On June 12, 1994, a sensational homicide occurred in Los Angeles, usa, and according to statistics, 140 million people watched the trial of this case in front of the TELEVISION set, which is famous - "Simpson's Wife Murder Case"
The suspect in this case is the famous rugby player "O. J. Simpson", because this case is full of dramatic developments, causing the direction of the case to become more confusing... It even rises to the level of race.
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Simpson was a household name in the United States in the 90s, considered one of the greatest players in the history of the NFC (NFL Professional Football League), Simpson set several team records during his time with the "Buffalo Beale", and then was inducted into the Hall of Fame and became a superstar in the sports circle at that time.
Simpson of the player's time
After retiring from the united states, he became popular in the American entertainment industry, and appeared in movies and television series many times. People can be mixed to this point can also be regarded as success, and there is no worry in their old age. But just then, two charges of first-degree murder nearly dragged him into the abyss.
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At 10 p.m. on June 12, 1992, a rush of dog barking shattered the tranquility of the Los Angeles mansion. The writer at his desk, Pablo, was distraught, and the noisy barking of the dog made him lose the inspiration to write, and he decided to go downstairs to find the dog owner theory.
As soon as Pablo walked to the door of his neighbor's house, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. The passage in front of the house was covered with blood, and not far away lay two people, covered in blood. Pablo looked back and immediately called the Los Angeles Police Department, and he looked at his watch, and the time was 10:15.
The scene of the crime
It didn't take long for the police to arrive at the scene, headed by a detective named Mark Foreman. Fuhrman has solved many murder cases and is trusted by the police department, so he is naturally the best candidate to investigate this case.
There were two victims at the scene, a man and a woman. Both were stabbed several times in the body and both had their throats cut. Soon the identity of the deceased was verified, and the female victim was Nicole Brown, the famous football player O. Brown. J. Simpson's ex-wife. The male victim was Nicole's friend, Ron Gohman, 25, a waiter at an Italian restaurant.
Nicole Brown (left) and Langholman (right)
After a brief inspection of the crime scene, the sharp-thinking Detective Foreman believes that Nicole's ex-husband Simpson is very suspected of committing the crime.
Simpson and Nicole married in 1985, after which Simpson suspected his wife Nicole of cheating and beat Nicole many times, Nicole called the police many times but in the end Simpson did not receive any punishment. In the end, Nicole filed for divorce, and the two formally divorced in 1992. But after the divorce, Simpson did not give up on the idea of his ex-wife, and he still often went to Nicole's house to try to save the relationship. According to Nicole's friends, Simpson would often stalk Nicole and even threaten to kill Nicole if she found a new man. And tonight it may be because Simpson found out that Nicole and Langolman were together, so he killed the killer. And Simpson's home is very close to Nicole's house, about 10 minutes by car.
Detective Mark Foreman
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At 4:30 a.m., Foreman arrived at Simpson's residence with a man of his men. Knocked on the door but no one responded, as if Simpson wasn't home. Foreman took a detour through the back door. A white Ford SUV was found parked at the back door, the owner of which was suspect Simpson's, and multiple blood stains were found on the windows, door handles, and tires of the SUV. Foreman identified Simpson as the murderer in the case, but he needed more conclusive evidence. But suddenly, the Los Angeles Police Department has not yet approved a search warrant for the Simpsons home, and Foreman fears that by the time the warrant is approved the next day, the key evidence may be destroyed to the point of almost nothing. Desperate for success, he resolutely decided to climb over the wall alone and enter Simpson's house to collect evidence, leaving his entourage at the door.
Foreman entered the Simpsons house, and sure enough, as he expected, at the door, a lot of blood was found in the aisle, and he also found a black leather glove with blood in the Simpson's house, which became the key evidence in the future, because at the scene of the crime, Foreman also found a glove, also with blood, after testing the blood of both gloves, Simpson, Nicole, langoman 3 people's blood stains, and can prove that the two gloves are the same pair.
A glove at the scene of the crime
At 10 a.m. on June 13, the search warrant for Simpson's home was finally granted. Police found more blood and other evidence at Simpson's home. And in the follow-up investigation, more evidence was searched one after another. "The evidence is overwhelming, simpson is dead," Foreman thought.
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At the same time, what is Simpson, the protagonist of the case, doing?
At 23:45 on June 12, 1.5 hours after the incident. Simpson arrived at Los Angeles International Airport, boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, and checked into a star hotel in Chicago at 4 a.m. on June 13. Not long after arriving, Simpson received a call from the Los Angeles Police Department saying that his ex-wife had been murdered. But Simpson on the other end of the phone didn't seem surprised, and slowly asked "who killed him", which was not a normal reaction of a person to hear bad news, as if Simpson had long known the news of Nicole's murder.
At 12:00 p.m. on June 13, Simpson returned home in Los Angeles. Before he entered the house, he was immediately arrested by the police who had been waiting for a long time and taken to the police station. During the interrogation, Simpson denied that he had killed his ex-wife Nicole and Langomann, and offered to find his lawyer, and after taking notes, Simpson was released and returned to his home to await the charges. Simpson faces two first-degree murder charges, with the highest death sentence in California. In the eyes of the police, the evidence is now solid, and Simpson will soon get the trial he deserves. A "celebrity murder case" was naturally the object of major media reports, and soon the Simpson wife murder case made headlines, and the news quickly fermented in the folk, and almost all the American people began to pay attention to the case.
On June 15, Simpson's lawyer contacted the Los Angeles Police Department and told police that Simpson would turn himself in by 11 a.m. today. The major media and people who heard the news arrived at the police station early in the morning to wait for Simpson's appearance. But until two o'clock in the afternoon, Simpson's figure was not seen, and the police found themselves as if they had been pigeons. They immediately issued a city-wide notice to find Simpson's whereabouts.
Soon, the police found Simpson's white off-road vehicle driving on the road, the police approached and found that It was Simpson's friend who was driving, Simpson was sitting in the back seat with a gun to his head and wanted to commit suicide, it seemed that the mood was very unstable, the police had to retreat to keep a distance from Simpson's car, the police sent a police car, and even dispatched a helicopter to prevent Simpson from escaping.
Police chase Simpson (white car)
In addition, a number of media that heard the news also dispatched helicopters to broadcast live. At its peak, more than 40 police cars and more than 10 helicopters followed Simpson's car, like a police chase. The chase resulted in Simpson's car driving to a dead end and Simpson turned himself in to the police, but Simpson still denied killing his ex-wives Nicole and Ron Goldman.
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The trial at the beginning of this case is arguably the best part of the whole story, and the trial is broadcast live in real time across the United States, and all those who follow the case are waiting for a trial result.
In the eyes of everyone, the police and prosecutors' evidence is so conclusive, Simpson must have pleaded guilty. Unexpectedly, Simpson paid a lot of money to hire a team of lawyers to defend himself. There were several well-known lawyers in the defense team, as well as top physical evidence experts and forensic experts, totaling more than 10 people, including Dr. Li Changyu, who is known as a Chinese detective. This defense team is also known as the "Dream Defense Team".
Simpson and the Dream Defense Corps
At the beginning of the trial, prosecutors laid out a list of evidence alleging Simpson's first-degree murder.
Gloves: The gloves detected the blood of Simpson, Nicole, and Goldman, and the gloves were found in Simpson's home and one in Nicole's home
Hair: Police found some hairs on the victim, Goldman, and identified the hair's DNA as identical to Simpson's
Socks: Police found a pair of socks in Simpson's home with blood on the socks matching Nicole's DNA
Knife: Police found through receipts provided by a tableware shop that Simpson had purchased a short, 12-inch knife that matched the caliber of the wound just weeks before the murder
Bloodstain: Police found a suspicious drop of blood on the railing of the crime scene, which was tested to be consistent with Simpson's DNA, and found by testing the blood stains on Simpson's white off-road vehicle, which belonged to Simpson, Nicole and Goldman.
Shoe prints: A blood shoe print was found at the scene, and the shoe size was the same as Simpson's
A knife that is considered a murder weapon
Before such conclusive evidence, the Simpson wife murder case can basically be conclusive. But at this time, Simpson's "dream defense team" began to threaten.
The defence team was not in a hurry to refute the physical evidence, and unexpectedly summoned the police detective in charge of the case, Mark Foreman, and began questioning
Defense attorney: "May I ask if you are a racist?" ”
Fuhrman: "No. ”
Defense attorney: "Have you ever called a black person 'black gui'?" ”
Foreman: "Never. ”
Defense Attorney: "Are you sure?" ”
Foreman: "Yes. ”
Defense attorney: "Do you dare to swear to heaven that you never called a black person that way?" ”
Foreman: "I swear to heaven, I didn't. ”
Of course, Foreman could not admit that he was racially discriminatory in front of the american people and the media, and under repeated questioning by defense lawyers, Foreman always denied it. But this answer was right in the heart of the defense team, which took out a recording of an interview for Foreman many years ago, and the number of times the word "black gui" was used in the recording was as high as 41 times, and this recording was released, and the whole United States was shocked.
Hear the recording after Foreman
In small terms, Foreman's lying caused his testimony to become less credible. On a large scale, this recording involves more than just this case. It had risen to the level of racial discrimination, with a white detective discriminating against black people. The direction of public opinion in the public will change at once. According to survey statistics at the time, as many as 75 percent of whites thought Simpson was guilty, and as many as 77 percent of blacks thought Simpson was innocent. The case turned into a contest between whites and blacks.
Back at the scene of the trial, the defense team's questioning of Foreman did not stop: "Have you fabricated on-site evidence and investigation reports?" "Did you deliberately frame Simpson for racial discrimination?" And the recording had already left Foreman at a loss, and if he answered again, he was afraid of falling into the trap of the defense team, so he refused to answer these questions.
The defense team did not intend to let Foreman go easily, and they pointed out that furman arrived at Simpson's house in the early morning of the day of the crime without a search warrant, which was illegal evidence collection, and he left his men outside the door and went to the house alone.
Foreman's series of actions left him with a voice. The defence team questioned the authenticity of the exhibits. In short, the defence team believes that you illegally invaded to obtain evidence, and that you found it yourself, how do we know if you forged it?
By this time Foreman had begun to tremble, but the defense team was not prepared to stop, and pointed the finger at the hair that belonged to Simpson found on Goldman. It is understood that the forensic doctor did not arrive at the scene in time on the night of the crime, and the police officers at the scene took a white sheet from Nicole's house and covered the body. The defense team believed that the hair on the body most likely came from the sheets, because even after the divorce, Simpson would often go to Nicole's house, and it was reasonable to leave Simpson's hair on the sheets. The defense's move was ostensibly aimed at hair evidence, but in fact it was accusing the police of making mistakes at the scene, which greatly reduced the image of the police in the minds of the jury.
Simpson and the Defense Corps
Next, the Chinese detective Li Changyu appeared, and Li Changyu launched an attack on multiple prosecution evidence. One of them was Simpson's blood on the railing of the crime scene, which was an important piece of evidence that Simpson had been to the scene of the crime.
But Dr. Li Changyu questioned this blood, in this blood was detected EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid), the human blood itself does not carry EDTA, but in order to prevent blood clotting when collecting blood, EDTA will be added, but why is there such an ingredient in this blood at the scene of the crime? And this drop of Simpson's blood on the railing was not collected on the day of the crime, but was collected three weeks after the crime, such an important blood sample, why was it not found at the first time.
Li Changyu
In addition, the police do not meet the norms in the process of collecting Simpson's blood, and generally send the blood samples to the laboratory immediately after collecting blood samples. But the Simpsons blood sample was left in the sampler's pocket for a day before it reached the lab a day later. At that time, the samplers took a total of 8 milliliters of blood samples, but only 6.5 milliliters were sent to the laboratory a day later. So where did the 1.5 ml blood sample go? Li Changyu's various questions point to a problem, this blood sample is likely to have been put on the scene of the crime after the crime, and whether it is because of the mistake of the police or someone planting a booty Simpson is unknown.
Multiple key pieces of evidence do not work. The distraught prosecutors decided to come up with the final hole card, and they asked Simpson to wear the gloves found at the scene of the crime with the Simpsons in court, and the prosecutor tried to reverse the unfavorable form through this hole card.
Simpson did as he was asked, but what he didn't expect was that Simpson couldn't wear that pair of gloves at all!! Even if he wore it, his fingers couldn't bend, let alone let him hurt people with a knife. The prosecution was dumbfounded. At this point, the big picture has been decided.
Simpson with gloves on
The jury reached an agreement after only 4 hours of discussion. Simpson was acquitted and released in court. The trial of the century came to an end, the means of the "Dream Defense Group" were almost textbook-level, and "The Simpson Wife Murder Case" became a "suspense case".
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Regarding the pair of gloves, after the trial, an insider revealed that Simpson actually suffered from arthritis for a long time and had been taking anti-inflammatory drugs, and the defense team made Simpson stop taking the medicine two months ago, resulting in Simpson's joints being inflamed and swollen during the trial, and naturally he could not wear the gloves.
Although he escaped the fate, in 2007 Simpson was arrested again in Las Vegas, Nevada, this time charged with multiple felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping, and in 2008 he was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
Simpson, who was arrested again
In 2017, Simpson was released on parole after 9 years in prison. During this period, the media conducted another investigation to discuss whether Simpson was the real murderer of the murder that year, but this time, 80% of the people believed that Simpson was the real murderer. But what really happened that year, whether Simpson killed Nicole and Goldman, may only be known to him.