Word: simpson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sources told TIME that Brian ("Kato") Kaelin, O.J. Simpson's friend and tenant, may not have told the whole truth when he testified at the June preliminary hearings that led to Simpson's indictment for murder. Kaelin testified that he heard three loud "thumps" outside his quarters on the night of the murders, checked out the noise, but saw no one. However, prosecutors are looking into a claim that when Kaelin went out to investigate, he in fact discovered Simpson. This would place Simpson near the site where police later found a bloody glove linked to the crime scene...
...periphery, you can be dragged deep into a nasty center, the kind of place where it's easy to be torn apart. It must feel that way lately for some of the people who once thought of themselves as secondary players in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson...
...them are Brian ("Kato") Kaelin, who was living in Simpson's guesthouse on the night of the murders, and Kaelin's friend Rachel Ferrara. TIME has learned that prosecutors Marcia Clark and William Hodgman are pursuing a potentially important new lead that contradicts the sworn testimony given by Kaelin and Ferrara at the preliminary hearings in July. Kaelin told the court that at about 10:40 on the night of the murders, he was in his quarters on the Simpson estate talking on the phone with Ferrara, when he heard three loud "thumps" on his wall. Fearing a prowler, Kaelin...
Kaelin's version was favorable to the prosecution because it was just outside his guest cottage where police say they discovered the bloody glove that matches one found near the bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. His testimony suggested that the glove may have been dropped there by someone at around 10:40. But if so, was that person necessarily Simpson...
...testimony, she described her phone talks with Kaelin in a crucially different manner. The two friends, both of whom have also related their story to TIME, say Ferrara told them that in Kaelin's second call he reported that when he opened his door to go outside, he found Simpson standing there. When a startled Kaelin told O.J. about the noises, Simpson replied that he had heard them too. The two men briefly inspected the grounds before Kaelin returned to his guesthouse to call Ferrara back...