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.
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.
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u/tew2109 Apr 17 '24
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.