O. J. SIMPSON

I'm sorry I haven't posted lately. I've been watching the memorials for Ronald Reagan all last week. I feel like we've lost one of the best presidents we've had in a very long time. But I'll write more about him later.



This last weekend was an anniversary of sorts. Its been 10 years since the murders of Nichole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Although 2 years later O.J.Simpson was tried and acquitted for those murders, no one is satisfied with the outcome.



I was an undergraduate when the murders took place and I took can class in "Investigative Methods" with a professor that Dennis is Familar with, Dr. Lyle Shook, a retired cop, former history teacher, turned professor of Justice and Public Safety. In this class, we learned methods police use in their investigations of different types of crimes.



As in the case of murders, we were taught that once a body is found, the coroner's office is called and the crime scene is secured. Nothing it supposed to be touched or moved until the coroner arrives and takes possession of the crime scene. Then all evidence is photographed in place, the crime scene is sketched, evidence is dusted in place if possible then collected to be taken to the crime lab.



According to the Transcripts of the trial, the first officer, answering a burglary call, arrived on the scene at 12:09am on June 12, 1994. There, with the help of the neighbors, they found the bodies of Nichole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Officer Riske testified that he found Nichole's body, checked the inside for any intruders, found Ron Goldmans body before calling his station.



By this time, Officer Riske stated to his watch commander that they have two bodies and that OJ Simpson may be involved. He made this assumption based on an envelope found on the counter and a lithograph of OJ Simpson on the wall of the condo. After checking for possible perpetrators still at the scene, Officer Riske and his partner secured the crime scene and waited for the detectives.



During his testimony Officer Riske was shown several crime scene photos in which it was obvious that evidence had been moved, although he claimed not to knowing who might have moved the evidence, but agreed it appeared evidence had been moved.



In Mark Furman's testimony, he describes a scene not fully secured when he arrives. He testified that he arrived at the scene at 2:10am



Now Criminalist Dennis Fong, whose job is it is to collect and process evidence didn't get the call of the murders until 5:30 am more than 3 hours after Mark Furman arrived at the scene at the Rockinham location, where he collected bloodstain evidence and a glove pointed out to him by Mark Furman. Fong then proceeded to SouthBundy, where the bodies were, at 10:15am and the coroners office was there processing the bodies. At least 8 hrs from the time the bodies were discovered.



My point is, if the handbook for police investigations say that the crime scene is supposed to be secured and the coroners office called in before anything is disturbed, why is Furman showing evidence to Fong at 9:10 am and the coroner doesn't get there until after 10am?



Whether Simpson is guilty or not, the evidence was so badly handled, that there wasn't anyway to get a conviction.



Which shows how LA handles cases. They let the Hillside Stranglers get away, they let the cops how beat Rodney King get away Scott free, their conviction rate on high profile cases hasn't been good. and had they handled the evidence in the Simpson case, it may have been air tight, but it wasn't.So, we may never know who killed Nichole Brown and Ron Goldman