If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

The jury acquitted him as payback for Rodney King. It’s crazy to me that anyone out there would believe he was innocent when he released a book like this. He gave such chilling details of how he killed them, details of that night and what lead up to it. OJ blacked out while he was doing it, I think because it was such a traumatic event that’s why he didn’t remember any of it but it haunted him. Condolences to the families of the victims, that’s something you never recover from.And RIP to a fallen hero.

Bought this after watching the OJ series on Netflix. I think it is a great book written with the voice of OJ but...at the end of the day, it was written for entertainment purposes and it is to be taken with a grain of salt.

If I Did It: released by The Goldman Family, ghost written by Pablo F Fenjves: The OJ Simpson Murders in Simpson’s Own Words.Allow me to say at the beginning, I always believed OJ did it. But under the law of the land, in a fair trial, the Prosecution failed to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. I would have made the same decision had I been on the Jury.It’s not a matter of what you believe or what you think or what you might even know, it’s what can be proven in court—beyond what a reasonable person would find suspicious. There was a lot of suspicious things, and unfortunately, the LAPD was where the suspicion came from, and the mishandling of evidence freed OJ Simpson in what I am positive the Prosecution was a slam dunk.I first heard about this book when OJ originally released it and it was squashed and 100,000 copied were destroyed. Why did OJ write it in the first place? Yes he had been found liable in a Civil Court for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Coleman. Yes, he had been ordered to pay millions to the Brown and Goldman Families.But he publicly stated he would never work a day to pay that money to the Families. He had moved to Florida where laws protected his assets. His statement was that he wanted to set up a company to handle the profits from the book to make money for his children. OK.Actually reading the book may convince you otherwise.There are things about OJ Simpson that cannot and should not be ignored. He was a success story, a boy raised in the Projects who became a man famous the world around. He was sickly as a boy and went on to win the Heisman Trophy, to play for the University of Southern California, to play professionally for the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers. He set records both in collage and in professional football. He was inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame.He was a good businessman. Many athletes do not manage money well and wind up losing a fortune. OJ became a spokesman for Hertz, a Football Commentator for Monday Night Football and NFL o NBC. Charming and affable, he starred in movies like Roots and The Naked Gun trilogy. He had TV shows in the works.Then came the night of June 12, 1994. That night OJ’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and a young man named Ronald Coleman—who was only there to return the glasses Nicole’s mother left at a restaurant—were discovered knifed to death in the yard of Nicole’s home in Brentwood.OJ became the prime suspect, and a lengthy trial ended with an acquittal. That is how our Justice System is supposed to work. And I agree with the verdict, although I think “unproven” should be allowed instead of “not guilty” sometimes. Both should have the same guarantee of protection from double jeopardy.Then there is this book. The OJ Simpson who was a hero and an inspiration to others, the man who overcame adversity, the super-footballer, the business man, the loving husband and proud father doesn’t appear anywhere in this book.This book is a expletive filled rant of a man who has lost himself in anger and delusion. Nothing is his fault; the problem lay with the victims, not him. It is a sordid tale of affairs, alleged spousal abuse, backstabbing, attempts at reconciliation and finally a man who lost it completely.Reading the “confession” chapter chills the reader to the bone. Now this is a possible spoiler, so remember that, OK? OJ claimed a man whom he called Charlie was with him at the crime scene. When the evidence was given at the trial Doctor Lee, the world’s foremost expert on blood evidence claimed there were two different footprints there.One was from an expensive pair of shoes OJ claimed he never owned, but after the trial an older photograph was found with him wearing those shoes. The other, well both sides of the criminal case seemed to just let it go. But maybe OJ is telling the truth here. There is evidence to that effect.I believe him. He saw this white guy who wasn’t athletic coming to Nicole’s; he disbelieved the man’s story of returning glasses left at a restaurant; and he claimed he thought he was Nicole’s drug dealer. I submit he also thought Ronald Goldman was Nicole’s latest boyfriend. So he lost it completely. Anger took him and when everything was over, he couldn’t believe he had just killed two people.It is everyone’s instinct for self preservation that motivated his subsequent actions, his denial of the deed, and his suicidal feelings.This book will chill you like few you have ever read. I give it five stars out of five. If the reader is interested at all in the OJ Simpson Murder Trial, then reading this book is a must.Quoth the Raven…

A must for those which are obsessed with the trial of century. Its more than clear who did it after reading. . .

Even if he didn't do it, why oh why would anyone with any ounce of human sensitivity (or even anyone mad as a box of frogs for that matter!)write a book with a detailed chilling description of them doing it?In the words of Dr.Henry Lee "Something Wong. Something wong." (defence team's Ace card and supposedly a 'blood spatter expert')For people who seek the truth of this case,the pages turn themselves and the hair on the back of your neck WILL stand on end when you get to that chapter.The Goldman's were so right to publish his words.I believe the Goldmans took a very painful road to the publication of this book and I'm amazed at their courage.Courage like that is born not just out of hatred for someone who has damaged you irreparably but also born out of LOVE. Love for their fine boy Ron has steeled their spine to get this chilling read to publication and it IS their right. This book should be bought by anyone who can afford it and passed around to those who can't. Let this family have their say...Let them have their compensation from us.I hope I never have to bear their pain.The book itself deserved to be published so that the world AND that criminally shameful jury can know....He did it alright! I see it like this...Just as O.J says on the night in question -his mind got locked into paranoid preoccupations about Nicole's separateness and he needed to assert his dominant control.It's clear he needed vengeance for perceived narcissistic wounds that she was inflicting upon him -by getting over him.I think she probably did flail her limbs at him in outrage and shock, as the book suggests, when she saw him aggressively sparring with Ron on her pathway.I think when he knocked her brutally to the ground it possibly made Ron physical and then O.J. flipped (he flipped alright) into an altered state of consciousness... killing Ron first and then,realising Nicole had to be silenced, as she'd seen him mow down Ron, he made sure she was never going to tell. He claims "Charlie" helped him... I think he means cocaine...however I'm thinking there WAS the addition of a certain someone ...with a burger... that night who had reasons to fill O'J's head with stories of Nicole... not even knowing the horrors he could trigger in the mind of a latent killer. O.J describes a figure remarkably akin to Othello's Iago, pouring "pestilence" in his ear. To me the narrative of the friend crying in the car was just too real.In years to come the truth may prey upon someone's mind. I wish I could say that I thought O.J. wrote this book out of the need to expunge himself but I think he wrote it to trounce and to maintain his Beverley Hills lifestyle.I'm not sure they have swimming pools in the Nevada prisons? I hope his lawyers hang their heads in shame but I won't hold my breath. Yes we remember who you are...and we know that morality has no home with you.Everyone is entitled to a defence but where is it written that anyone is entitled to a corrupt defence? I'd call that interfering in the course of justice.I wish the Goldman's peace but if they can't have that and they can't have justice I certainly wish them compensation.