The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

In Birmingham, Alabama during summer of 1970, I saw O. J. Simpson (The Juice) and Joe Namath (Broadway Joe) play in an exhibition game between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets. Later I saw him as the smiling, personable star of some movies plus TV commercials for Hertz rental cars.

So it was a huge shock to see him in 1994 accused of a vicious double murder committed with two of his children nearby in the same home. Then O. J. ran away to Chicago where he magically cut his hands on a glass!

Next we saw on live national TV the interminable slow-moving white Ford Bronco pursuit. Then came the trial with all the testimony plus the blood scene evidence, which was still overwhelming beyond the nit-picking chain of custody objections. Then we saw the murder gloves, which would have fit O. J. if not for him wearing protective gloves before donning the murder gloves. Then came the ultimate shock as O. J. was found not quilty.

Next O. J. had the gall and absolute arrogance to make money by writing his book about how he "would have" committed the murders "if" it had been him!

Personally, I'm surprised he was never killed by other inmates in prison like child murderers are sometimes killed by other inmates. I'm also surprised the Goldman family or some friend of Ron or Nicole never hired a hit man to take care of O. J.

The only justice O. J. ever got is being served eternally in the next life, the one after death.

This Lifetime special with Nicole's sisters is finally, 30 years later, letting us hear fully from them about how the horror of O. J. 's actions forever changed their lives with unimaginable grief. The shows are well done, empathetic, yet tasteful without being maudlin.

The sisters, the Brown family, the Goldman family, O. J.'s two children who heard and maybe saw the murders, and all the people whose lives were forever tragically changed by O. J., they all deserve our prayers and compassion. May they somehow find peace.