OJ Simpson's Red Flags That Everyone Missed

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @DivineIshma
    @DivineIshma 8 месяцев назад +4301

    As a black woman and I was born in 1985 so thank you for bringing to light how long this tragedy has lasted and she got no justice. I had a strong suspicion that he did kill her and what sold me is when he wrote a book about how he would have done it if he did it.

    • @RachelSings21
      @RachelSings21 8 месяцев назад +217

      This…he 100% did it in my mind

    • @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs
      @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs 8 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@MilitantOregano
      Not at all
      The copyrights, of
      [If] I DID IT , belong to Judith Reagan &
      Fred Goldman
      According to the civil litigation, which can't be a criminal charge
      Or overrule a superior court decision .
      The interview challenged Judith Reagan"s theory of domestic violence,
      that was stricken from the record
      Petrocelli" s exhausting, repeated questioning of everything that didn't matter !
      Mentioning a hypothetical theory only needs to be repeated to anyone that can't understand the definition.
      No knife , no bloody clothing no eyewitness no timeline !

    • @marfu1119
      @marfu1119 8 месяцев назад

      It's crazy the incident on New year's day in 1989 I was born just 8 days after that incident when Nicole claimed he was trying to killed her and to think 5 years later in 1994 she was brutally murdered by him. Shows the system failed her.

    • @LizzieShiro
      @LizzieShiro 8 месяцев назад +75

      I didn’t know about OJ until a Family Guy episode and I knew he did it.

    • @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
      @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 8 месяцев назад +178

      Yes he wrote that book, but let's also not forget the evidence... The bloody glove at his property... His blood at the crime scene... Everyone's blood in his bronco... The cut on his finger and his blood in that exact spot in the glove... Should I go on?

  • @EvaL-ti2jd
    @EvaL-ti2jd 8 месяцев назад +2841

    I know everyone likes to focus on the insanity that was the trial, but this part of the story is always so forgotten. Nicole lived terrified for years of this man and she got no justice for what happened to her.
    She never got to see her children grow up and never broke free from this man's abuse which is a true tragedy in all of this.
    The fact he murdered her when their children were sleeping upstairs is so understated, truly evil.
    And poor Ron as well, treated as a footnote in his own murder. All he did was to do a favor for a friend and ended up getting murdered for it.
    Thank you for bringing attention to this part of the story which most people sadly glosses over

    • @14hoursahead
      @14hoursahead 8 месяцев назад +250

      In the paper, it was reported that there were 62 police reports of abuse by his wife before he murdered her. It’s insane that police negligence ruined what should’ve been an easy conviction and life prison sentence.

    • @daviddavis3389
      @daviddavis3389 8 месяцев назад

      Please understand, OJ bay have been affected due to soo many concussions from extremeky tough hits to his head...that is all that I wanna say!!! Please, please understand that OJ definitely wasn't a dirty animal ...it hurts me to read so many people putting out Lies bout the Juice....by the way, please call OJ the Juice ....He was an amazing Guy...ps, dont believe the Lies.😊

    • @stephaniec0625
      @stephaniec0625 8 месяцев назад +69

      And left them to find her. It was only by the grace of God and circumstance that they didn't find her

    • @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs
      @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs 8 месяцев назад +5

      The truth about Nicole Brown, is just something that you don't want to know

    • @VideoFanatic02
      @VideoFanatic02 8 месяцев назад

      @@KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs Oh shut up.

  • @marymac3572
    @marymac3572 5 месяцев назад +660

    The red flags weren't missed, they were ignored because he was talented, famous, and rich. Respect The Dead did a 2 episode deep dive on him, the murders, the trial, and the aftermath.
    Nicole reached out to people. She had evidence, she took photos, she documented injuries, and at least once she told people that OJ was going to kill her. He systematically dismantled her support systems, isolated her, wrecked her self-esteem, and when he was finally sure that he was going to lose control of her, he murdered her.

    • @deanjacobs1766
      @deanjacobs1766 3 месяца назад

      Nicole shoulda reached out for a gun.

    • @jassimins4484
      @jassimins4484 3 месяца назад

      Yes. That is exactly what that was. It was no case of escalated domestic violence or an accident. He prepared her murder openly and nobody protected her. Let's called it what it is, it's a femicide.

    • @jeffreyivery4299
      @jeffreyivery4299 2 месяца назад

      @@marymac3572 U have no idea what U are talking about she didn't have any evidence of abuse that was what her sisters said and why didn't she have her lawyers testify in court look the News Media lied about everything in this case and the blood evidence was planted OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson had the same blood type A and that's what they were trying to convect him on his wife's blood but I'll tell u this the person who killed Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had Diplomatic Ammity and was sent back to his country now Why didn't the FBI and the LAPD tell the public about this see before U talk U have no know what happened I was friends with OJ Simpson and F.Lee Bailey and we talked about this case ALOT and now I find out that Kris Kardashian and Diddy were having conversations about him I have a friend who works for the government tell me he heard the tapes so there is more to this case than we all think but remember that the woman who did Nicole's make-up on the movie set OJ was on wanted to testify about this and Marcia Clark said NO now why would she do that????

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 2 месяца назад

      And she wouldn’t press charges

    • @badkitty4922
      @badkitty4922 2 месяца назад

      Being a survivor of an extremely physically abusive man, the lack of pressing charges comes from the real and valid fear of what he's going to do to you once he's made bail, and is back on the streets. ​@debbylou5729 we KNOW that we should press charges. We WANT to press charges. And even though we're completely isolated from our families and any other personal support system, and there are women's groups out there designed to help and protect us once charges have been pressed....it's SO HARD to believe that we're actually going to be safe. It's so hard to trust anyone to protect us from further harm until our abuser is put in prison.
      Believe me. I'm a survivor of DV. My abuser checked every box on the list, and despite having restraining orders and protection from abuse orders (not worth the paper they're written on), he STILL found me, beat the sh*t out of me, and almost killed me when he shot me in my head.
      I've got permanent brain damage, seizures, anxiety and a laundry list of other neurological issues from that attack.
      I'm thankful for not having any real memories surrounding the week of the attack, and my only knowledge is from doctors and the detectives on my case, or I'm SURE I'd have a serious case of PTSD.
      So saying "She never pressed charges " comes off as victim blaming (which is horrible) and a lack of true understanding of the visceral fear behind the consequences if pressing charges doesn't keep your abuser locked up and they get to you.
      Which seems to me that (thankfully) you've never had to be in that situation.

  • @alicial1239
    @alicial1239 4 месяца назад +286

    “What did you do that made him so mad?”
    I stood there with a chipped tooth and a black eye and had to defend myself. This was normal for an abused woman in the 1970s. I’m so lucky I got out alive. And I’m so grateful that my generation went on to change laws. Before that, women really didn’t have the right to be safe. My heart breaks for for the victims.

    • @StrangeFacinations
      @StrangeFacinations 3 месяца назад +16

      Me too. We made it.

    • @txlady1049
      @txlady1049 2 месяца назад +12

      Bless you both. My sister was in an abusive relationship with her first husband. Even she had the opinion that if a man hits a woman, she must have done something to deserve it. She and I got into HUGE arguments about that. Looking back, I realize now this was a red flag -- he not only hit her, but he had emotionally abused her, beat down her confidence, and made her believe all the bad things he said about her.
      This was in 1978. While I did tell her she was wrong, that no woman 'deserves' to be hit, by anyone! But I didn't pick up on the underlying truth, that it was happening to her.
      For what it's worth, about a year after, her husband was killed in an argument with a 'friend' of his. She raised two kids on her own, worked during the day and went to school at night, and worked her way up in the company she worked for, to a senior management level. I think she found that confidence he tried to steal from her.

    • @globalwarmhugs7741
      @globalwarmhugs7741 2 месяца назад

      Women won't be safe anymore if the orange blob siezes power again. He has stated that he will change the laws back to the original draconian ones. I can't find the link to it, unfortunately. It's something to the effect that you could get arrested for reporting SA or DA.

    • @alicial1239
      @alicial1239 2 месяца назад +8

      @@txlady1049 God blessed her with you for a sister. Women need to know that we all have sisters - we all have each other if we will be there for each other!

    • @badkitty4922
      @badkitty4922 2 месяца назад +6

      🫂🫂🫂🫂to us all.
      💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏for us all.
      😘💖🫂

  • @s.tavares3257
    @s.tavares3257 7 месяцев назад +1157

    This guy’s narcissism is through the roof.. I remember being in middle school when his trial started and having a school survey on whether he’d be found guilty or not guilty.. I was the only black kid who voted guilty and was called a “sellout” for selecting guilty.

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 7 месяцев назад +113

      You are far from a sellout. You are one of society's protectors. After people saw all these dudes who end people's lives, criminals thought they could get away with what they did to George Floyd, Cherica Adams, and Megan Thee Stallion. When all those people who committed those crimes are released, the public will not be safe.

    • @Langley_Ackerman19
      @Langley_Ackerman19 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@MrJuvefrankGeorge Floyd is decorated criminal. You need to stop looking at people as a whole race and judge the individuals character or lack thereof.

    • @heathercontois4501
      @heathercontois4501 6 месяцев назад +122

      I went to an all white(I'm white, too) Catholic school for middle school. The girls said guilty and the boys said not guilty. Can you guess one o the reasons I'm not Catholic anymore?

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 6 месяцев назад

      @@heathercontois4501 That many White males in a school said things like that? That's all right. If you write things on RUclips that are difficult to believe, I can just put you on mute. Every day for the rest of your life, your mythical communications are blocked from my account. Think of it as a learning experience.

    • @AdorableFloof1999
      @AdorableFloof1999 6 месяцев назад +43

      I'm a woman and in my high-school we did a vote of whether women should be drafted if there ever is another draft. I'm the only girl who said yes and all the other girls were mad at me.

  • @Sensansenkai
    @Sensansenkai 8 месяцев назад +2359

    Somehow I imagine someone passing by as you’re running around with the flag and going “well that’s as sure a sign as any” before turning around from whatever they were on their way to and going home.

    • @lauradeheij-joon1474
      @lauradeheij-joon1474 8 месяцев назад +167

      Hahaha yeah just straight up "that's a nope from me, then" 😂

    • @Goldhook420
      @Goldhook420 7 месяцев назад +63

      Dude was probably heading to a tinder date😂

    • @lilithjesus7718
      @lilithjesus7718 6 месяцев назад +53

      LOL 🙌 delighted by your imagination ✨

    • @theherstorychannel
      @theherstorychannel 6 месяцев назад +92

      Moments earlier they uttered "god please send me a sign" 😂

    • @keekers
      @keekers 5 месяцев назад +12

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @raydavison4288
    @raydavison4288 8 месяцев назад +1882

    It shouldn't be up to the victim whether or not to arrest a perpetrator of domestic violence. If there is sufficient evidence of an attack, arrest should be automatic.

    • @GoldenMermaid
      @GoldenMermaid 8 месяцев назад +129

      I believe it depends on the state but where I live, if a person commits a violent crime, the state prosecutes them not the victim. I think that's what makes a big difference. If the court case is state v. Abuser or victim v. Abuser. The victim doesn't have to do anything at all, but it helps if they give a statement for evidence. If it's on camera or has witnesses then the state won't need the victim to provide any evidence at all.

    • @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs
      @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs 8 месяцев назад +25

      @@GoldenMermaid
      A victim has to testify to physical abuse.
      It isn't the hearsay of anyone that is involved with an argument
      That would be perjury with a violation of rights in any American state

    • @xostayglamourous
      @xostayglamourous 8 месяцев назад +197

      My ex abused me and the cops showed up for one of the incidents. I was still very much in the thick of the relationship so I said I didn't want to press charges and they flat out told me "cool. you don't get to make that choice, the DA does." I live in California but I think every state should have laws like that. Thank God they pressed charges 😅

    • @xostayglamourous
      @xostayglamourous 8 месяцев назад +91

      ​@KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs the victim doesn't need to testify if there's enough physical evidence to determine that abuse happened. My ex was charged based on injuries to me vs. him. The police know what defensive injuries look like and can typically determine who was the aggressor by what the injuries look like. For instance, I had red marks around my neck/a bite on my finger and he had scratches on his chest/neck. The police could already tell that his injuries were consistent with me defending myself. A vast majority of DV survivors don't want to testify against their abuser because of safety or because they are so deep in the relationship.

    • @xostayglamourous
      @xostayglamourous 8 месяцев назад +51

      @@KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs you don't know what you're talking about. He was arrested in 1989 for abusing nicole so bad that she had to be hospitalized. Keep parroting the wrong information, you're digging a hole you can't get out of.

  • @robynsriot
    @robynsriot 8 месяцев назад +1086

    Thinking about how scared Nicole was of him makes my heart ache.

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +243

      The fact that she went to a bar with him just days before he murdered her -- even though they were already separated -- speaks to the level of fear she had towards him, his level of aggression, and just how bad the stalking was. I think she felt that going somewhere with him would at least just temporarily get him to stop, not just for the sake of her but especially her children.

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 8 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@DustinPoynterVideosnot only did she willingly go to out with him, she also hit him up for money, she had actually written him a letter after the divorce wanting to reconcile and that was actually mentioned at the trial and you can look it up and read the letter online,
      And, for somebody supposedly so scared, she chose to move away only just a mile away when she had the means to move me much farther away
      How scared could you be really when you do all of this?

    • @RJN8580
      @RJN8580 8 месяцев назад +7

      @@naithngr81-jh2bb BINGO... She wanted to get back with OJ

    • @pauobunyon9791
      @pauobunyon9791 8 месяцев назад

      @@naithngr81-jh2bb Nicole didnt deserve to be killed. That being said she seems to have been "WELL KNOWN"and a hot commodity in NFL Police Politicians and general dirt bag circles for "UNKNOWN REASONS" . The fact that OJ is not either Spiderman Bat man or an Orangutan rules him out completely to me considering the high level of slaughtering done within a 5 minute time frame ! Furman and LAPD didn't know it was OJ but they doctored the scene to ensure all fingers point to him ! Also Nicole and Rons friends were also from the restaurant were also slaughtered shortly after them. Which says to me LAPD covered up probably the biggest scandal in history that they were a part of for years !

    • @kolohe2790
      @kolohe2790 8 месяцев назад +77

      @@DustinPoynterVideos There was huge pressure on her to reconcile with him bc her dad was working for OJ. Her family wouldnt let her leave him (due to the perks) and she did not disclose the severity of the abuse😞

  • @Jamez-q2e
    @Jamez-q2e 6 месяцев назад +767

    I was a young adult working my first job when the trial occurred. The day the verdict was read we gathered around a tv. When they said not guilty every white person‘s face was stricken, the Black people in my office were cheering clapping jumping around. This is more about our judicial system than OJ. I think they felt that they have been denied justice for so long, that any black man getting off, was something to celebrate. It was very disturbing. I’ll never forget it.

    • @akirababe1570
      @akirababe1570 6 месяцев назад +154

      Yeah, he became a figurehead for POC who were being unfairly incarcerated. Instead of concern for the truth and justice, it became about race. Here was a dark skinned man who fought the system and won, his guilt was irrelevant to so many.

    • @bore-aliss
      @bore-aliss 6 месяцев назад

      @@akirababe1570 I mean, 'Black man on trial for murder of white women' without it all ending in the death penalty was a novelty at the time. And let's not pretend police didn't have a history of scapegoating black men for crimes involving white women.
      Add that to his previously clean image (which probably means there wasn't reporting on his violence), a cop known to be racist (right after Rodney King), and the evidence being tampered with? I kinda get why there was a knee-jerk 'oh, they arrested him because he was the easiest suspect, and they needed to cover their asses after letting the press destroy all the evidence' from the general public. Not saying it was right, just that I understand the logic.

    • @lizhowerton895
      @lizhowerton895 6 месяцев назад +32

      They still very much do that.

    • @Khaegch-favh
      @Khaegch-favh 5 месяцев назад +93

      That's scares me because at the end of the day, innocent people go to jail or get killed while guilty Narcissists always get away with things :/

    • @regularity2556
      @regularity2556 5 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@akirababe1570that's still the case with black America

  • @amandajakubowski7931
    @amandajakubowski7931 6 месяцев назад +347

    A gross misuse of power. That poor woman cried for help and NOT A SINGLE PERSON CARED NOR BELIEVED HER.

    • @lyndsaybrown8471
      @lyndsaybrown8471 4 месяца назад

      Just another day of being a woman =/

    • @kitkat9648
      @kitkat9648 4 месяца назад

      Not true. People believed her . She wasn't going to mess with her child support and alimony by putting him in jail for past domestic violence. Nicole divorced that coked out animal.

    • @cathylindeboo.9598
      @cathylindeboo.9598 3 месяца назад +6

      I think that her sister Denise knew & cared, as well as at least one close friend. Maybe a few other people. It is so sad, but the people who DID know, probably felt helpless, as Nicole herself was so ambivalent about the situation, back and forth. Poor thing. I've been in a similar position to hers. I was lucky, as he died. Domestic violence is so tragic to me. As well as racism, and all the other societal complexities.

    • @IndigoBellyDance
      @IndigoBellyDance 3 месяца назад +5

      Welcome to the ‘80’s

    • @kardoyle
      @kardoyle 3 месяца назад +2

      @@IndigoBellyDanceyeah look at justin beber nobody protected him

  • @supershasha
    @supershasha 8 месяцев назад +1378

    I was not expecting OJ's real name, "Ornamental Jim Smithsonian", to be dropped 😂

    • @SephoneNorth
      @SephoneNorth 6 месяцев назад +54

      Gotta bring out the government names

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead 6 месяцев назад +57

      Orenthal James Simpson

    • @core17
      @core17 6 месяцев назад +27

      ​@@JoeRogansForeheadNah

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@core17 that’s his govt name habib .

    • @core17
      @core17 6 месяцев назад +61

      @@JoeRogansForehead And you're completely missing that the OP knows that and was appreciating Dustyn's joke in which he called him Ornamental Jim Smithsonian.
      ... explaining the joke makes it so much funnier....

  • @poshpawleys
    @poshpawleys 6 месяцев назад +598

    People knew. I personally saw Nicole with a black eye. People in Hollywood absolutely knew, this was no secret.

    • @EsmeraldaSyltern
      @EsmeraldaSyltern 6 месяцев назад +27

      When and where did you see her? Not doubting your story, he was well known to be abusive. I’m just curious

    • @cassandrashelton3690
      @cassandrashelton3690 4 месяца назад +21

      Oh wow. And no one saved her. There had to be powerful people in their circles. This was absolutely avoidable.

    • @strawbunni6834
      @strawbunni6834 4 месяца назад +19

      And the fact that the industry let her be terrorized, abused, and eventually murdered all before painting her as the cheating villain. Not only did it allow this to happen to her but this negligence stole her children's mother and that is a debt that can never be paid.

    • @jgp1294
      @jgp1294 4 месяца назад +16

      But they were more of LA celebrities not super into the Hollywood movie circles…my older sister was her age and knew her, they had friends in common. It was known what she was dealing with regarding OJ, different times back then. It was considered taboo to get involved in someone’s marriage

    • @parading_panda1210
      @parading_panda1210 4 месяца назад +13

      Well I feel like with all the celebs being exposed lately, we now know most of them are terrible people hiding their own secrets.

  • @Bijilili
    @Bijilili 8 месяцев назад +724

    Please consider more [Vile Person Here] Missed Red Flags deep dives like this - either passed away or currently incarcerated. Your easy to digest journalism with top tier hilarious near-slapstick names is excellent!

    • @Toriiiiiiiiii11
      @Toriiiiiiiiii11 7 месяцев назад +11

      Like Aaron Hernandez. I feel like he could do that in a more lighthearted way as it is so jarring.

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato 6 месяцев назад +3

      Ted Bundy

    • @marymac3572
      @marymac3572 5 месяцев назад +14

      Check out Respect the Dead! They do deep dives on dead people who sucked with all the reference they deserve.

    • @MizMorgue1
      @MizMorgue1 5 месяцев назад +1

      I second this!❤

    • @UncleIrohs
      @UncleIrohs 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@Toriiiiiiiiii11oh indeed it was. I watched the patriots my whole childhood so I was like I’m sorry wha? That was a wild ass day

  • @mewho6199
    @mewho6199 6 месяцев назад +129

    Thank you for demonstrating how a person can PRETEND his own gloves don't fit. That part of the trial was so frustrating because so many people believed those couldn't be his gloves.

    • @TheBre1491
      @TheBre1491 4 месяца назад +20

      Not to mention the glove was frozen….frozen fabric will shrink.

    • @Janjones7735
      @Janjones7735 4 месяца назад +27

      Also, I’ve heard most of his attorneys speak and one of them said he was worried about the glove fitting so the attorney suggested he stop taking his arthritis meds. If you know what that does, it makes your joints swell. So a glove that would normally fit won’t. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @iBullyDemons
      @iBullyDemons 4 месяца назад

      Also he was wearing rubber gloves underneath which would have made it harder for the gloves to slide on. Those gloves would have fit if they were stored properly and he wasn't wearing the other gloves.
      Moral of the story. If you wanna get away with murder. Wear gloves that are a size too small.

    • @txlady1049
      @txlady1049 2 месяца назад +5

      I always wondered about those gloves -- they said they were leather, covered with blood, and had been sitting for months before they gave them to Simpson to try on in court. There HAD to be a problem with fit after they got soaked in blood and left to dry. That was definitely NOT proof that they weren't his gloves.

    • @pfb74
      @pfb74 2 месяца назад

      Yuppppp​@@Janjones7735

  • @GoingCamping
    @GoingCamping 8 месяцев назад +206

    The 911 call is mostly the 911 operator asking Nicole to stay on the phone so it picks up more of OJ's insane and violent screaming

    • @QueenAlexis556
      @QueenAlexis556 7 месяцев назад +29

      Yes! Those true colors came out and are forever to be heard on the Internet 🤭

  • @forgettingeverythinglikeno2029
    @forgettingeverythinglikeno2029 8 месяцев назад +1069

    I took a forensics crime class, basically how people investigate murders and all, and this case was used as an example of what not to do. The short of it was that too many reporters were let on the property and the cops weren’t taking it as seriously as needed.
    For those crimes, nothing can be touched or moved before pictures are taken of evidence. But all the reporters and cops were wandering around, smearing the blood and their hands and fingerprints everywhere. It was just enough to fuck up all the physical evidence from the scene that it was impossible to tell OJ’s prints and dna from everyone else’s.
    That’s called tampering with a crime scene kids

    • @erickleefeld4883
      @erickleefeld4883 8 месяцев назад +147

      Plus a cop pled the 5th on the witness stand about whether he planted evidence in the case. At that point, a jury simply has to acquit. (And yes, he did it.)

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +260

      I've watched a lot of crime docs lately on cases from the 70s, 80s and 90s and I'm floored at how regular of an occurrence it was to botch crime scene evidence like this. Just a ton of corruption and incompetence coming outta this era.

    • @erickleefeld4883
      @erickleefeld4883 8 месяцев назад +101

      @@DustinPoynterVideos The years after the OJ trial also saw a lot more exposure of just how pervasively the LAPD planted evidence. (Something the targeted communities were well aware of, already.)
      It’s tragic for the families, the straw to break the camel’s back against the abusive practices and total lack of public trust was the acquittal of an obviously guilty murderer. But the fact is, OJ couldn’t have gotten away with murder without all that generous help from the LAPD.

    • @gallagherwitt
      @gallagherwitt 8 месяцев назад +75

      A lot of those "what not to do" are rules now BECAUSE of that case. It really reshaped how crime scenes are managed and how evidence is preserved. Some of those rules were already in place and were just ignored, but many were added or made MUCH stricter after this one.

    • @reilley26
      @reilley26 8 месяцев назад +44

      I wonder if my class had the same textbook because this case was one of two that were used as examples of botched investigations. The one detail I remember was that they put a blanket or sheet over the bodies to hide them from the paparazzi that was from somewhere on the property, not a sterile sheet, so there was almost guaranteed evidence contamination.

  • @nadinewead6288
    @nadinewead6288 8 месяцев назад +302

    i was twelve years old when that verdict came in. they showed it live on all the TVs at my junior high school. that was the first time in my life i discovered that guilty people could get away with murder. it had never occurred to me until that day.

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 8 месяцев назад

      YAWN

    • @angelmartin7310
      @angelmartin7310 6 месяцев назад +9

      And people cheered.

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@angelmartin7310 they had good reason to do so, because OJ was innocent of the murders

    • @LittleSillyGoose613
      @LittleSillyGoose613 6 месяцев назад +26

      And above we see commenters being mean without provocation. Perhaps they are fighting for territory. Perhaps they are taking their anger out on a lone commenter without risk of reprimand. We may never know... but there is hope.

    • @LML1415
      @LML1415 6 месяцев назад

      What insightful commentary​@@naithngr81-jh2bb

  • @gallagherwitt
    @gallagherwitt 8 месяцев назад +303

    One really wild thing about the case is how it reshaped crime scene investigations and evidence handling. A HUGE amount of the defense was just poking holes in chain of custody, saying "well, how do you KNOW that blood wasn't smeared in the car by your tech who was in the house?" A lot of the very strict guidelines CSIs and forensic techs abide by now came about as a result of that case. People can't move from one crime scene to another (e.g., from the house to the vehicle) without stripping off all their protective gear and putting on a new set. Chain of custody is much more strictly tracked.
    If it happened today, the investigators would've had much more rigid procedures to prevent compromising evidence or contaminating a crime scene, and the defense would've had a MUCH steeper uphill climb to defend him.

    • @MissPuppy468
      @MissPuppy468 8 месяцев назад +18

      Huh, I didn't know that part! So it's kinda like the titanic of forensics. (All the safety drills/procedures for ships are because of that sinking, the titanic literally didn't have enough life boats for everyone on board)

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 8 месяцев назад

      Tell the whole truth, not only was there violation of chain of custody but also the so called blood evidence amounted to specks and contained preservative and the lead detective pleaded the fifth for planting evidence.

    • @marcning918
      @marcning918 5 месяцев назад +5

      It's not all that shocking. Unfortunately that's generally what it takes to make much needed adjustments happen. Just like the other person comment about the Titanic it often takes an obvious failure to make progress in many aspects. It's not like those changes appeared out of nowhere they had been proposed before like with many other noted tragedies but were ignored. Sadly this well not be the final example of humanities brutal learning curve. As its been repeated many times since and is must likely ongoing even now with our current climate situation. Maybe the next dominant species will be capable of learning from its mistakes before its too late.

    • @juliastrawn2113
      @juliastrawn2113 4 месяца назад

      How would a tech changing protective gear from one scene to another make OJ harder to defend? And what is the chain of custody (and what about it changed)?
      I have no knowledge about the inner workings of legal systems, so I'm genuinely curious.

    • @gallagherwitt
      @gallagherwitt 4 месяца назад +5

      @@juliastrawn2113 It doesn't make him harder to defend -- it makes him harder to prosecute. For example, if the prosecution says "This smear of Nicole's blood in O.J.'s car places him at the scene," the defense replies, "How can you be sure one of your techs didn't PUT that blood there after getting it on their clothes at the house, then searching the car?"
      Chain of custody refers to who had possession of a piece of evidence between its collection (when it was picked up at the scene) and when it's presented in court. Evidence will often be transported, change hands, etc., and it is STRICTLY logged who took possession, when, etc. If there is a break in this chain -- e.g., a period where the item's whereabouts and custodian can't be verified -- then it's possible for the defense to say "You can't be sure this isn't the exact item that was at the scene." Any forensic testing performed after the break in chain of custody won't be admissible in court, and the evidence itself won't be admissible.
      Prior to the O.J. case, investigators weren't as careful about cross contamination (e.g., they didn't have techs remove their protective gear after being on one scene and then putting on all new gear at the next scene, preventing transfer of blood, etc). They also weren't quite as careful about chain of custody.
      Hope that helps!

  • @Max-ql2pv
    @Max-ql2pv 5 месяцев назад +122

    I think the financial control is also a large factor of why Nicole stayed. Nicole was a teenager when she met OJ, and within weeks her demanded that she leave the apartment she was sharing with a friend to move into an apartment he paid for. She never got to be independent and come into herself as an adult. It's part of what makes her death so tragic, too. Right when Nicole was finally breaking away from Simpson, he took her life.

    • @amyisafoxfull3350
      @amyisafoxfull3350 4 месяца назад +10

      Yes! And her father was also indebted to him for finding him a role at hertz, and he supported her parents more generally. Dominick dunne made a famous observation (believe it was him) that all the simpson daughters, tho grown up middle class, had boob jobs but no college degree. Nicole was obvs intelligent but she never got to go where she belonged in life by getting involved with this man at a young age.... Her family did report that Nicole had made comments about physical arguments, being thrown v a dresser etc, and they knew he was handsy, at the least....

    • @meladejesus
      @meladejesus Месяц назад +1

      Like Princess Diana, RIP.
      I said what I said

  • @dstinnettmusic
    @dstinnettmusic 8 месяцев назад +310

    OJ Simpson was the first choice to play the terminator. But the directors thought the idea of OJ as a violent killer was totally unbelievable and so they cast Arnold.

    • @lisapage9317
      @lisapage9317 7 месяцев назад +25

      If James Cameron had waited another 10 years....

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 7 месяцев назад +10

      Hertz rent a car cancelled the old goat's contract when they learned his D.N.A. was at a murder scene.

    • @kay-jay1581
      @kay-jay1581 5 месяцев назад +14

      The irony it’s so terribly sad it’s almost funny. But an innocent woman and man died for that irony. It’s just a tragedy. OJ Simpson walked away with murder and with thousands of fans still in love with him 😟

    • @JupiterMuffles
      @JupiterMuffles 5 месяцев назад +12

      Probably for the best. Would many people wanna watch that movie after this? 😂

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 5 месяцев назад

      @@JupiterMuffles O.J. Simpson was a goat.

  • @Voodoofairy88
    @Voodoofairy88 8 месяцев назад +639

    You're right Dustin, you don't want to hear the 911 calls.

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +228

      I muted the sound when I gathered the footage for the 911 call for this video, and just seeing the words on the screen was uncomfortable.

    • @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
      @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 8 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@DustinPoynterVideoshonestly the call from Nicole isn't that bad, she just sounds scared

    • @toritori5835
      @toritori5835 8 месяцев назад +142

      @@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn- When she’s saying he’ll beat the 💩 out of her and he’s making it through different doors to where she is, it’s terrifying. When he starts hitting her, it’s horrific.

    • @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
      @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 8 месяцев назад +25

      @@toritori5835 then I must've not heard that call... I was thinking about the one where she says "he's back, can you please send someone".. in that call she sounds more annoyed than anything else

    • @coredadventure1
      @coredadventure1 8 месяцев назад +31

      ​@@bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnit's the same one that you're thinking where she said he's back and the dispatcher says stay on the line with me and she says I don't want to cuz he's going to beat the s*** out of me

  • @firsttimecallerlongtimelis836
    @firsttimecallerlongtimelis836 8 месяцев назад +400

    The part where he is calling her “his woman” just days before he killed her she looks so uncomfortable

    • @stephanieoaks5940
      @stephanieoaks5940 5 месяцев назад +30

      The way she was watching him, it just breaks my heart that she ever met him. To live in that terror for years. Horrible.

    • @goingferalluvs
      @goingferalluvs 5 месяцев назад +8

      He did the classic sweet and devoted man act

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 5 месяцев назад +19

      @@goingferalluvs More like the classic abusive territorial pissing bullsh.

    • @PatriciaHenderson-me8kh
      @PatriciaHenderson-me8kh 2 месяца назад

      Also... is that... the dress she had on when she died? Because holy crap.

  • @ThatMontanaMom
    @ThatMontanaMom 4 месяца назад +57

    Dustin, as a DV survivor I sincerely want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating a platform speaking out against domestic violence IN A MAN’S VOICE. DV survivors have long been advocating for their own and their sister’s right to live safe and in peace. I feel strongly, however, that having REAL MEN stand up and call out abusive males that the world will happily just push the potentially lethal effects of domestic violence into the shadows. I have SO much respect for what you do here!💜💜💜💜

  • @lynaeeakettgreene7208
    @lynaeeakettgreene7208 8 месяцев назад +146

    It's so sad and terrifying that domestic violence is so easily perpetuated.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 8 месяцев назад +11

      What’s more terrifying is how often it’s just ignored by anyone who could do something

    • @johnnyjohnson2268
      @johnnyjohnson2268 7 месяцев назад

      'Domestic' violence (so-named) is insidious because there are no witnesses to spill the beans... except possibly the young children.....

  • @beauburrell3318
    @beauburrell3318 8 месяцев назад +243

    "if you're out in the garden you must pardon!" 😂 That is great.

    • @LightBlueVans
      @LightBlueVans 8 месяцев назад +7

      absolute gold, i actually cackled at that one. he’s got such sharp quick wit! i wish i could come up with the things he does

  • @thesecretlifeofwonderwoman
    @thesecretlifeofwonderwoman 8 месяцев назад +441

    Well done, Dustin! You examined an ugly subject with dignity, grace and the appropriate touch of humour while maintaining respect for Nicole and Ron. Thank you

    • @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs
      @KevinShaughnessy-lf3vs 8 месяцев назад

      Nicole Brown had no dignity

    • @daviddavis3389
      @daviddavis3389 7 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you Dustin, everything that you are saying is 100% true! I hope that you continue taking about all you say! I Love your message. OJ should not drive the blame for everything bad you were accused of! Don't blame OJ at all.

    • @QueenAlexis556
      @QueenAlexis556 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@daviddavis3389since you know OJ so well, did you go to his funeral? And I'm also curious...did the urn fit?

    • @daviddavis3389
      @daviddavis3389 7 месяцев назад

      @@QueenAlexis556 did the UMH fit? Is that a secret code Ms Alexis? Because I have 0 meaning of what you are trying to to say!

    • @childofcascadia
      @childofcascadia 5 месяцев назад +5

      Wow, I think you need glasses. I mean, Id say youre trolling, but since all you did was burn yourself hard I dont think youre trolling.
      URN. You know, a place for cremated ashes?

  • @amo9503
    @amo9503 8 месяцев назад +315

    And to think that the Kardashian clan was built from Nicole’s blood. Ive always thought that.

    • @MayorDeezy
      @MayorDeezy 6 месяцев назад +57

      ​@leleigh934This trial is what first put the Kardashian name out there.

    • @marcning918
      @marcning918 5 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@MayorDeezyhe was one of the least publicized attorneys from that trail. The judge and district attorneys got more attention from it. Cochran and Shaprio got the attention for the defense. It was more a case of people remembering after the fact than that being a driving force to it.

    • @MayorDeezy
      @MayorDeezy 5 месяцев назад +13

      @@marcning918 It was still one of the most publicized trials of all time. Even if he barely had the spotlight on him that's still millions of Americans that knew his name after that. If anything it just opened doors to opportunities

    • @amyraszipovits810
      @amyraszipovits810 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@lisecatherinee I was a sophmore/junior and I didn't know who Kardashian was until they got their show.

    • @marcning918
      @marcning918 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@MayorDeezy do you really think that his name is what drew their target audience? Can you really not see how there's a massive disconnect between who made them famous and who would remember the name of a background participant of a trail already ten or more years in the past when they got started. Can you evan name the rest of the lawyers for the defense without looking them up? Do you even remember off hand how many he had? When I looked it up I had forgotten names that made their names before the trail.

  • @Wednesdaywoe1975
    @Wednesdaywoe1975 7 месяцев назад +103

    The thing about the "teerible childhood leads to murder" assumptionis that throughout history, MOST people suffered trauma as children. Slavery, war, famine, poverty, sexual and physical abuse--everybody took a trip on the Crazy Making Train. And yes, this did lead to a higher number of violent and disturbed people than you would find in peaceful and prospeerous societies and we should definitely think of that, but they were never more than say, 20% of the population. The other 80% managed to grow up with some semblance of deceny. OJ was violent because he wanted to be.

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 7 месяцев назад

      Scientists said the old goat slit his ex-wife's throat. Folks in the ghetto say the old goat wasn't violent.

    • @patricialong3492
      @patricialong3492 6 месяцев назад +3

      My late husband had met OJ & his entourage (he ALWAYS had one) several times over the years. He said OJ NEVER did his own fighting in the hood. His closest hanger on always protected him. Hubs was always convinced OJ didn't do his own murders, the good buddy did it for him.

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@patricialong3492 Did you talk to law enforcement about this?

    • @missylou725
      @missylou725 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@patricialong3492there is a theory he didn't do it alone

    • @cassie1264
      @cassie1264 5 месяцев назад +9

      I think it was a perfect storm of childhood trauma, repeated head injuries, and narcissism that made OJ a killer. It's a combination of nature, nurture, and free choice.

  • @eeveequeen15
    @eeveequeen15 8 месяцев назад +208

    Untreated mental health is so dangerous.
    My mom is a narcissist and she now has psychosis. I'm disabled and she came up with this delusion that I made up my disabilities to be lazy and take advantage of her, even though she's never actually done anything to help me or made me feel like I can depend on her or trust her.
    My mom also refused to have my ADHD treated when I was a child and I wasn't diagnosed with Autism until I was 19. Now I suffer from several mental disorders, including OCD, mild hoarding disorder, alienation, paranoia, and hallucinations. Based on the mental evaluation I took when I was 19, I was on my way to developing Schizophrenia. It does run in my family but it's rare in my family.
    With me, my untreated mental health lead to self destruction because my mother was abusive. But clearly because of my mother's untreated mental health and OJ's untreated mental health, it lead to them hurting others.
    Oh, and the state of your mental health is never an excuse to hurt others. I often say my sin is Wrath because Wrath used to be something I struggled with but I gained control over it on my own. While mental health conditions can cause one to not know the difference between right and wrong, it doesn't mean we can't learn. There are too many resources now that are easily available to prevent insanity from causing crime.
    It's people like OJ and my mom who refuse to accept help that end up harming others and they should be held responsible for their crime and for refusing the help to prevent it.

    • @WingedAsarath
      @WingedAsarath 7 месяцев назад +15

      100% mental health is an explanation, not an excuse. It's one of the hardest battles I have had to fight, but at the end of the day: only you can help yourself when your own mind is the enemy. It's not easy at all, and it can be a long gruelling road, but it CAN absolutely be overcome.
      When I first experienced symptoms of anxiety and depression, I remember thinking to myself "is this how I'm going to feel for the rest of my life now?" Having overcome that - multiple times now - when I do feel those symptoms come back, I hold fast to the knowledge that I can get better again, feel happy again, as my light in the darkness.

    • @eeveequeen15
      @eeveequeen15 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@WingedAsarath The second that my depression or anxiety comes back, I harass my doctor until he increases my medication, and I feel better. I hate feeling either.

    • @kima838
      @kima838 6 месяцев назад +8

      I hope you understand how proud you should be of taking care of yourself! That shit is HARD. Mental health problems are rarely one's fault but are always one's responsibility.

    • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
      @JDMimeTHEFIRST 6 месяцев назад +8

      I was late diagnosed in my mid 30s. Wish I was diagnosed at 19. My dad is definitely a narcissist. Never apologized, always blames others for his mistakes, and was sometimes violent when I was young. He’s also now misogynist despite having a wife and 3 daughters. Arguing with him is like arguing with a screaming 4 year old except he’s an adult man and can be scary. Sometimes, you need to distance from family. Some people don’t understand that. All of his side of the family sided with him against me when I brought up his narcissism. I realized they don’t care. I now concentrate on friends who do care.

    • @misstekhead
      @misstekhead 4 месяца назад

      I’m so sorry that happened to you. My dad didn’t believe I was suffering from panic/anxiety disorder and depression. My family didn’t have a lot of money and in general just didn’t believe in medication even though I was 17 and had a history of head injuries along with panic attacks plus suicidal ideation. I never got medicated until I was hospitalized in my late twenties.
      When mental health goes ignored or is stigmatized you end up with shattered people and unfortunate stories like yours. I self-medicated with illegal drugs and other harmful acts. I hope you succeed in spite of everything. Please take care. 🌸✌️

  • @Lydia-Frost
    @Lydia-Frost 8 месяцев назад +232

    I'm still appalled that some people cheered when he was found "not guilty".
    The people around me knew there was no doubt.

    • @Bigchet1223
      @Bigchet1223 8 месяцев назад +15

      Most of the black community. Most know he's guilty too.

    • @Lydia-Frost
      @Lydia-Frost 8 месяцев назад +3

      @Bigchet1223 Are you saying most of them cheered and also knew? Or that most simply knew?
      I'm struggling to understand which one you mean.

    • @Bigchet1223
      @Bigchet1223 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@Lydia-Frost I'm saying out of principle they'll say OJ was innocent. But I think most of them know he did it.

    • @Lydia-Frost
      @Lydia-Frost 8 месяцев назад

      @Bigchet1223 That's gross and wrong of them. Better to speak truth than promoting a lie.
      This keeps getting done again and again with criminals who have the right skin color. George Floyd was no martyr, but they won't admit it.

    • @freyfrey7452
      @freyfrey7452 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@Bigchet1223Oof. If that's true that's really stupid. It's disgusting and it helps nothing.

  • @savagegardenrox
    @savagegardenrox 6 месяцев назад +160

    My sister worked at the Brain Trauma Foundation after undergrad. Her job was to assess high school and college football players in the New York area after they sustained head injuries, and the pressure they received to get back on the field despite being actively concussed was insane. The entire sport is broken.

    • @FuriosaSonoran
      @FuriosaSonoran 5 месяцев назад +2

      Here's the problem- I contacted the director of the TBI center in Boston to see if I could be studied...
      "I'm sorry- we're only interested in studying MALES who are/were athletes/military"...
      The exceptionally BRUTAL reality:
      They care more about the potential predators, than those who have experienced many concussions from accidents and recurring abuse.
      It's a pretty sick system.

    • @chaoticsad5549
      @chaoticsad5549 4 месяца назад

      Yup, American football is f’ed up. It has caused so many murders and suicides. Beyond unfortunate, there is tons of money in football they can invest in some advancements in safety gear. Absolutely unacceptable. CTE is no joke, head trauma (especially repeated) is no joke.

    • @MFiction60
      @MFiction60 4 месяца назад +1

      I so agree

    • @ventalexandria7727
      @ventalexandria7727 4 месяца назад +9

      I was forced to work by my company when I got a concussion while on the job. I asked for time off and they said no. The recovery time was way longer and It really messed with my thinking , I was doing irrational, out of character things , I became clostephobic , i had memory loss, was an insomniac during that time, I didn't eat normally and my brain kept looking for excitement but rest at the same time. It was strange.

    • @Itsgivingdepression
      @Itsgivingdepression 3 месяца назад

      You should have went to the labor board. Don't ever if you're in America don't ever allow your employer to push you around you are entitled to workers compensation​@@ventalexandria7727

  • @thewoolverine4420
    @thewoolverine4420 3 месяца назад +22

    Thank you for not playing the recording. As a survivor of domestic violence I can’t tell you how much it can set me back to hear something like that 🥺

    • @StrawberryFieldsNIR
      @StrawberryFieldsNIR 22 дня назад

      As a DV survivor, it is possible to compartmentalise the past events - meaning, detach the 'emotional memory' of the events, not necessarily forgetting the events. That said, I did get an unexpected trigger (basically a panic attack) after someone yelled at me unexpectedly for little reason. Anyway, I have listened to the recording, and yes, disturbing and feeling sad for what Nicole was going through, but it did not trigger me in any way.

  • @TheEternalferret
    @TheEternalferret 8 месяцев назад +109

    The amount of names you came up with for him is sending me.
    For real, though, thank you so much for this. It's a fantastic overview of such a horrific event and terrible person.

  • @coryholloway8959
    @coryholloway8959 8 месяцев назад +217

    "Young Tropicana"!! I am rolling with laughter.

    • @musicmaker1311
      @musicmaker1311 8 месяцев назад +8

      💀💀💀💀💀

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +26

      🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊

    • @Catbooks
      @Catbooks 8 месяцев назад +13

      Hilarious! All of the names, so funny. Which was needed because this is a heavy topic.

    • @DyspotikOriginal
      @DyspotikOriginal 8 месяцев назад +3

      So good!

    • @D_McGeezacks
      @D_McGeezacks 8 месяцев назад +6

      "Juicy Simpleton" XD

  • @inmemoriamcookies
    @inmemoriamcookies 8 месяцев назад +99

    Just read her journals… “ he beat me so bad” . He killed her.

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 8 месяцев назад

      She was "so scared" yet she with him after the divorce, she also got him up for money after the divorce, actually wrote a letter to him after the divorce wanting to reconcile (yrs, that was at the trial too, and nobody talks about it) and also Nicole had only moved away one mile when she had the means to move quite farther away.
      Doesn't look like she was really so "scared" of OJ like mainstream "OJ did it" media narrative

    • @Nicoletta13
      @Nicoletta13 18 дней назад +1

      He absolutely killed her . .. t
      Her journals were terrifying
      Heartbreaking 😭

  • @lizzdawdy6439
    @lizzdawdy6439 8 месяцев назад +171

    This was done superbly, Dustin. I won’t be mad at all if you did more backstory/background pieces.

  • @blackbooks1572
    @blackbooks1572 8 месяцев назад +83

    More of the crime stuff please. You do it so well. Your handling of this was amazing

  • @mikatricktricken
    @mikatricktricken 8 месяцев назад +73

    I have ADHD it's very hard for me to watch a video in full but you are so easy to listen to and hilarious that I really enjoyed this video and all your videos keep them coming

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +27

      I have ADHD too, so I get it LOL. You have no idea how many side quests I went on while making this video. Thank you so much for saying that though, that is awesome!! I've got another one dropping this weekend!

    • @jenniwilliams3295
      @jenniwilliams3295 8 месяцев назад +7

      Im the same. I watched the whole thing. Hes amazing

  • @inmemoriamcookies
    @inmemoriamcookies 8 месяцев назад +176

    One more thing though… as a 7 year survivor of domestic violence, NO ONE gives a shit about it still… so I get that you say people care about it… they really don’t.

    • @arfriedman4577
      @arfriedman4577 8 месяцев назад +16

      I'm very sorry this happened to you.

    • @inmemoriamcookies
      @inmemoriamcookies 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@arfriedman4577 thank you .

    • @_Elizabeth_theMaid
      @_Elizabeth_theMaid 7 месяцев назад +13

      In the end..we are all alone.

    • @inmemoriamcookies
      @inmemoriamcookies 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@_Elizabeth_theMaid 💯💯💯

    • @_Elizabeth_theMaid
      @_Elizabeth_theMaid 7 месяцев назад

      @@inmemoriamcookies you are probably the toughest bitch you will ever know. I hope you got away and are able to breathe again.

  • @angelmartin7310
    @angelmartin7310 6 месяцев назад +46

    My grandmother refused to believe OJ was guilty until her death. That was how powerful his good-guy image was back then.

  • @ladylily
    @ladylily 8 месяцев назад +84

    Have you done one of these on Mike Tyson yet? I'm so sick of seeing him praised after what he did to his wife.

    • @undeadsweetheart7508
      @undeadsweetheart7508 6 месяцев назад +21

      I did not know Mike Tyson did this shit to his wife, that's awful

    • @undeadsweetheart7508
      @undeadsweetheart7508 6 месяцев назад +1

      I just looked that up and what the fuck??? Tyson admitted to raping women and people in the subreddit under the post were just talking about his fights

    • @momof1576
      @momof1576 5 месяцев назад

      @@undeadsweetheart7508he beat her with a telephone

    • @brendamoon2660
      @brendamoon2660 5 месяцев назад +23

      And his rape victim.

    • @ladylily
      @ladylily 5 месяцев назад +40

      @@undeadsweetheart7508 Robin Givens. He beat the hell out of her all the time. Barbara Walters did a special interviewing them, and like she always does, she intentionally poked the bear to get explosive reactions. She brought up his abuse, which terrified Robin. Mike said he was going to get help for his temper. After the interview, he accused Robin of setting him up (she had told Barbara what would happen if she brought it up so told her not to talk about the abuse). He beat Robin so bad, she was in the hospital. Years later, he says he was the one traumatized by that relationship. He's a piece of sh-t.

  • @wendyteeter1762
    @wendyteeter1762 8 месяцев назад +48

    This is really well done my friend. My heart still breaks for Ron and Nicole and their families.

  • @bekari12
    @bekari12 8 месяцев назад +62

    This was soooo good. I think its important to look at the why, if we make demons out of people its easy to dismiss the behaviour. When we try to understand the why we can try and learn from it and stop it from happening again.

  • @kimberlyluttenbacher1475
    @kimberlyluttenbacher1475 8 месяцев назад +59

    I started following your channel for your Red Flag / Green Flag shorts, but I LOVE the new longer format you've been adding in. I know these have to be difficult to do; thank you so much for your thoughtful, kind videos. ❤️

    • @DustinPoynterVideos
      @DustinPoynterVideos  8 месяцев назад +14

      Thank you so much! Longer videos on RUclips will be my main thing going forward so that's really nice to hear. It was indeed difficult (70+ hours went into this one video) but it's very much worth it and I feel like this was an important subject to talk about.

  • @vanessa.jasmine
    @vanessa.jasmine 8 месяцев назад +72

    Not to be nitpicky, but Furhman wasn't the lead detective. The leads were Lange and Vanatter. Fuhrman was the one, unfortunately, to find the glove.

  • @annana6098
    @annana6098 8 месяцев назад +46

    "Young Tropicana" I laughed out loud and scared my cat. Needed that to offset how sad this all was.

  • @cuculain78
    @cuculain78 8 месяцев назад +38

    I just found your channel this morning and I love it. You did a great job on this video. It was very well researched and you kept exactly the right tone with a little light humor (making fun of OJ) while showing empathy and compassion toward the victims. It was interesting to see how OJ's background influenced what he became and it was so sad to see how hard Nicole tried to save herself from abuse and still ended up tragically losing her life.

  • @Xtheearthchildx
    @Xtheearthchildx 8 месяцев назад +48

    What I find is… there are always red flags with these people. I think it’s important for us to learn from these demons and stay away when we see *any* of these traits in people we come across in life.

    • @CMStrawbridge
      @CMStrawbridge 6 месяцев назад +7

      We should teach it in school, but that won't happen, because then people would wise up to parents, administrators, police, the state, religion, and so on

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@CMStrawbridge the second-best option is to teach it through fiction: show those signs as bad, instead of romanticizing them for teens and young adults. Still gonna ruffle a few feathers, but the more it gets encoded as "absolute bastard backstabber" tropes, the more people will realize this is what the real monsters are.

  • @MizMorgue1
    @MizMorgue1 5 месяцев назад +30

    Rest in love Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Thank you for covering this. You're humor made this much easier to watch.

  • @LorieH-v4i
    @LorieH-v4i 8 месяцев назад +72

    Respect for how you chose to honor the victims and acknowledge domestic violence awareness .💜

    • @KevinS702
      @KevinS702 8 месяцев назад

      But you're not aware of what Nicole Brown did
      You're only defending one side of a story

    • @kay-jay1581
      @kay-jay1581 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@KevinS702they had a Roxie terrible relationship but she is dead and brutally murdered. So it was not deserved. He could have just moved far away or never speak to her again or better yet seek therapy and medical care but no. He had too much of an ego to do anything decent and the people around him noticed how ill he was and did nothing about it

  • @itspossible3381
    @itspossible3381 5 месяцев назад +13

    I just want you to know I watch your red flag 🚩 videos for comedic relief… your modern PSA’s that include an iron clad lock on the flag, arabesque’s, leaps and plié’s with a purpose have me in stitches with the messages you share. But this was VERY well done and handled with care. Thank you kindly for your modern day “PSA’s”.

  • @ryangooseling
    @ryangooseling 8 месяцев назад +23

    My hubs had 2 major TBIs years ago.
    When you said arguing with himself, i cracked a smile because I've seen that first hand. It can get really scary. Thankfully, he's on medication now.

  • @katefarr2036
    @katefarr2036 4 месяца назад +15

    Yep. And everyone conveniently ignores that he started pursuing Nicole when she was 18, and hadn’t even had a chance to be on her own as an adult. He did that deliberately.

    • @TheRealDevilDoll
      @TheRealDevilDoll 2 месяца назад

      My abuser did the same thing. I was 18 and he was 26.

  • @pennybast3953
    @pennybast3953 4 месяца назад +7

    I had a TBI as a young child which caused rage issues for roughly 30 years. I just turned 56 and I'm starting to see it resurface. While what OJ did to Nicole and Ron is unforgivable, the contributing neurological damage needs to be more widely recognized so more tragedies don't happen.

  • @FeetFirstIntoWoodChipper
    @FeetFirstIntoWoodChipper 8 месяцев назад +161

    You’re *killing me* with all the different names you have for him 😂 In all seriousness, yeah, I can’t believe most people ignored most of his played off killing jokes. I grew up calling him Orange Juice Simpson.

    • @jenniferharrington917
      @jenniferharrington917 8 месяцев назад +21

      Ornamental Jim cracked me up😂.. he was a psychotic mess,... I never understood how he got away with this... Totally ridiculous.

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 8 месяцев назад +10

      @@jenniferharrington917 As soon as Hertz Rent a Car learned the old goat slit his ex-wife's throat, they cancelled his contract on the spot. I don't know if it's true, but I heard that at least one restaurant manager went up to him, and said, "I'm sorry; we don't serve O.J. here."

    • @swatimishra1008
      @swatimishra1008 8 месяцев назад +7

      Juicy Simpleton was best 🔥🚒🔥

    • @lronbutters5688
      @lronbutters5688 8 месяцев назад +2

      lol same

    • @MarianaCarvalho-gu8zx
      @MarianaCarvalho-gu8zx 3 месяца назад

      Orange juice is good, though... why are you tainting its reputation as a drink?! 😤

  • @kathleenherrmann436
    @kathleenherrmann436 6 месяцев назад +5

    How do you jump back and forth between humor and feeling for the victims so seemlessly sincere in both moments? My only take away is the you seem like a very sincere person

  • @camillecarroll106
    @camillecarroll106 8 месяцев назад +64

    My cousin was a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department prior to her murder, & told me that they were called to their house several times for domestic abuse done by O.J. He was convinced that O.J. was guilty of her murder.

    • @naithngr81-jh2bb
      @naithngr81-jh2bb 8 месяцев назад +4

      Domestic dispute doesn't mean murder a few years after a divorce when. Oj had already been in a new relationship, and it was Nicole who had written OJ a letter (look it up, it was at the trial) wanting to get back together.
      And domestic violence from a few years before doesn't give you the idea to not only murder someone, but give them a Colombian necktie the same way that just happened to also be done to Ron's boss.

    • @VideoFanatic02
      @VideoFanatic02 8 месяцев назад

      @@naithngr81-jh2bb Shut up O.J. lover.

    • @davinasquirrel7672
      @davinasquirrel7672 8 месяцев назад

      @@naithngr81-jh2bb Give it up dude. You love OJ, you hate women. We get it. Now go back to your basement, you come off as a bot anyway.

    • @Janjones7735
      @Janjones7735 4 месяца назад +5

      He definitely did. It’s not really in dispute unless you’re a weird conspiracy nut like someone bombarding the comments in this video😂…

    • @TheRealDevilDoll
      @TheRealDevilDoll 2 месяца назад

      @@Janjones7735 Totally! 😆

  • @tachiebillano6244
    @tachiebillano6244 8 месяцев назад +17

    Excellent work, Dustin! This is a superb example of a fresh, approachable analysis to a tragic old story. I am so glad I follow your channel. You have a rare talent for combining humor and empathy with hard-slapping servings of truth. More power to you! Hope your YT channel subscriber count grows and matches your other social media accounts ASAP ❤

  • @MrsBees
    @MrsBees 5 месяцев назад +17

    It's really unfortunate that Simpson's family didn't allow an autopsy after his death so they could confirm if he indeed had a CTE. I think that would have made his legacy not be so dark, kinda like with Aaron Hernandez. Of course there isn't an excuse for murder but CTE explains a lot. Simpson having a CTE explains why his first wife had such a difference experience than Nicole. Having one wife say he never touched me(whether that's true or not) and the other one is terrified due to the abuse is typically not a normal occurrence.

  • @GummyDinosaursify
    @GummyDinosaursify 5 месяцев назад +17

    I was watching a documentary on Lucille Ball and there's a clip from her old "comedy" radioshow in which she makes the comment "You beat me and beat me until I cant cry no more" and the male actor goes "And i'll do it again" the laugh track goes off and it's meant to be so funny but god is it disturbing as hell. Domestic Abuse was comedic for so many years and it's sick to think of now. How many men and women suffered in abuse and weren't allowed to speak about it?

    • @Elizabeth-rq1vi
      @Elizabeth-rq1vi 5 месяцев назад +3

      The Honeymooners irked me when I first saw it in 1980 & it still bothers me.

    • @chopsieflores4844
      @chopsieflores4844 Месяц назад

      Everyone in my family loved the Honeymooners in the 60s. I found it gross and abusive. But my grandfather and father loved it. Explans a lot about them back then.

  • @hollym4870
    @hollym4870 3 месяца назад +3

    I remember being a huge OJ fan in the 70's and 80's. You're right, he was so charismatic, attractive and everywhere. Flash forward to the day the verdict was read: completely stunned. By the time the trial had started, most of us had looked up to OJ as an upstanding guy, but when the details started coming out, I knew he had done it. Nicole and Ron's death absolutely change the way we collectively looked at domestic abuse. Great episode, Dustin!

  • @crowleysgirl3257
    @crowleysgirl3257 8 месяцев назад +18

    11:25 I've heard the call and I couldn't stop crying. After hearing it any doubt I had of his guilt was gone.

  • @gentle_chili_flake
    @gentle_chili_flake 4 месяца назад +31

    0:20 NOT THE GLOVE DUSTIN 💀

  • @Kris.Jones2025
    @Kris.Jones2025 8 месяцев назад +12

    Your continual play with OJs name was entertainingly stellar. Thank you for your continued great content my fellow introvert!!

  • @jeanvignes
    @jeanvignes 5 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you so very much for this video and for your channel in general. I was born in 1956 and throughout the 1960's my father battered and abused my mother and siblings and me. The police would come, stand around in the open garage of our house laughing and joking with my father and then leave. He was never arrested, even after giving my mother a black eye or a seriously damaged arm & shoulder. In my case, he hit me over the head with a broom handle so hard that he left a raised "goose egg" on the top of my head -- for absolutely no reason. No trip to the doctor much less the emergency room. Certainly no police called. Injuring his children was somehow his right as our father. These were terrible times for the vulnerable. In fact, marital rape, even if the spouses were separated for years and in divorce proceedings, was not illegal at the time. People raised by men like my father instantly recognized him in OJ Simpson after the murders. The narcissism, the arrogance, the smug self-confidence, the amusement at the horrific pain he caused to the families of his victims, the people rallying around and saying what a "great guy" he is despite all the mounds of evidence to the contrary. Anyone who claims that he is innocent is nothing more than a dupe and an enabler. I am so grateful that now, at 68, I am finally seeing more and more men of subsequent generations facing up to and calling out the men who committed this crimes in the past and today. Domestic violence is a scourge and must come to an end, once and for all, in the same way that we stopped the Atlantic slave trade, or emptied the interment camps in California after WWII, or liberated the ghettos and concentration camps of Europe. Horrifying abuse by hideously wrong people can be stopped if only we have the will to do so.

  • @authordivine10
    @authordivine10 8 месяцев назад +31

    Loving your videos! 🎉 humorous and sensitive.
    The names you’re calling him are killing me 😂😂😂

  • @Chrisyt272
    @Chrisyt272 8 месяцев назад +20

    “If I’m out in the garden, you must pardon.” That’s it… you’ve done it- You caught me so off guard that I chocked my sip of water. Holy crap, the way I cackled in between gasping for air. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL 😂😂😂😂

  • @annelilandsten4971
    @annelilandsten4971 8 месяцев назад +8

    You are absolutely one of my favorite youtubers! I LOVE your sense of humor and make me laugh every time. But in this video you also show that you are able to bring forward hard subjects to talk about, in a professional, interesting and "your stile" way. Very good!! 👏👏👏

  • @tarar3928
    @tarar3928 Месяц назад +1

    Wow, Dustin. I am impressed with perspective and your examination of the red flags in this case. Well done and thank you for sharing this.

  • @isabella09dr
    @isabella09dr 8 месяцев назад +45

    Marguerite dodged the worst of it when Nicole became OJ's affair partner. Be careful what you wish for. You may think you are gaining someone's great marriage/life and instead you stole someone else's hell. 😞

  • @Saranewberry0599
    @Saranewberry0599 8 месяцев назад +18

    Love all the plays on his name! So funny! Thank you for the giggles lol

  • @Kris.with.a.K
    @Kris.with.a.K 8 месяцев назад +27

    Got my alarm set for this one, Dustin! 🎉❤

  • @GabySiegman
    @GabySiegman 8 месяцев назад +37

    “Unlike the glove” holy fuck I’m cackling

  • @Melesse636
    @Melesse636 6 месяцев назад +6

    Hey. I was one of the people that was passionate at the time of the trial about OJ's innocence, (I was 21ish at the time) I want to say that you did a great job with explaining this. Like, OJ **WAS** squeaky clean, a smart, funny, good looking dude before the trial as far as we knew it as a general public. It REALLY effected the trial press and general sentiment. We've learned better in the years since. Hope he burns.
    You presented this part especially well. You reminded me of what it felt like back then. Well done. Just wanted to say that, have a good one. :)

  • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
    @JDMimeTHEFIRST 6 месяцев назад +9

    19:44 Willie Mays’ ghost: please stop associating yourself to me.

  • @smileytuna
    @smileytuna 5 месяцев назад +17

    Fun fact. If you trace the origin of almost every gang in existence you will find that they started as a generally benevolent organization to help their communities. Source: my ex husband was in a gang in south central LA in the 90s. They had no problem with him leaving for college.

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber 3 месяца назад

      ty❤

    • @thesoul2sqeeze
      @thesoul2sqeeze 3 месяца назад

      Your husband was in a gang so that makes him a gang historian? 😅

  • @fbbWaddell
    @fbbWaddell 6 месяцев назад +11

    Small children drowning in backyard pools is very common. People really need to put better safeguards in place to protect their children. One of which being an alarm for the gate leading to the pool so that the parents can be alerted if the child opens the gate unattended.

  • @MythMaree
    @MythMaree 8 месяцев назад +38

    Yes please, CTE isn't an excuse for OJ. He clearly had a history of being violent and believing he was somehow within his rights to use violence to get what he wanted. The CTE exacerbated it all, but it didn't transform his personality. I'm sure there are cases where the level of TBIs makes a person's perception of reality deteriorate to where otherwise peaceful individuals feel the need to hurt those closest to them, but OJ wasn't one of them. And I will fight anyone on that, I got my Master's in Clinical Psychology last year. I *toiled* for the ability to fight you on this, even.

    • @laurenqueenofwolvesnicole
      @laurenqueenofwolvesnicole 3 месяца назад

      I agree with you.
      I think a good example of someone who's entire being was altered because of CTE is that poor guy who starred in sons of anarchy.

  • @cassie1264
    @cassie1264 5 месяцев назад +4

    As a true crime junkie, I love this video!! You could do a whole series of true crime red flags. You'd have endless material!

  • @ab_0724
    @ab_0724 7 месяцев назад +24

    Its kinda stupid that he was found innocent just because the gloves didn't fit his hands.

    • @patricialong3492
      @patricialong3492 6 месяцев назад +16

      I've always thought that was sooo stupid. What happens to leather when you get it wet? It SHRINKS! DUH .

  • @Gingersnapg1rl
    @Gingersnapg1rl 8 месяцев назад +7

    “Oreo Simon” I just love your channel, thank you for this video!

  • @reilley26
    @reilley26 8 месяцев назад +9

    Big fan of your videos since finding your channel recently! One suggestion would be jn the sound editing, the volume tends to be much higher when yourw outside which is kind of jarring but otherwise definitely keep up the good work!

  • @911NicoleTCO
    @911NicoleTCO 8 месяцев назад +13

    "if im out in the garden you must pardon!" 😂 Subscriber earned!

  • @lanigouws3525
    @lanigouws3525 Месяц назад +1

    I really liked this kind of true crime deep dive from your red flag angle. Your a great storyteller and the way you approached it is still on brand for you. You should do more of these👌👌👌

  • @tfox285
    @tfox285 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you for the humor to make the pill easier to swallow and also thank you for putting this out there. It is information that needs to be heard.

  • @annmariebarreiroart
    @annmariebarreiroart 8 месяцев назад +6

    This was interesting to watch and I would like to see more content like this one. Definitely handled this topic with grace and was also something engaging to watch. Great job!

  • @songsayswhat
    @songsayswhat 4 месяца назад +4

    Thank you for mentioning Ron Goldman. Too many seem to forget he was murdered also.

  • @carolineseguin-ro5vt
    @carolineseguin-ro5vt 8 месяцев назад +8

    That was so good. Thank you, I didn't know that
    whole story, and I loved that you named him all kinds of different things through out your video. Very good. Hope you get lots of views

  • @queenl.2149
    @queenl.2149 8 месяцев назад +27

    The pics you showed of the baby that passed away is Arnelle Simpson! .... Not Aaren Simpson. Arnelle is the surviving daughter that grew up & was there through the trials.

    • @MaryIannacone
      @MaryIannacone 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes. I have never seen a picture of Aaren. That’s arenelle

  • @lioilion
    @lioilion 5 месяцев назад +7

    TW: CTE and mental health in sports
    My late stepdad had CTE from playing college football. He ended up getting very paranoid and thinking there were people that were following him and he ended up going off the grid. About a year later my mother got a call that he had passed due to a cyst that had not been treated and ruptured, leaving my 5 year old sister fatherless.
    Sooooo yeah I have a rough relationship with football culture. When I remember cases like this I know there’s a lot of other factors that go into why people make decisions, but I have a passionate hatred for the way that footballers and other contact sportsmen do not get adequate support or care.

  • @sehmmieMilk
    @sehmmieMilk 5 месяцев назад +3

    I think you’re brilliant for this video topic. We’ve all heard the same stories a million times. But I appreciate this different angle :)

  • @kellyhazlett6638
    @kellyhazlett6638 4 месяца назад +7

    Also dont forget
    The Naked Gun series was gold.

  • @mangomago
    @mangomago 6 месяцев назад +13

    19:20 silly funny reminder! its not "charisma," lets call it what it is. Manipulation. He manipulated millions of people even if indirectly, he changed the way people viewed him by carefully crafting his image in a positive way. (No offense is meant by this comment btw, i just wanted to add my own perspective. great video, my dude!)

    • @brycealthoff8092
      @brycealthoff8092 3 месяца назад +2

      What is charisma but the ability to influence other people? People think of charisma as this completely positive thing. It’s neutral.

  • @LeisureLizard
    @LeisureLizard 21 день назад

    Thank you for bringing this back into public attention and giving a respectful and fresh take on how things panned out how they did.

  • @ingeniouspixie
    @ingeniouspixie 3 месяца назад

    Without getting too wordy, i appreciate the fact that you chose to further use your platform to educate and clarify important situations and things like this. I hope MANY people watch your videos and finally realize they are in dangerous and unnecessary situations and get the help they need to change them. ❤

  • @ninjahulk363
    @ninjahulk363 5 месяцев назад +4

    The nicknames are incredible. If you start doing regular true crime stuff, I'm going to be a top fan! Lol great work

  • @CarlyMonster
    @CarlyMonster 4 месяца назад +5

    This was very well presented.

  • @ellem8990
    @ellem8990 7 месяцев назад +10

    Trying to fit those gloves on like OJ did in court was foul lmao.
    About the case tho, I do think it's wild that there's been so many people that genuinenly think he didn't do it. I only recently actually watched a documentary about the case and I had assumed that was going to be more obscure than what it really was. He definitely did it.

  • @daniellegillett4801
    @daniellegillett4801 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for all you do to raise awareness about red flags in relationships. ❤

  • @rebeccabamford5505
    @rebeccabamford5505 3 месяца назад

    This was a great red flag segment. Please do more of these type of stories. You have a true gift. Much appreciated.