The People V. . . . Crime Scene at Bundy Drive

On the night of June 12, 1994, in the eastern Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, on the coast near Santa Monica, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed.  Ms. Simpson's condo was near the front of the building on Bundy Drive.  The walkway from the street had attractive shrubbery which shielded the entry on the side of her condo.  The walkway to the street is blocked by a locked gate.  About five feet inside the gate, four stairs take the walkway up past the door of the condo on the left, and then continues back past other ground floor condos to a back gate next to the garages for the building.  The gate and the garages open onto a wide alley that runs parallel to Bundy.

There is a railing along the walkway up the stairs at Nicole's condo.  To the right of the railing is a small yard about five by ten that is enclosed by a fence.  (I found no precise description of the yard's dimensions and estimate the size from a police drawing printed in the book KILLING TIME.)  Nicole's body was found curled on her side in a near-fetal position at the foot of the stairs.  Ron's was found inside the fenced-in yard in a slouched-seated position facing Nicole's body.

Outside, on the stairs and walkway there was blood everywhere, blood that had flowed from the many stab wounds each had suffered before they died.  Neither died instantaneously, hence all the blood on the walkway.  From the blood on the ground, shoe and paw prints were evident to the front and to the back.

Inside the condo, the lights were on in the kitchen where a large kitchen knife sat on the counter near the door.  The lights were also on in the living room where music was playing.  A melting dish of ice cream was sitting on the coffee table.  The bathroom had fragrant candles lit around the tub.  Upstairs, OJ's two young children by Nicole were asleep in their beds.

The bodies were found close to midnight.  The police arrived at 12:17 am.  They find Ron's body in the side yard.  They survey the site.  

At 2:10, Detective Fuhrman and his partner arrive only to be told at 2:50 that the case was assigned to Detectives Van Natter and Lange.  They do no "detecting."

Around 4:00, Van Natter and Lange arrive and take over the investigation.  Around 6:30, they contact the coroner and tell him not too come until later.

The four detectives go back and forth between Bundy and Rockingham more than once.  The two sites are only two miles apart, five minutes drive time.  

The coroner did not arrive until 9 am.

A criminalist does not come to examine the crime scene until 10:10 am.