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Psychology.
Simpson murder case
The Event Former football star O. J. Simpson is
charged with the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife
and her friend
Date January 24-October 3, 1995
Place Los Angeles, California
The Simpson murder case was the 1990’s “trial of the cen-
tur y” that included all the ingredients of a sensational news
stor y: domestic violence, murder, celebrity, and live television
coverage. Race also was a key issue in this high-profile case,
because O. J. Simpson was an African American man
charged with killing two white people in a countr y that had
been struggling with racism and bigotr y for centuries.
On June 12, 1994, O. J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole
Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, a
waiter at the restaurant where she had just dined,
were found stabbed and slashed to death in front of
her home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of
Brentwood. A pair of bloody gloves and other evi-
dence found at the scene led police to suspect that
O. J. Simpson was the murderer.
The Slow-Speed Chase Five days after the mur-
ders, Los Angeles police issued an all-points bulletin
for Simpson’s arrest after he failed to voluntarily
turn himself in to authorities and hinted in a letter
that he may attempt suicide. Police spotted Simpson
riding in a white Ford Bronco down a Los Angeles
freeway. When police discovered that Simpson had aThe Nineties in America Simpson murder case 775
O. J. Simpson and attorneys discuss strategy for cross-examining a forensic scientist during Simpson’s 1995 murder trial.(AP/Wide
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