The People V. . . . The Other Crime Scenes

In addition to the Bundy Avenue Condo in Brentwood, CA, where the bodies were found and the Rockingham Avenue estate of OJ also in Brentwood, there were three other places treated as crime scenes:  LAX, Ohare, and the hotel and its environs in Chicago where OJ stayed.  If OJ did it, then he had to get rid of the bloody clothes, shoes, and knife somewhere.

At LAX and Ohare airports, the respective police departments examined every room, every trash bin, every dark corner looking for the weapon, shoes, and bloody clothing.  One of the reasons that OJ was not charged and arrested immediately after returning from Chicago on June 13 was because these searches were in progress and presumably would turn up the crucial evidence linking OJ to the crimes.  After four days of fruitless efforts, no one found anything at either airport.

Similarly, the hotel and its nearby streets and alleys were searched with the same result.  Nada.  No sign of the bloody evidence.

The hotel room was another matter.  They found OJ's blood on a broken glass.  The cause of that goes back to when OJ received the call about Nicole's death.  He had a glass of water in his hand when he got the news.

Examination of OJ by the police found only the one cut in his left hand on the 13th when they took him in for questioning.  OJ did not remember at the time how he had cut his finger.  When OJ's doctors examined him a couple days later, they did not even notice the cut.

OJ has played football through high school. college, and twelve years in the NFL.  Football is a rough sport and its players are always getting some minor injury or other.  Part of football culture is to be tough and to not bother with nicks and scrapes to the point of not even noticing them.  Was that the case with OJ?  You know what I think.

Back in Brentwood, with no sign of the bloody clothes and knife at LAX or anywhere in Chicago, the yards and trash cans in the neighborhood were all searched.  Because the trash had been picked up on the 13th early morning, even the landfill where the trash had been taken was searched with no success.  And the golf bag and suitcase OJ had taken with him to Chicago were searched and yielded no sign of the bloody evidence.

Is there the slightest possibility that OJ never had any bloody clothes and knife to have to get rid of?  Nothing that the police designated formally or informally as the crime scene produced them.  They have never been found.