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This article was first published on March 12, 2018
OJ Simpson is dead. The former football star and actor, accused as the perpetrator in one of the most spectacular murder trials of all time in 1994, died on Wednesday (April 10, 2024) at the age of 76. Read an article here that shed new light on the case six years ago.
The US broadcaster Fox broadcast on Sunday (March 11th) under the title “OJ Simpson – The Lost Confession?” an interview was shown that was recorded in 2006, but then apparently lost for some unknown reason. In the clip, the former football player attempts to hypothetically describe how he might have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance Ron Goldman. OJ Simpson: Was it murder?
The scenario is not new, because OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in the criminal trial but sentenced to a million-dollar settlement in a civil trial, described the act he allegedly did not commit but was fantasized about in his book “If I Did It”. There he tells how he and a certain Charlie would drive to his ex-wife’s house on June 12, 1994. Wearing gloves and a hat and carrying a knife, he would be surprised on site by Ron Goldman, as the now 70-year-old describes it in the book.
What really happened on June 12, 1994?
In the TV interview, the ex-footballer loses himself in contradictions and no longer speaks of a possible form, but of concrete actions: “Nicole had shown up. (…) “I remember that Nicole fell and injured herself and this guy somehow started with his karate stuff, and I said: Do you think you can really take on me? And then I remember that I took the knife.” Then the blackout allegedly struck.
Another situation was also shocking when the interviewer asked why the two children were sleeping peacefully in the house. OJ Simpson then starts laughing and says, “Sorry, I tend to keep my kids out of everything. You’ve probably noticed that. His son Justin was five at the time and his daughter Sydney was eight.
Hypothetical thoughts
Judih Regan, who conducted the interview in 2006, is convinced that OJ Simpson confessed to the murder with these words – although doubts remain. At that time she received a call from his lawyer saying that Simpson was desperate to confess. Nevertheless, he then insisted on a hypothetical view of the events, supposedly so that he would later not have to appear as a perpetrator in front of his children. Before the crime, the Simpsons had repeatedly been called into police cases due to domestic violence.
