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🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The Goldmans didn’t get justice during the criminal trial, but the family had a second chance by filing a civil case against Simpson for the wrongful death of Ron. This time, it wouldn’t be “the People vs. Orenthal James Simpson”, it would be the Goldman’s name on the lawsuit. Kim speaks with Dan Petrocelli, the Goldman’s attorney for the lesser-known civil trial. Dan reflects on everything from his strategy in the courtroom, to the pressure he felt to win the case. Kim also speaks with Pablo Fenjves, a witness during the criminal trial who was later hired to ghostwrite Simpson’s book, If I Did It – a hypothetical account of the night of the murders. Pablo and Kim discuss how this book came to be and Pablo expresses what he learned as he wrote what was essentially a pseudo admission of guilt with Simpson.
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0:00.0 | In 2007, 13 years after the murders, a publisher made a deal with OJ Simpson to write a book. |
0:10.6 | It was a hypothetical confession to the murders of Ron and Nicole. |
0:15.4 | The book was called If I Did It. |
0:18.1 | Pablo Fenbes, who you'll meet in just a bit, was the ghost writer of this book. |
0:22.7 | Now most people believe this pseudo confession is in fact as close to an actual confession |
0:28.5 | as we'll ever hear. |
0:30.4 | The book has a friend called Charlie, who drops by Simpson's house at Rockingham shortly |
0:37.1 | before the murders and accompanies Simpson to Nicole's place. |
0:41.7 | Here's Simpson in an interview talking about the events of June 12, 1994. |
0:46.8 | There's a very difficult one to do this. |
0:49.9 | Very difficult for me because it's hypothetical. |
0:52.7 | This guy Charlie shows up. |
0:54.1 | The guy where I'd recently become friends with. |
0:56.2 | I don't know why you'd been by Nicole's house, but it told me you wouldn't believe what's |
1:00.1 | going on over that. |
1:01.1 | And I remember thinking, well, whatever's going over there has got to stop. |
1:04.3 | So this Charlie had been giving Simpson some bad news about Nicole, her partying, the company |
1:10.8 | she was keeping, and got Simpson all riled up. |
1:14.3 | We get into the Bronco and go over it in hypothetical. |
1:16.7 | I put her on a capping gloves. |
1:18.8 | Simpson goes on to explain where the knife came from. |
1:22.5 | I always kept a knife, a knock car for the crazies and stuff because you can't travel |
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