Shauna Rose Vs. Simpson

“The People of California versus Orenthal James Simpson” was not an unknown trial title to Shauna Rose.“OJ Simpson was a football player and a celebrity, and growing up, my dad was a big football fan so we obviously knew who OJ Simpson was because of that,” she said. Many knew O.J. Simpson as a “Hall of Fame running back, an actor on television shows and movies, a father to two children, and the ex-husband to Nicole Brown-Simpson, whom he met when she was just a young waitress and he was still married to a woman from a previous relationship” (Boan). On June 17, 1994, he was known as a “fugitive on the run” as he hid in his Buffalo Bills Football teammate, Al Cowlings’, 1994 white Ford bronco while Cowlings was driving to help him escape from

Brown-Simpson and Goldman were found dead with several wounds from a gruesome stabbing at Nicole’s condominium in California. After Simpson was detained, the police had found several items in the Bronco including $8,000 in cash, a passport, a family picture, a change of clothes, and a gun. They had also found a fake goatee and mustache so Simpson could hide his identity so no one would try to find him or he would be an unknown alias.

Shauna remembers being 1 of the 95 million media viewers watching the white Ford Bronco go at a very low speed on the roads of Interstate 405 in Southern California on national television stations including ABC, MSNBC, and CNN as Cowlings and Simpson were in a low-speed chase against the police. She and her mother, Sherrie Herter, watched the chase on the television go on for an estimated 120 minutes. Many were shocked as they watched OJ Simpson get handcuffed and arrested for 1st degree murder of his wife, Nicole, and her friend,

12 hours later, Cowlings was released on $250,000 bail. He was not charged in the murder due to “lack of evidence”” (Peter). When Simpson was detained by law enforcement, he was questioned about the problem of police finding Brown-Simpson and Goldman dead at her condominium. OJ Simpson became the “person of interest” due to his previous relationship with Nicole and the marital issues they faced that became physically and mentally abusive which made Nicole Simpson come to the conclusion of divorcing Mr. Simpson in late 1993.

Shauna Rose was born on July 15th, 1977. She grew up in Wright City, Missouri with her mother who worked as a union machinist that made beds for hospitals, her father who worked as a construction foreman in the Local 660 Labor Union, and her older brother, Pat, who was working in a job with his father, living away from the Herter home and married to a girl named Jennifer