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O.J. Simpson is back in the news. He's written a book, scheduled to be published November 30, entitled "``If I Did It, Here's How It Happened.''

Fox said Tuesday it will air a two-part interview with O.J. Simpson at month's end in which he describes the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend that he says he didn't commit.

....Fox said Simpson's book ``hypothetically describes'' how he would have committed the murders. The special will air at 9 p.m. November 27 and 29 on Fox.

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    Autopsy evidence shows Simpson probably innocent (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Bob In Pacifica on Thu Nov 16, 2006 at 01:52:52 PM EST
    I think the evidence of the case shows that Simpson was innocent. I have wondered if this book is Simpson's only way to get heard about the case. In saying how he could have done it, perhaps he's saying that given the circumstances he didn't do it.

    The autopsy evidence and autopsy testimony about the two victims suggests that wounds were made to their bodies after their deaths, meaning that the victims were killed and then their bodies were positioned and additional wounds performed afterwards.

    Nicole Brown Simpson did not aspirate any blood, nor did any blood enter her mouth or sinuses. The massive neck wound practically cut her head off, nicking her spinal column and bissecting her epiglottis. Cutting the epiglottis alone would have filled her mouth with blood. If she were breathing (that is, alive) when the neck wound was made she would also have aspirated blood (inhaled blood into her lungs).

    Goldman's autopsy has similar problems. He was allegedly stabbed in the back, cutting the femoral artery. If that were the fatal wound his pleural cavity would have filled with blood until he collapsed and died. But something like a half-cup to a cup of blood was found in his chest cavity, meaning, again, that the wound was delivered post mortem. It also means, since Goldman was found slumped against a tree stump, that someone would have had to have lifted his dead body, stabbed him, and then placed him against the stump.

    Each victim had also suffered a puncture of the right common carotid artery, at the location where morticians make incisions to drain blood from corpses as part of the preparation of a body for burial. If the other wounds were delivered after the death of the victims then these puncture wounds would explain how the blood got out of (was removed from?) their bodies beforehand.

    While this does not absolutely rule out Simpson as killer, it certainly eliminates the prosecution's theory of the case. In order to have Simpson commit these crimes, he would have had to have delivered wounds that would not have necessarily stopped either victim from vocalizing calls for help, fighting, or fleeing the scene. Even if both victims immediately collapsed in shock, Simpson would still have to wait for five to ten minutes for the victims to fully bleed out, then perform the ghastly neck wound to Nicole Simpson and lift up Goldman, stab him in the back and position him against the tree stump. People who commit double homicides in the middle of L.A. don't generally stand around the crime scene for ten minutes in order to add additional but meaningless wounds and rearrange the bodies, especially if they've got a plane to catch.

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    As an aside, the Coroner's Investigator, her name was Ratcliffe, called the Browns the next morning and asked them when had been the last time they'd talked with their daughter. They said they'd spoken with her over the phone at 11 p.m. after they'd returned home from dinner. At 11 p.m. Simpson was putting his luggage into the limo for his ride to the airport.

    A couple weeks later the Browns revised their statement to having talked with Denise about an hour and a half earlier, thus aiding the prosecution's timeline. Marcia Clark successfully barred the Coroner's Investigator's Report from trial, but for those interested it is published in the back of one of the books written about the trial (Killing Time).
     

    Preconceived conclusions (none / 0) (#21)
    by Edger on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 03:06:38 AM EST
    You know Bob, I read what you said here the other day and I didn't reply to it, probably because it didn't fit into my preconceived reality, and it's been popping back into mind occassionally since.

    Do you have sources on the web you can link to? Where did you get this information from?

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    OJ trial resources. (none / 0) (#22)
    by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 08:33:53 AM EST
    The OJ trial's transcripts are here:
    http://www.walraven.org/simpson/simpson.html

    Michael Baden testified to the "no aspiration" aspect of Nicole's autopsy on 8/10/95. You'll have to do some scrolling to find it.

    I don't know if the actual autopsies are at that site. The easiest way to get them is to pick up a used copy of KILLING TIME, by Freed and Briggs. It's going for $.65 at Amazon. KILLING TIME also reprints the coroner's investigator's report. There are a number of different theories and interesting factoids about characters at the edges of the case, but the book was published either before the trial started or very soon after it had started, and the body of the book doesn't have that much. The autopsies are in the appendix at the back of the book.

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    Judith Regan (and Regan Books) is disgusting. (none / 0) (#1)
    by jerry on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 10:46:32 PM EST
    I am absolutely disgusted that Simpson could find a publisher for this book with this title.

    Brreathtaking (none / 0) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 10:49:30 PM EST
    There really are no limits.

    What's worse... (none / 0) (#3)
    by roy on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 11:25:58 PM EST
    ...is that people will buy it without even feeling guilty.

    It's old news (none / 0) (#4)
    by Repack Rider on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 01:32:44 AM EST
    There is nothing he could say that didn't already come out at the trial.

    O.O (none / 0) (#5)
    by Rori on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 01:38:34 AM EST
    I cannot believe this. I just hope that any money he makes from this goes directly OUT of his pocket.

    Fox... (none / 0) (#6)
    by Deconstructionist on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 06:50:22 AM EST
     also owns the publishing company.  I wonder what most of its audience feels about this. Also, the Goldmans and Browns still have an unsatisfied judgment so this income, unlike his NFL pension, should be subject to execution.


    Not enough sense to keep his mouth shut (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 07:50:29 AM EST
    Well, he's got balls, you gotta give him that I guess. Styrofoam ones. Kinda like dubya, you know?

    Maybe we could take up a collection for him, and buy him a book explaining Karma.

    wow.... (none / 0) (#8)
    by peacrevol on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 09:00:17 AM EST
    how distasteful. i dont know the terms of the wrongful death decision, but it would be nice if all of the money made from that book had to go to the brown and goldman families.

    Re: wow... (none / 0) (#10)
    by Edger on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 09:10:11 AM EST
    You know, maybe that's why he wrote it? Pay the bills but in some twisted way make them not want to take the blood money?

    Wow, indeed.

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    Exceptions (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 09:08:31 AM EST
    "IF"  - except OJ & dubya, of course.

    "If" (none / 0) (#11)
    by learned hound on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 10:54:20 AM EST
    One supposes that this work of fiction has been vetted by his lawyers, so he doesn't contradict anything he said before in deposition or civil trial testimony, so that he won't get charged with perjury. Similarly, the upcoming "interview" with Judy Regan.  So you already know what he says about everything.  The question I have is why Judy Regan (and/or Fox) think anybody's going to pay $$ for this sorrowful exercise.  I'm sure not.

    I'm not sure but the (none / 0) (#12)
    by Deconstructionist on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 11:00:27 AM EST
    Califirnia SOL for perjury may well have expired. Perjury/FS SOL's are usually relatively short, so he might well be safe even if he didn't just "hypothetically speaking" contradict prior testimony.

      Sadly, I doubt they are wrong that enough people will buy this for it to be profitable. You can make some money on books without sniffing a bestseller list.
     

    ojdidnotdowit (none / 0) (#13)
    by TheJusticeClub on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 11:51:49 AM EST
    .

    If I knew (none / 0) (#14)
    by Che's Lounge on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 02:12:04 PM EST
    that the $$ would go directly to the Browns and the Goldmans, I'd buy a copy and then mail it to OJ with a "friendly" note telling him where he can store his book. Which FL country club should I mail it to?

    Dostoyevsky rolls over in his grave (none / 0) (#15)
    by Dadler on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 03:56:28 PM EST
    Crime and Punishment taken to the perverse and twisted heights of the mass-media age.  I won't be surprised if a few years from now he commits suicide by cutting his own throat on pay-per-view.  Alright, maybe a little surprised if it's pay-per-view.  A little.    

    Raskolnikov (none / 0) (#16)
    by Deconstructionist on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 04:02:51 PM EST
     was self-tormented and the manifestations of of his torment led to his demise. Do you really perceive Simpson as being haunted by his own conscience? I'm missing that and see someone who if he has one hides his conscience very well

    Conscience of a Psychopath? (none / 0) (#19)
    by terry hallinan on Thu Nov 16, 2006 at 10:33:19 AM EST
    Do you really perceive Simpson as being haunted by his own conscience?

    Surely you josh.

    Simpson is of no interest whatever.  Ones that are are those who couldn't wait to defend the murderer and even sided with him.

    I had an opportunity to meet some people I badly wanted to talk to at a convention for the wrongfully convicted because of a case of special interest but I feared I would of necessity have met Barry Scheck.  I would have.  I could hardly have hid my contempt in the company of people begging for his help in the cause of a man who will probably never leave prison though clearly innocent.  

    Not one person did more damage to the wrongfully convicted than this monster, who has praise heaped on him for his work for the Innocence Project.

    Wonderful that so many innocents have been freed.  Not so hot that Barry Scheck could have done so much harm to the cause I think in seeking his own glory.

    The celebrations that took place upon the acquittal of OJ are not exactly a proud moment for those who participated.

    Best,  Terry

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    Quit it Juice.... (none / 0) (#17)
    by kdog on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:10:33 PM EST
    If he keeps this crap up....double jeapordy is in jeapordy.

    The autograph signing economy must be hurting....

    He can't help himself... (none / 0) (#18)
    by Edger on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:20:02 PM EST
    He's just being O.J.

    Taking another stab at it. They always return to the scene of the crime?