O.J. makes stunning revelation about the bloody glove in unearthed interview
For those who still have doubts about O.J. Simpson’s involvement in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, this might put you over the fence.
The NFL Hall of Famer was found not guilty of the murders in the 1995 “Trial of the Century” in spite of a mountain of evidence against him.
Perhaps the most damning items were a pair of blood-soaked leather gloves. One of them was found at the murder scene outside Nicole Simpson’s townhouse. The other was discovered at Simpson’s house in Brentwood, California, according to police.
The prosecution presented evidence that both gloves contained DNA from Simpson, Brown and Goldman.
Simpson’s all-star defense team questioned the Los Angeles Police Department’s handling of evidence and suggested the Brentwood glove was planted by detectives.
Leaving nothing to chance, the lawyers also said the gloves weren’t Simpson’s.
Attorney Johnnie Cochran famously had the former Buffalo Bill try on the gloves in court, and after Simpson theatrically couldn’t pull them all the way onto his hand, Cochran told jurors, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
The jury did so, shocking the millions of Americans who had watched the trial on television.
In 1997, however, Simpson lost a multimillion-dollar civil suit filed by the families of the victims.
Several years later, the cash-strapped Simpson wrote a book titled “If I Did It” in which he explained — hypothetically — how he would have committed the murders.
To promote the book, he sat down for an interview with his publisher, Judith Regan, in 2006 and expounded upon how he would have killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, with help from a companion named “Charlie.” But the program never aired because of a firestorm of controversy over the project.
The interview was kept under wraps for 12 years, but Fox repackaged it and broadcast it Sunday night as a two-hour special with the title “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?”
In the footage that aired, Simpson appeared to cross over from painting a hypothetical scenario to recounting what actually happened several times, slipping up with language like “I remember” and “I was.”
At one point, he seemed to admit dropping the bloody glove at the murder scene.
“I had no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have, because they found a glove there,” Simpson said.
He also talked about encountering Goldman.
“This guy kind of got into a karate thing,” Simpson said. “And I said, ‘Well, you think you can kick my ass?’ And I remember I grabbed the knife … and to be honest after that I don’t remember, except I’m standing there and there’s all kind of stuff around.”
“What kind of stuff?” he was asked.
“Blood and stuff,” Simpson responded.
Christopher Darden, one of the prosecutors in Simpson’s murder trial, was part of a panel Fox convened for the show, and he had a strong reaction to Simpson’s words.
“I think he confessed to murder,” Darden said.
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