The People V. . . . What if he confessed?

My friends that believe OJ did it wonder if anything could change my mind.

"What if he confessed, admitted that he had done it?" they ask.

My answer is that he'd have to answer several questions because I couldn't believe him based on the evidence.  Where did he remove the bloody shoes, and clothes?    When did he change out of them?  Where did he hide them and the knife?  How did he get the coroner to write phony autopsies?  How did he hide the dog bites when Kato charged out after him?  How did he hide the bruises and abrasions from Ron's "hell of a fight?"  How did he get the bloody right hand glove onto the walkway behind Kaelin's guesthouse?  How did he get the Bronco back to the Rockingham gate without the limo driver seeing or hearing him drive up?

Give me time and I could come up with more questions.

There are things I take as facts: the police photographer's video from the morning after the murders that showed OJ's bedroom to be orderly, immaculate, and no socks on the floor; the autopsies as printed in the book KILLING TIME are duplicates of the coroner's actual reports; Ron and Nicole were not passive victims but would have fought back;  OJ did not have a mark on him from a fight to the death;   the detectives involved in the case presumed OJ was guilty and planted evidence to implicate him; and there wasn't time for OJ to do everything required if he were the killer.

 I have already explained some of these when I was critiquing the various episodes so let me focus on the video, the autopsies, and the timeline.

During the Esquire playing of segments of the original trial, a video taken of OJ's bedroom the first thing on the morning of the 13th was shown to the jury by the defense.  The video was taken by the police photographer when he first arrived at Rockingham.  The camera panned from the entrance to the bedroom all the way across the room to the headboard of the bed.  It showed the room to be completely in order as if the maid had just finished cleaning it, nothing on the floor, not even a ripple on the bedspread, no dark smudges, and no clothes hastily thrown about the room.  It showed that after showering, dressing, and packing for the Chicago trip, OJ took time to make sure the wrinkles on the bedspread had even been smoothed out and everything he might have rejected as unnecessary for the trip was put away.

The video shows that OJ was a neat freak, that he would have taken time to be sure the room was neat, and that there were no bloody socks lying in the middle of the floor.  (As pointed out earlier in this blog, the bloody socks appear in another police photo taken around 5 pm.)  If it can be shown that the video was taken at a different time such as days before or after the house had been cleaned after the police were done with their investigation, then I would reconsider my  opinion.

The autopsies to me are absolutely critical to my argument that OJ didn't do it.  Upon review, the two show three different knife blades, they show stabbing and not slashing as the way the killings occurred, and they show the two victims fought back, causing some real injury to whomever attacked them.  If it can be shown that those autopsies were not authentic and the real autopsies provide different information, then I would reconsider my opinion.

There was insufficient time between when OJ tried to call Paula Barbieri at 10:03 pm on his cell phone and 10:54 when the limo driver saw him go into the mansion.  He would have had to kill two energetic, physically trim younger people; fight off a dog; walk slowly to the front at Bundy and also to the back leaving the Bruno Magli bloody tread marks both ways; leave only trace amounts of blood in the Bronco; stop the Bronco to get out of the bloody clothes and change into the dark outfit the limo driver saw at 10:54: go behind the house to accidentally drop one of the murder gloves; hide the knife, clothes, and shoes someplace no one has found them to this day, and bleed profusely on the driveway at Rockingham.  From 10:54 to 11:15, OJ would have had to change out of the dark clothes he wore according to the limo driver's testimony, hang them up, take a shower, get into his travel clothes which included a white shirt, straighten up the bedroom, stop the bleeding of his finger, talk with Kaelin briefly about the bumps on the wall, help load the limo, and leave in the limo by 11:15.

Let's look at the things a little more closely.  It would take about five minutes each way to go from Bundy to Rockingham.  It takes about ten minutes to change from one set of clothes and shoes to another.  That leaves about 31 minutes to stab to death two active people fighting back; drop the bloody glove behind Kaelin's guest house; hide the bloody clothes, shoes and weapon(s) so that they have never been found.  And that is presuming a killing time of 10:15.  It also presumes that everything goes right like all the stop lights being green, no one interrupts him, the shoes laces not snaggling, and the cuffs not hanging up on hands or feet, etc.

If the killing time is 10:35, that means OJ would have had five minutes to get back to Rockingham and 14 minutes to do the rest, with the same potential for disruptions.  If he did not stop to change and hide the weapon et al, he would have had to do those at Rockingham between 10:54 and joining Kaelin in the kitchen at 11:05 to look for the flashlight before he could get the suitcase and clubs into the limo.  Even my friends who claim to take a two minute shower would not have been able to disrobe, shower, dress, clean up his bedroom, get rid of the bloody stuff, drop the glove out back, stop the finger's bleeding, etc. and leave by 11:15.

If it can be shown how OJ could have done all that in either time frame, and still get out to the limo immaculately dressed for the Chicago trip, then I would reconsider my opinion.

I do not think I set too high a bar here.  I can be proven wrong.  But please bring proof on those three points.  You too, OJ, if you want to confess.