Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - DOUBLE KILLER O.J. SIMPSON GETS SLAP IN THE FACE BEYOND THE GRAVE
Episode Date: July 11, 2026The Buffalo Bills new Wall of Fame at the new Highmark Stadium will not have an exhibit on former running back O.J. Simpson. Bills COO Pete Guelli says Simpson is "not a fit" to be displayed ins...ide the organization's new facility. This decision has sparked a divided response from the fanbase as many still do not believe "The Juice" as he was known, killed ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. A group called the "Committee to Preserve OJ Simpson's Place in Buffalo Bills History" has actively started a petition to demand the team reverse its stance, citing Simpson's undeniable on-field accomplishments and his legacy as an MVP. A stunning interview the former NFL star gave in 2006 leaves no doubt. The remarkable video was forgotten until it was rediscovered in an office that was being cleaned at FOX Studios. Simpson's purportedly hypothetical scenario of what happened at Nicole's condo the night of June 12, 1994 was on it. Nancy Grace is joined by death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan, Judge Ashley Wilcott, and Investigative reporter Art Harris.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Take that, Orenthall James Simpson.
That's right.
O.J. Simpson finally gets one of the many, many slaps in the face.
He deserves.
Some would argue he deserved the death penalty for a double murder.
That did not happen.
But at least now, revenge best served cold.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. In the last hours, we learn the bills, the Buffalo Bills, refused to honor O.J. Simpson at Highmark Stadium in Western New York as part of the team's family circle area just outside the incredible venue. They're moving into this brand new stadium, and they're leaving part of their past behind them.
They say, quote, we have made an organizational decision that he has not fit to display inside our new stadium in Family Circle.
That according to the bill's president of business operations, Pete Guell.
Well, it's about time somebody said double murder and domestic abuse trumps being an all-star athlete.
Now, the Family Circle will include American Bison statutes and plaques that honor.
the past great football players who wore the bills jersey, the red, and the blue.
Simpson spent nine of his 11 years in the NFL with the bills.
He led the league and rushing four times, including the 73 season.
That was when he eclipsed the 2,000-yard plateau.
But none of it, none of it.
All the football glory, all the gridiron,
greatness cannot erase the bloodstain on the memory of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.
This is what happened.
After all this time, Simpson confesses and it is caught on tape.
I'm Nancy Grace.
This is Crime Stories.
Thank you for being with us.
Joining me, of course, is Alan Duke.
Alan, you're there in L.A. weighing in on this.
the story of how this apparent confession video was lost for a dozen years is crazy.
I was invited to Fox Studios in Los Angeles to view the raw video,
even as they were still working to turn it into the documentary that just aired.
Work on the original documentary was abandoned in 2006, for what reason?
I'm not sure.
But I was told it was forgotten about lost, found only in recent weeks
when they were clearing out an office at Fox Television.
When they put the tape in an old machine to see what it was,
were stunned, but quickly realized how valuable and significant it was. And it took them little time
to hire Soledad O'Brien to help turn it into the show that was aired this month by Fox Television.
Let's just kick it off. Take a listen to O.J. Simpson in his own words. Six uninterrupted
minutes. O.J. puts himself hypothetically at the scene of the crime. The chapter,
chapter six is called The Night in Question. And you write in the book,
Now picture this and keep in mind that this is hypothetical.
Hypothetical.
Why don't you tell me what might have happened on the night of June 12th,
1999.
And let's just walk through the night.
Well, first of all, this is very difficult for me to do this.
It was very difficult for me because it's hypothetical.
I know and I accept the fact that people are going to feel whatever way they're going to feel.
You know, they're going to, you know, whatever they want to feel.
whatever they want to fill. In the book, the hypothetical is Charlie.
Charlie.
This guy Charlie shows up, the guy where I recently become friends with. And I don't know why
you'd been buying the Cole's house, but it told me you wouldn't believe what's going
on over that. And I remember thinking, well, whatever's going over there has got to stop, right?
So we kind of hooked up together and, you know, I'm kind of broad stroking this.
We go over, get into Morocco and go over it.
Let's just go back and do the details.
Where did you park?
I'm looking to the detail.
You park.
In the hypothetical, in the alley.
Right.
You park in the alley.
Yeah.
And you put on a wool cap and gloves.
In hypothetical, I put on cap and gloves.
Right.
And you reached under the seat for...
A knife.
I always kept a knife, a hot car for the crazies and stuff,
because you can't travel with a gun.
And I remember Charlie saying, you ain't bringing that, and I didn't, right?
But I believe he took it.
Charlie took the knife?
Yeah. In the book.
Yeah.
Yes.
So the back gate, you go through the back gate.
Yes.
And it was open or broken or broken?
I don't recall.
Okay.
I go to the front and I'm looking to see what's going on.
And I can see that it appears.
Like Nicole had flot, I had candles all the time.
She really did to keep her overhead down, I think.
And music was on.
And while I was there, a guy shows up.
So Ron Goldman comes in the back gate.
Yeah.
A guy I really didn't recognize.
I may have seen him around, but I really didn't recognize him to be anyone.
And in the mood I was in, I started having words with him.
He says to you, I just came by to return a pair of glasses.
Judy left them at the restaurant.
Yeah, words to that effect, yes.
And he was...
I don't know if I bleed it or didn't believe it.
It was pretty much immaterial because, you know,
I was more concerned about everything that was going on, you know,
and was fed up with it, I guess.
You get into a fight, Nicole comes out.
A verbal, a verbal fight.
Got a little loud, and by that time, Nicole had come out,
and we started having words about who is this guy, why is he here, what's going on?
And she says, this is my house, get the F out of here.
Yes, which I didn't like, because, once again, this is the same person,
and if you read the book, you'll see some things that happened in the two weeks leading up to this.
that were very, very irritating, you know.
And I think Charlie had followed this guy in,
make sure it was no problem.
And he brought the knife.
As things got heated,
I just remember the cold fell and hurt herself.
And this guy kind of got into a karate thing.
And I said, well, you think you can kick my ass?
And I remember I grabbed the knife.
I do remember that portion,
and taking a knife from Charlie.
And to be honest, after that, I don't remember.
Except I'm standing there and there's all kind of stuff around.
What kind of stuff?
But and stuff around.
I hate to say this.
This is hard.
I know we got to back up again.
That's okay.
But this is hard.
This is hard.
I know.
I want to back up to.
It's hard to try to make people think that I'm a, no.
I know.
You wrote in the book, I had never seen so much blood in my life.
Yes.
Covered, you're covered, the scene.
Can you describe it?
It's hard for me to describe it, I'm telling you.
I don't think any two people could be murdered the way they were without everybody been covered in blood.
And, of course, I think we've all seen the grisly pictures after.
So, yeah, I think everything was covered.
It would have been covered in blood.
What goes through your mind at a time like that?
I don't know. It's like what happened.
Right.
You write about removing a glove before taking the knife from Charlie?
You know, I had no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have because they found a glove there.
And blacking out. Have you ever blacked out before?
Not to my knowledge.
No. Of course, of course, if something like this would take place in anybody's life, if it were to happen, I would imagine it's something that you would probably automatically have trouble wrapping your mind around it.
It was horrible. It was absolutely horrible.
Staggering firsthand details about the crime scene, which he says are hypothetical.
You wrote in the book, I had never seen so much blood in my life.
Yes. It's hard for me to describe it, I'm telling. I don't think any two people could be murdered the way they were without everybody been covered in blood.
Then you see bloody footprints and you decide to take off...
Yes. Actually, I believe Charlie kept saying we got to get out of here.
And in the book you described taking off your shoes, your pants and your shirt and dropping it in a bundle. Do you remember that?
And do you remember what happens next?
Because what are you going to do with?
Somebody's got to get rid of, as you may have called during the trial,
and say wear the bloody clothes,
and somebody had to get rid of the bloody clothes.
Right.
And you had left your keys and wallet in your pants pocket,
and you had to go back and get it?
You know, to be honest, I think, I know that to be true, yes, yes.
And Charlie is hysterical screaming,
Jesus Christ, RJ, Jesus Christ.
And you tell him to shut up.
Yeah, he's in a panic.
He was in a panic.
And I'm telling him to shut up.
Let's get out of here.
So you get back in the car?
You've taken your clothes, put them in the bundle?
And drove back and it parked a block away because I knew the limo would be there and came across the backyard through the two tennis courts and, you know, came through the house.
So you went through the neighbors?
Yeah, he had a tennis court.
Then I had a tennis court.
And you go into the house and what happens in the house?
I ran upstairs to take a shower.
I actually ran upstairs and took some of my bags and came back downstairs and put them out front.
Joining me right now, forensic expert in his field,
Professor of Forensics at Jacksonville State University,
Joseph Scott Morgan, also with me, a sitting judge, renowned victim's advocate,
Ashley Wilcott, also with me Emmy Award-winning reporter investigative journalist Art Harris.
Art Harris, you know Simpson, you have covered the story forever.
You were there during the entire drama.
You know, some things never changed, do they art?
Nancy, what shocks me, people would come up to me like they probably did you
and ask, do you think he's guilty?
Well, after covering him for 24 years and hearing this confession, which I would call it,
they can't ever ask me a question again.
This is OJ recreating a lot of the things that we believe
and reported from other sources.
He is telling us how he did the crime hypothetically,
but it doesn't come off that way because he shifts into the first person.
And it is really, really disgusting to listen to a convicted killer who,
once upon a time, was making money off, or would have off this book and off the interview.
Out to Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe Scott, when you hear it laid out that way,
It addresses every question that was raised at trial.
Way in from your point of view.
Yeah, what we have, Nancy, is that this hypothetical that he puts forward actually kind of marries up with a lot of the things that we see presented vis-a-vis the crime scene reports at the Tom and his presence there.
And that's the key to all of this connectivity between.
him and the violence that was exacted on these people.
Let's keep in mind, Nancy, his, you know, revisiting past history here, his DNA doesn't
just show up miraculously at the scene.
It was physically there.
It was physically adjacent to other evidence at that scene, and it's quite compelling.
So, yeah, it just baffles my mind as.
as a death investigator that we're literally sitting here listening to him,
kind of narrate this event in this odd, bizarre way that he does,
you know, and kind of, you know, embroidered with this bizarre laughter that he insults every now.
Yeah, you know, Ashley Wilcott, the laughter is so bizarre is a good way to describe it.
But the way, I mean, you look at him in the face, Ashley, and you and I have had so many
lying witnesses on the stand and
watch them, looks right
at my old friend Judith
Regan and
says Charlie told him
all this. And with a straight
face, with a straight
face. And what a
crazy hypothetical.
This so-called Charlie,
no last name, says
man, did you know what's happening
over there? I mean, from Simpson's
home, you cannot see what's
happening at Bundy.
Okay, you can't see what's happening in Nicole Brown's home.
So this Charlie person comes in and says, hey, you know what's happening over there?
And they get in the car and go over.
And now we learn Simpson keeps his knife under his seat, Ashley.
If I were the sitting judge and if this hypothetical scenario slash confession were being said in front of me as his testimony,
I would find him not credible, insincere.
The laughter, all the things that you've described, Nancy, you know as well as I do.
There's no sincerity.
He is not credible.
I do not believe and would not believe this is a hypothetical.
I think it's a confessionist to exactly what happened.
Okay.
I agree with you.
With me, everybody.
Forensics expert, Joseph Scott Morgan, Ashley Wilcott and Emmy Award winning journalist, Art Harris.
Listen to OJ Simpson.
Seeing her and leaning over and kissing her.
Can you tell me that story?
Well, no, it was tough. I just remember seeing her there. And I still had so many feelings of,
if you're angry with a person upon their death, you know, if you're angry with somebody about
whatever's going on in your life, when they die, it's not like that anger disappears, right?
And because of the 911 call when I'm yelling at her about what's going on, it was like I want,
it was almost like I want to say, I told you, didn't I tell you, didn't I say to you, you know,
whatever the hell was going on.
So you still got those kind of feelings in you,
and you still are trying to deal with,
I'm not going to be able to say this to this person.
I'm never going to be able to change this person's mind.
I'm never going to have an effect on this person again.
What did you say to her when you leaned over and kissed her?
I don't know if I said anything, to be honest with you.
I've told that some person said they're hurting me, say, I'm sorry.
I just recall Judy Brown pulling me over, look at me in the eyes.
If you have anything to do with this, and I know I told her no.
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Well, the Bill's got a backbone and stood up to the memory of O.J. Simpson refusing to include him in the, quote, family circle outside their brand new stadium.
Congratulations, Bills, because a lot of football lovers refuse to believe O.J. Simpson did it.
Even though he writes a book, if I did it.
and lays out the scenario of the murders.
But his on-field greatest moments that led to his membership in the Hall of Fame
are overshadowed by the murders of his beautiful ex-wife, Nicole Brown,
and her friend Ron Goldman.
The brutality is something I will never forget.
To Art Harris joining me, you know, Art, you know all the players so much.
well, even after her death, he's still angry. And what it boils down to is he's angry at the thought
she may be with another man. That's right, Nancy. He looks in the window when he goes over. He sees
candles and he's claiming, oh, she's saving money on lights, but he knows she's in there
for a romantic evening with Ron Goldman, and he, the guy shows up, and he cannot contain
himself and really starts, picks a fight, and then blames it on Ron Goldman. Well, he got into a
karate stance, and he's like challenging me, and I had a knife, so I basically had to kill him.
I mean, he doesn't, he says he blacks out. But Nancy, everything they found at the scene here
matches up to the police investigation that the defense tried to debunk. Remember? No bloody
footprints, no DNA. I mean, everything is now confirmed by his hypothetical confession.
He's got blood all over him.
He's got bloody footprints there that match the Bruno Magley shoes the FBI proved he was wearing.
And, I mean, it's unbelievable that this fills in the gaps of all the evidence that was supposedly faulty evidence, Nancy.
And it's now confirmed the glove.
He admits he dropped the glove at the scene.
So that means Mark Furman was telling the truth.
you know, the witness they put up to try to scapegoat the LAPD, suddenly OJ. Simpson has just
shown the defense to be a complete charade and, you know, as we suspected.
You know, I look back on all that time, Ashley Wilcott, that I co-hosted Cochran and
Grace with Johnny Cochran, God rest his soul. And so often until I kept getting the same answer,
I quit asking him.
I would say,
Cochran, you know he did it.
You know he did it.
Every time, Ashley,
Johnny would say the same thing.
He'd hold up both his hands like, I don't know,
and he'd say, jury acquitted him.
That was always his answer.
It was well practiced
because people were always coming up to him saying that.
So that was his answer,
and it was true.
The jury did acquit him.
But I got to tell you, Ashley,
it is a kick in the stomach,
a kick in the teeth to hear Simpson say this because for me having been a crime victim
to think about the Goldman and the Brown family having to hear this after all these years.
I mean, it's nothing they didn't know, but it's just so incendiary, Ashley.
Well, and even if it's something you don't know, once you hear the actual person saying it
in his own words, that changes it. You may think you know, like we know he did it,
But then to hear him describe all of this in his own words, I think if I were the victim, I'd feel like,
okay, he had a great defense team.
But even so, how did he get acquitted?
How could he not be convicted?
The evidence was there.
Now we hear his words proving the evidence.
How in the world did this man not get convicted?
That's how I would feel.
Guys, thank you for calling it at 909-492-7463.
Let's go to the calls.
Yeah, my question is about O.J. Sensen hypoena.
hypothetical confession.
I'm wanting to know if, I know the double jeopardy rule and everything that he could never be charged again with their murders.
But I want to know if there's anything else he could be charged with, if he was to, you know, actually say he did it.
So that's kind of what I'm wanting to know if, you know, anybody could charge him with anything else.
if he confessed. Thanks for the question. Ashley sadly, even with an outright confession,
he cannot be retried because of double jeopardy. That's right. He cannot. In some countries,
you can be, not in the United States. This is hypothetical. Hypothetical. I just wonder why he had to
resort to such a terrible way to assuage his hate or something similar to that. I still don't believe he
did it. I believe Nicole was tied up with a lot of people that do, they're still drugs, and I believe
that they're the ones that killed her. Let's go back to O.J. Simpson, essentially confessing,
occasionally throwing in, oh, yeah, this is hypothetical, but clearly he is confessing to the night
he committed a double murder. Listen. What was the hardest thing for you at that time,
that people, you write in the book that you couldn't believe that people thought you were a murderer?
to believe that it seemed so easy listening to TV that week that it was that easy for people
to believe that I could kill two people. I thought that my whole life meant something. I thought
the type of guy that I had lived my life being pretty upstanding guy. I mean, like everybody
had my faults, like most men in my position, sometimes temptations of the flesh is there, you
know. But for the most part, I've always thought I was a straight shooter, straight shooter.
in any event
that was hard for me to
accept that it was so easy
for people to
believe that
Okay, is he insane?
I guess the answer would have to be yes at this point
because Art Harris,
you know Simpson's character
you have investigated him for so long
you know he's deeply involved in drugs,
cheated, beat his wife
I mean how many 911 calls were there
where he beat Nicole Brown.
I never will forget that photo of her up in the courtroom
with their face all swollen up and black and blue
because of him.
Those 911 calls where he's beating the door down
to try to get at her and beat her.
Almost sounded inhuman.
That's right, Nancy.
So now he's saying he's a pretty good guy.
What?
And Nancy, I mean, the LAPD's district office nearby
was almost on speed dial for Nicole's
a number because he was so abusive and violent. And of course, then blamed it on her. This was
the poster child for domestic violence. And he really created an awareness that we now are sensitive
to. But this was, it was horrific to hear what she went through. And then now we have him
blaming her again. I know he did a tremendous amount of drugs. She was trying to get him to
cut down on the Coke, according to people I interviewed. And he, he,
He has been the one to blame her for partying, and now, of course, blames her for having to do what he did because he caught her with another man.
He had just bought her a Ferrari.
He had just paid for her cosmetic surgery.
And he says in this interview, she was looking pretty good.
Well, he went over that night to, quote, as he said in the interview, to, quote, get some.
Well, he didn't.
And suddenly she's lying there, Nancy, in a pool of blood, blood he's got all over him.
And, of course, the trial discounts all that.
You know, another thing, Ashley Wilcott, that I hate about this is that even in death, he's dragging her through the mud, claiming that he heard through the grapevine she was having group sex parties at the home.
That's what he says.
And I know Jackie just turned around and gave me a look, but that's what he's saying, that that is what he went over there to stop.
He is a classic abuser and he's narcissistic because he thinks, oh, it's everybody else's fault and everybody else is at fault and I didn't do anything wrong.
I still don't think he thinks he did anything wrong even in killing these two individuals.
Not to Joe Scott Morgan, Joe, I want you to hear this next sound.
Listen to Simpson essentially confessing a double murder.
And yes, he has walked free. Listen.
So I had run into her, which they tried to say was stalking because her and her,
some friends were at an opening of a restaurant, I was there with like 16 people. So I'm
stuck in you, I'm stucking you with my crew. You know, we're all there too, you know. And I saw
her and I went over and spoke to her in her group. Then I went out to with my group to a party,
but on the way home, I'd say, I'll see if she's home. Because if she's still up, I don't know how
late she stayed out, you know, maybe, you know, I can get something. In any event, in any of it,
as I approached her front door, she has a window right along the walkway there.
I can hear something and I can see movement.
And when I look, I can obviously see she was involved in something.
I don't know who it's with or what.
And I hit the door and left.
When you knocked on the door?
No, I just hit the door.
I wanted them to be aware that somebody's around and maybe they'd move or something.
That's why I didn't even look.
I just hit the door twice and left.
Alan, what happened to Charlie?
because now he has dropped all pretense of a hypothetical.
I guess he forgot about Charlie, and you know I'm using ear quotes, Alan.
Charlie is a fictional name in allegedly hypothetical situation.
There's a lot of speculation on who Charlie is.
Charlie could still be tried, right?
I mean, if we could figure out who Charlie is.
Alan, what are you saying?
There is no Charlie.
What do you even?
I said he's a fictional person in a hypothetical.
scenario, but it's probably real
what OJ is they. It sounds so
real. I believe there's a Charlie.
I really believe, and who is it?
I think that there could be another person
who went by Nicole's house
the night of the
murders, saw something going on, went
and told OJ and then went with him.
I think he's actually telling the
truth. Okay.
Ashley Wilcott,
there is no evidence
at all of
a Charlie. I don't
know if Alan Duke is listening to the same interview I am, but at this point in the interview,
he's not even discussing Charlie anymore. He forgot about him because he doesn't exist, Ashley.
He did forget about him. And not only that, even if you want to think, well, maybe there's a
Charlie, he is not credible. He is not reliable. Listen to his testimony. The fact that Nicole is
dead and he's talking about, oh, I want to go get some, nothing he has said sounds at all remotely
credible, including a Charlie he's now forgotten about.
Well, another thing to you, Joe Scott Morgan, you have studied the autopsy over and over and over.
Actually, autopsies, there's no evidence that there was a second perpetrator.
No, no.
There's not, Nancy.
I think a lot of people, and if I could just interject this, I actually sat across the table at a luncheon many years ago,
across the table from Dr. Irwin Golden.
And Dr. Golden is the person that actually did the autopsies on Nicole and Ron.
And I remember looking at him and thinking about the things that he had seen in the autopsy room,
much like stuff that I had seen over my years and whatnot,
and thinking this man of science is sitting there,
and he knows what he bore witness to in that autopsy room
and just thinking that he's in an upside-down universe because no one was buying for whatever reason.
Maybe it was because of late Johnny Cochran this hard evidence that we had.
And at the end of the day, that's what this all comes down to is the hard evidence.
Many people out there, it's been put forth that both of these people were staffed.
Nancy, they were not staff.
These injuries, when you look at these autopsy reports, these are incised injuries.
And what that means is that the leading edge of a blade was drug across the surface of the skin.
It's not like they were poked or something like this.
Nicole's throat was cut so deeply that it went down to her cervical spine, Nancy.
And it's not just once or twice.
It's several times.
Can I just put it in language that everybody will understand?
She had her head chopped off.
Her cervical spine is your neck.
She was decapitated.
There was a layer of skin holding her head on.
The cut went so deep through her with such ferocity.
It went all the way through her neck and left her head hanging by the skin in the back of her neck.
Is that right?
Yeah, yeah, it is, Nancy. And these injuries can only be achieved in one of two ways.
Either someone was on top of her, slicing her, or they were behind her. Her head held back,
probably at the forehead with a knife being drugged across the front of her throat all the way down.
This isn't a one-off circumstance. He, you know, he's sitting there arrogantly, say,
and this is what really reached out and grabbed me about the whole interview.
You know, well, anybody that would have been there, we'd all be covered with blood.
Yeah, you know you were covered with blood.
He was covered with the blood of both of these people.
Matter of fact, he was super saturated.
He was saturated so much.
We've never been able to find those clothes now, have we?
And he divested himself with these clothing because it was so, he was so saturated.
He knows what happened, Nancy.
he knows what happened.
Take a listen to Orenthal James Simpson in his own words.
Doing that 911 tape that everybody hears me yelling,
I'm saying, I don't want these girls around my kids.
And that's the only thing that argument on that 911 tape was about.
I went to her house in the bread or not riot act.
I did what any father would do.
And yet, you know, people listen to that tape and made me this horrible person.
Whenever they hear that 911 take, can you believe he's yelling at her about this?
Well, when the cops came, it became a parent.
She said, I was yelling to her about this and only this.
That's the only reason I was there reading her the riot act is I don't want these people around my kids.
Well, I mean, the obvious thing, Ashley, is if he had wanted a say in his children's life,
he wouldn't have beaten Nicole, black and blue, threatened to kill her on so many occasions.
They finally broke up, and she was living with the children.
There's a reason she had custody, Ashley, and it's not because everybody,
thought he was a bad person is because he's violent. Right. And for him to say, oh, I did what every
father or any, no, he said, I did what any father would do is insulting to fathers because he
absolutely did not do what most fathers would do to go over there and attack her verbally. And again,
make sure she's the victim of domestic violence in front of those kids is not right. Here we go.
O.J. Simpson. I want to talk about the first time you met Nicole Brown. Yes. Where was it? It was
right on ordeal, a place called a Daisy.
It's a little breakfast place.
And I ran into a friend of mine.
He said, let's have breakfast.
And when we walked in, this vision turned to me and said,
where do you want to sit?
And I remember thinking, what a gorgeous girl.
But I can't deal with this.
So it was three days later when I came back.
I went back into the days and was having lunch with the owner.
And she came back in.
And I said, man, I would really like to take this girl out.
And he called her over.
and introduces us and, you know, said, hey, this is one of the good guys.
And you were together from then on?
Well, yeah, well, I had to take her before we went to the party.
I had to explain to her that I was married.
But I wasn't married.
You know, it sounded like a line.
But after we talked, I think she believed me.
And we're together ever since.
You know what's weird about that, Art Harris?
He talks like, I would ask you, where did you meet Carol, your wife?
Well, it seems like he's kind of glossing over the fact that he murdered her.
Oh, yeah, this is a justification. Well, you know, she was this beautiful waitress, this woman who I met, and, you know, I finally got to hook up with her, and we lived happily ever after.
I mean, this is someone who in the middle of confessing later that he sliced her to pieces is talking and laughing about the first time he met her as, you know, as he's this little infatuated young guy.
But in fact, she is his possession, and it explains why he was so enraged that she would dare be with another man after, of course, he'd beaten her senseless for years.
This is someone who feels justified in protecting all his possessions.
And she was one of his possessions that he's furious left him.
O.J. Simpson now describes the Bronco Chase.
I'm going to go back to the Bronco.
And if you can just give me some of the details of what you said to each other and some of the...
Well, going there, it wasn't a lot of conversation, but basically it was just...
You had a gun?
Yeah, but it was in the bag in the back at that point, with the pictures and stuff.
The police liked to say it was with a passport.
I always had my passport there.
They said I had $10,000.
I think I had like $3 and something that changed.
As a matter of fact, when I was let out of jail, after my trial, and they were giving me all my things back,
all the stuff that was in the Bronco, that was mine back.
I said, where's the $10,000?
Where's my $10,000 that you guys claimed that I had?
What are you thinking you're in the car?
I'm still in the back of the truck, and I can't believe what I'm seeing,
because every time we go by intersections, it was like,
where did these people get the time to make these signs, go OJ and stuff?
What was strange is I was being depicted as a fugitive on the radio,
but from the side of the roads, it was more people cheering.
I feel like I could use a shrink right now because instead of focusing on the fact that he is on a slow speed chase from police after his wife, his ex-wife has been murdered and his children no longer have a mother and he's suspect number one.
He's talking about people holding up posters.
That's what his mind remembers.
Art Harris, I remember that.
but what I remember is him getting away from police,
holding himself hostage with a gun the whole time,
and he did not travel with his passport all the time.
He took it because he was trying to figure out where he was going to go,
but he never made it.
He's rewriting history again.
Nancy, that's right.
In fact, but he forgets to tell us he also had that disguise, you know,
that he might be wearing if he were to make it to the California-Mexico border where he was
headed. And he doesn't talk about the long phone conversation he had with the LAPD homicide
detective Tom Lange who was trying to talk him out of, quote, killing himself. Well, you know,
we thought he felt so guilty about what he had done that that's what was going on. But here he is
making light of that whole thing. We see what is really.
going through his head is his fans.
If he thinks people still love him, hey, that's what he wants to hear.
And so this is real disconnect, Nancy, with what was going on at the time.
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Of course, Simpson was acquitted in the murder charges there in L.A.
Many people claim it was jury nullification.
He was then ordered to pay $33.5 million to both the Browns.
and Goldman family, which he never paid.
He then goes on to serve nine years behind bars over a robbery in kidnapping,
where he busted into a Vegas hotel to confront dealers of memorabilia that he wrongfully claimed belonged to him.
He got out of that jam, November 2017, then spent the rest of his life chasing Nicole Brown lookalikes and living the high life,
signing autographs and bars and restaurants, getting free tea times and meals.
But now he's having supper with Satan.
Enjoy.
Why do I say that?
Because of the facts.
It's all about the facts.
You know, Ashley Wolcott, it's just the same scenario.
It doesn't really change.
The person goes on the run.
They have a big wad of cash.
They have a disguise.
I'm glad you reminded me of that art because I've forgotten that.
detail. Got a gun,
money, passport, disguise.
When a cop comes up behind me,
I pull over
because I don't want to make it worse.
I also don't want to get shot.
I don't want to get beat up.
You do what the cop tells you to do.
He was running
from the cops.
Bam, that's what was happening.
Yep, and he almost sounded like he got off
on it because he was like, oh, I saw all these
people cheering. It was great.
And so keep in mind, though, we can't attribute rational thought to this man who has murdered two people.
So he was running from the cop.
Okay, take a listen to this.
I loved her to know him, you know, and always loved her.
You know, I think what happened, it became reverse of what she said to me when she wanted to divorce.
I loved her, but I didn't like her.
I wasn't in love with her.
That's what she had said to me to get a divorce.
And I kind of figured that's where we were at at the time of her death.
I loved her, but I wasn't in love with her, you know, and to some degree I didn't really like her.
I thought she was losing herself.
Did you feel lost?
In many ways.
You know, it's almost like you were, Ron and Nicole were physically dead and it's almost
like they killed me.
Who I was was attacked and murdered also in that short period of time.
And once again, to this day, it bugs me that it seems that people wanted me to be guilty.
That really, really bothered me.
But even sometimes it's day, it's just, I'm a little calcified to it all the day.
I can, you know, my friends and family and I, because of so many stories and the tabloids that are not true, we just live with it, you know.
I loved her to know it to know it, you know, and always loved her.
And yes, O.J. Simpson's guilty. I knew that and it happened back in the 90s. What a joke.
There must have been other ways that he could have addressed his problem and not resolved, as I said, to murder.
Did you feel lost?
In many ways.
You know, it's almost like you were, Ron and Nicole were physically dead, and it's almost
like they killed me.
Who I was was attacked and murdered also.
Did I just hear that, Art Harris?
They killed him.
He feels like they killed him.
That's right, Nancy.
This is unbelievable, but it explains why for so long he's able to distance himself in his mind
from the horror that he did to these two people.
He's a sociopath who can rationalize anything he does by compartmentalizing his, the murders.
And, you know, as I write on my website, Art Harris.com, that now he can no longer run, Nancy.
Every time he looks in the mirror after we hear this confession, he's going to look in the mirror
and see the killer staring back at him.
But, you know, Joe Scott Morgan, you and I've handled so many murder cases, I swear, I don't think he,
understands. I don't think he looks in the mirror and sees a double killer. I think he looks in the mirror and sees a superstar.
Yeah, I'd agree. I think that, you know, playing pop psychologist here, I think he's, you know, a narcissistic, you know, a person that views himself is above all of this, you know, all of these tawdry details.
They're not tawdry details. These are two people that he's slaughtered. And, you know,
You were just discussing with art, this idea that, you know, that they killed him.
What level of arrogance does that take?
But, you know, you see this repeated over and over again, and that's what brings us back home, Nancy,
is that O.J. Simpson is no different than anybody else we've ever investigated.
It's just that he's got a higher profile, and he's gotten away with it.
You know, a lot of people don't have the advantages that he had.
You know, they can't get a million-dollar dream teams.
the best forensic scientist in the world to come in and talk on their behalf.
At the end of the day, he's a thug.
That's what it comes down to.
Take a listen to Simpson in his confession.
When she asked for the separation in 1992, you write in the book,
I felt like I'd been kicked in the...
It was absolutely shocking.
Her and her mother had been to New York a few weeks before that.
She had talked about how happy she was.
She had gotten her body completely back.
She was looking great.
she was finally wearing all her fancy stuff.
Well, I realized, no, it was because she had a boy for it.
I didn't know this.
That must have really got you right.
Well, I didn't know she had a boy, but of course it hurts.
I didn't think it would happen, and for two or three months, I pursued her to no end until I saw her with another guy.
And at that point, what are you going to do?
A girl's with another guy.
I mean, you'd be an idiot.
You know, he's still talking about her being with other people.
I mean, Art Harris, Ashley Wilcott, Joe Scott Morgan, let me throw this.
to Ashley, how many beatings does it take until Nicole finally decided to divorce? She didn't divorce
him to date other people. She divorced him because he wouldn't stop beating her. And what's so sad
in this case is that's a typical victim, right? Once you become a victim of domestic violence,
it is very hard to walk away to know how to escape because of the cycle of domestic violence when
you are a victim. So here she did things to protect herself, which can be very hard to do.
She got a divorce. She walked away. She tried to get away from his abusive, abusive fists,
and yet he comes after her and kills her. So it's really a tragic story. And Nancy,
please don't make me listen to his laugh anymore. It is so sadistic. And throughout this entire
interview, does that laugh just not get right under your skin? You just want to read it. You just want to
reach out and strangle them.
You know, I felt that when he starts laughing and we're talking about a double murder.
And I guess it's over the years, been airbrushed and edited and produced.
But a murder scene, much less a double murder scene of this nature, it's really hard for me to describe, having been to so many murder scenes.
First of all, this is not a asphyxiation.
This is a bloodletting in the front yard.
There was so much blood.
Cops were sopping through it.
There were bloody footprints, which of course matched up to his shoes everywhere.
The victim's bodies had been lying out there for a period of time.
She had essentially been decapitated.
It was awful.
It was terrible.
sticky, smelly,
filthy, murder scene
with two young people dead.
You know, I always believed Art Harris,
and you know a lot more about this aspect than I do,
that he was drugged out of his gourd that night.
Well, Nancy, he had been doing probably cocaine
and had been drinking as he often did,
and he felt he was in rage.
This was such a rage killing.
He could not have Nicole anymore, and so he probably snapped and did not want anyone else to have her either.
She was his possession, as so many abusers feel about the women they beat and ultimately often kill.
This is a man who does it and then justifies what he's done and goes home and takes a shower, as he says in part of this interview.
and his friend, somebody gets rid of those bloody clothes we never see again.
So this is someone who killed his wonderful wife and got away with it because he had and could afford the best lawyer's money can buy.
I mean, the thing that got me, Nancy, is the blood.
There was so much of it.
So how did DNA not work?
Well, as I write in my blog, Art Harris.com, that's because they board,
the jury to death with the probability of DNA.
And they picked a jury that didn't have any math, high school math, or science.
They knocked out anyone who had any knowledge and could apply it to this bloody crime scene.
And that's how he got off.
Listen to O.J. Simpson talking about the night Nicole and Ron are murdered.
In the book, the hypothetical is...
Charlie.
This guy Charlie shows up, the guy where I recently become friends with.
And I don't know why you had been by in the Cole's house,
but it told me you wouldn't believe what's going on over that.
And I remember thinking, well, whatever's going over there has got to stop, right?
So we kind of hooked up together, and, you know, I'm kind of broad-strand.
strokeness, we go over, get into Morocco and go over it.
Let's just go back and do the details. Where did you park?
I'm looking to the detail.
You park-
And the hypothetical, go in the alley.
Right. You park in the alley.
Yeah.
And you put on a wool cap and gloves.
In hypothetical, I put on a cap and gloves.
Right.
And you reached under the seat for...
A knife.
A knife.
I always kept a knife, a hot car for the crazies and stuff,
because you can't travel with a gun.
And I remember Charlie saying,
you ain't bringing that, and I didn't, right?
But I believe he took it.
Charlie took the knife?
Yeah.
In the book.
Yes.
So the back gate, you go through the back gate?
Yes.
And it was open or broken?
I don't recall.
Okay.
I go to the front, and I'm looking to see what's going on.
And I can see that it appears.
Like Nicole had flot, I had candles all the time.
She really did to keep her overhead down, I think.
And music was on.
And while I was there, a guy shows up.
So Ron Goldman comes in the back gate.
Yeah.
A guy I really didn't recognize.
I may have seen him around, but I really didn't recognize him to be anyone.
And in the mood I was in, I started having words with him.
He says to you, I just came by to return a pair of glasses.
Judy left them at the restaurant.
Yeah, words to that effect, yes.
And I don't know if I bleed it or didn't believe it.
It was pretty much immaterial because, you know,
I was more concerned about everything that was going on, you know,
and was fed up with it, I guess.
You get into a fight, Nicole comes out.
A verbal fight.
A verbal fight.
Got a little loud.
that time Nicole had come out and we started having words about who is this guy
why is he here what's going on and she says this is my house get that the F out of
here yes and which I didn't like because once again this is the same person
and if you read the book you'll see some things that happened in the two weeks
leading up to this that were very very irritating you know and I think Charlie had
this guy in, make sure it was no problem. And he brought the knife. As things got heated,
I just remember the cold fell and hurt herself. And this guy kind of got into a karate thing.
And I said, well, you think you can kick my ass? And I remember I grabbed the knife.
I do remember that portion, taking a knife from Charlie. And to be honest, after that, I don't remember.
except I'm standing there
and there's all kind of stuff around
and
what kind of stuff?
What kind of stuff around?
It's been reported by ESPN
the bills are considering honoring Simpson
at the new stadium this spring.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Their first game
at Highmark Stadium set for September 17
against the Lions
and we will be watching.
We wait
as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace, crime story signing off.
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