OK so everyone remember the crime: the Bruno Magli shoe prints. The blood drops at the murder scene and at OJ's. The glove and knit cap at the crime scene. A matching glove found at OJ's residence. Small cuts on OJ's fingers.
The LAPD (and a large portion of the general public at large) put 2 and 2 together.
Guilty, right? Not so fast.
For starters there's the question of motive. Filmed earlier that night at his child's dance recital with other family members, OJ was nothing but easy-going and smiling. Making dates with girlfriends and going for a burger with Kato Kaelin also don't seem to fit in with anybody's idea of a man planning a vicious pre-meditated murder.
OJ's voluntary appearance at the Police station within hours of the murders, during which he waived his right to have an Attorney present and gave an interview and allowed the taking of photographs, fingerprints, and blood samples, is also quite simply not the act of a guilty man.
There are numerous other things that indicate that OJ was not the killer.
For instance, the amount of blood found in OJ's bronco was (contrary to what the LAPD would have you believe) a miniscule amount, the sum total of which that could fit on a man's thumbnail. No blood whatsoever on the pedals. The LAPD dismantled OJ's plumbing at Rockingham, not a single drop of blood was found in the pipes. Not a single drop of blood on OJ's carpets going upstairs. Ron Goldman was stabbed over 27 times. 3 pints of blood were spilled at that crime scene. Where is all the blood? Because it was not on OJ.
Also important; the left hand Bundy glove had no cuts matching the cuts on OJ's hand. Obviously then, the killer was not wearing this glove at the time of the murder. It was never explained how Goldman could have removed a leather glove from OJ's fist during a knife fight; more importantly, not a single drop of the victim's blood was mixed in with OJ's `Bundy drops' that allegedly came from this cut finger. Aside from the nature of the cuts being inconsistent with the use of a knife, the cut finger therefore did not come from the murders, and OJ had no other injuries whatsoever to indicate he participated in any kind of physical confrontation.
In addition, there are unidentified fingerprints and DNA evidence at the murder scene that do not belong to OJ. There is an unidentified shoeprint pattern that does not belong to OJ. There is DNA under Nicole's fingernails -indicating that she got a piece of her attacker - that clearly does not match OJ.
Undoubtedly the evidence places OJ at Bundy Drive. But none of it makes him the killer. What it indicates, is that he was at the crime scene minutes after the murders had taken place.
If OJ was at the crime scene shortly after the murders, there must have been a totally compelling reason. Bill Dear has spent many years and millions of dollars investigating the case and has found that reason.
As you may know already, Dear fingers OJ's son Jason as the perpetrator.
Jason has a history of violent behaviour: regardless of previous domestic disputes, nobody has come close to ever putting a knife in OJ's hand; all evidence is that it simply wasn't in his make-up. At the time of the murders Jason was actually on probation for assault with a deadly weapon.
There is also the question of motive - Jason certainly had reason to be confrontational with Nicole on June 12th 1994.
And there is the alibi. Jason was dismissed as a suspect by the LAPD on the basis of a supposed iron-clad alibi. Dear has proven that this alibi (a) was impossible, (b) is in fact contradicted by witness testimony, and (c) was irrefutably falsified. Why?
The fact is that OJ hired a Criminal Defence Attorney for Jason the day after the murders. Why?
When the verdict was read, and OJ's supporters erupted in joy, Jason remained stone-faced and virtually motionless. Why?
At the funeral home, Jason couldn't look at Nicole's body and ran outside and locked himself in the car. Why?
Jason's jeep was later pictured with a large piece missing from the console, as if someone had cut it out with a knife. Why?
The LAPD rushed to judgement. They saw a little bit of blood and assumed OJ was guilty.
Bill Dear didn't.
For all Dear's critics, this is the one scenario about the murders that convincingly accounts for and explains not just all the evidence, but also the actions and motivations of the major players in the narrative before, during and after that fateful night in June 1994.
Read this book with an open mind. Consider all the evidence TOGETHER as a whole, and it paints a very compelling and disturbing story.
Hopefully one day, this book will assist with at least the re-opening of the case, which would provide some sort of closure for the still suffering Brown and Goldman families. Closure that they so badly lack, as long as the LAPD continue to make a mockery of justice by refusing to re-examine the entirety of the actual evidence.
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If you think OJ is guilty, you must read this book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2016
