call from the coroner s office. and this individual said to me, did you hear on the news today that nicole brown was killed? and your son was the other person. that s how we found out, over the phone. two of us stood there crying our eyes out. through his shock, fred knew he had to tell his daughter, kim, who sensed something was wrong the minute she heard his voice on the phone. he said, did you hear the news at all today? i said no, what s going on dad? he just said ron had died and ron was killed. i don t remember too much after that. i just remembered screaming and he told me to get home. ron goldman was just 25, handsome, athletic, popular. love you very much and i ll see you soon. bye.
judge lance ito s courtroom was now part of our popular culture. o.j. l.a. o.j. l.a. it was o.j. every day. products. pundits. and a whole new class of tv shows that yammered about everything that happened that day in court. hi, everyone, i am geraldo riviera. the face of a batterer, an abuser, a controller, the face of ron and nicole s murderer. if the audience loved it. 12 jurors didn t see it. because they were sequestered, confined to this high-rise hotel a few blocks from the courthouse. one of the jurors who actually decided the case. for 265 days, more than eight months, their lives were limited to a courtroom and a hotel room. if you are not in any common
educating others about domestic violence and now runs a speaker s bureau to get the word out. kim goldman recently has written a book about her experiences and has a young son whose middle name is ronald. ron was a good human being. her father fred hopes to retire this year, and insists he will continue dogging simpson forever. kato kaelin is in los angeles and among many projects has a clothing line. kris jenner, well, you know. and that famous ford bronco? it s still on the road. a businessman now owns it and rents it out for parties and events. i wish to assert my fifth amendment privilege. as for mark fuhrman there was never any evidence that he planted anything. however, he did plead no contest to one count of perjury for
the time of the murders, to show that simpson was alone and unaccounted for for at least an hour. enough time to kill ron and nicole. kato kaelin took the stand to testify about that night he was with simpson. but first, came one of those kato moments. did you think your friendship with him, your acquaintanceship, living on his property might send acting roles your way? i didn t think that. i didn t think we were going for the same parts. i was just being me. it wasn t about the spotlight. it was just how i am. but kaelin was serious when he detailed the sequence of events before and after the murders from the trip the two took to mcdonald s. to those three strange sounds he heard at 10:35 p.m., sounds investigators believe were those of simpson returning home after killing ron and nicole. can you demonstrate for us how loud it was? somewhat, yes. go ahead.
from the county jail to the country club. it didn t take o.j. simpson long to get back into the swing of things. on the links and on camera, simpson was everywhere, eager to clear his name, as he told b.e.t. in january of 1996. i loved nicole. i could not have killed anyone. watching and seething were the families of nicole and ron. here was this arrogant murderer, you know, flaunting his celebrity. kept saying he was looking for the real killers on every fairway in america. every time he looked in the mirror at home he had found him. but fred goldman still wanted justice. even if it meant simpson remained free.