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1:32having them happen again in the future.
1:34But, I guess we'll jump right into the
1:35story. Today, we're going to be talking
1:37about O.J. Simpson and the murders of
1:39Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. This
1:42was a request from my mom, so I can't
1:44say no to my mom.
1:46So, we're going to talk about that. I
1:48will say that this story is a little bit
1:51in-depth and there's a lot of
1:54There's a
1:55very defined timeline of exactly what
1:58happened. So, we're just going to go
1:59through that. If you see me glancing
2:01down, I have a notebook full of notes,
2:04and so that's what I'm doing. I'm trying
2:05to make sure that I'm getting everything
2:07done accurately. So, let's jump into the
2:10video. Orenthal James Simpson, or O.J.
2:13Simpson, was born in San Francisco on
2:16July 9th of 1947.
2:19He was raised mostly by his mother as
2:21his parents got a divorce when he was
2:23pretty young. And O.J. did get into a
2:25little bit of trouble growing up. He was
2:27arrested a couple of times and did a
2:29stint in prison. His childhood
2:31sweetheart and his first wife,
2:33Marguerite, would say that he was a
2:34pretty terrible person during
2:37his teenage years. It wasn't until he
2:39met a man named Willie Mays, who was a
2:42baseball star. He's the one who
2:44encouraged O.J. to kind of get on the
2:47straight and narrow and work hard at his
2:49future and reform. It was after this
2:52that he decided to play football. So, he
2:55played football for his uh school, his
2:58high school, and it just kind of changed
3:00his life. He was a really, really
3:01talented football player. O.J. didn't
3:03really have the grades to be able to go
3:06to a bigger college. So, he enrolled at
3:09City College of San Francisco and played
3:11football for them. He was an amazing
3:14football player. He was breaking
3:16records. He was doing all of these
3:17things. And it was after he played
3:19football for this junior college for a
3:22while that he was starting to get some
3:24uh invitations from bigger colleges to
3:26come play for them. He was scouted by
3:29the University of Southern California,
3:31and that was um his child That was a
3:33college that he really enjoyed watching
3:35as he was growing up. And
3:38so, yeah, he went to go play for them.
3:40But not only was O.J. a really good
3:42football player, he was also an
3:43excellent track star. He was just
3:45extremely athletic, and he was very,
3:48very good at all of the things he he
3:50doing. After college, O.J. was recruited
3:52by the Buffalo Bills. He was the first
3:54draft pick and he was also paid one of
3:57the biggest contracts in the NFL. At the
4:00time, it was like $615,000
4:02paid over 5 years, I believe.
4:05And at the time, this was a massive,
4:07massive contract that wasn't given to
4:09anybody else. His football career was
4:12massively successful. Not only did he
4:14play for the Buffalo Bills, he also
4:16played for the San Francisco 49ers and
4:18he found major success in this.
4:21He found so much success though that he
4:23was even doing other deals. He had a
4:25like commercial deal with Hertz Car
4:27Rentals and he had a couple of acting
4:30gigs here and there. He was just I mean,
4:32he was really famous. He wasn't just
4:35you know, an athlete, he was also an
4:37actor. I mean, he had his hands in many
4:39different pots. He was very busy all the
4:41time. O.J. and his childhood
4:43sweet-sweetheart Marguerite married when
4:45O.J. was just 19 years old in 1967.
4:49They spent many years together and they
4:50had three children together and
4:52unfortunately, their youngest child
4:54would die at a very young age due to
4:56drowning. He drowned in a family pool.
4:58And I feel like this put a lot of stress
5:00on O.J. and Marguerite's relationship
5:03because when O.J. met Nicole Brown at a
5:08celebrity nightclub called the Daisy,
5:10this was a pretty exclusive nightclub.
5:12O.J. became infatuated with Nicole. He
5:15told all of his friends that one day he
5:17was going to marry this girl and they
5:19started dating in 1977.
5:21They started dating while Marguerite and
5:23O.J. were still together. Marguerite and
5:25O.J. had not gotten a divorce or
5:27anything like that. They were still
5:28together and Nicole and O.J. were dating
5:31and seeing each other. Marguerite and
5:33O.J. did get a divorce in 1979 and it
5:36was in 1985 that Nicole and O.J. would
5:39get married and have two children of
5:40their own. Nicole was born in Frankfurt,
5:43Germany and she was born on May 9th of
5:471959.
5:48Her father was an American serviceman
5:51and her mother was German and that's
5:53they met and then moved to California
5:55together. Nicole was described as an
5:58absolutely stunningly beautiful woman as
6:00you can see. She was very active and she
6:03loved spending time with her family. She
6:05was just a all around happy-go-lucky
6:08just a really good person that really
6:10enjoyed life. Many people would describe
6:13her as being really energetic and a lot
6:15of fun to be around. When Nicole moved
6:18to Los Angeles, she moved there to work
6:20on photography. She was described as an
6:22excellent photographer. She just had an
6:24eye for things and she was living with a
6:26man. They moved into a studio apartment
6:28where they were able to live together,
6:30split the bills. It was a completely
6:32platonic relationship. There was nothing
6:34between the two. They were simply
6:35working together to build this
6:36photography degree and that's when
6:39Nicole met OJ at the Daisy where she was
6:41waitressing. And right off the bat,
6:43things seemed pretty hot and heavy
6:45between OJ and Nicole. They spent a lot
6:47of time together and
6:49on their first date, Nicole had come
6:51back to her apartment that she shared
6:53with this man and her jeans or her
6:55shorts had been ripped and this man
6:58noticed it and Nicole said that OJ had
7:01just been excited and he was a little
7:03aggressive but it was nothing to worry
7:04about but I think that really would have
7:06been the first red flag for many of
7:08Nicole's friends. But Nicole and OJ
7:11seemed pretty hot and heavy and they
7:12continued their relationship and would
7:14get married in 1985.
7:16They had two children together. Their
7:18names were Sydney and Justin and they
7:20really seemed to have this perfect
7:22all-American life going on.
7:24But things were not exactly that behind
7:26closed doors. There were
7:28multiple instances of DV that happened
7:31in the house with OJ being the aggressor
7:34in the situation. In fact, police had
7:36been called over nine times to the
7:37Simpson house
7:39for these DV situations. OJ was arrested
7:43once in 1989 for DV and he pled no
7:47contest and Nicole
7:50dropped the charges after her parents
7:52kind of convinced her to reconcile with
7:54OJ. From what I understand, her parents
7:57had a deal going on with OJ to make them
7:59some money, too, and so her parents
8:01really wanted her to reconcile
8:03for those kinds of reasons. I'm not I
8:05could be wrong on that. Um but that's
8:07kind of what it sounded like to me that
8:08they
8:10there was a whole lot more to the
8:11situation.
8:13And Nicole agreed. She decided to drop
8:15the charges and reconcile with OJ. But
8:18Nicole did finally file for divorce in
8:201992. But they would once again
8:23reconcile and then split up soon after
8:26after another pretty aggressive
8:30pretty awful instance of DV. Nicole
8:33would move out of the home that they
8:34shared and into her own place and she
8:36was given alimony and child support, I'm
8:38sure, to be able to take care of her and
8:40her children. And so she moved about 6
8:43minutes away from where OJ lived. They
8:45both lived in Brentwood, California.
8:47Nicole seemed pretty happy about this
8:49move. She seemed excited to move on with
8:51her life and start a new chapter and all
8:53those things. So
8:55um this is that's what makes what
8:57happened next all the more devastating.
8:59So now I'm going to take you through the
9:01timeline of the murders. This all
9:03happened on June 12th of 1994. I'm going
9:06to be glancing down a lot just to make
9:08sure that I get the full picture
9:11correctly. So OJ and Nicole's daughter
9:14had a recital that evening and both
9:15attended and so Nicole kind of went
9:17about her day as normal. She went and
9:19stopped and got flowers for her
9:20daughter. And it was after the recital
9:23that Nicole and her children and
9:26some of her family and friends decided
9:28to go to a restaurant called Mezzaluna.
9:30After dinner, they went back to Nicole's
9:32house and that's when Nicole's mother
9:34realized that she had forgotten her
9:36glasses at Mezzaluna. So, they called
9:38the restaurant and they asked if they
9:40had seen the glasses and they had and
9:42that's when Ronald Goldman, who worked
9:44at the restaurant, volunteered to bring
9:45the glasses to Nicole's house. Now,
9:49Nicole and Ronald were had become
9:51friends over time. They had become
9:53pretty close over the recent months and
9:55stuff like that, but from what I also
9:57understand is that their relationship
9:58was completely platonic. There was
10:00nothing going on between the two, but
10:01they were friends. So, Ronald leaves the
10:04restaurant Mezzaluna to go to Nicole's
10:06house around 9:50 p.m. From 9:00 to
10:099:30, O.J. and a friend that was staying
10:12with him, this was Brian Kaelin and he
10:15went by Kato.
10:17Brian Kato was staying with O.J. and
10:20they had gone to McDonald's to have
10:22dinner and they stayed there from 9:00
10:23to 9:30. They arrived back at O.J.'s
10:26house about 9:45 that evening. Then
10:29around 10:15, neighbors of Nicole would
10:31hear a dog barking aggressively.
10:34Wouldn't stop barking, they just kept
10:36hearing this dog bark. At 10:25, the
10:40limo driver pulled up with a limo to
10:42O.J.'s house. He was supposed to take
10:44O.J. to get on a flight at 11:45. O.J.
10:47was taking a red eye to Chicago. So, he
10:50was there to pick O.J. up and take him
10:52to the airport. At 10:40 p.m., Kato
10:55heard three loud bumps coming from
10:57outside the guest house that he was
10:59staying in on O.J.'s property. The limo
11:02driver had been waiting outside for
11:04several minutes and he kept buzzing the
11:06intercom. He buzzed the intercom from
11:0810:40 to 10:55 and couldn't get an
11:11answer from anyone at all. Then just
11:13before 11:00 p.m., the limo driver sees
11:16a shadowy figure that he sees walking up
11:19the driveway towards the house. He
11:21describes this shadowy figure as being 6
11:23ft tall and about 200 lbs. This time
11:26when he buzzes the intercom again, O.J.
11:29answers. O.J. says that he's really
11:30sorry, he overslept and he was in the
11:32shower, but he'll be ready to go in just
11:34a couple of minutes. OJ did make his
11:37flight to Chicago. He was able to get on
11:39the 11:45 flight and he flew to Chicago
11:42that night. It was at 12:10 a.m. that
11:46Nicole and Ronald's bodies were found.
11:48Nicole's dog had led people to the scene
11:52of the crime and that's where they were
11:54found. They had both been stabbed pretty
11:56violently and uh it was a it was a very
11:59gruesome scene. Investigators were
12:01called to the scene immediately and they
12:03began investigating. They found several
12:05pieces of very interesting evidence.
12:08They found a bloody footprint, a knitted
12:11hat, and also a glove that was covered
12:14in blood. After investigating the crime
12:17scene for a little bit, they would make
12:19their way to OJ's house, which was about
12:216 minutes away, to speak with OJ. They
12:23didn't realize that OJ wasn't there
12:25anymore and so they called OJ and let
12:28him know that Nicole was dead and what's
12:30weird about this phone call is that when
12:32they told OJ that when Nicole was dead,
12:34his first reaction was who killed her.
12:38And I find this really strange because
12:40there's so many ways that she could have
12:41possibly died. It could have been a car
12:43accident, it could have been I mean,
12:45there's multiple things, it could have
12:46been a medical thing. So, the fact that
12:48he asked who killed her is kind of
12:50strange to me. But, OJ did volunteer to
12:53fly back to LA to be interviewed. He did
12:56this completely voluntary, he wasn't
12:58forced or anything like that, and he did
12:59fly back to LA and he was interrogated
13:02for 3 hours and he was eventually
13:04released after this interrogation. Now,
13:06let's get into some of the evidence.
13:08OJ's DNA was found at on the glove at
13:11the scene of the crime. There was also a
13:14matching glove found on OJ's property, a
13:18glove that matched the glove that was
13:19found at Nicole's crime scene. This
13:22glove was found behind the guest house
13:24where OJ's friend was staying and had
13:26heard the three loud thumps on the wall.
13:29Both of these gloves had blood on them
13:31that belonged to O.J., Nicole, and
13:33Ronald Goldman. There was also a trail
13:36of blood on O.J.'s property that kind of
13:39led up back behind the guest house and
13:41into his house. There was also some
13:43blood found in his white Bronco.
13:46But, there wasn't like a ton of blood.
13:48It wasn't like this massive crime scene
13:50there, but there was some blood found in
13:53O.J.'s Bronco and on his property. The
13:55knitted hat that was found at the scene
13:57of the crime also had hairs that matched
14:00O.J. So, there's that. And they also
14:04found a sock in O.J.'s house that was
14:07covered in Nicole's blood. The coroner
14:09was able to find the murder weapon or
14:12what kind of knife had it caused the
14:14wounds on Nicole and Ronald's bodies.
14:18And O.J. had just recently bought a
14:19knife that matched that
14:22murder weapon. The bloody footprint that
14:24was found at the scene was the same size
14:26of shoe that O.J. wear, and it also and
14:28also the tread pattern that was on the
14:30shoe matched a shoe that O.J. wore. Now,
14:34O.J. would later say that he wouldn't
14:36wear those shoes. His exact words were,
14:37"I wouldn't wear those ugly ass shoes."
14:39But, as you'll see here, this is his
14:41reaction to looking at a paparazzi photo
14:45um with those exact shoes on. And I find
14:48his reaction
14:50almost comical. I don't want it like not
14:52that the situation is funny at all, but
14:54I find his reaction almost comical
14:56because it's so oh, I got caught. But,
14:58this reaction came out later in the
15:01civil trial, not in the murder trial.
15:03But, there are also some major flaws in
15:05this case. Evidence was not handled
15:08properly at all. In some cases
15:10In some cases, it wasn't packaged
15:12properly. And then in other cases, it
15:14was left in a van that would get really,
15:17really hot. And the gloves that were
15:19found were also frozen and unfrozen,
15:22frozen and unfrozen several times. And
15:24some people think that this really
15:26affected the evidence. And the gloves
15:28being frozen and unfrozen multiple times
15:31will be very important later. But just a
15:33few days later on June 17th of 1994, OJ
15:37would be indicted on murder charges. And
15:40this would lead to the infamous chase
15:43with his Bronco. OJ went on not a
15:46high-speed chase, but he went on a chase
15:49and one of his friends was driving his
15:50white Bronco and they were driving down
15:52LA freeways and OJ had a
15:56gun to his head and he was threatening
15:58to hurt himself. He had even written a
16:00suicide note saying that thanking
16:03everyone who had brought him this far
16:04and then also declaring his innocence
16:06when it came to Nicole's murder. The
16:08chase would finally come to an end at
16:10OJ's house and he would be taken into
16:12custody. In the Bronco, they found a
16:14fake mustache, um,
16:16a fake beard and mustache type thing and
16:19also glue to put that on OJ's passport.
16:23And it's
16:25I'm not quite sure what led to this
16:27whole Bronco high-speed chase situation,
16:30but either way
16:32OJ was taken into custody after this.
16:35And that's when the trial began. This
16:36trial was very, very public. Everyone
16:40from all over the world was watching
16:42this trial. And OJ had some kind of like
16:44a dream team when it came to lawyers. He
16:47hand It seems like he handpicked these
16:49lawyers. And Robert Kardashian was one
16:51of his lawyers. Johnny Cochran was also
16:54one of his lawyers and they were kind of
16:56a force to be reckoned with when it came
16:58to OJ's trial. I think it's important to
17:01understand that during this time there
17:03was a lot of tension, race racial
17:05tension between the LAPD and um,
17:08people of color in this area. 1992, the
17:13racial riots were happening because of
17:15Rodney King's beating um, beating and it
17:18was it was brutal. What had happened to
17:19Rodney King was absolutely
17:22awful. And the police officers that were
17:24involved in this were acquitted and this
17:27started riots throughout Los Angeles and
17:30so there was a lot of tension still
17:32based on that. There was a lot of
17:34skepticism on LAPD and there was a lot
17:37of criticism, rightfully so. Um, this
17:40criticism was absolutely 100% earned and
17:44there was a lot of racism on the force.
17:47During the trial, OJ's defense would
17:49talk to the lead investigator and he did
17:52not do things completely correctly. He
17:55was the first person to get to OJ's home
17:57and he was the one who found the glove
17:59and the bloody trail and all that stuff
18:01and he found it completely alone.
18:03The way he did this was by jumping the
18:05fence. This is very illegal. Police
18:07absolutely need a search warrant to come
18:09into anybody's home, but he did that. He
18:11jumped over the fence and into OJ's home
18:14and he was the one who found the other
18:16glove by himself. There were no other
18:18witnesses. He was also caught on tape
18:22using racial slurs pretty aggressively.
18:26And so OJ's defense team said that he
18:30had just set sights on OJ because OJ was
18:33a black man. The jury was made up of
18:35eight black people, one Hispanic person,
18:38one white person and two people of mixed
18:41race. On top of using a racial motive
18:44towards the case,
18:46um, and and I do want to make this very,
18:48very clear. The criticism that was on
18:50the LAPD at the time was
18:53earned. They 100% deserved the criticism
18:56that they were getting. The officers
18:58that were acquitted for the beating of
19:00Rodney King should never have been
19:02acquitted. They should have absolutely
19:04gone to prison for the rest of their
19:05lives. So I want to make this clear. But
19:08racial motivation was something that was
19:10heavily used in OJ's defense. They also
19:13had OJ try on the gloves. This was
19:15something that the prosecuting team was
19:17really against. They didn't want OJ
19:19trying on the gloves because it was
19:21evidence, but OJ was able to try on the
19:24gloves and they were too small. And
19:26Johnny Cochran's famous line came out of
19:28this and he said, "If it If they don't
19:30fit, you must acquit." And with the
19:32gloves not fitting OJ, they really were
19:34hammering down that OJ had not done
19:35these murders. After the trial came to a
19:38close, it would took the take the jury
19:40only 4 hours to come back with a verdict
19:42of not guilty. There was a lot of
19:44emotions when it came to this verdict. A
19:46lot of emotions. There were a lot of
19:47people that were very happy that OJ had
19:50been found innocent and there were a lot
19:52of people who thought that this was just
19:54an atrocity, that something had gone
19:56terribly, terribly wrong. But there
19:58would be a civil suit that would come
20:00after this
20:01from both Nicole and Ronald's family and
20:04OJ would be found culpable for murder
20:06and he would have to pay out 33.5
20:09million dollars in damages to the
20:11families. So, that's kind of wraps up
20:14the story of OJ Simpson. This story
20:17still peaks interest for a lot of
20:18people. There's also still some pretty
20:20heavy emotions that come with this case.
20:23So, I'd really love to know your
20:24thoughts. I know there are some people
20:26who have discussed other suspects
20:29when it comes to the OJ trial.
20:31Some people believe that OJ's son,
20:33Jason, was actually the one who did
20:35this. I guess he had some mental health
20:38issues that he wasn't dealing with
20:39exactly properly
20:41and he had been accused of attacking two
20:44ex-girlfriends with a knife and so there
20:46is a famous private investigator who
20:48believes that Jason is actually the one
20:50who committed the murders and OJ was
20:52just there to help protect his son.
20:54There is another conspiracy theory that
20:56another serial killer committed the
20:58murders, but that he had actually been
21:00hired by OJ to steal back some earrings
21:03from Nicole and if Nicole got in the
21:06way, he was supposed to do what he saw
21:08fit and
21:10take care of the problem. Years later,
21:12OJ would spend some time in prison for
21:14kidnapping and robbery. Uh OJ thought
21:18that some people had stolen some sports
21:20memorabi- memorabilia from him and he
21:22decided to go take it back and he was
21:24arrested for that crime and he spent 9
21:27years in prison for that. But then he
21:29was released in 2017 and he's made a
21:32couple appearances on Twitter and those
21:34types of things. But this case still
21:36sparks a lot of emotions and I'm
21:37genuinely curious. Do you think OJ is
21:40innocent or do you think he is guilty?
21:43I personally
21:46don't know. Whenever we see cases like
21:48this, like Casey Anthony or OJ, and you
21:51see these really big trials and you
21:53think the verdict didn't come out fair,
21:57there's always a part of me that
21:58believes is there something that we
22:00missed just watching? Is there something
22:02that we missed? Knowing what we know,
22:05did the jury know something that we
22:06didn't that led them to
22:08this decision? That's always my first
22:11thought. I know with Casey Anthony, I
22:13had the same exact thought. I'm like,
22:14okay, did we miss something watching
22:17this? Because to me it was so obvious
22:19that OJ was guilty, but for them to come
22:22back with the innocent verdict, it makes
22:24me wonder like, I wonder, okay, did I
22:26miss something? Is there something
22:28that I didn't pick up or whatever? And
22:30so I really am curious about your
22:31thoughts on this uh case. Let Let me
22:34know down in the comments. I'd love to
22:35have a conversation with you down there.
22:37Sometimes it takes me a couple of days
22:38to get back to comments on there, but
22:41you know, life.
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25:27Mhm.

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