"Yvonne " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've always suspected Simpson of harboring homosexual tendencies. His
known habit of spending hours on the telephone, his gossiping, his verbal
gifts, his large group of male friends, his beating his wives. As such,
killing Nicole because he was finally abandoned doesn't seem to have been
strong enough for the strenuous exercise of killing. But if a man was
involved....a man who was what he was 20 years ago, handsome, successful,
Heisman Trophy winner, well, that was a real thrat. Can't believe that
I've missed this now-obvious angle for the past 4 years.
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From: Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 1:04 PM
Subject: L&I Did Simpson have help in cover-up?
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Someone
> assisted in
> hiding evidence,
> Petrocelli says
>
>The lawyer who won the civil case against O.J.
> Simpson says he believes he now knows why the
> former football star killed his ex-wife and
> Ronald Goldman. In an interview with Stone
> Phillips of �Dateline,� Daniel Petrocelli also says
> he believes Simpson had help covering up
> evidence of the crime.
>
>�I GOT CONSUMED in trying to figure out, why did
> O.J. Simpson kill Nicole? That just haunted
>me,� Petrocelli
> says. For Petrocelli, it was a consuming
>mystery: What
> could have made Simpson snap? What one event �
>or
> individual � could possibly have sent him into
>a murderous
> rage?
> Petrocelli is convinced he found the
>answer.
> �When I asked his friends, �What do you
>think made
> him do it?� this is what they always told me,�
>Petrocelli says.
> And he says he heard it from more than just one
>or two
> people: �I heard it from four or five different
>friends, close
> friends now.�
> The man who proved in the civil trial
>that Simpson was
> responsible for the murders of his ex-wife and
>Goldman
> details those allegations in his new book,
>�Triumph of
> Justice.� Weighing in at more than 600 pages,
>the book is
> chock full of inside information and some
> never-before-heard anecdotes involving the key
>players:
> Like, how Kato Kaelin says he was treated
>behind closed
> doors by Marcia Clark. He was treated �like a
>dog,�
> Petrocelli maintains. �In fact he said she�d
>throw a pretzel
> across the table every time he got an answer
>right.�
> How Petrocelli says he could tell when
>Simpson was lying
> on the stand: �He starts hyperventilating,�
>Petrocelli says.
> �He starts breathing heavily, he has this
>vacant look in his
> eyes. He doesn�t make eye contact � sometime he
>gets
> bug-eyed.�
> And a stunning claim about the night of the
>murders:
> Stone Phillips: �You believe there was
>an accessory
> after the fact in this murder?�
> Petrocelli: �I�m positive of that.�
>
> AN UNLIKELY SLEUTH
> Petrocelli seems an unlikely sleuth. He
>grew up in New
> Jersey, the son of a railroad mechanic and a
>factory worker.
> And for years, the only bar he thought about
>joining was the
> bar-scene, as a jazz musician. Only after
>college did he
> trade his nightclub dreams for night school and
>become a
> lawyer.
> He was a successful, but low-profile,
>business attorney
> when out-of-the-blue a client, troubled by the
>not-guilty
> verdict in the Simpson criminal trial, put him
>in touch with
> Fred Goldman.
> Phillips: �You didn�t exactly know your
>way around
> the cop shop.�
> Petrocelli: �No, no. I was the last
>person in the world
> who Fred should have hired.�
> Phillips: �How many cases had you argued
>start to
> finish before a jury?�
> Petrocelli: �One. I had had many trials
>before judges
> and arbitrators, but only one jury trial that
>had gone from
> beginning to end.�
> And so, it was the rookie who had never
>handled a
> homicide against a hall-of-famer whose Dream
>Team had
> won the Super Bowl of murder trials.
> Petrocelli had long been a fan of
>Simpson�s. �Even
> when I watched the verdict on television, there
>was a part
> of me still rooting for him, if you can believe
>it or not,� he
> says. �I was a huge fan of O.J. Simpson growing
>up.�
> And the rookie was caught flat-footed
>when he first
> met his boyhood idol before the civil trial.
>�He stuck out his
> hand and said, �Hi, I�m O.J.� He stuck out his
>right hand
> and I took it and I shook it,� Petrocelli
>remembers. �And
> then I immediately had this horribly empty
>feeling in the pit
> of my stomach because I realized that I had
>just shook the
> hand that held the knife that murdered the son
>of my client.
> And yet I couldn�t resist in that moment, I
>couldn�t resist
> taking his hand. I couldn�t resist the urge. He
>had that
> power over people.�
> Was Petrocelli taken in?
> �He had taken me in in that moment,�
>Petrocelli says.
> �And that�s how he takes everyone in.�
>
> WHAT WAS THE MOTIVE?
> Petrocelli says the antidote to
>Simpson�s charm was
> the overwhelming evidence against him.
>Petrocelli says he
> spent months in his war room meticulously
>poring through
> every shred. He questioned virtually everyone
>connected to
> the case. But the one thing he says he couldn�t
>figure out
> was �why?� Simpson had a history of spousal
>abuse. But if
> he committed the murders, as Petrocelli
>believes, why
> would his domestic violence have escalated to
>killing the
> mother of his children and Ron Goldman? And why
>on that
> particular night in June 1994?
> Petrocelli answers that question by
>pointing to a figure
> on the periphery of this case he says is
>actually at the very
> heart of it.
> �Every time I spoke to witnesses,
>especially witnesses
> close to Simpson, it always came back to Marcus
>Allen,�
> he says.
> Phillips: �You believe Marcus Allen was
>the final
> straw.�
> Petrocelli: �I believe that that was
>what made Simpson
> snap.�
> Marcus Allen is the recently retired NFL
>running back.
> Though years apart, Allen seemed to follow in
>Simpson�s
> footsteps. Both won the Heisman Trophy at USC,
>both
> wore No. 32 in the NFL � breaking records and
>more
> than a few hearts with their movie-star looks.
>They were
> also good friends. In fact, back in the �80s,
>Allen ushered at
> the wedding of O.J. and Nicole.
> But in the civil case, Simpson testified
>that in 1993
> Nicole made a tearful confession, telling him
>she�d had an
> affair with Allen and that he was still calling
>her. Simpson
> and Nicole were divorced at the time, but were
>trying to get
> back together. Simpson says Allen apologized.
>Allen says
> he told Simpson, �nothing happened� between
>Allen and
> Nicole.
> Whatever was said, there seemed to be no
>hard
> feelings because just a few months later
>Simpson offered his
> Rockingham estate for the wedding when Allen
>married his
> wife Katherine.
> But in his book, Petrocelli says the
>story doesn�t end
> there. �A few witnesses told me that Nicole had
>admitted
> that she was seeing Marcus again at the very
>end when she
> broke up with Simpson right before her murder.
>One of
> them was Faye Resnick.�
> Author of two tell-all books on the
>Simpson case,
> Resnick was a close friend of Nicole�s. She�s
>also had
> problems with cocaine and credibility.
>
> WAS ALLEN SEEING NICOLE SIMPSON?
> Phillips: �Faye Resnick told you under
>oath, �Nicole
> started seeing Marcus Allen in the end right
>before she died.
> I was driving past Nicole�s house and I saw
>Marcus� car
> parked in front of her house. I called her and
>asked if it was
> his car and she said it was, reluctantly. I
>told her I felt she
> was setting herself up for murder.� �
> Petrocelli: �Now Simpson, of course
>would laugh at
> that, saying Resnick is known to be a liar.�
> Phillips: �This is an admitted drug user
>who blew her
> credibility by cashing in, posed for Playboy,
>sold her story
> rather than testifying.�
> Petrocelli: �Well, she was Nicole�s
>closest friend
> during the last couple years of Nicole�s life
>and she had the
> inside view of what was going on and she saw
>it... Her
> problem is she damaged, indeed destroyed, her
>credibility,
> but she was still a gold mine for information.�
> Phillips: �So despite her credibility
>problems, what she
> told you on the critical issues checked out?�
> Petrocelli: �It checked out not only in
>one or two
> places, but maybe 10 or 11 places. In fact most
>of what
> Faye Resnick has to say about this case is
>true.�
> And Petrocelli is not relying on Resnick
>alone. Cora
> Fischman, another friend of Nicole�s, said
>under oath that
> Nicole told her she was seeing Allen as late as
>May and
> June 1994, the month she was killed. Fischman
>added,
> �Marcus calls Nicole when O.J. is out of town.�
> But what Petrocelli says he found most
>compelling is
> how people who had been part of Simpson�s inner
>circle
> opened up to him.
> Phillips: �Close friends of O.J.
>Simpson?�
> Petrocelli: �Close friends, friends that
>he lived with,
> played with, socialized with, cried to,
>confided in.�
> And he says they told him they believed
>a triangle
> involving Allen could have led to tragedy.
> Petrocelli: �Now Simpson denied this to
>the very end,
> but of course he denied everything, so his
>denial didn�t
> mean anything. But his friends told me that he
>would kill, he
> would kill Nicole if she was seeing Marcus
>Allen.�
> Phillips: �He could tolerate others, but
>not Marcus
> Allen.�
> Petrocelli: �He could not tolerate
>Marcus Allen, that�s
> right.�
> Phillips: �That�s what his friends told
>you?�
> Petrocelli: �That�s what the friends
>told me. Marcus
> was still in the NFL, he was still running for
>touchdowns.
> Simpson had bad knees and Simpson had a lot of
>envy
> directed towards Marcus Allen.�
> But if Simpson didn�t fly into a rage
>when Nicole first
> told him she�d had an affair with Allen in �93,
>why would he
> react violently to the same news a year later?
>Petrocelli says
> word of a second affair would have hit Simpson
>much
> harder because the first time around he won �
>he got
> Nicole back.
> Petrocelli: �If there was a second
>affair, he learned
> about it in the circumstance of being rejected
>by Nicole in
> favor of Marcus Allen, that�s very different.�
>
> A DEADLY GAME?
> And very dangerous, according to
>Petrocelli. In fact, he
> believes Nicole was playing a deadly game �
>using Allen
> to hurt Simpson for all the hurt he�d caused
>her.
> Phillips: �Writing about Nicole and
>Marcus Allen, (you
> say) �I think she used him to lash out at
>Simpson. She knew
> having an affair with Allen would enrage
>Simpson more than
> anything else she could do.� �
> Petrocelli: �At the very end Simpson and
>Nicole were
> at war with each other � and I think Marcus
>Allen was the
> way she struck back at him. We could never
>prove that, by
> the way. I could never prove to my satisfaction
>that O.J.
> Simpson knew that Marcus Allen was seeing
>Nicole at the
> very end and so for that reason I did not argue
>that to the
> jury and I did not put that evidence on, but I
>believe that�s
> what was happening.�
> Allen�s lawyer says Nicole had a history
>of using Allen
> to make Simpson jealous. Did she fabricate a
>story about
> an affair that didn�t happen just to goad her
>ex-husband?
> Allen�s lawyer also suggests his client
>couldn�t have been
> seeing Nicole in the months before her murder
>because he
> was living in Kansas City, Mo., at that time.
>But that
> conflicts with Allen�s own statements under
>oath that he was
> residing in Los Angeles, and that he saw Nicole
>just weeks
> before her death.
> But Allen also swore his relationship
>with Nicole �
> though close � was never sexual.
> Petrocelli: �His denial is simply not
>believable.�
> Phillips: �Why do you believe Marcus
>Allen is lying
> about this?�
> Petrocelli: �Marcus Allen needs to
>protect himself, his
> franchise, his life, his family, his
>reputation, his name, his
> income-generating ability and he will go to the
>grave lying
> about this.�
>
> WHO HELPED WITH THE COVER-UP?
> If that mystery is solved in
>Petrocelli�s mind, another
> one still haunts him. He�s sure Simpson
>committed the
> crime, and that someone helped him cover his
>tracks � but
> who?
> Phillips: �Somebody went in the house at
>Rockingham
> and cleaned up after Simpson the night of the
>murders?�
> Petrocelli: �That�s the only way to
>explain the
> evidence that we have in this case. Evidence
>like the alarm
> that didn�t go off and the laundry that didn�t
>get dry. Kato
> Kaelin testified he set the alarm at Simpson�s
>house the
> night of the murders � but it never sounded
>when police
> entered the house with him and Simpson�s
>daughter Arnelle
> the next morning.�
> And then there was a rarely seen police
>video shot the
> day after the murders of the laundry room in
>Simpson�s
> estate � showing a freshly washed load, and
>according to
> testimony some of it belonged to Arnelle.
>Petrocelli says
> Arnelle told him she always did her laundry
>herself, but
> hadn�t done a load in days.
> Petrocelli: �So what�s her wet laundry
>doing in the
> laundry machine? Unless somebody put a load of
>laundry in
> there to cover up another load that had been
>previously
> done, maybe to wash some sweat suit outfit that
>had blood
> on it. Or something else. So I think somebody
>went in there,
> somebody cleaned up. Someone did a load of
>laundry and
> someone covered it up with another load of
>laundry and
> then someone left. And forgot to turn the alarm
>back on.�
> In the book, Petrocelli offers up three
>names �
> Simpson�s friend A.C. Cowlings, his secretary
>Cathy Randa
> and his daughter, Arnelle. He says all were
>loyal to Simpson
> and all were alone that night. But beyond that
>he offers no
> evidence.
> Petrocelli: �I do not know who did it.
>But somebody
> did it.�
> Phillips: �If you don�t know and you
>can�t prove it, is
> it fair to speculate about these three people?�
> Petrocelli: �The evidence speaks for
>itself.�
> Phillips: �But you don�t have any
>evidence saying it
> was A.C. Cowlings or Cathy Randa or Arnelle
>Simpson.�
> Petrocelli: �I have no evidence that
>says it�s any of
> those people. I only know it had to be someone
>extremely
> loyal to O.J. Simpson.�
> Contacted by �Dateline,� Cowlings had no
>comment.
> Attempts to reach Randa and Arnelle Simpson
>were
> unsuccessful.
> In the end, Petrocelli says, he wrote
>the book in part
> because the civil case was not televised and he
>thinks few
> people know what really happened in that Santa
>Monica,
> Calif., courtroom.
> But he also says he�s motivated by
>disgust, that he�s
> galled by Simpson�s smiles for the media.
> Petrocelli: �To this day even though we
>won the civil
> trial and even though Simpson has been branded
>as a killer,
> for the rest of his life and for all of
>eternity, we still have to
> watch him preen to the media. And I would hope
>that when
> people read this book they will share the same
>feelings of
> disgust that I have and Fred Goldman has for
>Simpson the
> next time they see him smiling on TV or
>laughing in a
> microphone or waving from a golf course.�
> Phillips: �You�ve been paid a lot of
>money to write this
> book. A lot of people will say, �He�s cashing
>in.� �
> Petrocelli: �Well. I hope they read the
>book and
> reserve judgment until they see what I have to
>say. And it�s
> an important part of our history and I think I
>have given an
> honest account.�
>
>
> Contacted by �Dateline,� a spokesman for Allen
> categorically denied there was ever an affair
>between Allen
> and Nicole Brown Simpson. He called it
>�hogwash� and
> said Petrocelli�s book is �playing fast and
>loose with the
> truth.�
> As for Petrocelli�s speculation about an
> accessory-after-the-fact, the three people he
>names all told
> �Dateline� Petrocelli is absolutely wrong.
> By the way, �Dateline� also checked in
>with Marcia
> Clark about that story that she treated Kato
>Kaelin like a
> dog � flipping him a pretzel for right answers.
>She laughed
> it off, saying it never happened.
>
>--
>Two rules in life:
>
>1. Don't tell people everything you know.
>2.
>
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