Some time after 10pm on Sunday 12th July 1994, a double homicide occurred, the victims being 35 year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25 year-old Ronald Lyle Goldman. The two victims knew each other well, though were not apparently romantically involved. Goldman was a waiter at a nearby restaurant, and Nicole Simpson was the wife of a man called O.J Simpson, to whom she had been married for years, an Afro-American football legend. Though it was never clear, nearing the end of Nicole’s life, her relationship with Simpson was not at its best, and it was portrayed that she left him on the grounds of him physically abusing her. On one occasion Simpson beat her so badly that he was recommended to therapy. In 1992 Nicole filed for a divorce. Over the next two years the two of them seemed to stay friends.

On the morning of the murder limo driver Alan Park arrived at the Simpson’s home. He tried the intercom to alert someone in the house that he had arrived, but succeeded in contacting no one. About half an hour after the driver’s arrival, during which he stayed in his car wondering if he should stay or leave, he noticed a tall Afro-American man enter the house. Thirty seconds later O.J Simpson came on the intercom and apologized for oversleeping, then came out and got in the car. They all left.

Later that day the body of Nicole Simpson was found in a pool of blood at the foot of the steps in the home, and another man’s body was found in the shrubs. Both victims had bled to death after receiving severe wounds, and the scene was apparently a bloodied mess. Suspicion immediately fell on O.J Simpson. Apparently Simpson had obtained a cut on his hand, which he claimed he did not know where it had come from. When tests on the blood drops collected at the crime scene were analysed, it was showed that Simpson had been at the crime scene. When the police went to arrest him, Simpson had fled – he was now a fugitive. Finally, after a low-speed chase, Simpson was arrested and booked for the double murder.