Posted on 04/11/2024 12:09:47 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Kato Kaelin, a key witness during O.J. Simpson's murder trial in 1995, issued a video statement Thursday afternoon offering his condolences to Simpson's family following the ex-NFL star's death.
"Foremost, I'd like to express my condolences to the children to Sydney and to Justin to Jason and Arnelle," Kaelin said in the message shared to X, formerly Twitter. "They've lost their father and that is never easy."
Simpson's family announced on Thursday that their father has passed away at the age of 76 after battling cancer.
Simpson played 11 NFL seasons, nine of them with the Buffalo Bills. He won four NFL rushing titles and played in five Pro Bowls. He later had a career in show business before being acquitted in a 1995 trial of charges he killed his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Kaelin also addressed the families of Goldman and Brown Simpson.
"I wish to express my love and compassion to the Goldmans, to Fred into Kim. "I hope you find closure," he said. "And finally, to the family of the beautiful Nicole Brown Simpson. May we always cherish her memories. Nicole was a beacon of light that burden bright. May we never forget her."
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Sad but true. They probably thought that she deserved whatever she got.
Yea, the weekly beatings were not enough
Someone should post the autopsy photos of his victims...Instill that memory of OJ into the minds of these easily led celebrity groupies.
That oj worm died off still owing 100million for his killings
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13298709/OJ-Simpson-died-owing-millions-families-murder-victims-Ron-Goldman-Nicole-Brown.html
I, too remember it like it was yesterday. We lived in Orange County, CA at the time. I set the VCR for the trial before I went to work and had a radio at my desk so I could listen to the trial all day and played the VCR tape at night...I remember the day of the verdict. My boss had put up with me having the radio at my desk and came to me after the verdict and told me that he didn’t want to tell me but he always thought he was innocent and that he even sent him cards in jail. HUH?
I remember how the clerk reading the verdict had trouble with it and I was sure it was going to be “guilty”. She messed up his name as I recall. I was peeved and grabbed my cigarettes and went outside to cool down...
I just remembered today after seeing the “chase” played over and over (it was on the 405 through Irvine where we lived), that it was our anniversary and why we hadn’t done anything for our anniversary, I don’t remember...maybe my husband had to work late..
It was easy to get caught up in the drama at the time. I bought every book written by anyone involved in the case - even some who weren’t. I’ve been cleaning out all my books and those went to St. Vincent de Paul...
It’s hard to believe that it has taken up so much of the news today...
You’re right. LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman got a raw deal out of that mess. That was a scroungy lot of attorneys OJ got to represent him. Truth didn’t matter...
The DNA portion of the trial was the hardest to follow. I’m not sure even Marcia Clark understood what it was about but she sure believed it would do the trick.
I was listening to Kate and Oliver Hudson talk about how crazy it was growing up with Kurt Russell. They said that they were watching the slow speed chase on TV and Kurt realized OJ was heading home so he told the kids Ill be back and later they saw him on TV behind the tape in OJs yard talking to somebody. 😉
Lol. Thanks mund.
Every word of your post is true...If you read the book you mentioned, you saw the drawings he did of knives - a great, great artist. I understand his own knife collection had to be given up because of his felony record. F. Lee Bailey lied through his teeth and Fuhrman did not commit perjury on the witness stand. He couldn’t escape the ghouls even in Sand Point, ID....
Mark also wrote “Murder in Greenwich” - the murder of Martha Moxley, neighbor of the Skakels, brother of Ethel Kennedy - his son who was found guilty of murdering her.
Dershowitz wasn’t exactly an attorney on the case. He was not in the courtroom, as far as I know. He acted in an advisory or consulting role.
Hope your wife has more brains than Nicole.
“”I think every one of those attorneys is dead except for Dershowitz!!!””
He played such a small part in the trial, I can’t even remember seeing him in the courtroom....Is Robert Shapiro gone? Probably the younger black guy - ?? Lewis ?? - is still alive...They were all such a putrid bunch...Johnny Cochran was no great loss...made a fortune suing the LAPD for his perceived INJUSTICE when they were dealing with Watts, the barrio etc.
Our country believes that people should have legal representation at a trial. Somebody has to do it and they should not be punished for doing their job.
Unfortunately our judicial system is in shambles and it no longer provides justice. Some third world countries have better judicial systems than we have.
That story would be worth reading....is that a brother of Kate Hudson...I’ve liked her movies but she has to be a huge liberal....Is there something going on with Kurt Russell now? I’ve skimmed over some popups online about him but haven’t read them..
He must not have lived far from OJ’s house. When I first moved to CA in 1957 from NY state, I rented an apartment in Santa Monica, across the street from the Brentwood Country Club. I caught the bus on the corner to go to work at Douglas Aircraft which involved a transfer as I recall. Many years ago!! Nicole’s condo was on the next street over but of course, that street (Bundy Drive) didn’t have any significance then.
I traced the route from her condo to OJ’s on a L.A. Thomas Bros. map after the murders - not much of a distance at all. He had to cross Sunset and that’s where that gal Jill saw him in the intersection and he was on his way back to Rockingham. She couldn’t testify at trial because she sold her story to some publication..That was dumb!!!
IIRC, he transferred all of his wealth to his children so he had no money to pay the Goldman’s.
Furman didn’t have to lie about the use of the N word. That blew the case. It’s his fault.
A former neighbor was delivering RVs cross-country after the verdict came down. He said he heard a couple of black guys talking on the CB, and when there was a pause in their conversation, he cut in, saying “OJ’s guilty.” I guess they flipped out and started threatening him. He took his magnetic CB antenna inside the truck for a while.
During the OJ Simpson trial (the first one), I went to a gym everyday at lunch to work out. They had all of their TVs turned onto the OJ trial. For three days in a row, they had Kato Kaelin on the stand testifying about a trip to McDonalds that had no apparent relevance to anything.
I understand why the jury only deliberated for a few minutes. If I had been sequestered for months and forced to listen to that drivel day after day, I wouldn't have wanted to deliberate either. I just would have wanted to get the hell away.
I saw it on an interview with the two of them on a YouTube video. They lived near OJ and had a friend that lived a couple doors down.
Kate and her brother Oliver said that once Kurt came home from a camping trip and was telling them how he left his dinner on a log by the fire and went off to talk to someone for a few minutes. When he got back his dinner was gone.
Much later they read about the cops or someone talking to Ted Bundy and he recounted that at one point he had been hiding out in the woods and had come upon a camp fire with a plate of food sitting unattended and he had stolen it. Crazy stuff. 😏
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