Condominium number eight 75 they saw it. a body, in a river blood. . police arrived and discovered a second victim. investigators would soon follow. including, veteran homicide detective tom lane. this isn t a robbery, this isn t a this is a right killing. we found him decapitated. nicole was 35-year-old nicole brown simpson, the ex-wife of oj simpson. near the bodies was a bloodied leather glove, an envelope with a pair of eyeglasses and a blue knit cap. cops later d i.d. d the male victim as 25-year-old rhonda goldman. at this point, they didn t know much about him. there s numerous wounds on the neck, goldman put up a fight. asleep inside the house with the simpson s two children, sydney and justin, who had
Heisman trophy. we couldn t ask questions. knock was told to us. don t talk amongst yourselves and don t touch anything. and it s this home visit that leads to the very heart of the prosecution s case, the physical evidence against o.j. simpson. can you please describe the appearance of the glove, sir? it appeared dark, leather glove. it appeared to be somewhat moist or sticky. i didn t touch it, but it appeared that parts were sticking to other parts of the glove. defense lawyers are eager to point out detective mark furman s role in discovering the evidence. and, now, mark furman came up to you and told you he made some discovery; is that correct? yes. so that we re clear, it was mark furman who allegedly found this glove out there near kato s room, outside? yes.
Enough evidence behind. had that garbage container been picked up, you would have lost the robe and you would have lost gloves that had sarah johnson s dna. sarah johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to two life terms without parole. what happened was hard for jurors and even investigators to believe. forensic evidence left no doubt that sarah johnson murdered her parents. without having the robe, which contained the leather glove, the latex glove and all the blood, i do not believe we would have ever been able to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury. circumstantial evidence is too hard to convict people on circumstantial evidence alone. you need that forensic evidence, because this is for a first-degree murder charge.