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OJ Simpson · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Dispersion. It's two bloody gloves. One was found at the scene of a
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  double homicide and the other at the number one suspects home. It seemed like
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  an easy case to close the problem. The gloves didn't fit the man they
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  thought was the killer. One of America's greatest athletes became the center of one
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  of the most controversial trials of our time. Orenthal James or O. J.
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  Simpson was born in nineteen forty seven in San Francisco, California. He
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  was an All city football player in high school. He had the talent to
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  play at a university, but he did not have the grades. He attended
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  a junior college where he would play football while focusing on his academics. In
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  nineteen sixty seven, he was able to transfer to the University of Southern California,
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  a childhood dream come true. He was a Trojan. He was determined
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  to make it to the pros, and he wanted to be famous. He
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  got the nickname the Juice, not only because his name was oj, although
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  that did help, but because he was so energetic. He went on to
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  set records, be an MVP, win the Heisman Trophy, and in nineteen
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  sixty nine, at the NFL Draft, he was selected first by the Buffalo
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  Bills. He became one of the greatest running backs of all time. He
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  also achieved success off the field. He secured sponsorships and his face was often
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  seen promoting their products. He married his teenage love, Marguerite, and by
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  nineteen seventy seven they were expecting their third child. He was on top of
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  the world, but his world was about to turn upside down. He went
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  to a nightclub in Beverly Hills called The Daisy. It was there that he
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  met eighteen year old waitress Nicole Brown. She was not only beautiful, but
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  she was smart and compassionate. Even though Simpson was married and his wife was
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  pregnant, Nicole and Ojay began dating. Over the next few years, Simpson
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  got divorced, he retired from the NFL, and by nineteen eighty five,
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  that night club waitress was Ojay's wife. Oj and Nicole went on to have
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  two children of their own. They were a very attractive family, full of
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  charisma. People were drawn to them everywhere they went. They were photographed.
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  They seemed so happy together until they didn't. In nineteen ninety two, they
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  got divorced, stating irreconcilable differences. So what happened? Oj and Nicole had
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  a tumultuous relationship. He abused her physically, verbally and emotionally. Those closest
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  to him knew the truth and cringed every time arguments would start. They seemed
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  to know what was coming. The police had been called to the Simpson residents
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  multiple times, once actually resulting in an arrest in nineteen eighty nine. When
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  Nicole called the police, she told the operator that she thought OJ was going
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  to kill her. OJ pleaded not guilty to spousal abuse, even though the
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  police found Nicole in the shrubs near their home half naked, bloody and beaten.
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  Supposedly, she dropped the charges against him after being encouraged to seek reconciliation,
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  but things did not get better, and divorce seemed the only way out.
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  They shared custody of their two children, and even after the divorce,
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  they tried to rekindle the relationship because sometimes after someone is gone, we tend
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  to embrace the memories of the good times forgetting about the bad. But it
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  wasn't long before Nichole was reminded of all the bad times. She called the
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  cops after OJ was at her place and found a picture of a man that
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  she dated after their divorce. He was in a fit of rage and she
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  wanted the police to make him leave. Nichole had told her mother that o
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  J was stalking her. She would be getting gas or shopping for shoes,
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  and there he would be watching her. On June twelfth, nineteen ninety four,
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  Nicole took her daughter, a friend, and her mother out to dinner
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  after a dance recital. Nicholl's mother forgot her glasses at the restaurant. Ron
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  Goldman, Nicholl's friend was not their waiter that night, but he did work
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  there at the restaurant. She called him and asked if he could find the
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  glasses and just drop them off after he left work. He lived within walking
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  distance from Nichole's home. Although the twenty five year old Ron was currently working
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  as a waiter, he had plans to open his own bar. He was
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  learning all he could about running a business and he was excited for the future.
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  Unfortunately, he would never get a chance to open his own bar.
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  He was killed that night in June, so was Nicole. The police weren't
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  sure if he went to drop off the glasses and he walked up on Nicole
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  being attacked, or if the two of them were talking when the attacker approached
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  them. A neighbor reported hearing a man yelling Hey over and over. Nikole
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  was stabbed multiple times in the neck and the head. She had a gash
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  across her throats that had severed both carotid arteries. It was so deep that
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  she was nearly decapitated. She had defensive wounds on her hands, and she
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  was found in the fetal position in a pool of blood right outside of her
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  Brentwin home in Los Angeles. Ron's autopsy showed signs of a struggle and twenty
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  five stab wounds. There was a bloody leather glove at the scene. The
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  glove was later found to have blood from Nicole Ron and O. J.
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  Simpson. When the police went to OJ's house that night, they found the
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  match to that bloody glove there. It was also covered in the same blood.
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  On June seventeenth, Oj agreed to turn himself in. When he didn't
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  show up, one of the most famous car chases in American history took place.
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  His white Ford Bronco was spotted, only he wasn't driving it. His
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  friend was and Ojy was in the back with a gun pointed under his own
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  chin. They weren't speeding. In fact, it was called a low speed
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  pursuit. News stations all over the country covered the chase live, even interrupting
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  the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals to air it. Over ninety five million people
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  tuned in to see what would happen. He was finally captured. His friend
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  driving said OJ was not thinking clearly. OJ Simpson was charged with both murders
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  in a highly publicized, extremely controversial trial. That trial started in January of
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  nineteen ninety five and lasted nine months. They showed pictures, called witnesses,
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  played nine one one recordings, and brought in forensic evidence, including the gloves
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  with the dried blood. The country was torn over the case. It became
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  about abuse, it became about race, it became about fame, and the
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  debates got heated. In one of the nine to one one recordings, Nicole
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  can be heard saying, quote, he gets this animalistic look in him.
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  All his veins pop out, his eyes are black and just black, I
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  mean cold, like an animal. But perhaps the most memorable line from the
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  trial was spoken by OJ's defense attorney, If it doesn't fit, you must
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  acquit. What was he talking about fitting the bloody gloves that co prosecutor Christopher
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  Darden asked OJ to try on the gloves left to dry out after the murders
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  had shrunk, and on top of that, OJ was wearing latex gloves under
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  them. OJ, who suffered from arthritis, was also advised not to take
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  his medicine leading up to that day so his hands would be swollen. Simpson
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  tried on the gloves in court to prove they wouldn't fit his hands, and
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  big shocker, they didn't. Whatever the reason, the gloves didn't fit,
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  and after only four hours, the jury composed of mostly African American women,
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  acquitted O. J. Simpson of the charges. The verdict seemed to divide
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  many people across race lines. His not guilty verdict came on the heels of
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  another racially tense not guilty verdict when several LAPD officers were acquitted of beating unarmed
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  Rodney King while another man recorded from his home balcony. That case caused public
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  uproar and led to violent riots in Los Angeles. OJ not only walked out
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  a free man, but he maintained complete custody of his children, even though
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  Nicole's parents fought for them in court. The Browns were not the only ones
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  that took OJ to court. In nineteen ninety seven, Ron Goldman's father brought
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  a civil suit against OJ Simpson. Simpson was found liable for wrongful death,
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  and the Goldmans were awarded thirty three million dollars, although there seemed to always
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  be a problem with collecting the money from OJ Simpson. In two thousand and
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  seven, he finished a book titled If I Did It. The original publisher
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  of the book backed out, but not before one of the only people brave
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  enough to interview O. J. Simpson got some answers. Judith Reagan was
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  the original purchaser of the book's publication under a parent company. She eventually interviewed
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  Simpson herself, although she ended up losing her job and the interview wasn't even
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  aired for ten years. She asked about the topics the country had been discussing.
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  O J, referencing the book, said he was also at his daughter's
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  dance recital that night in June, and noted that Nikole was wearing a short
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  skirt that he did not approve of. While there, he said a friend
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  told him that Nikole had been having wild parties with sex and drugs at her
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  house. He was outraged since his children were there. He went to her
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  house to demand that she stopped what she was doing. The next thing he
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  knew, there was a pool of blood and his friend Charlie was holding the
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  knife that had been in his car. But when he looked down, he
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  was holding the knife. I should note that there was no evidence of anyone
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  else at the scene, no other footprints leading to or from, no DNA
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  from anyone other than the two victims plus O. J. Simpson, and
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  no one knows if a friend named Charlie even existed. The ghostwriter on the
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  book suggested that Charlie was a person created by Simpson to remove himself from the
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  murders. He mostly acknowledged that he committed OJ then said that he went home
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  to catch a flight for a celebrity golf tournament in Chicago and left in a
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  hurry, leaving a trail of evidence behind him. In the interview, he
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  said if Nicole had been more stable as a person, a better spouse,
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  a more responsible mother, that her murder could have been prevented. Reagan said
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  that after the five hour long interview quote. If you listen, he hangs
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  himself on every word. His basic view was that she had it coming,
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  and he saw himself as a victim. When the Goldmans learned about the book,
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  they saw a way to get their money. They went to court over
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  the unpublished book and one copyrights and movie rights. They changed the title to
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  If I Did It Confessions of the Killer, and had a different company publish
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  it. O J. Simpson did eventually serve time in prison. In two
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  thousand and eight, he was found guilty of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
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  He was released in twenty seventeen. In twenty twenty three, OJ announced he
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  had prostate cancer, but said he was determined to beat it. He died
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  April tenth of this year. Simpson was remembered by many on social media.
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  Pictures of him at parties with smiles all around were shared. The sports world
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  recognized a loss of legend. Others, like Ron Goldman's dad, did not
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  have kind words to say. David Zucker, the director of the Naked Gun
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  movies in which Simpson had acted, shared a picture and wrote quote, his
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  acting was a lot like his murdering. He got away with it, but
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  no one believed him. That's ten minute Murder for today Brief and binge able
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  today's story, a couple of the things that you're going to say, Joe,
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  he was found not guilty. He's not guilty. I'm not saying he's
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  guilty. I do believe that oj Simpson is guilty, but I didn't say
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  that he was guilty in this story. So let me head that off at
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  the past because I know that's coming. And number two, there's so much
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  more to the story than you just told. Uh. Yeah, I've got
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  ten minutes to tell the story and that's as condensed as I can possibly get
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  it within those ten minutes. So there's a lot more. Yeah, there's
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  I could talk about OJ Simpson. I can talk about this case for hours.
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  This was the case that I've mentioned it before. They got me super
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  duper interested in true crime. I watched this for the nine months that this
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  was on Court TV. I watched so much of it. I don't think
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  I missed any of it. This story I probably know more than any other
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  homicide case out there. Okay, that's going to do it. That is
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  your episode for today. Thank you so much for listening to ten minute murder