Died OJ Simpsona man who may be remembered as one of the NFL’s great idols but whose biography will forever be marked as a murderer by the NFL public United States of America. In 1997 it was declared guilty of murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brownand of Ronald Goldmann. Both were found stabbed to death on his doorstep on June 12, 1994.
Nicole and Orenthal James Simpson were married on February 2, 1985, five years after he retired from American football, a sport that saw him play for the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers, being named Most Valuable Player of the 1973 season The couple had two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson and Justin Ryan Simpson.
The marriage lasted seven yearsduring which Simpson was investigated several times Domestic violence. Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
On June 12, 1994, Brown and a young man named Ronald Goldman were found lifeless at the door of the duplex where he lived. The woman had been stabbed several times in her head and neck.
Ronald Goldman’s sister’s reaction when OJ Simpson was found ‘not guilty’ (AP).Detectives went to Simpson’s property in Rockingham to inform him that his ex-wife had been murdered. There they found a white Ford Bronco with blood inside and out. They couldn’t find him and, when they left the house, the former player fled.
The authorities considered this act as an admission of guilt and alerted all citizens. They spread information about their vehicles, until a person driving on the highway saw a white Ford Bronco, saw it driving there.
Nicole Brown was murdered on June 12, 1994 (Reuter).He notified the authorities, who with 20 cars and 9 helicopters organized a mega operation to stop him. The chase was broadcast live by networks such as ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, which managed to film it 95 million viewers nationally and live.
The chase live. It was broadcast on many television networks (AP).When they managed to arrest him, the Los Angeles Superior Court ordered the trial to take place in the city center and not in Santa Monica, where the crime had taken place. They call “The Judgment of the Century” due to its popularity and became an episode remembered as part of 1990s pop culture.
The process lasted approximately 9 months. Simpson was declared “not guilty” and released when no conclusive evidence appeared against him.
However, in a civil trial in 1997 he was found guilty of being the perpetrator of the double murder and sentenced to pay compensation of 33.5 million dollars for relatives of his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman. But he didn’t go to prison.
Simpson later went to prison for a crime committed in 2007, when, aided by five other men, he burglarized a Las Vegas hotel room to steal some collectibles. He spent 9 years in prison and was later released on parole.
O. J Simpson with his lawyers during the trial (AP).In 2018, an interview by journalist Judith Regan with OJ Simpson carried out in 2006 for the Fox network came to light, in which there was he confessed frightening details about the crime of Brown.
The former American football star used a hypothetical version to tell what happened the night of the crime, but he got carried away by the story and started talking in first person about the moment of the murders.
On the occasion of the promotion of the book “If I Did it”, OJ Simpson explained in his “hypothetical version” part of the crime: “Everything was covered, it would be covered in blood. It was horrible. It was absolutely terrible. Forget everything you believe, because I’m the only one who knows what happened“.
Simpson lived in Las Vegas, Nevada (AP).“I don’t think anyone could be killed like that without being covered in blood. We all saw those disturbing photos afterwards,” the former NFL star added.
Source: Clarin
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