While I'm at it - OJ Simpson...

OK.

I'm on a roll, and people have asked me about the OJ Simpson trial of the 90's. The criminal AND the civil one. What are my thoughts? Well...I don't want to go too much into detail, but I will say this: OJ was involved, but not the killer.

First, the testimonies.

Kaelin says he heard "3 thumps". I didn't hear the testimony so I could not hear his reenactment of the thumps in order to know speed, volume, and pattern.

Fuhrman found the glove over by Kaelin's room, however the foliage was undisturbed and no blood was found except that from the glove.

The glove was still moist the next morning - a total of 8 hours.

All of the clothing was OJ's. In particular, the Bruno Magli shoes.

OJ could not be accounted for during the murder period. The Bronco was not confirmed to be at Rockingham the entire time...unless Allan Park (the limo driver) was lying.

Speaking of Allan Park, he said he saw a "shadowy figure" walk up from the driveway to the front door. This was assumed to be a black man. However, race is irrelevant, since you could wear a dark beanie or other head ornament over your face and appear black to someone that far in the distance. This is important.

Kaelin and Park just happened to be within visual range of this figure walking up the driveway at the "right" time. So the timing of Kaelin's exit from the room as well as Park's facing the gate with the beams on just happened to be the same. More on that later.

The murder clothing was found half-washed in the washing machine. The bloody socks were found near the foot of the bed and the murder weapon never found.

The murders were brutal, calculated...there was nothing subtle about the way Brown or Goldman was killed. Although Simpson was the only known person to really have a motive to kill Goldman, others may have had reason to kill Brown...and Goldman happened to be in the wrong place at the right time.

That should be it for what was presented. Now, many theories are floating around, the conspiracy to frame Simpson by LAPD, mob involvement, Simpson himself, and even gangs. I think (and I stress this as an opinion based on the facts) that OJ was no fool. I don't...no, CAN'T believe him to be capable of such ineptitude. Things were way too illogical as presented, and the murders too brutal for a normal human being. Therefore....(wait for it....)

I think someone ordered a hit on Nicole Brown Simpson, and I think that OJ was framed...not by that person, but by himself.

Notice I said "someone". I don't discount the possibility that OJ was the requestor. What I'm saying is that someone else did the actual kill. Who was it? I don't know. May have been OJ, may have been someone trying to blackmail OJ, may have been someone who just didn't like Nicole. Perhaps someone from her past. In any case, that would explain the missing murder weapon; the killer would not be dumb enough to leave it anywhere. The second part - that'll be some explaining yet.

So, like I did with MJJ, I'll recount what I believe happened that fateful night:

• Goldman discovers Nicole left her sunglasses at the restaurant. Decides to take them to her.
• Goldman arrives at the Bundy residence, meets Nicole, and gives her the glasses.
• The killer, having been waiting near the residence, sees there's another person. He (more on that later) realizes he'll have to kill Goldman as well.
• The killer performs his killings. He had to have been behind Nicole, possibly holding her with the knife to her throat, giving instructions to Goldman to "get down", knocked out Nicole, then Goldman attempted to take the knife from the killer, who overpowered him and stabbed him. A few more pokes - is he dead? Nicole has since comes around, sees the killer and perhaps recognizes him - Goldman almost got the hoodie off in the struggle. The killer realizes he's busted, kills Nicole.
• The killer departs the Bundy residence immediately.
• Fate and timing would have Simpson show up. Simpson intended to talk to Nicole in an effort to work things out. He walks up the front way until he hears splashes under his feet (this accounts for why blood is on his Bruno Magli shoes and socks). Hmm, maybe she left the water on.
• As he gets closer he sees that they're dead bodies with pools of blood - specifically, that of Nicole and Goldman. He starts in grief, possibly even grabbing Nicole up to him and crying over her body (this accounts for the blood on the sweat suit if he was wearing it). Then he stops. He'll be blamed for this. He'll be the one.
• He gets up, frantic. He goes this way, that way, not sure what to do next. He's in a serious panic over what to do next. Should he call the police? There's blood all over him and his bloody footprints are the only ones present.
• Without thinking, he gets into the Bronco and removes the sweatsuit, laying it on the seat next to him, then drives rapidly back to the Rockford residence (this accounts for the Shively testimony). He knows he needs to get out of there, quickly, but there's blood all over him. What should he do?
• Park's scheduled to pick him up. He forgot. He needs to get to Park so that Park can take him to the airport. But he can't walk in with these bloody clothes. Knowing that Kaelin is the only one inside, Simpson stands partially on the gate and raps three times (Kaelin's story about the picture slanting isn't true), then goes back around into the shadows at the front.
• Simpson waits a moment, then walks up to the house, thinking that Park is inside the limo which is facing the gate with its beams on and wouldn't be looking in that direction.
• He slips inside, now that everyone has exited, throws the bloody clothes in the washing machine, forgetting in his haste that the cycle would not take out all of the blood, goes upstairs, and changes socks, not realizing there were small splots of blood from the splashing. He does his best to hide the shoes and change to get ready for Park.
• Park drives Simpson to the airport with a "half-moon shaped bag". This is the same bag that Kaelin attempted to assist Simpson with earlier. Simpson is seen apparently holding this bag and putting something in the trash. Either he was called by the killer who threatened to kill him if he didn't put the money in the dumpster, or he was called by the killer demanding payment be put there. In either case, I believe it was money, not evidence.
• Fast forward: Simpson is called by police who inform him that his wife's dead. He shows little emotion to this event, why? Because he already knew she was dead and was fighting to maintain composure, lest he implicate himself. Simpson says he's rushing home.
• Simpson writes what appears to be a suicide letter, but is actually a "disappearance" letter. He's encouraged to write this by his friend Cowlings, who is making arrangements for Simpson to flee and has all of the necessary instruments to do just that.
• Fast forward some more: after the Bronco chase comes to an end, it is filled with what appear to be effects for skipping the country - a passport, lots of cash, fake mustache, etc.

In closing, I am honest when I say I don't believe "OJ did it". I believe he was at the scene of the crime, yes. I believe he was wearing the clothes he said he was not, yes. I believe he committed perjury about not wearing the shoes, yes. I believe 90% of his testimony was filled with perjury, yes. However, I don't believe him capable of those murders - not the way they were done. Again, I'm willing to admit the possibility that he ordered the hit and maybe even watched it happening. But I don't believe he killed those two, and until I hear a failed lie detector test and perhaps photo evidence of him carrying the bloody knife, I won't believe it. I think he was a man who panicked. I think he lost cognitive reasoning for that moment and it almost cost him.