Killer Thriller: Kato Kaelin: O.J.'s strange behavior right before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Kato Kaelin recounts the night of Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder—from a strange McDonald’s run with O.J. to an unexplained noise behind the guest house that would later lead police to a chilling discovery. Decades later, he still questions whether his presence that night unknowingly helped shape the timeline. And just when it seems like the story is complete, Kato reveals one detail that changes everything.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.6 | Amy Robock and T.J. Holmes present. |
| 0:13.5 | Killer Thriller with your host, Alisa Donovan. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey, everyone, Elisa Donovan here, and welcome back to Killer Thriller. |
| 0:23.1 | We are jumping right back into our conversation with Cato Kalin, who ended up at the center |
| 0:28.0 | of one of the biggest trials in history. |
| 0:31.4 | From what that night actually felt like to how it's been portrayed ever since, there is a lot |
| 0:36.3 | more to unpack with Cato, what he saw, what he lived through, and how he looks at all of it now. Cato, thank you so much for being here today and for being here in person. It makes a difference, isn't it? It makes a really, really big difference. When you said, Cato, we've got a couch and it's a pullout, I was like, Lisa, thanks a lot. |
| 0:54.8 | I can afford my own couch now. |
| 0:56.9 | Quit picking on me. I was like, listen, listen, listen. We can help you out. We can help you out. So I do want to share with everyone what we just discussed that when I first moved, first of all, I visited Los Angeles for the first time when I was living New York, the week of June 12th, 1994, the Bronco Chase interrupting the Knicks game, all of this, and I went, |
| 1:18.0 | what is wrong with this city? This is crazy. Then I moved to L.A. several months later, and the gym |
| 1:24.6 | that I belonged to, better known as Butts on Beverly, was on Beverly and Sweetser, |
| 1:31.1 | and I walk in the door and who is working out in the gym, but Cato Caelin, and I'm like, |
| 1:37.2 | what is going on? |
| 1:39.1 | That's so funny. |
| 1:39.8 | I think I asked you to, can I get a spot? |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:42.5 | And it was like Bruce Springsteen, Dave Navarro that I had a huge crush on. I think he knew and he sort of would like milk it and say hi to me all the time. And I was like quite a scene there. Everybody worked out there. And it was like the cheap place to go. Yes. Do you remember when you'd work out there, you'd be in the bottom and you'd hear all the creaking upstairs the weight. You go this and it's an old building. You're going, I know it's going to collapse. |
| 2:04.2 | I have 100. you'd work out there, you'd be in the bottom, and you'd hear all the cricking upstairs the weight, you'd go, this, and it's an old building, you're going, I know it's going to collapse. |
| 2:04.2 | I 100% felt that way. |
| 2:05.9 | Yeah. |
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