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ROBIN GREER: Nicole told him

she wanted to separate.

She was experiencing independence

for the first time in her adult life, ever.

GREER: Marcus Allen was O.J.'s really good friend.

Nicole-- she didn't really want anyone to know

that they were carrying on this affair.

JILL SHIVELY: I almost collide with this Bronco

running the red light.

I'm like, "That actor.

That's O.J.." So I called LAPD.

TOM LANGE: When I looked at the bodies, I could see Nicole.

She'd been nearly decapitated.

D'ANNE PURCILLY: He would say to her,

"I am going to

"chop you up in little pieces,

"and no one will know where you are,

not even your children."

(laughing)

Bye-bye, Sydney.

We'll see you again real soon.

We were supposed to go out one Friday night

and I got back and I called her, and I'm like, "You know,

I know we're supposed to go out tonight. I'm so wiped out."

And she had told me that she had met these guys, I guess,

with Faye at the coffee shop, and...

and they were young,

and they were really fun and refreshing.

I actually introduced her to Ron.

Hence a lot of other pain that I have.

MARK DeCARLO: Right next to me

is, uh, Ron Goldman, a 23 year old tennis pro.

-Give him a big hand for coming down. -(cheering, applause)

FAYE: He used to go to Starbucks all the time.

I introduced them one day.

And then they created,

you know, a friendship with each other.

She said, "Yeah, I'm really having fun.

"I'm really loving life right now.

"I've never felt better.

I've never been happier." And...

I said, "That's great." She goes...

I said, "We'll go out next weekend."

She said, "Yeah, definitely go out next weekend."

She goes, "I want you to meet these guys.

You're gonna like them. They're really nice."

I said, "Oh, yeah, great, let's do it."

That was the last time I spoke to her.

She died on Sunday. I talked to her on Friday.

♪

NEWSMAN: The neighbors who found the bodies were horrified.

NEWSWOMAN: Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were found just after midnight.

WOMAN: My husband is turning the same way,

and he's saying to me, "There's a body."

NEWSMAN: Dead from a knife wound to her throat

so deep that it nicked her spinal cord.

NEWSWOMAN: The murder weapon was a knife.

MAN: There was a lot of blood.

NEWSMAN: As we track down the clues

to unravel this murder mystery.

BILL CLINTON: ...the biggest tragedy,

because two people were killed.

Children were robbed of a mother,

families lost loved ones, and...

and a man widely admired in this country is...

is now caught in the web of a terrible tragedy.

LAWYER: June 13th. Did you have occasion to go by Rockingham?

I was called to Rockingham.

LAWYER: And who called you to Rockingham?

Arnelle.

She said Nicole was dead.

LAWYER: Did she say anything other than that?

I said, "What?"

And she said, "Nicole is dead." And I said, "What happened?"

She says, "I don't know. The police are here."

She said, "Will you come over?"

-LAWYER: And did you go over there? -Yes, I did.

One of the officers, he was, um... Receded on the top.

He had no... He... Dark, with hair on the side.

And he, uh, informed them

that Nicole was dead.

I gasped. I threw my hand over my mouth.

Uh... I grabbed Arnelle.

And we embraced each other.

This is a very difficult thing for me.

LAWYER: Sure.

Continue.

DENISE: It's 06:00 in the morning,

and, um, all of a sudden,

I hear this--

and it's a noise I'll never forget--

it was such a...

gut-wrenching, curdling scream

out of my parents' bedroom

that I... dropped everything,

and I ran back to my parents.

And my mom was on her knees and my dad was...

my dad was on his elbow, he was just looking up at her.

And I grabbed the phone out of her hand and I said...

I said, "Who is this?" And she said, "It's Tom Lang."

And I said... I said, "What?"

And she... he said, "Your sister's been killed."

And I said...

I said, "Oh, my God."

I said, "He did it."

I said, "He finally did it."

I said, "Oh, my God."

And he said, "Who?" And I said...

I said, "O.J. Simpson."

I said, "He finally killed her"

D'ANNE: The morning I saw on the news..

(clears throat)

...they were just saying--

this is really hard--

that O.J.'s ex-wife

had been killed.

I thought it was Marguerite.

Denise answered the phone

and she's...

she's wailing.

And she said, "D'Anne, it's Nicole.

It's Nicole."

We just couldn't believe it.

I... Uh... It just was so foreign.

And Lou had gone up--

I can't remember who had gone up with him--

to pick up the kids.

I asked about the kids, where were the kids?

He said the kids were fine. They were at the police station.

I said, "Can I go get the kids?" And they said, "Yes."

LAWYER: Did you have any discussion with the kids at all?

Um, more or less just kidding with them,

trying to keep them, you know, um...

They wasn't puzzled or asking questions.

They were just, you know, they seemed to be normal.

DOMINIQUE: Denise called to tell me

that Nicole had been killed.

And, um....

And she was gone.

I eventually made my way home.

It was hours before...

...A.C. showed up with the kids.

My dad and A.C. lectured me

and said, "You can't tell anybody that O.J. did it

because we don't know." And I said, "I didn't."

I got reprimanded.

I thought that was so...

weird.

PRODUCER: Who do you think that came from?

I know where it came from.

I know precisely where it came from.

And it just came down the chain of command.

So nobody would say anything bad.

I remember seeing my mom and Sydney

sitting on the couch.

And my mom telling her

that her mom was killed.

And... there was, like,

just a shock and a stare and...

nothing.

There were no tears, there was no reaction.

There was, like, just staring.

The first thing my dad did

in the house is we turned off the TVs

and we put them all on VCRs

so the kids would not see any of the news.

There was no news on any TV

except my dad's TV in his bedroom.

There was just a... a lot.

But I went into protection mode.

I mean, the kids came and it... I was like,

"Bam, that's how I'm gonna do this.

"That's how I'm gonna do this.

This is how I'm gonna survive."

I think it was at that time I made a promise to myself

and I made a promise to Nicole

that I would do everything in my power,

as long as those kids were around us,

to... to, uh, protect them.

LANGE: Initially, he was not arrested.

Simpson returned to Rockingham with his attorneys.

So I left that crime scene and went to Robbery Homicide,

where we were gonna interview Simpson with his attorneys.

I don't know that he even realized that

when I first saw Simpson, his left hand was bleeding.

It's the middle finger of his left hand.

Left hand. What do we have at the crime scene?

Dripped blood tailing in the same direction as

the bloody footwear impressions.

There's a lot of things that subsequently stood out to us.

The way that he talks, the jumping around

when we ask about his

now bleeding finger.

Blood is at the core

of what we're gonna be doing, at the core of this evidence.

If his blood is at that crime scene,

and we have blood on those gloves

and we have

blood in his car--

which, all those things

turned out to be true--

he's now a suspect.

But it's gonna

take more than 48 hours

to get back any PCR or anything else.

I called my mom, I told her what happened that night.

I was really angry.

Like, I almost got hit by O.J.

My mom thought that he could have gone there

and saw what happened and was in a hurry to get home

because he would have been implicated.

None of us at that time wanted to believe

that he was, um, a murderer.

Like a lot of women, they thought that,

"Oh, he was handsome, he wouldn't do that."

You know, "He loved his wife."

I remember talking my mom, both feeling afraid.

Afraid of seeing something we shouldn't have seen

or reporting something.

And... But then again, she told me, "No,

"you should call them back and-and make sure

that you-that you get a report."

That same day,

two detectives show up at my door,

and they want to know what I saw.

And I gave them the license plate number.

And I remember it as being 3CWZ788.

But I had transposed the numbers,

and they said, "That's O.J.'s car.

I remember them telling me that they're gonna keep

my information private

so no one will know

who I am and what I'm saying.

But after I talked to them, the next day,

I was bombarded with media at my door.

And they kept coming

to my home and peering in my windows

as I was putting my daughter to bed.

She was five at the time.

They knew where I worked, so they got me fired

because they showed up at my job.

because they showed up at my job.

It just really affected every area of our lives.

I had asked them who let our information out

I had asked them who let our information out

because a lot of witnesses were having that same issue,

and he said there was

a leak within the police department

'cause O.J. "had friends" in the police department.

NEWSMAN: The case that's horrified the nation.

NEWSMAN 2: ESPN reports

bloodstained clothing

was found in O.J.'s home.

NEWSMAN 3: Simpson was questioned by polie

for several hours yesterday and is said

to be devastated by the apparent murders.

And police will not rule him out as a suspect.

NEWSMAN 4: Simpson's attorney, Howard Weitzman,

says the couple was on the verge of reconciliation.

They seemed to get along on a more than cordial basis.

There was a viewing on Wednesday, and I just...

I-I couldn't do that.

I wasn't able to put that together.

TANYA: I sat down on the couch outside of

the viewing room, and all I heard were screams.

(sighs)

All I heard was Denise.

And she just kept saying, "Oh, my God."

It was awful.

It was the worst experience

in my whole life. It was, like, my best friend--

my sister-- was laying in this coffin,

It was so hard to see.

Then we had to pick out a dress for her,

and we had to pick out a turtleneck for her

bec... because her throat was cut.

He (bleep)

almost decapitated her.

He cut her throat.

(crying)

It was so awful.

It was so awful.

Oh...

He just stood over the...

the coffin, looking at her,

saying he was sorry.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Nic, I'm so sorry."

He sat next to me.

And he looked at me and he said...

"I'm so sorry, girl."

He was just admitting that he... he did it and he's sorry.

I'm sure he was.

I was about to walk in the room and O.J. stopped me

and he looks at me, and he says,

"Minnie,

you have to come with me to go see Nicole."

And he grabbed my hand.

And he took me over to Nicole, and we knelt there

with Nicole.

And I don't know why me.

And he said...

And I sat there, I kneel... I knelt there with him

in front of my dead sister.

(crying)

And, um...

He said, "Where's that ring I gave her?"

D'ANNE: He said, "I'm looking for a ring, a piece of jewelry"

And I thought, "Well,

"that's weird.

But, no, you-you can't touch her."

And then he walked out

and tried to get in the car with Dita.

We didn't really know

if O.J. had done this,

so I got in, too.

Dita turned to him at one point

and said...

"Did you do this?"

And he l... leaned forward, looked down.

"Dita, I loved her. I loved her too much.

I just loved her too much."

And I'm s... I was like, "He's gonna...

he's gonna tell her he did it."

He didn't. He just kept saying

over and over again, "I loved her too much."

No.

But it doesn't surprise me.

'Cause he always went to them.

And then, all of a sudden, I went outside.

And Shapiro came up to me.

This was the (bleep) up part.

Shapiro came up to me and he goes, "Can we exhume the body?"

And I said, "What does that mean?"

He goes, "We want to unbury the body."

And I said, "(bleep). She's not even buried yet."

I said, "How can you want to exhume her body

"when she's not even buried?

She just died."

I couldn't believe that he would

even ask me something like that.

Oh, it was... That was just a f-friggin' nightmare.

(sniffles)

(sighs)

NEWSMAN: O.J. Simpson attended funeral services for his ex-wife.

The service for Nicole Simpson was private.

NEWSMAN 2: It was such a crowded scene

L.A. city traffic officers had to come in to control acces

from Sunset Boulevard.

DENISE: It was a media frenzy.

They were, like, riding right next to us. The guys

that were actually

driving the cars had their cameras,

and they were filming us

in these limousines

all the way up to Los Angeles.

NEWSMAN: Out of the back

of one of the limousines,

the two small Simpson children,

followed by O.J. Simpson himself,

the mourning ex-husband, the grieving father,

the focus of a murder investigation.

D'ANNE: When we got there,

the police had s-spoken to us

at the funeral and said, "You know,

"we're watching him.

You know, you need to watch him."

So, we kind of knew,

but you didn't know, and you want

to believe that it... "No, it couldn't have been him.'

A.C. was out directing traffic.

And I remember David and I walked right up to him,

and we said,

"What do you think, A.C.?

"What do you think?

Did he do it?"

And he said, "I don't know.

I just don't know."

Don't you think you would say, "Absolutely not"?

That's not what he said to us.

Now, we found out later

that he denied he said that, but David

and I were very clear in him responding that way.

NEWSMAN: Moments later,

with presidential-like security guards

jogging by the side of his lim,

the funeral procession sped off to the cemetery.

At the gravesite, the-the people

that lived around the cemetery sold their rights

to the media so they could have their cameras

in the backyard.

I heard that he went back to the gravesite

and he screamed at the grave.

That he was angry.

And that the... that the cemetery called...

...to say that he was there

and he was screaming at the grave.

And it was just, like...

(bleep) bizarre.

NEWSMAN: Early as this morning, O.J.'s family was standing by him,

and his fans were displaying their support

outside his mansion.

What do you think the mindset

and the feeling is in that home right now?

Uh, horror. Nightmarish horror for everyone involved.

My job was to try to work sources

in the police department and elsewhere

to find out what the evidence was, uh, showing.

I wrote a story that ran on the front page

indicating that Simpson was regarded

as the principal suspect, and that he was expected

to be arrested within a day or so.

DENISE: We were in the house,

and we started, you know, packing up her things.

And all of a sudden,

I heard helicopters.

People were knocking on the door,

and they wanted to come into the house.

And then that's when we said,

"Well, what is going on here?"

Mr. Simpson was scheduled to surrender this morning

to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Mr. Simpson has not appeared.

The Los Angeles Police Department right now

is actively searching for Mr. Simpson.

D'ANNE: We were at the Brown's house.

Dita was on the phone, and she was very agitated.

And I was like, you know,

"Who's she talking to?" And she said, "It's O.J.

He's in a car."

He said, "I want to

"go see where she's buried again.

I want to see the kids."

I'm pulling Tanya into the back bedroom,

all the way in the back of the house,

and saying, "We're calling 911.

We're doing this right now."

"Oh, I don't know whether I can. I don't know

whether I can." I'm like,

"Tanya, we're doing it." The two of us

called 911

and said, "We know where he is.

He's on the 405 freeway coming down here

to us."

DENISE: Simpson called my dad, and he says,

"I just want to be with her. I just want to be with her."

"I'm going to Nicole," he said.

"I'm going to be with Nicole," is what he said.

And my dad collapsed.

My dad collapsed.

And he said, "No.

Don't do this. You can't make this worse

than it already is."

NEWSMAN: Someone purporting to be O.J. Simpson had called,

telling relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson

that he was on his way.

Relatives notified police.

Yeah, everybody thought he was gonna go commit suicide.

NEWSMAN 2: Simpson left behind a letter

that sounded like a suicide note.

"Everyone understand I had nothing

"to do with Nicole's murder.

No matter what the outcome, people will look and point."

DENISE: And then, all of a sudden, I said,

"He's not gonna kill himself. He's too afraid."

He's not gonna kill O.J. Simpson.

He loves himself too much.

It's much easier to kill other people.

(sirens wailing)

DOMINIQUE: Denise and I got in the car

and we decided we were gonna catch him.

(chuckles)

I don't know what we thought.

So we got in the car and we raced on the freeway,

and we were going 100 and something,

and we were trying to call police

and trying to call this and trying to call that,

and all of a sudden, there was so much chaos

and we stopped and went, "What are we doing?"

God, are we stupid. What were we thinking?

Why would he go down there and kill himself?

He says he wants to go be with Nicole.

Okay. So he's gonna go sit down there,

and he's gonna talk to her and blame it on her. What?

I remember my mom and I--

we were sitting on the edge of the bed,

and she goes,

"I just want my family to come home.

"Just come home."

LANGE: I says, "He had a phone?"

So I call and he picks up.

And I told him who I was. He says, "Yeah,"

and he's talking like he's under the influence or he's tired.

-(on phone): Don't do this. -O.J.: All I did was love Nicole.

All I did was love her.

I just want to be with Nicole.

LANGE: You don't need to be with Nicole.

You need to be with your family and with your kids.

Say hi, Daddy. Look, Daddy's taking movies again.

(giggling)

(Nicole laughs)

(sirens wailing)

O.J.: I couldn't do it in a field. I want to do it at her grave.

I want to do it at my house.

It was the first date I ever had with Nicole.

Very first date I ever had with her,

the first night we ever went out...

-LANGE: Yeah? -O.J.: We went to that house.

It was all in shambles.

I had just bought it, but that's-that's where we went.

-LANGE: Okay. -O.J.: Our first date.

First night we were together.

We start talking about his kids

and anything else that I can bring up.

Well, he didn't seem overly concerned about his kids.

Forget the murders, it's got nothing to do with that

at this point. It's about a loaded gun

and people potentially getting shot.

And that's my only job.

DOMINIQUE: It just seemed like a big game.

That made me angry.

NEWSWOMAN: Okay, we have some new information here, uh..

NEWSMAN: Says he has been arrested for his driving.

(overlapping chatter from reporters)

I want that Bronco,

and I want to see if anything's in there,

especially the gun.

Later, we find out the gun is there,

and there's a travel bag,

a big leather travel bag

with a disguise kit in it,

with a passport in it,

with his Hall of Fame ring in it,

a set of keys in it

that have a little teddy bear on them, I think.

And something else.

And I think that there's a possibility

that these may be the keys

that Nicole has complained that Simpson may have taken.

LARRY KING: There are police in the doorwa.

This is the driveway to the O.J. Simpson house in Brentwoo.

He's driven through two counties.

LANGE: Ironically, at the same time

that the pursuit has gone down,

Lou is having the locks removed

from the house and from the gate.

New locks. So we're screwed

until we find out that Cora Fischman has a key

given to her by Nicole.

So we got a key now, but no locks.

So what we have, we get locks constructed

from Cora's, uh, key.

We use the keys I got from Simpson

to open the lock, and they fit.

So we know that Simpson took those keys...

from the house, prior to the murders.

Those keys, along with several other things,

were never brought to, uh, ever brought in as evidence.

-INTERVIEWER: In June of 1994, did you have any keys? -None.

No knowledge of having any keys to Nicole's house.

Since Friday night, his home has been

a nine-by-seven-foot cell

in a special wing of the L.A. County Jail.

Asked me to spend the morning with my two boys.

And then he started to cry

and said, "I wish I could spend Father's Day

with my children."

DENISE: He did talk to Sydney at one point.

He said he was "helping the police

find Mommy's killer."

One night, I was tucking her into bed,

and we were talking.

She says, "Denise,

is my daddy in jail?"

And I said yes.

"Is my daddy gonna die?"

And I said no. I said, "Why?"

"Well, don't they put people who kill other people...

Don't they kill them?"

And I said, "They've already said

"they're not going to do that, Sydney."

That was a tough conversation, I'll tell you.

That was really, really hard.

And we never had a conversation after that.

And I've never told anybody about this conversation.

She told me that

she was having

some nightmares and stuff.

They had stopped on their way home and gotten ice cream.

And that's how they timed when Nicole

was murdered, because there was ice cream still sitting

at the house on the stairway, going up.

So they came in through the garage, they went upstairs,

and the kids were going to bed.

And then she recalled

being awakened

in the middle of the night by a policeman,

and them escorting them down

through the back of the house

to get them out of the house.

And she said she remembered seeing

policemen with guns drawn.

And I think that

that's what she had the nightmares about.

What the kids could've heard

and, you know,

not seeing, actually, what was going on

and just hearing the things--

it's like their little brains just run amok.

It's like, what are they thinking?

We tried to protect them as much as possible.

I mean, my God, it was everywhere you went.

Photographs and stories and on TV.

Even in Monarch,

you know, down by the grocery store,

they refused to put the National Enquirer out.

They turned it around

and put something in front of it

so nobody could see it.

We made games out of...

out of being chased by helicopters.

Boom. The helicopters would swoop, the media.

And we'd grab our towels

and we'd run down the beach like we were superheroes.

We were swarmed.

There was no privacy for a long time.

HOST: This is the story of the decade for The Enquirer,

The Examiner, The Globe and The Star.

I think it's very good because a lot of people

can, you know, have fun with it. It's newsworthy.

HOST: Both The Star and The Globe have put O.J. on the cover

for an unprecedented seven weeks running.

You have The New York Times next to The National Enquirer,

ABC News sitting next to Inside Edition.

Everybody's covering this story.

This is a sensational story.

And also the news media

is really starting to grow and grow

into this beast that has to be fed.

And so it's just, they're both feeding each other in a way

and it's just kind of becoming this...

unstoppable story that you can't get away from,

even if you want to.

NEWSMAN: Called before the grand jury,

today, she testifies about her strange encounter with O.J.

He was just, uh, crazy.

NEWSMAN: This witness, who does not want her real name used,

surfaced last week but she didn't tell her full story

until over the weekend.

Like many others, she was afraid.

Hard Copy came to my door.

They said, you know, "We're talking

to different witnesses and we want

to, uh, talk to you."

One of the things they brought up to me was,

"Oh, you know, if you get your story out there,

"it, um, it...

people will know your story and you'll be protected."

They offered me 5,000.

At the time, it was... that was... it was...

sounded good because I'd lost my job,

I was, I think I was on unemployment

and I was taking care of my mom, my daughter and my brother.

So I thought, "Okay, I can use that $5,000.

That would be great." And then I did the interview.

I got called down to the D.A.'s office again

about my interview.

And, uh, and then, um...

I-I talked to Marcia Clark about it.

I told her, "Well, yeah, I-I did this interview."

She goes, "Did you take money?" I said, "Well,

they offered me $5,000, but I won't take it."

So then she gets mad and starts yelling at me

and says that I... She says...

I remember it to this day, she stuck her finger in my face,

"You blew my case."

I felt so ashamed. I felt so, so scared.

I, um, got an attorney to protect me from her.

And then I ended up giving him, when I got the $5,000,

I gave the $5,000 to him.

She basically said,

"Disregard her-her testimony."

And then t-that was it.

To this day,

I'm not proud of what happened

on my part, what I did and what I wasn't able to do.

I felt like I had taken blood money.

So, I wa... I'd...

I was beating myself up for many years.

I felt like I had

blown an opportunity to help

and do what's right.

I just remember her as someone's mom,

two kids' mom who, you know, s-still need her.

To this day, I'm sure.

In O.J. Simpson's corner, one f the best lawyers money can buy::

the suave 51-year-old Robert Shapiro

leads the defense team.

He's known as Hollywood's premier dealmaker.

His specialty: keeping celebrities out of jail.

When I took the stand in the preliminary hearing,

um, I-I was so nervous.

Marcia comes up to talk to me and she says,

you know, "Hey, did you ever talk to the defense?"

I go, "Well, no, wait, I-I think I might've."

She goes, "Well, I have a tape recording of you here."

I said, "They introduced themselves as Skip and Bob."

And she tells me that was Robert Shapiro

and that was Skip Taft, O.J.'s everyday lawyer.

She goes, "Did you know that they were recording you?"

And I said no. I said, "They never asked me,

never told me that they were recording."

She's like, "Oh, that's illegal."

And, uh, she goes, "Well, I'm not gonna

put you on the stand until we listen to it."

So her, Marcia, my mom and I

go into her office to go listen to this tape.

It's basically everything, you know,

my testimony, front to back.

When he finally answered the intercom,

he said that he just got out of the shower.

When he came out, I mean, I did remember

seeing beads of sweat on him.

It's everything that I've always, you know,

from day one, you know,

there's no wavering in any of the testimony.

At the very end of the tape, they say, "Thank you, Alan."

And we hang up the phone, but they leave the tape going.

And it's still recording.

And they s... the two attorneys,

Skip and Bob-- say, "That's funny.

That's not what O.J.'s telling us."

And we just all looked at each other.

I mean, our mouths dropped.

And the other person says,

"Are you normally sweaty when you get out of the shower?"

And then that's when it hangs up.

Marcia tells me,

she goes, "Well, I can't put you on the stand today."

She goes, "I'm gonna put you on the stand Monday morning."

And I said, "No, that's not good."

Sunday's Fourth of July.

And I always light off

the Fouth of July show on Catalina Island.

I said, "I don't have a reservation

"to get off that island Monday morning.

I guarantee you I won't be able to get one."

About a day goes by, and she calls me.

She says, "You and your mom be down at the heliport

at 6:00 in the morning, Monday morning."

And I said, "Okay."

And she said, "We're sending over the sheriff's

helicopter to come pick you up."

They flew us into downtown L.A,

through the skyscrapers,

land in the parking lot, and

the D.A. investigators are there.

Three-piece suits, earpieces.

I'm like, "They look like Secret Service."

And I'm, like, going, "Oh, my God." I'm like,

"I feel like the president.

This is amazing."

And next thing I say is, "What's this costing the taxpayers?"

I couldn't believe that they were

going to that extent to get me put on the stand.

WOMAN: Are you still in fear of your life, as you were earlier? Or...

I'm not making comments.

REPORTER: Faye Resnik, the woman who turned the O.J. Simpson case

upside down, has now come out of hiding.

Right before Nicole died,

two days before I...

relapsed.

She put me into treatment.

I was stressed out

beyond belief.

She loved me.

She wanted me to be healthy.

KRIS JENNER: Nicole said,

"Okay, we are gonna go

"visit Faye and make sure

that somebody's there for her every day."

So she made a schedule for us.

So, I remember it was Nicole's day.

And Nicole and I spoke, and she goes, "No,

"Faye's having a good day.

I'm leaving. Your day's tomorrow."

That was the last time I spoke to her.

I didn't know how to cope with...

with everything that was happening around me.

And when we found out...

that

Robert was working with O.J. Simpson,

and they were

coming up with a, um, story...

...that...

it must be drug dealers

came to murder me.

And instead mistaked me for Nicole.

Like, what?

How would that... How?

"Well, because O.J. knew

that Nicole took you to treatment."

'Cause she told him

she was taking me.

And he was watching the kids.

It's a perfect alibi for him.

And when

I was told that I had credibility issues

because I was in treatment and that I would

never be able to testify,

I was gonna get that information out there someway, somehow.

I didn't care what the results were.

It's a cycle of violence that needs to be stopped.

And that's what we're trying to do here, all of us.

The controversy was, is that she talked

about some experiences with Nicole that,

I mean, I guess I would have preferred

if they weren't out in the open.

I would have preferred that they weren't in the book.

Faye felt that she also had to show some of the flaws

in Nicole, as well, and make her human. It wasn't

as if she or any of us are saints.

NEWSWOMAN: She left the book signing early after a group of hecklers

accused her of writing the book out of greed.

It's-it's an ugly thing, what she's doing.

She's being a vulture.

I was getting threats at the time.

They said about me that...

I was just selling her soul

for money, which was so disgusting.

That hurt me so much.

I can't even begin to explain.

I went in, both feet.

I dove into the void.

And I would do it again.

The only thing I would change..

...is...

obviously... (sniffles)

not have to go into treatment

so I could have told my story on the stand.

And I could have helped her more than I was able to.

You never get over losing a friend that way.

And I think I pack it down.

So far deep inside.

You know, it's been 30 years.

Hard.

One of the worst days I've ever experienced.

She always thought he was gonna hurt her.

She always knew it.

Tonight, L.A. police released a copy of one of the 911

phone calls Nicole Simpson placed

when her ex-husband broke into her home.

A darker side of the superstar showing through

in this disturbing call.

The thing that we were looking for by interviewing

all these people-- the abuse part--

the domestic violence part.

Denise had told us

that she had taken Polaroids,

and we were trying to find those through family photo albums.

We were still working the pre-trial

investigation interviews.

We had information-- and I'm not sure how this came about--

Simpson was involved in an altercation

in a parking lot of a bank building

on San Vicente.

And as we were interviewing the valet

parking attendants, a gentleman came up

and introduced himself.

He was surprised that LAPD or

investigators from the D.A.'s office had not been there,

because Nicole

banked at Union Bank there.

And she had a safe deposit box.

So we opened the safe deposit box

on a table. And the first photograph...

...was a Polaroid of Nicole

with a black eye.

Then she had a diary.

Essentially, a list of abuse by Simpson.

Every incident where they were,

whether it was a hotel or a function or whatever.

It gave me chills knowing that

she was the last person to put those photographs in there.

That photograph as well as others.

It still gives me chills.

According to excerpts from Nicole's diary in 1978,

there's an incident where

he's hitting her

inside their wine cellar,

then locks her in there. She claims

he even once was

abusing her physically while he was having sex with her.

There was also that time

before Justin, their son,

and a few months after Sydney, their daughter.

"I felt really good about myself getting back into shape.

"You beat the holy hell out of me.

"And we lied at the X-ray lab.

And I said I fell off of a bike."

Reports that Nicole Brown Simpson left behind

startling evidence that could destroy O.J.'s case.

Nicole's message from the grave.

In an interview with the L.A. Daily News,

Nicole's father seemed pleased with his daughter.

Saying, quote...

I remember that the pictures were in there.

I was really angry when I saw them.

Because what were they doing there?

They were just being hidden.

They were proof of something,

but they just sat in a safety deposit box.

It was just before trial.

The defense asked the court

if we could show Mr. Simpson

the items that we seized out of the safe deposit box.

I sat there, O.J. sitting right

next to me, and we had

our evidence book.

It was one of the first photographs.

He just blurted out, "Oh, yeah, that was New Year's Eve."

I looked at him in disbelief.

Whoever the defense attorney was-- I think it was Shapiro--

"Hey, be quiet. Don't say anything." It was unbelievable,

But it didn't-it didn't shock me.

An explosive story about a beating Nicole suffered.

-He was beating her in front of everybody? -WOMAN: He was hitting her.

As we started to pull out of the parking lot,

he just reached over and opened up the door

that, uh, Nicole was sitting by and just shoved her out.

All of a sudden, all these people started

coming out of the woodwork and saying, you know,

"Nicole told me that she was being abused."

"Nicole told me this was happening."

"Nicole said this was happening."

Where were those people?

I saw some things, yes, I saw a few things.

And I said something. I didn't go to the police.

I didn't know you could go to the police.

I didn't know anything about domestic violence at the time.

And I felt like, "Why can't I take her out of this?" You know?

I was always there protecting her when she was little.

Why can't I protect her now?

Why couldn't I? Why didn't she just leave?

I mean, he (bleep) up our whole family.

How could somebody, one person,

(bleep) up so many people's lives?

♪

(sighs)

(sniffles)

It's just so sad. I just want her back.

-SYDNEY: Mommy? -NICOLE: Hmm?

SYDNEY: Where are you?

NEWSMAN: 49 cameramen, 25 anchors,

20 producers I could see.

What a nightmare we lived.

Two people are dead.

Open up the can of worms.

She went from being a victim of domestic

violence and murder to being a whore.

And I thought, "This is hopeless."

Shortly before noon, Chicago time,

and history is in the making.

JUROR: We, the jury, in the above entitled action,

find the defendant not guilty

-of the crime of murder. -(cheering, screaming)

There was nothing to cheer about.

WOMAN: Denise became the spokesperson.

He beat his wife.

How can he be a good father?

We didn't talk for years.

The fact that he is a convicted wife batterer means

that he may present a risk of harm

-to these children. -WOMAN: He took them away.

PRODUCER: Were you aware of events in Florida?

O.J. Simpson did receive MDMA.

He was a user.

Oh, my God. Everything that this man

has ever done, he projected on my sister.

WOMAN: Those poor kids have been through a lot.

Who was there to protect them?

MAN: How do these children grow up to be normal

if the person that murdered their mother

was caring for them?

"Not guilty" does not mean you're innocent.

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