former football hero, and movie star. >> o.j., what can you say about that? >> back up. please, get out of the way. >> the siege by reporters who now surrounded simpson's estate 24/7, his close friend robert kardashian, father of a soon to be famous family had an idea, something he revealed in a legal deposition almost two years later. >> why don't you come and stay at my house for a couple days and then you could come back. it will all blow over by then and then you could return. >> so simpson secretly moved into kardashian's mansion, where he was closely monitored. >> he seemed very depressed, very -- he wasn't like the man i knew. >> with simpson in hiding, lapd homicide detective tom lange and his team uncovered what was later described as a mountain of evidence, a trail that led right to o.j. simpson's bedroom.