Holy Jesus! I just read the entire 200+ pages in one sitting. I was completely spellbound. This book is a total and complete confession complete with a breakdown of exactly what happened on the day of the murders, the discussion OJ had with some guy named "Charlie" that got him riled up to go to Nicole's house, and then a complete breakdown of events (complete with dialogue) right up until the moment OJ apparently loses control and kills Nicole and Ron while this "Charlie" guy (who came to Nicole's residence w/ OJ) cowers in the bushes in utter shock of what OJ did.
The first chapters are Simpson simply discussing his on and off again relationship w/ Nicole. The way he tells it he and she had a great relationship for years until things got rocky and she wanted to separate. So they did. That's when Nicole started messing around with her girlfriends (who into hard drugs and the crowd who dealt them) and dating a series of creeps. According to simpson, Nicole began to sink further and further into drug abuse and he was always having to deal with her problems and hear about all the creeps she was messing around with. She was also becoming a "split personality" or probably just Bi-polar or something. During this time Simpson was dating Paula Barbieri but claims Nicole kept trying to get him back and paints her as the one who wanted the separation and then changed her mind down the road. Basically he makes her out to be a hysterical, secret druggie with anger management issues. But anyway, after a while they decide to give reconciliation a shot for another year but it ultimately doesn't work out and they mutually split (according to him). He gets back together with Barbieri and and soon afterward the murders take place. he also takes great effort to dispute Nicole's claims of spousal abuse and the media's portrayal of those events and insists SHE was the abusive one. In the chapter called "The Night In Question" is where the description of the murders takes place.
he describes the events of earlier that day and his daughters recital. Now this is where the whole "hypothetical" thing comes from as far as how this book has beebn promoted......the whole IF I Did It thing. He simply goes from talking about the recital to prefacing the description of the murders with the simple sentence "Now picture this—and keep in mind, this is hypothetical:". It really was THAT non-chalant. Anyway, back to the story. Not long after the recital this person "Charlie" shows up at OJ's estate and tells him a story about his wife and her friends doing some drugs and getting into kinky stuff with some other people in Cabo recently. This sets OJ off and he decides to go to Nicole's house to "teach that girl a lesson" with "Charlie" pleading with OJ not to go over there......especially after OJ produces a knife from under the seat of his Bronco. Simpson goes on to describe the events in great detail except for the actual stabbings. He talks about being at Nicole's place outside when Ron Goldman shows up. OJ suspects him of coming over to give Nicole drugs and hook up with her. He's heard all the stories of the Mezzaluna Restaurant staff being coke dealers on the side and knows all about the waiter who had been knifed to death earlier that year and about the rumors it was drug-related. After a confrontation with Nicole and Goldman he goes to attack Goldman with the knife in his hand and blacks out. When he comes to he's standing over the bodies covered in blood with the knife in his hands and "Charlie" hiding in the bushes terrified. The dog Kato is also whimpering and sniffing around the bodies and walking in the blood after having come out through the open front door. He then goes on to detail his escape back to his Rockingham house with "charlie" and that's when he goes to the airport to Chicago for his Hertz gig. During this whole description there's no mention of "if" anywhere in the breakdown or mention of anything "hypothetical" happening. Somewhere after he gets to the part about being in Chicago getting the news of Nicole and Ron's deaths that he goes back into playing innocent (albeit very haphazardly).
The whole rest of the book is a confused jumble as if he's just completely confessed to what he did but is trying to half-a$$edly cover his tracks and appear innocent. He contradicts himself constantly not only with regard to his relationship with nicole but also the infamous cut on his finger. The transcript of his initial interrogation by police is completely contradictory to what he says in this book. His "suicide letter" was completely contradictory to what he now states his relationship with nicole was. In this book he makes Nicole out to be a recurring problem he wants out of his life but his letter and his testimony about "loving her too much" runs completely the other way. He includes transcripts of Nicole's 911 calls and his police interrogation shortly after the murders but they do pretty much the opposite of making his case. This book is a full on detailed confession. It really is quite amazing.
It's also come out this week taht Fred Goldman may be able to obtain rights to the book as per the ruling in his civil suit and if he does and decides to publish it the title will be changed to "Confessions of a Double Murderer".
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Since his trial was completed, I've tried everything to NOT pay attention to anything OJ has to say. Most of us know he should be a resident of the Grey Bar Inn.
His hunt for the "real killer" on many, many golf courses hasn't been all that successful, has it?
Well to me it's interesting because this book has been promoted as something along the lines of "This is how I would've done it if I had done it". But it's not written in that vein at all. It's pretty much just his account of everything right up to the trial and if he was hoping the book would come across differently......it doesn't. It comes off as a full on confession because he pretty much describes everything the way it actually happened. The murders took place in the exact same spot, the bodies were found in the same way (i've seen the crime scene photos of the bodies), and he even manages to include the dog Kato walking around in the blood. in short, he offers zero insight on what he would've done differently. I highly recommend it for anybody interested in the Simpson case.
Originally posted by metallicatz: Hmmmm, OJ out on bail. Call me crazy but something tells me he just might be a flight risk.
Probably not. I watched Shepard Smith cover OJ's flight back to FL. The onscene reporter knew what airport he was flying out of, what time the flight was taking off, what time it was arriving in FL, the flight number and what row OJ was sitting in. I'm going to imagine that reporters met him when he got off the plane and followed him all the way home. At this point, I don't think OJ can fart without the nation knowing about it.
