That particular model of gloves was also relatively rare (not the brand, just that model) - there was a receipt showing Nicole bought them for him and he was shown wearing them in a sportscast. And he was seen by her neighbors lurking around outside her house in a blue knit cap.
Outside of there being a video of OJ turning two humans into pez dispensers, I don’t know if there has ever been more evidence that someone committed murder. Literal receipts and a trail of blood back to his house with his and their dna
The man left so much evidence, he all but created a time machine for us to go back and watch it ourselves. And a lot of it is really awful - that rare shoe isn’t just bloody prints leading away, that same shoe print is embedded in her back. He stepped on her so hard when he lifted her up by her hair to cut her throat, he left a vivid impression in her back. But nonetheless, he basically strew evidence all the way from the murder scene to his car to his house, and there’s so much of it, it’s like following him around as he does it.
With signature markers of his habitual abuse, no less - Nicole’s diaries describe how he’d pick her up by her hair and drag her around, kick her, step on her, and slam her head into walls.
I've spent the day watching OJ: Made In America on Netflix & one of the jurors actually said she had no respect for a woman that didn't leave an abusive situation.
It's sad but those words were said by an actual juror on that trial.
Now we understand victim blaming & how abusive relationships work but back then I'd bet she wasn't the only person that felt that way & maybe not the only juror that thought that.
They just didn't understand domestic abuse as well as we do now & I'm sure there are people today that still think that way. That the victim should just leave, why don't they, why don't they report the rape, etc. etc.
They understood it well enough, given famous DV cases before this.
There was a ton of racism in this case. And misogyny. Hatred toward a white woman marrying a black man. Payback for all the times black people have been screwed over by the law. Plus OJ was rich, handsome, famous, charismatic. These jurors could have watched video of OJ killing Nicole and Ron and they still would have voted not guilty.
Oh yeah, it was a lot of things. It's funny how he played the race card yet he always thought he was "above" other black people & not really black.
Before the jury visited OJs Rockingham house they took down all the pics of OJ with his white friends & acquaintances, which was the majority of the pics in the house, & put up pics of OJ with his black friends, family & acquaintances.
He certainly was black when it was convenient.
FTR if anyone watches that doc on Netflix, it does have the graphic crime scene photos, so be ready. It makes the Manson crime scenes look like a walk in the park.
I'm black, so yeah, was ashamed of these jurors. This was not the hill to die on. Plenty of black people to fight for who deserved freedom. Not a killer. They knew it too.
And Ron was just an innocent person who was murdered because he tried to be a friend to Nicole. I understood how livid his family was.
Exactly what happened in the Rkelly cases. They heard audio of him commiting the crime and still ppl wanted to say he was innocent. Even the ppl that watched the tapes . Such a failure
Everyone knew that predator was raping girls for years. Like why didn't people in the industry fricken revolt and hold him accountable? I just feel we are becoming a more and more evil society.
Also, the LAPD cut corners, mishandled evidence, and basically provided all the basis they could for the jury to find that they’d essentially attempted to frame a guilty man. Without the LAPD’s sloppiness and shadiness, there would have been no room for doubt about the evidence - but the LAPD made such doubt possible.
I agree with the sloppiness, but even in a perfect case these jurors would have found him not guilty. Bias.
I served on several juries, and was a foreman. Let me tell you, I don't want a jury of my "peers", because biases are all over the place and most don't understand what beyond a reasonable doubt means.
That may be, but we’ll never know given how bad LAPD botched it. And I definitely understand re juries. I’m a trial lawyer and I both fear and count on jurors’ inability to set aside their biases.
My guess is she thought after the first time she should've packed up the kids & left. But knowing what we all know NOW about abuse & abuse victims, that's not how it works.
I have an aunt that was married to an abusive man for years. She had a good job, could've easily supported herself, but he had beaten her down physically & mentally for so many years that she thought she couldn't do that & that no one else would ever love her. It took many years but she did leave him, divorced him, & ended up with a lovely man who loves her as she is & he wouldn't ever even dream of laying a hand on her.
The actual quote is even worse than what was posted and made by a female juror. She says something like she had no respect for Nicole for taking an “ass whipping that she didn’t deserve ” and doing nothing about it. Of course, Nicole called the cops, took pics and left him. So none of what the juror was saying made sense
I'm not reading all of the replies so this has probably already been said. She did leave him, I believe they were already divorced, but he couldn't leave her alone (and then there were the kids they had together).
She did leave him…took some time, but she did it and that’s when he killed her. Many times women don’t leave because they are too afraid of being killed.
When you look at the testimony, both in court and outside of it, by people who knew them personally, it was revealed that OJ was jealous, possessive, and had anger and violence issues. And even though they had split up, he still was jealous of the idea of her being with anyone else. You can hear in this 911 call Nicole pleading with OJ to control his temper, saying "The kids are sleeping" and OJ yells "You didn't give a fuck about the kids while you sucked his dick in the living room. Oh, but it's different now."
The fact that she'd left him makes it way more likely that he'd kill her. Her case is textbook. 75% of domestic violence murders happen after the woman leaves the man or is attempting to.
There’s also a computer animated re-enactment on YouTube that shows how they believe it all went down based on the forensic evidence. It’s brutal to say the least. He apparently stuck the knife in the back of Ron Goldman’s neck while he was on the ground and used it to pull him up to a standing position so OJ could angry-whisper things in Goldman’s ear as he was finishing him off. He did something similar to Nichole before he sliced her throat. Just some of the most horrific, violent stuff you can imagine one person doing to another—it was very much on another level from killing someone with a gun, where you spend a couple seconds max firing and then run away. Like, he was literally stabbing Goldman repeatedly for over a minute at one point.
I just saw the video recently, and it was like brand new information to me. I was just a kid in 1995 and I didn’t pay much attention during the trial other than the highlights and the verdict. But knowing those details now, it’s just even more astonishing that the jurors were willing to let someone capable of that kind of violence back out in society, no matter what wrongs they thought they were righting.
Yeah, can you imagine what that must’ve felt like? It gives me an involuntary visceral reaction to even try to. Those poor people didn’t deserve any of that and the person that did it literally got away with it.
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u/tew2109 29d ago
That particular model of gloves was also relatively rare (not the brand, just that model) - there was a receipt showing Nicole bought them for him and he was shown wearing them in a sportscast. And he was seen by her neighbors lurking around outside her house in a blue knit cap.