“I want to put our family back together. I want our kids to grow up with their parents. I thought I’d be happy raising Sydney and Justin by myself since we didn’t see too much of you anyway.” (Simpson). “On June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside Brown 's Bundy Drive condo in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Evidence found and collected at the scene led police to suspect that Simpson was the murderer.” (Ferrell). O.J. Simpson was as charming and deceiving as they come. A true famous figure in the public’s eye has to be calm and collective; however, O.J.’s subconscious came out more throughout his marriage with Nicole Brown Simpson. “You beat me up, O.J. I won’t live my life wondering where the …show more content…
(Bruce). Up until the age of five Simpson developed rickets, which is a disease in children typically caused by vitamin D deficiency. This disease typically results in bow legs, and O.J. had to wear braces on his legs. Later on in his teenage years he joined a street gang called the Persian Warriors and was briefly incarcerated at the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center. (CNN). After that he came back to attend high school in San Francisco and that’s where his football career began. Without a doubt something everybody knew about Simpson was that he could play football with the best of them. He was an All American athlete among several other things. He was named NFL Player of the Year in 1973 and played in six pro-bowls. He later was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. (Brennan). In the year of 1967 Simpson married his first wife Marguerite L. Whitley, he was nineteen at the time. Together they had Arnelle L. Simpson, Jason L. Simpson, and Aaren Lashone Simpson. In August 1979, five months after the couple divorced, Aaren drowned in the family 's swimming pool a month before her second birthday. (St. Petersburg Times). The beginning of the very famous and mysterious love story now begins to happen in the year 1977. O.J. met Nicole Brown waiting tables at a little nightclub called “The Daisy”. While still being married to his wife Marguerite, he dated Nicole on the side until their divorce was final. Six years later
Soon later the police finally picked up enough evidence to get a warrant for his arrest. Simpson and his lawyer Robert Shapiro both agreed that he will turn himself in at 10:00 am on June 17. Simpson didn’t go at the time he was given so the policemen and Robert Shapiro went to Simpsons home and discovered that he disappeared and left a letter saying "Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends. Please think of the real O. J. and not this lost person. Thanks for making my life special. I hope I helped yours. Peace and love, O. J." (Linder). Policemen and his lawyer thought it was a suicide letter. Until someone in Orange County saw Simpson riding a white bronco and immediately called the police. Only a couple of minutes later police cars and helicopters were chasing him, they followed Simpson all the way to his front gate of his house. Policemen saw that he was wearing a fake beard and had $8,750 in cash, loaded gun, and a passport, days later he was on his first day of the trial. On Tuesday, Jan 24, 1995 was the first day of the trial, Judge Lance Ito open to the people in the courtroom that he will be expecting to see some good lawyering skills for the case. Christopher Darden who open the trial said that Simpson was and abusive and a jealous husband to Nicole B. Simpson.
I am going to tell you about the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, better known as Ted Bundy. I will explain why he started to commit these murders, and the stories of the few victims that survived. You will read how he committed these murders, and what he did with the victims. You will learn about how he got away with escaping prison twice. Ted Bundy was sentenced to death after confessing to thirty-six murders. He started committing these murders when he was around eighteen years old. He continued these murders until he was twenty-four years old. In one of his last interviews he explains why he blames himself and pornography for his killings.
The jury really didn’t seem to remember the most important piece of information which was that the defendant’s blood was actually found at the crime scene. Bugliosi said “From the moment O.J. Simpson became a suspect in this double murder case, it was in the air, perhaps as in no other case within
On the night of June 12, 1994 the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found just outside Nicole’s condo. Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD, rushed to the scene. There the
Goldman’s murders on June 12th 1994 at her home in Los Angeles. It was determined that OJ was being
OJ was a former NFL hero, played for several teams including the Buffalo Bills, OJ had two friends which were Al Cowlings and Robert Kardashian. OJ was accused for the murders of his ex wife Nicole Simpson Brown and Ron Goldman. There is hundreds of evidence that says OJ was the killer of these people, he even admitted multiple times to “ I didn’t mean to do it. I’m sorry.’’ OJ’s lawyer even said he probably did the murder. Multiple times before Nicole thought and dreamed of OJ killing her, she said that several times she has had to call 911 because of his extreme anger issues, which he says was from former football
On the night of June 12, 1994 a man came into Nicole brown Simpson’s condominium and
Orenthal James Simpson started his career at the University of Southern California, where he became one of the best running backs in his era. He was recognized for his success when he was given the heisman trophy. After Orenthal James was drafted to the Buffalo Bills in 1969, he retired from his very successful career in 1979 and started acting. From 1967 through 1979 O.J. was married to Marguerite Whitley, they had three children. Sadly Aaren Lashone Simpson, the youngest of his three children, died right before her second birthday.
Whitley on June 24 1967, while still marred, Simpson at the age of 29 started seeing a waitress Nicole Brown who at the time was only 17! This among other things such as physical and mental abuse resulted in the divorce of Simpson and Whitely in 1979 (infoplease). O.J and Nicole married in 1985 having two beautiful children together. Prior to the new year’s party in 1989 it was only speculated that O.J was physically abusing Nicole but during a 911 call Nicole reported O.J had hit her and she thinks he is going to kill her, there was three more calls like this before she filed for divorced in 1992, each time the charges were dropped. When asked about the 911 call O.J would only reply “We had a fight, we were both guilty, no one was hurt. No big deal” (biography). Even though Nicole went to friends having them take pictures every time he beat her saying “O.J is going to kill me and get away with it because he is O.J Simpson.” These pictures where not able to be used as evidence in the
On June 12, 1994 two bodies that had been found brutally stabbed in the Brentwood area. When police arrived to the scene and discovered the bodies. The bodies were identified as Nicole Brown Simpson, OJ ex wife and Ronald Goldman. At the time the LAPD had no suspects and no motives. OJ was contacted the next morning and agreed he would catch the next flight back to Los Angeles from Chicago. When he returned home there was a full investigation, with police tape around his front gate. Officers asked OJ to come with them to the Parker Center were they could ask him a series of questions. The officers failed to get any knowledge regarding the murder. Soon the LAPD felt like they had obtained enough evidence on the murders and obtained a warrant on OJ. Simpson 's attorney, Robert Shapiro worked a deal with the police department and agreed OJ would turn himself in on 10 am on June 17. Simpson fail to show up at the agreed time and location. Officers were sent both to Simpson 's and Shapiro 's home and there was no answer. OJ was at Robert Kardashian 's home with his defense team, officers contacted Shapiro. This is when Shapiro discovered OJ had gone missing with his long time teammate and friend Allen Cowlings (AC) in a White Ford Bronco. The news reported on Simpson gone missing an a motorist called in, saying they had seen the White Bronco. Officers had found OJ on the run, the chase ended peacefully when OJ returned to his home and surrendered. The trial was set on January 24,
The numerous ups, downs, and controversies surrounding the life of former star football player OJ Simpson have led to a strangely divided collective memory of the man. The term collective memory refers to a shared pool of information held in the memories of a group from aggregated individual recollections. The story of OJ Simpson’s life is both sad and puzzling after overcoming adversity to become one of the best football players of all time and a public figure beloved by many Simpson would go on to put himself in a worse situation than ever before.
On the late evening of June 12th, 1994, a fellow Brentwood neighbor went to investigate why a nearby dog was constantly howling when they discovered the grisly murder scene(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The victims, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25-year-old Ronald Goldman, were violently stabbed to death with a knife in the walkway of Nicole’s home(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Nicole Brown Simpson was the
The O.J. Simpson trial was one of the most distinguishable cases in American history. Many Americans tuned into the bronco chase on June 17, 1994 when Simpson was the main suspect for the murder of Nicole Brown-Simpson, O.J.’s ex-wife, and her friend Ronald Goldman, which occurred a few days prior (Lamb, 1994). O.J. Simpson was the murder suspect for the double homicide of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. He was a retired professional football player who resided in California. He was one of the black entertainers of the 1990’s along with Oprah, Michael, Wesley, and Spike. Through these entertainers, it was shown that there is opportunity to succeed for black men and woman in society (White, 1995). The number one question on everyone’s mind was not if O.J. was innocent or guilty, but whether he would be found guilty or just walk away. Other questions on the mind of American’s was did he actually commit the crime?
The topic of this paper is going to be Orenthal James (O.J. Simpson) and the infamous trial. Simpson was born on July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California to Jimmie Lee Simpson and Eunice Simpson (CNN Library, 2016). O.J. Simpson is a high profile person/celebrity in the sports market. He is a former American football running back, broadcaster, actor, and convicted armed robber and kidnapper. Simpson attended USC where he played college football and won the Heisman trophy in 1968. He played in the NFL as a running back for eleven seasons with the Buffalo Bills (1969-1977) and the San Francisco 49ers (1978-1979). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. When he retired, Simpson
James Patrick Bulger was born on the 16th of March, 1990, to Ralph and Denise Bulger in Kirkby, Merseyside.