Two days ago, O.J. Simpson, a former professional football player and the protagonist of the world-shaking "Simpson's Wife Murder" in 1995, passed away at home.
According to the family, Simpson had cancer and eventually passed away "in the company of his children and grandchildren".
In February this year, some media reported that Simpson had prostate cancer, had been undergoing chemotherapy, and began receiving "hospice" services.
But Simpson himself refuted the rumors, angrily denying on his X account that he was receiving hospice care, but did not deny that he had cancer.
In the last days of Simpson's life, it is said that dozens of family members came to visit him.
What is more peculiar is that the old man in his seventies has set up a confidentiality procedure through his lawyer when he is visited by his family: he requires his family to keep what they see and hear during the meeting strictly confidential, and is not allowed to bring mobile phones when they meet, so he does not hesitate to write a written agreement for the family to sign.
This operation made netizens who really wanted to hide the Simpson murder case for 30 years suspicious: I'm afraid that I finally told the truth once before the sickbed, but I didn't let my relatives spread it?? ?
That's right, the football superstar who has been hailed as "one of the greatest ball handlers in NFL history" is still more focused on him in the 1995 "Trial of the Century", and most viewers still believe that he killed his ex-wife and friends, even if he was acquitted by a jury...
The trial, which brought together the best defense teams in the United States and attracted more than 140 million viewers in the United States, still reverberates to this day...
In 1994, Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were found stabbed to death outside their home in Los Angeles.
At the scene of the crime there was a pair of bloody gloves with blood stains from Simpson DNA and footprints the size of Simpson's footprints.
On the final deadline for Simpson's surrender, Simpson fled, driving wildly on the Los Angeles Highway with his former teammates in a white car, the Los Angeles police all dispatched, and sirens blaring through the city highway that day.
And the reporter received the news and joined the high-speed chase, even if the live news was just starting to start, they carried the camera for live broadcast, and countless viewers witnessed this extremely dramatic scene on TV...
Simpson's desertion and his threat of suicide after being rounded up and threatening the police to back down were seen by tens of millions of Americans, who judged from these behaviors that Simpson must have been a thief, and that he was definitely the murderer of Nicole.
But after his arrest, Simpson used years of income from the team and a later successful transition to television personality to hire the strongest team of defense lawyers in the country. Some of them are professors at Harvard Law School, some are deans of the University of California School of Law, and some are experienced eagle-eye lawyers who specialize in the cracks in criminal cases.
The team, known as the "Dream Team", sought to defend their employer, the famous retired football star at the time, Simpson.
And the defense team, attracted by Simpson's money and fame, did not disappoint Simpson, and they sharply pointed out the loopholes of the Los Angeles police, for example, when they asked the LAPD to verify the shoe prints and blood stains containing Simpson DNA, the police department actually said that they were not preserved and were all cleaned up.
The LAPD was deflated once again by the loss of key evidence, and Simpson's team found their mistake again: Simpson's police officer, Foreman, who was in charge of the Simpsons case, had made racist remarks against black people.
How could a police officer who discriminates against blacks in his heart handle a black case impartially? The Simpson team alleges that the policeman wants Simpson to be convicted of killing his wife. The officer was then convicted of perjury and sentenced himself to three years in prison outside of prison.
Although, in the past, Simpson was extremely reluctant to mention his black origins, and even after his success, he tried his best to talk about his difficult growth as a black man in public.
But during the trial of the case, his defense team repeatedly made a fuss about this point, and under the media hype, the audience only saw the story of a black man who was treated unfairly because of the color of his skin.
Another trick of the Simpsons Super Defense Team is to use harsh words to upside down the jury's impression.
The trial of Simpson's murder of his wife culminated when Simpson was presented with the key evidence of the case, the long-stored pair of bloody gloves.
One of Simpson's lawyers said directly to the jury, "If these gloves don't fit on Simpson's hands, then you must acquit him!"
And when Simpson struggled to put on the gloves that had been frozen for a long time, the inappropriate size did become apparent.
When the jury saw this scene, they thought of the cruel words just released by the lawyer, and they also felt that Simpson looked wronged.
In this way, under the strength of the Simpson team and the LAPPD's own chain, Simpson was finally acquitted in court.
The "Trial of the Century" ended in Simpson's victory, but he also paid the price of fame and fortune.
After this incident, because public opinion is still very inclined to think that Simpson killed his wife, his endorsements, commercial performances and TV shows are all yellow, and no business is willing to get involved with him.
Two years later, the victim's family sued Simpson in civil court. Unlike criminal courts, civil courts do not need to find Simpson guilty of wifeicide, but only need to find him responsible for the deaths of the two men and order him to pay a huge $33 million in compensation to the victims' families.
But over the years, Simpson has been passive in repaying the loans, and he no longer takes up any work, because the income from any business activities that have anything to do with him will automatically go to the families of the victims, and he is resolutely unwilling to do any more work.
However, there is also a strange incident during this period, Simpson once wrote a book called "If I Did", to the effect that "if" he killed his ex-wife and her friends, the plot and process would be like.
In addition to books, Simpson is also rumored to be attending a television interview on the subject.
Before the book was published, it was drowned out by public opposition and then sunk to the bottom.
Due to Simpson's automatic debt repayment system, his manuscript was given directly to the victim's family, who added material accusing Simpson of guilt without saying a word, and finally published it.
However, in 2008, Simpson was actually imprisoned for an unrelated case and was sentenced to 33 years at once.
It turned out that he and his agent had turned against each other, and the other party had been auctioning off his football around for many years, saving a lot of money, and the red-eyed Simpson thought that these things should belong to him, so he found a group of people to rush to the hotel where his former agent was staying, and robbed each other with arms.
As a result, he was imprisoned for armed robbery and remained in prison until 2021, when he was released on parole.
Since then, Simpson has often swiped his attention on social media, showing his indifferent fame and fortune and serious life.
It's just that not long after refuting the rumors that he received hospice services, he died of illness.
According to reports, at the time of his death, he still owed hundreds of millions of yuan in economic losses to the victim's family, and the victim's family hoped to obtain his real estate to make up for the money.
Today, most netizens are still mostly on the side of the victims:
"He escaped the killing, both physically and financially"
"If they hadn't been murdered, Nicole would be 65 years old and Ron would be 55 years old. I hope they rest in peace. ”
"So he asked his children to sign a non-disclosure agreement before he died? Because people who are going to die have this worry, what does that mean?"
"Explain the pre-death confession?"
It is foreseeable that even if Simpson dies, Simpson will be remembered for many years to come.
As for the truth, people have their own decisions in their hearts...