robert Kardashian Talking About The O.J. But then what happened was the people who liked soap operas got addicted to the Simpson trial. Johnnie Cochran published Journey to Justice in 1996 about the trial and denied he played the "race card" and maintains the LAPD tried to frame Simpson. [354] Analysis of the "racial gap" in polling shows that it did not cross the political spectrum. The Fuhrman tapes became the cornerstone of the defense's case that Fuhrman's testimony lacked credibility. did it? Hip hop artist Magneto Dayo released a 2013 "diss track" song titled "OJ Simpson" in which he insults his ex-girlfriend/artist V-Nasty, by referencing the Simpson murder case. Cowlings's voice is overheard in the recording (after the Bronco had arrived at Simpson's home surrounded by police) pleading with Simpson to surrender and end the chase peacefully. [82] Fuhrman briefly interviewed Kaelin, who told the detective that the car belonged to Simpson and that earlier that night he had heard thumps on his wall. [340], African American LAPD Police Chief Willie Williams indicated that he had no plans to reopen the investigation, saying of the acquittals, "It doesn't mean there's another murderer". [275], The defense initially only claimed that three exhibits were planted by the police[276] but eventually argued that virtually all of the blood evidence against Simpson was planted in a police conspiracy. Simpson verdict ten years later (PBS Frontline streaming video), OJ Simpson Criminal Trial Uncut Start-to-Finish (1995), "O.J. Simpson Blacker. Instead, he walked to the front of the property, where he saw the limousine parked outside. [261] He testified on August 2, 1995, that Forensic PCR DNA matching is not reliable[262][263][264][265] and "The LAPD crime lab has a substantial contamination problem. [295][296] Initially, he conceded the blood samples "responded like EDTA responded" and "was consistent with the presence of EDTA" but clarified his response after hearing during the lunch break that "everyone is saying that I found EDTA, but I am not saying that". At 1:50pm, Commander Dave Gascon, LAPD's chief spokesman, publicly declared Simpson a fugitive; the police issued an all-points bulletin for him and an arrest warrant for Cowlings. I have had a great life, great friends. A colleague hooked a tape recorder up to Lange's phone and captured a conversation between Lange and Simpson in which Lange repeatedly pleaded with Simpson to "throw the gun out [of] the window" for the sake of his mother and children. In Cochran's summation to the jury, he was unable to refute any of the prosecution's claims,[original research?] [15] Observers' opinions of the verdict were related to their ethnicity, and the media dubbed this the "racial gap". [citation needed], On June 17, detectives recommended that Simpson be charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstance of multiple killings after the final DNA results came back. Lange noticed that Simpson had a cut on a finger on his left hand that was consistent with where the killer was bleeding from, and asked Simpson how he got the cut. Simpson", "O.J. Judge Lance Ito presided over the trial in the C.S. The officer who responded to that call, Detective John Edwards, testified next that when he arrived, a severely beaten Brown ran from the bushes where she was hiding and to the detective screaming "He's going to kill me, he's going to kill me", referring to Simpson. [155][156][157], The prosecution opened its case by calling LAPD 911 dispatcher Sharon Gilbert and playing a four-minute 9-1-1 call from Brown on January 1, 1989, in which she expressed fear that Simpson would physically harm her and Simpson himself is even heard in the background yelling at her and possibly hitting her as well. The keys were later found on Simpson when he was arrested for the murders of Brown and Ron Goldman. Simpson filed for divorce from his first wife in March 1979. [101] Simpson was booked at Parker Center and taken to Men's Central Jail; Cowlings was booked on suspicion of harboring a fugitive and held on $250,000 bail. His account is attacked in cross-examination", "Simpson Held After Wild Chase: He's Charged With Murder of Ex-Wife, Friend", "TV news chopper spotted O.J. [126], Participants in the case received much media coverage. Simpson, Brown and Goldman's DNA on a bloody glove found behind his home. [226] The team included noted defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian, Harvard appeals lawyer Alan Dershowitz, his student Robert Blasier, and Dean of Santa Clara University School of Law Gerald Uelmen. [257] The prosecution also noted the defense declined to challenge any of those results by testing the evidence themselves. Simpson Trial on Blood Drops Found at Crime Scene", "Months into Trial, State Begins Unveiling Crucial Blood Evidence", "Detective Tells of Trail of Blood at Simpson Home", "The Trial of O.J. The three sealed letters Simpson had written were left behind. A 2021 article in Metal Hammer described the song as "jaw-droppingly offensive". He also admitted the defense played the "race card", "from the bottom of the deck". The team also included F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Shawn Holley, Carl E. Douglas, and Gerald Uelmen. At around 6:20pm, a motorist in Orange County notified California Highway Patrol after seeing someone believed to be Simpson riding in a Bronco on the I-5 freeway heading north. He was previously married to Dionne Miller. Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Former University of Central Florida football player Otis Anderson Jr. was shot and killed in a double shooting that also left his mother hospitalized, police said. [193], LAPD criminalist and hair fiber expert Susan Brockbank testified on June 27, 1995, and FBI Special Agent and fiber expert Doug Deedrick testified on June 29, 1995, to the following findings:[201][202], On June 19, FBI shoeprint expert William J. Bodziak testified that the bloody shoeprints found at the crime scene and inside Simpson's Bronco were made from a rare and expensive pair of Bruno Magli Italian shoes. [60] The walkway leading to the stairs was covered in blood, but the soles of Brown's feet were clean; based on this evidence, investigators concluded that she was the first person to be killed and the intended target. Simpson will regain celebrity status", "Most Black People Now Think O.J. The defense alleged that the police had planted Brown's blood on the socks found in Simpson's bedroom. [360][361][362] Opponents then tried to pass Proposition 54 to effectively conceal the impact of prop 209[363][364] but voters rejected that measure. 1988). [318][319][320], During cross-examination by Bailey,[321] Fuhrman denied that he had used the word "nigger" to describe African Americans in the ten years prior to his testimony. Trice died due to injuries suffered during a college football game against the University of Minnesota on October 6, 1923. Simpson Minimum Maintenance: Fitness for Men, which demonstrated that Simpson was anything but frail. Clark called the tapes "the biggest red herring there ever was". [257][266][267][268], During cross-examination, Dr. Gerdes admitted there was no evidence that cross-contamination had occurred and that he was only testifying to "what might occur and not what actually did occur". Christopher Darden published In Contempt in 1998 about the trial. He accepted that the victims' blood was in the Bronco and Simpson's blood was at the crime scene and neither was due to contamination. The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court starting in 1994, in which O. J. Simpson, a former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor, was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. [29][30][31] Brown signed a prenuptial agreement and was prohibited from working while married. At first, Simpson claimed he cut his finger accidentally while in Chicago after learning of Brown's death. Measuring the distance between the prints indicated that the assailant walked rather than ran away from the scene. Former NFL player, wife shot to death by 16-year-old son, police say. Confidential | News | Dallas Observer", "How the OJ Simpson Case Helped Fight Domestic Violence", "Nicole Simpson, in Death, Lifting Domestic Violence to the Forefront as National Issue", "Covering Domestic Violence: How the O.J. [302] The defense suggested the reason why Fung did not collect the blood is because it was not there that day; Scheck showed a blown-up photograph taken of the back gate on June 13 and he admitted he could not see it in the photograph. [citation needed] Congressmen[who?] [412] Presiding Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki did not allow the trial to be televised, did not sequester the jury, and prohibited the defense from alleging racism by the LAPD and from condemning the crime lab. He also conceded that nothing happened during "packaging and shipping" that would affect the validity of the results at the two consulting labs. The knife was recovered and determined to be similar to the one the coroner said caused the stab wounds. Both of the victims, the two gloves, and the Blue knit cap worn by the killer had hair consistent with Simpson. He also shot and killed two air conditioning technicians who were working at the property. The police tracked calls placed by Simpson on his cell phone. Conservatives regardless of race or gender thought Simpson was guilty. [233] The defense also questioned the timeline, claiming the murders happened around 11:00 pm that night. On November 3, twelve jurors were seated with twelve alternates. That incident led to Simpson's arrest and eventual pleading of no contest to one count of domestic violence for which he received probation for one year. Cochran responded to Fuhrman's pleading the Fifth by accusing the other officers of being involved in a "cover-up" to protect Fuhrman and asked Judge Ito to suppress all of the evidence that Fuhrman found. defense expert disagrees with another", "Scheck Moves From Sidelines to Center Stage", "Simpson Defense Advances Police-Conspiracy Theory", "The O.J. [2] Though prosecutors argued that Simpson was implicated by a significant amount of forensic evidence, Simpson was ultimately acquitted of both counts of murder on October 3 of the same year. [69], The prosecution planned to present 62 separate incidents of domestic violence, including three previously unknown incidents Brown had documented in several letters she had written and placed in a bank safety deposit box. [256] The prosecution denied that contamination happened in the LAPD crime lab as well because the result would be a mixture of the "real killer(s)" DNA and Simpson's DNA but the results showed that only Simpson's DNA was present. [444], Saturday Night Live Weekend Update host Norm Macdonald frequently made jokes about O.J. Simpson: Week-by-week", FRONTLINE: the o.j. He noted the house was dark and nobody appeared to be home as he smoked a cigarette and made several calls to his boss to get Simpson's home phone number. [403][404] In May 2008, Mike Gilbert released his book How I Helped O.J. Where the gap emerged was among liberals with black liberals believing Simpson was innocent while white liberals thought he was guilty. The volume of DNA was so high that the defense conceded that it could not be explained by contamination in the lab, yet noted that it was unusual for that blood to have more DNA on it than the other samples collected at the crime scene, especially since it had been left exposed to the elements for several weeks and after the crime scene had supposedly been washed over. The nightly news broadcasts from the Big Three television networks gave more air time to the case than to the Bosnian War and the Oklahoma City bombing combined. Simpson Lyrics", "Opinion | Kendrick Lamar challenges how we talk about problematic Black men", "Gaming Detail: Duke Nukem Features A Famous OJ Simpson Moment", "OJ Simpson Acquittal Suit Arrives at Newseum in DC", "OJ Simpson Bronco is heading to Pigeon Forge", "An O.J. Daniel M. Petrocelli published Triumph of Justice: The final judgement of the Simpson Saga in 1998 and compares the criminal and civil trials. However, the prosecution never introduced it as evidence during the trial. Killed were Lesslie, 70, his wife Barbara Lesslie, 69, two of their grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie, and James Lewis, 38, an air conditioning technician. [406][407][408] Juror Lionel Cryer, who gave Simpson a Black Power salute after the verdict, said in retrospect he would render a guilty verdict. [351][352], Scholarly consensus is that the trial damaged race relations in America[353] and point to polling which shows that belief in Simpson's guilt depended on the race of the individual and not on the evidence against him. As both men wept, Simpson told McKay, "OK, Coach, I wont do anything stupid. Former American football star O.J. The prosecution responded that the Bronco had already been impounded by the time Vannatter returned and was not even at Rockingham.[308]. Simpson's Defense", "Former Manager Of Chicago Hotel Recalls Bloody Bedsheets, A Rude Simpson With", "Simpson Dreamed of Killing, Witness Says: Courts: Ex-officer says he is a longtime friend of the defendant. [63] They noted that all of the evidence samples were testable and that most of the DNA testing was done at the two consulting labs, not the LAPD crime lab where contamination supposedly happened. Police said Kazemi, 20, shot McNair in his left temple as he slept on his couch in the early hours of Saturday. Photo: Danny Karnik/AP/Shutterstock. Simpson confess maybe", "How Did Faye Resnick Get Famous? Vannatter denied planting Brown's blood on the socks. [16] A poll of Los Angeles County residents showed that most African-Americans thought that the "not guilty" verdict was justified, while the majority of Whites thought it was a racially motivated jury nullification[17][18] by the mostly African-American jury. At the Airport, prosecution said that Simpson opened the knapsack, removed the clothes, Bruno Magli shoes, and the murder weapon, and threw them in the trash before putting the knapsack in one of his suitcases and headed towards his flight. [54] The manager of Mezzaluna recounted that Brown's mother telephoned the restaurant at 9:37pm about a pair of lost eyeglasses. Simpson 'loves it', "O.J. [53] Brown and her children then went to Ben & Jerry's before returning to Brown's condominium in Bundy Drive, Brentwood. Simpson's Bronco chase and the call that 'saved his life', "The OJ Simpson White Ford Bronco Chase Map of Los Angeles", "O.J. Jim has the unique privilege of being one of the individuals who played in the 1972 undefeated Miami Dolphins team. Simpson Trial", "Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden on Jeffrey Epstein's Death", "Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts August 4, 1995", "Column: Barry Scheck on the O.J. 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