O.J. Simpson dead at 76

[chadly82]

"They" are full of ****.

The area was dark and very small. OJ had the element of surprise and more than enough strength to almost decapitate his ex-wife.

His blood was found from the crime scene, to the gate, in the bronco, and ultimately to his ******* bedroom.

I drove to the crime scene and then to OJs house. It was almost literally around the block.

****** was a murderer who set up a shell company in his kid's names to write a book about killing their mother.

**** OJ

Agreed, about 7 years ago my wife and I visited her aunt and uncle in Brentwood and I got to see the lot where OJs house was. It was torn down and under construction I believe at the time. OJ was a large man and incredibly strong. All the theories around it were also very confusing as to how they come up with some of them.

 

[nfrine]

Already heard the funeral procession will be lead by this:

Is that Curt driving the white hearse?

 

[Cyhig]

 

[madguy30]

The trial was over the moment the prosecution had him put on the bloody glove, only for it to be far too small. After that it no longer mattered whether he was actually innocent or guilty, or whether a second glove of the exact same brand, style, and size as stated by the tag fit like, well, a glove - the entire world saw that the glove that the murderer wore soaked in the victims’ blood didn’t fit. The prosecution themselves provided all the reasonable doubt the defense would ever need.

I have no doubt he was guilty as sin - but they could never convict him after that.

Wasn't it a deal where they had him not take his arthritis meds so his hands would expand and not fit?

 

[NYCYFan]

How was Bill Cosby acting white? The Cosby show family didn't act white. WTH? Not every black person or family has to "act" a certain way.

There was the whole ridiculous idea that a black couple that had a lot of money and were a lawyer and doctor were acting white, that it was an "Uncle Tom" type of family. A shame that people thought/still think that way but they did.

 

[LeadersWifeLife]

I'll never forget sitting in the den in 6th floor Larch when the verdict was released. What a weird day

 

[jdoggivjc]

I remember my mom believing he was innocent. She has multiple PHDs and is a long-tenured professor at Iowa State so certainly incredibly smart. But some people believed him for whatever reason.

I have an easier time believing what’s-her name who murdered her kids (Casey?) from 15 years ago was innocent than I do OJ… and I don’t believe for a second she was innocent either, but it was certainly fun watching the media burn her at the stake, so to speak, throughout the entire trial, only for her to be found not guilty and then switch to the injustice of it all for months afterward.

 

[Trice]

I remember my mom believing he was innocent. She has multiple PHDs and is a long-tenured professor at Iowa State so certainly incredibly smart. But some people believed him for whatever reason.

That seems so obviously wrong now, with hindsight, but I can kinda sorta imagine someone getting sucked into the day-to-day minutiae of that trial - which went on for eleven months - and walking away with some kind of doubt about his guilt. Which I guess is kind of the point of all that lawyering - counting on people who miss the forest for the trees.

 

[KnappShack]

Wasn't it a deal where they had him not take his arthritis meds so his hands would expand and not fit?

And he put on a latex glove before trying on the murder glove.

There was no chance that glove was going on

 

[jdoggivjc]

Wasn't it a deal where they had him not take his arthritis meds so his hands would expand and not fit?

I have no idea, if so, the defense earned every single cent they collected from OJ.

 

[madguy30]

I'll never forget sitting in the den in 6th floor Larch when the verdict was released. What a weird day

Was in a local pizza place during 'the chase' and in school when they called it.

All very weird things.

 

[bustamoveisu]

Darn, I planned to invite him over for T-giving. Heard he was good at carving white meat.

 

[madguy30]

One of my most bizarre memories was that after his acquittal, a classmate showed up at school having had their picture taken with OJ after bumping into him somewhere on a trip. As if he were just any regular old celebrity.

I also remember the anticipation of watching the verdict live in class.

I have family that lived in then-North Hollywood and for a long time people would go to his house and take pictures.

Society's addiction to dysfunction has many building blocks.

 

[NorthCyd]

I'll never forget sitting in the den in 6th floor Larch when the verdict was released. What a weird day

I was in high school geometry and the teacher rolled in a TV and turned it on so we could all watch. It was wild.

 

[TXCyclones]

The ending of the cast of characters is interesting. Maybe there is a god?

OJ - cancer
Johnny Cocharan - brain tumor
Bobby Kardashian - esophageal cancer
F. Lee Bailey - cancer
Alan Dershowitz - career on life support after being an Epstein-associated rapist

One outlier
Robert Shapiro - still alive, but son OD'd in 2005

 

[madguy30]

I have no idea, if so, the defense earned every single cent they collected from OJ.

Iirc they also leaned into the case being fresh off of the Rodney King stuff and played that to a T.

 

[nfrine]

OJ got almost as much media attention as CC did...

 

[SMG]

My first date with my now wife was the night OJ was was driven around in the white Ford Bronco. I'll never forget that.

 

[jdoggivjc]

That seems so obviously wrong now, with hindsight, but I can kinda sorta imagine someone getting sucked into the day-to-day minutiae of that trial - which went on for eleven months - and walking away with some kind of doubt about his guilt. Which I guess is kind of the point of all that lawyering - counting on people who miss the forest for the trees.

It’s why I really hate the idea of the media covering these trials the way they do for entertainment/ratings purposes - because if the defense is good enough, for some it’s really easy to gain a sympathy to the person being tried.

 

[demoncore1031]

My brother shaved "OJ" into the back of his head in huge letters during the trial. He also once had a Mohawk named Jeffrey that he wrote a suicide note for when he shaved off the mohawk...

I wonder if he will shave OJ into his hair again now.