Oj Simpson Research Paper

The gruesome murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were ringing in everyone's ears around the entire country. The O.J. Simpson trial was one of the biggest publicized trials in history. This case took place in Los Angeles, California in the year of 1994. June 12, 1994 marked the day of their deaths and also the day that Orenthal James Simpson became the face surrounding the media. There were many different speculations about what happened that night, but one thing was for certain, a guilty man is free. He sought out this horrible crime because he was a very jealous and controlling man. He had the mindset that if he could not have Nicole, no one could. This case involved O.J., his ex-wife Nicole, and Nicole's friend, Ronald Goldman.

He got married in 1967 to Marguerite Whitley and they had three children together, one of which died in a drowning accident. O.J. and Whitley divorced in 1980, which was the same year their son had died. Mr. Simpson met and began dating Nicole Brown in 1980 and 5 years later in 1985, they got married. Soon after they got married they had two children, Justin and Sydney. For many outsiders, the marriage of Nicole and O.J. Simpson seemed to be perfect in many different ways. They were financially stable due to his careers in the NFL, acting, and broadcasting. O.J. soon began to feel entitled to and possessive over Nicole. He became to be physically and emotionally abusive. Nicole Simpon filed for divorce after seven years of marriage to her abusive husband. Within those 7 years of marriage, Nicole called the police over 8 times to report domestic violence disputes. These acts were only the beginning of what was about to happen next. It was only a matter of time until domestic abuse would not be enough for O.J.. Things would soon escalate into something much more, a

They occur when anger is built up inside someone over months or years. Two years prior to the murders, investigators found pictures which showed that Nicole was abused. There were also letters from O.J. admitting and apologizing for what he had done. These are the same documents that Nicole used to win their divorce case in 1992 (Reibstein “And now, the trial” 44). These first known signs of abuse had proved that O.J. had some psychological issues. He wasn't just a face that everyone knew from the tv, but instead a man who seemed to be developing the mindset of someone who was very