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.
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
The People V. . . . How They Died
According to Marcia Clark's opening statement, Nicole and Ron were slashed to death by a raging OJ in a matter of minutes. Larger than either of his victims, he dominated them with his knife and made swift, bloody work of them.
If that were so, the autopsies would show deep, arbitrary slashes and deft killing cuts. There would be no defensive wounds because his rage would have overcome them rapidly, leaving no time to attempt defensive postures or responses from the victims. A slashing attack would have left deep cuts on the arms and upper body. There would be one blade shape in both bodies but that would hardly be an issue because of the speed of slashing and little time for stabbing and pulling out the weapon.
There was one deft slashing cut, the one that crossed Nicole's throat. And, as you may recall, there were many shallow stab marks, bruises, and abrasions. In addition, both victims had several parallel skin deep cuts at their throats. The deep stabs near the throat down between the neck and clavical on Nicole cut an artery. There was a similar stab attempted on Ron. There were two stabs to his right side that caused the most damage, one that cut the aorta and and the other that entered his right lung causing bleeding that flooded it.
Now let me set the stage for the murders. Based on information available that the prosecution could have had and may have used in the trial, here is what happened prior to the actual murders:
Nicole had been on the phone with Faye Resnick who called her from the rehab center sometime before ten pm. The children heard their mother sounding very upset during the call. After she hung up, Nicole went into the kitchen to get out a butcher knife. She set it next to the kitchen door which was the main entrance to the condo. She had soft music playing and had lit a number of candles for her bath. Those may have just been for her or they may have been set up for a romantic date. She got out some ice cream to calm herself down and relax when the phone rang again. This time it was her mother who had left her eyeglasses at the restaurant and asked for help to find them. Nicole called Mezzaluna and caught Ron just before he left work. He said he'd look for them and bring them over.
Here's how I reconstruct the murders:
When someone knocked on her door, distracted from whatever Resnick had said to frighten her enough to get out the knife, she opened it and before she could react, she was grabbed by a large man and dragged out the door onto the stoop. He put a knife to her throat from behind and demanded where the cocaine was. She probably stomped on his foot and gave him a head butt that broke his nose. What she hadn't anticipated was another man who came up in front of her with another knife, also threatening her that she needed to turn over the cocaine or else.
She was not held as tightly from behind by the one who'd first grabbed her, but was not focussed too well because of his bleeding nose. When she refused to respond, the second man tried to stab her but using her head and hands to parry the knife thrusts, she became a difficult target for the stabbing. A third man stepped up and stabbed her between the neck and clavicle, seeking to cut a major artery. It took three tries before he hit it.
Just then, Ron came onto the scene and challenged the three men attacking Nicole, yelling "Hey, Hey, Hey." As he attempted to protect Nicole, a fourth man grabbed him from behind and held a knife to his throat, nicking him as he struggled. He was able to do some damage with his feet so one of the men struck Nicole in the head and she collapsed. Ron found a way to break free. Except for the one with the broken nose, the rest then turned on Ron forcing him into the small yard. He got a few blows in with his hands and also protected himself from their knife thrusts with his hands and head as Nicole had. But with the three encircled around him, thrusting, he no longer had a chance. Stabbed from both sides and in the front, especially in the right side, he was losing blood mostly from internal bleeding, weakened, and fell. As a warning to others who would hold back from the cartel, the leader of the group left Nicole with the "Colombian necktie."
With both victims collapsed, one of the men opened the condo door to go in to search for the cocaine, only he was met by a snarling Akita who charged out the door at him. At that point, the men decided to leave. noticing pedestrians were on Bundy and might realize what was going on. They ran out the back gate with the dog biting at them, jumped into a white van/SUV, and drove south.
In my novel, the leader of the cartel murderers came back after the dog was gone, tracked blood in a pair of Bruno Magli shoes stolen from OJ's house, smeared blood on the stolen gloves, and left them near the bodies.
The reason I felt that could have happened was because the barking dog was taken from the scene of the crime by a couple who found him on the sidewalk at 10:55 pm. They did not notice the blood on the dog until they got him to their nearby apartment. They called a friend who was willing to take the dog back to take a closer look. The friend was the one who was able to see Nicole's body. So there was about an hour between when the dog was taken away and the friend returned with him, found a body at 11:55, and called the police.
As I recall, Professor Briggs, co-author of KILLING TIME, was interested in trying to do a computer simulation of how the crime could occur, given the information from the autopsies. He was unable to reproduce the crime with only one person. It took no less than three and the limited space of the tiny yard held no more than four assailants.
The prosecution said the defense bruises and abrasions on Ron were damage caused by bumping into the walls of the yard and then the fall to the ground during the attack. I don't think so.
One final note, I am still operating on memory from reading ten years ago. If anyone takes this blog seriously, they can do what I plan to do, look up the trial transcript which is on line, and also reread the key books.
If that were so, the autopsies would show deep, arbitrary slashes and deft killing cuts. There would be no defensive wounds because his rage would have overcome them rapidly, leaving no time to attempt defensive postures or responses from the victims. A slashing attack would have left deep cuts on the arms and upper body. There would be one blade shape in both bodies but that would hardly be an issue because of the speed of slashing and little time for stabbing and pulling out the weapon.
There was one deft slashing cut, the one that crossed Nicole's throat. And, as you may recall, there were many shallow stab marks, bruises, and abrasions. In addition, both victims had several parallel skin deep cuts at their throats. The deep stabs near the throat down between the neck and clavical on Nicole cut an artery. There was a similar stab attempted on Ron. There were two stabs to his right side that caused the most damage, one that cut the aorta and and the other that entered his right lung causing bleeding that flooded it.
Now let me set the stage for the murders. Based on information available that the prosecution could have had and may have used in the trial, here is what happened prior to the actual murders:
Nicole had been on the phone with Faye Resnick who called her from the rehab center sometime before ten pm. The children heard their mother sounding very upset during the call. After she hung up, Nicole went into the kitchen to get out a butcher knife. She set it next to the kitchen door which was the main entrance to the condo. She had soft music playing and had lit a number of candles for her bath. Those may have just been for her or they may have been set up for a romantic date. She got out some ice cream to calm herself down and relax when the phone rang again. This time it was her mother who had left her eyeglasses at the restaurant and asked for help to find them. Nicole called Mezzaluna and caught Ron just before he left work. He said he'd look for them and bring them over.
Here's how I reconstruct the murders:
When someone knocked on her door, distracted from whatever Resnick had said to frighten her enough to get out the knife, she opened it and before she could react, she was grabbed by a large man and dragged out the door onto the stoop. He put a knife to her throat from behind and demanded where the cocaine was. She probably stomped on his foot and gave him a head butt that broke his nose. What she hadn't anticipated was another man who came up in front of her with another knife, also threatening her that she needed to turn over the cocaine or else.
She was not held as tightly from behind by the one who'd first grabbed her, but was not focussed too well because of his bleeding nose. When she refused to respond, the second man tried to stab her but using her head and hands to parry the knife thrusts, she became a difficult target for the stabbing. A third man stepped up and stabbed her between the neck and clavicle, seeking to cut a major artery. It took three tries before he hit it.
Just then, Ron came onto the scene and challenged the three men attacking Nicole, yelling "Hey, Hey, Hey." As he attempted to protect Nicole, a fourth man grabbed him from behind and held a knife to his throat, nicking him as he struggled. He was able to do some damage with his feet so one of the men struck Nicole in the head and she collapsed. Ron found a way to break free. Except for the one with the broken nose, the rest then turned on Ron forcing him into the small yard. He got a few blows in with his hands and also protected himself from their knife thrusts with his hands and head as Nicole had. But with the three encircled around him, thrusting, he no longer had a chance. Stabbed from both sides and in the front, especially in the right side, he was losing blood mostly from internal bleeding, weakened, and fell. As a warning to others who would hold back from the cartel, the leader of the group left Nicole with the "Colombian necktie."
With both victims collapsed, one of the men opened the condo door to go in to search for the cocaine, only he was met by a snarling Akita who charged out the door at him. At that point, the men decided to leave. noticing pedestrians were on Bundy and might realize what was going on. They ran out the back gate with the dog biting at them, jumped into a white van/SUV, and drove south.
In my novel, the leader of the cartel murderers came back after the dog was gone, tracked blood in a pair of Bruno Magli shoes stolen from OJ's house, smeared blood on the stolen gloves, and left them near the bodies.
The reason I felt that could have happened was because the barking dog was taken from the scene of the crime by a couple who found him on the sidewalk at 10:55 pm. They did not notice the blood on the dog until they got him to their nearby apartment. They called a friend who was willing to take the dog back to take a closer look. The friend was the one who was able to see Nicole's body. So there was about an hour between when the dog was taken away and the friend returned with him, found a body at 11:55, and called the police.
As I recall, Professor Briggs, co-author of KILLING TIME, was interested in trying to do a computer simulation of how the crime could occur, given the information from the autopsies. He was unable to reproduce the crime with only one person. It took no less than three and the limited space of the tiny yard held no more than four assailants.
The prosecution said the defense bruises and abrasions on Ron were damage caused by bumping into the walls of the yard and then the fall to the ground during the attack. I don't think so.
One final note, I am still operating on memory from reading ten years ago. If anyone takes this blog seriously, they can do what I plan to do, look up the trial transcript which is on line, and also reread the key books.
Monday, March 7, 2016
The People V. . . . The Autopsies 2
In the autopsies published in the book by Freed and Briggs, KILLING TIME, Dr. Irwin Golden, the coroner, described several of the wounds, bruises, and abrasions as "defensive." The stab wounds into both victims' scalps were defensive in that the skull is pretty tough and those with martial arts training will lower their heads to receive a stab move if they can't evade them. Both victims had stab marks into their hands which Golden listed as defensive.
Also considered defensive moves by Golden were the forearm bruises on Ron Goldman which are most likely the attempts to block an arm wielding a knife.
Imagine the force involved when a murderer is trying to stab someone and the victim tries to stop the move by using a forearm. If the blow causes a bruise on the victim, realize that there would be a comparable bruise on the forearm of the killer. Ron was not a passive victim. With both his tennis agility and marital arts training, he was capable of putting up a fight and the bruises on his arms show he was able to do some defensive acts. And the killer would come away with signs of those impacts.
The autopsy on Ron also indicated that he may have struck some serious blows. In addition to the bruises reported on his arms, there were bruises and abrasions on the knuckles and the back of his fingers that are characteristic of offensive moves in karate. Golden indicated they were "defensive" moves" but that can be understood as the actions of someone defending himself. If there were such blows, they landed on the killer(s).
As strong and agile as OJ might have been at the age of forty six with knees that were arthritic, it is highly unlikely that he could have come out of that bloody attack without himself having been seriously beaten up. Put Ron and OJ into that small garden area outside the Bundy condo, a space smaller than your smallest bedroom and only slightly larger than your walk-in closet, can you imagine anyone coming out of a "to-the-death" struggle without bruises and abrasions?
When OJ was examined by police physicians the day he got back from Chicago, and a few days later by the physicians brought in by the defense, there was not a bruise on him anywhere.
The autopsy also reveals that Nicole not only used her skull and hands to block attempts to stab her, she may have struck a serious blow on one of the killers. On the right side of her head is a serious bruise. It is possible that she used a head butt against someone holding her from behind and broke his nose. She was five foot five, and weighed 129 pounds so a move by her could pack a wallop, with a corresponding bruise on her own body. According to Freed and Briggs in their book KILLING TIME, blood was found on her back that did not belong to her, Ron, or OJ.
A careful reading of the autopsies offers clues not only that there were more than one person involved in the attack on Nicole and Ron, but that they fought back with some skill and force, doing damage to their attackers and requiring from 8 to 15 minutes before the two were overcome. Nicole was not a pansy and Ron, an athletic 171 pounds on a five foot nine body, did not go down without a major fight.
That major fight could not have been with OJ.
Also considered defensive moves by Golden were the forearm bruises on Ron Goldman which are most likely the attempts to block an arm wielding a knife.
Imagine the force involved when a murderer is trying to stab someone and the victim tries to stop the move by using a forearm. If the blow causes a bruise on the victim, realize that there would be a comparable bruise on the forearm of the killer. Ron was not a passive victim. With both his tennis agility and marital arts training, he was capable of putting up a fight and the bruises on his arms show he was able to do some defensive acts. And the killer would come away with signs of those impacts.
The autopsy on Ron also indicated that he may have struck some serious blows. In addition to the bruises reported on his arms, there were bruises and abrasions on the knuckles and the back of his fingers that are characteristic of offensive moves in karate. Golden indicated they were "defensive" moves" but that can be understood as the actions of someone defending himself. If there were such blows, they landed on the killer(s).
As strong and agile as OJ might have been at the age of forty six with knees that were arthritic, it is highly unlikely that he could have come out of that bloody attack without himself having been seriously beaten up. Put Ron and OJ into that small garden area outside the Bundy condo, a space smaller than your smallest bedroom and only slightly larger than your walk-in closet, can you imagine anyone coming out of a "to-the-death" struggle without bruises and abrasions?
When OJ was examined by police physicians the day he got back from Chicago, and a few days later by the physicians brought in by the defense, there was not a bruise on him anywhere.
The autopsy also reveals that Nicole not only used her skull and hands to block attempts to stab her, she may have struck a serious blow on one of the killers. On the right side of her head is a serious bruise. It is possible that she used a head butt against someone holding her from behind and broke his nose. She was five foot five, and weighed 129 pounds so a move by her could pack a wallop, with a corresponding bruise on her own body. According to Freed and Briggs in their book KILLING TIME, blood was found on her back that did not belong to her, Ron, or OJ.
A careful reading of the autopsies offers clues not only that there were more than one person involved in the attack on Nicole and Ron, but that they fought back with some skill and force, doing damage to their attackers and requiring from 8 to 15 minutes before the two were overcome. Nicole was not a pansy and Ron, an athletic 171 pounds on a five foot nine body, did not go down without a major fight.
That major fight could not have been with OJ.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
The People V. . . . The Autopsies 1
The autopsies where done on June 14, Nicole at 7:30 am and Ron Goldman at 10:30 am, with Detectives Vannater and Lange present, roughly 36 hours after the murders. Dr. Irwin Golden conducted both. He was not called to testify by the prosecution. His supervisor did that.
Before I try to describe any of the wounds the victims received, I need to clarify two things, the shapes of the stab wounds and the difference between a bruise and an abrasion.
The latter is easy in that abrasions have a break in the skin such as a scrape and a bruise does not. I will deal with them in my next posting. For this one, I will focus on the stab wounds.
The stab wound shapes are much more subtle. For example, a standard kitchen knife having a six inch blade has a stabbing shape of a long, narrow triangle. One end of the stab is tapered and the other end had a flat edge about one sixteenth of an inch wide. A sword or its dagger-sized cousin the stiletto leaves a stab wound that has two tapered edges and no flat edges.
Dr. Golden identified stab wounds of at least three kinds: stiletto, standard blade with 1/32 inch flat edge, and standard blade with 1/16 inch flat edge.
When Detective Fuhrman tried to reconcile the three different shapes of stab wounds, he suggested a field knife that was tapered from the point to two inches in where the flat edge began relatively thin and widened as it got farther from the point. Below, let me address the stab wounds each received under the three shapes Dr. Golden identified with each victim. First will be the length of the wound, then the size of the edge, and finally the depth of the wound which he was able to determine by using a probe into the wound.
Nicole Brown Simpson's stab wounds:
To the left side of the neck:
(1) 5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1-1/2" deep
(2) 1/2" wide, 1/32" edge, 2" deep
(3) 7/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1" deep
To the left hand:
(1) 1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
(2) 1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the scalp:
3/16" wide. tapered edges, 1/8" deep
This kind of detail suggests that there were at least three different knives (or even two or more attackers with the same kind of knife) involved since the respective depths preclude the kind of knife Fuhrman envisioned.
How about what the autopsy reports about Ronald Goldman?
To the left side of neck:
6" wide, 1/16" edge, 2" deep
To the right side of the neck:
5/8th" wide, 1/16" edge, 2" deep (additional tapered stab mark was there too)
To the right ear:
1-1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the right cheek:
5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1/4" deep
To the scalp:
(1) 5/8" wide, 1/16" edge, 3/8" deep
(2) 1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the chest:
(1) Right side, 5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 4" deep
(2) Right side, 1-1/2" wide, 1/32" edge, 2" deep
(3) Right side below ribs, 3/8" wide, tapered edges, 1" deep
(4) Left abdomen, 3/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 5-1/2" deep
To left thigh:
2-1/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 3-1/2" deep
To the right clavicle border:
1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the hands:
(1) Right hand, 3/4" wide, tapered edge, 1/2" deep
(2) Right hand, 1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
(3) Left hand thumb web, tapered edge, 1/4" deep
Note that all but one of the major wounds is a stab wound and not a slash.
Again, it has to be concluded that there were at least three different knives. Given the amount of time it took for the two victims to bleed to death (I have chosen not to add all of the knife-related injuries nor have I indicated which were fatal). Each victim was left unconscious. Ron's wounds led to fatal internal bleeding as well as some external while Nicole's were external. It is highly unlikely that OJ would have carried three knives and took turns using them. Look at the stab wounds to Ron's chest. All three kinds of blades are indicated and they went into Ron from different directions.
Freed and Briggs, in their book, report that witnesses saw four men fleeing the scene.
Before I try to describe any of the wounds the victims received, I need to clarify two things, the shapes of the stab wounds and the difference between a bruise and an abrasion.
The latter is easy in that abrasions have a break in the skin such as a scrape and a bruise does not. I will deal with them in my next posting. For this one, I will focus on the stab wounds.
The stab wound shapes are much more subtle. For example, a standard kitchen knife having a six inch blade has a stabbing shape of a long, narrow triangle. One end of the stab is tapered and the other end had a flat edge about one sixteenth of an inch wide. A sword or its dagger-sized cousin the stiletto leaves a stab wound that has two tapered edges and no flat edges.
Dr. Golden identified stab wounds of at least three kinds: stiletto, standard blade with 1/32 inch flat edge, and standard blade with 1/16 inch flat edge.
When Detective Fuhrman tried to reconcile the three different shapes of stab wounds, he suggested a field knife that was tapered from the point to two inches in where the flat edge began relatively thin and widened as it got farther from the point. Below, let me address the stab wounds each received under the three shapes Dr. Golden identified with each victim. First will be the length of the wound, then the size of the edge, and finally the depth of the wound which he was able to determine by using a probe into the wound.
Nicole Brown Simpson's stab wounds:
To the left side of the neck:
(1) 5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1-1/2" deep
(2) 1/2" wide, 1/32" edge, 2" deep
(3) 7/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1" deep
To the left hand:
(1) 1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
(2) 1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the scalp:
3/16" wide. tapered edges, 1/8" deep
This kind of detail suggests that there were at least three different knives (or even two or more attackers with the same kind of knife) involved since the respective depths preclude the kind of knife Fuhrman envisioned.
How about what the autopsy reports about Ronald Goldman?
To the left side of neck:
6" wide, 1/16" edge, 2" deep
To the right side of the neck:
5/8th" wide, 1/16" edge, 2" deep (additional tapered stab mark was there too)
To the right ear:
1-1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the right cheek:
5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 1/4" deep
To the scalp:
(1) 5/8" wide, 1/16" edge, 3/8" deep
(2) 1/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the chest:
(1) Right side, 5/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 4" deep
(2) Right side, 1-1/2" wide, 1/32" edge, 2" deep
(3) Right side below ribs, 3/8" wide, tapered edges, 1" deep
(4) Left abdomen, 3/4" wide, 1/16" edge, 5-1/2" deep
To left thigh:
2-1/8" wide, 1/32" edge, 3-1/2" deep
To the right clavicle border:
1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
To the hands:
(1) Right hand, 3/4" wide, tapered edge, 1/2" deep
(2) Right hand, 1/2" wide, 1/16" edge, 1/4" deep
(3) Left hand thumb web, tapered edge, 1/4" deep
Note that all but one of the major wounds is a stab wound and not a slash.
Again, it has to be concluded that there were at least three different knives. Given the amount of time it took for the two victims to bleed to death (I have chosen not to add all of the knife-related injuries nor have I indicated which were fatal). Each victim was left unconscious. Ron's wounds led to fatal internal bleeding as well as some external while Nicole's were external. It is highly unlikely that OJ would have carried three knives and took turns using them. Look at the stab wounds to Ron's chest. All three kinds of blades are indicated and they went into Ron from different directions.
Freed and Briggs, in their book, report that witnesses saw four men fleeing the scene.
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