O JS trial of the century shocked the nation,
particularly when it came to the gruesome details of Nicole
Brown Simpson's death.
According to the autopsy report,
her last moments were horrifying.
When OJ Simpson died at age 76,
it wasn't his eleven seasons in the NFL or his
performances in the Naked Gun films that were foremost in
many people's minds.
Any legacy he left behind will forever be tainted by
the grizzly
1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her
friend Ron Goldman.
After learning that he was the prime suspect in the
case,
OJ sat down and his friend Al Cowlings White Ford
Bronco and the two LED police on a low speed
chase that lives on in pop culture infamy.
They're going South through Orange County,
but nobody is pulling this car over.
O JS. Shocking behavior had the American public glued to
their televisions and his subsequent trial for the two murders
marked the beginning of the 24 hour news cycle.
When Simpson was acquitted, 150 million viewers watched him learn
that he was a free man.
Budding true crime enthusiasts who closely followed the so-called Trial
of the Century on television and in print media learned
disturbing details about Nicole and
Goldman's final moments. A 1995 report by the Washington Post
described how the bloody crime scene was discussed.
The testimony of the neighbors who found Nicole's body outside
her Brentwood home sounds like the opening of ACSI episode.
Nicole's dog had been wandering around the area with blood
soaked fur and the neighbors were trying to return it
to its owner when they quote,
saw a lady laying down in a pool of blood.
The details in the coroner's autopsy report were even more
disturbing.
According to the report, her attacker stabbed her seven times
in the scalp and neck.
Cuts on her hands indicated that she had tried to
fight back against her killer.
The largest wound on her her body was a gruesome
slash across her throat that was over 5 inches long.
The cut severed the carotid arteries on both sides of
her neck as well as her jugular veins.
It was so deep that the knife left a mark
on one of her vertebrae.
Nicole was also stabbed 4 times on the left side
of the neck.
During O JS trial, medical examiner Dr.
Lakshmanan Satya Vaghiswaran detailed how
Nicole's face was smashed into a wall when she was
attacked.
She ended up face down on the ground,
and her killer likely delivered the fatal neck wound by
grabbing her hair and slashing her throat.
He said she was alive at least a minute or
more before the last wound was inflicted.
He revealed that Brown likely died in a matter of
minutes afterward.
According to the New York Times,
Detective Tom Lang testified that the assailant likely killed Brown
before murdering Ron Goldman,
citing the lack of blood from the crime scene on
the bottoms of her feet.
Both victims were killed in a similar manner,
slashing and stabbing wounds. O JS history of abusive behavior
was also brought to light during the trial.
In 1989, Simpson was arrested and charged with spousal abuse
after police were called to the home that he and
Nicole shared.
At the time, the jury heard how a frantic Nicole
told police that she was afraid he would kill her.
When they arrived at the scene,
Simpson had badly beaten Nicole,
leaving her with a black eye,
a cut on her lip and other facial injuries.
It wasn't the first time Nicole had called the cops
on her husband.
They just stay on the line.
I don't want to stay on the line.
Nicole and Simpson's two children,
Cindy and Justin, had been sound asleep when their mother
was brutally murdered outside their home.
According to CNN, one of the last things Nicole did
with her kids before her tragic death was take them
out for dinner and ice cream.
If you or someone you know is dealing with domestic
abuse,
you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at
1-800-799-7233.