Radio and TV networks interrupted their regular broadcasts to cover the event, and it instantly became a bizarre, cultural phenomenon, playing out live on Los Angeles freeways to a rapt nation.
Up to 20 police cars would end up taking part in the chase - as did a similar number of news helicopters. The officer backed away, but continued to follow the Bronco from a distance at 35 miles per hour. Approaching with sirens blaring, the officer heard Cowlings yell at him that Simpson was in the back seat holding a gun to his own head. A police officer spotted the Bronco, heading north on the San Diego Freeway. The police were able to track cell phone calls made by Simpson in the vehicle.
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Later that evening, around 6:20 pm, a driver in Orange County saw Simpson riding in his white Bronco driven by his friend, Al Cowlings, and called police. I've had a great life." To many listeners it sounded like a suicide note. "First everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder," he wrote. At 5 pm, Simpson's friend, defense lawyer Robert Kardashian, read a rambling letter from Simpson to the media and the public. By 2 pm, the LAPD issued an APB for the ex-football star. Her neck wound was gaping she'd nearly been decapitated.įour days later, over 1,000 reporters were waiting for Simpson to turn himself in at the police station, by pre-arrangement.
Nicole had suffered multiple stabs in the head and neck and also had defensive wounds on her hands. Evidence gathered at the scene led police to suspect that O.J.
Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson had been divorced two years earlier. Just after midnight on June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found brutally murdered outside Brown's Bundy Drive condo in Brentwood – an upscale community in west Los Angeles. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in separate photographs.