Murder trial of O. J. Simpson

He's on the lam for a year and several months, and he's picked up in New York in 1995.

And to just connect this to the Simpson case, that's when the murder trial is well underway.

And he's arrested in New York and he starts, he says, I don't want to go back to prison.

I want to be an informant.

He starts telling them all this stuff about drug cases, about mafia cases, and details apparently about the O.J. Simpson case.

And that is what you have recently learned about? These were the documents unsealed?

Yeah, we went to a federal judge, Judge Kimba Wood, who people of a certain age may remember that name because Bill Clinton had tried to appoint her as attorney general.

And when he was being sentenced for on the prison escape, there was these documents that were put forward that had been sealed up until a few months ago when We made the request on Seal Them where he outlined his knowledge of the Simpson case.

? Il y a des dramas dans le monde de l'NFL, beaucoup.

Alors bien sûr, Roger Simpson et l'affaire Ultime qui a passionné l'Amérique et le monde entier.

D'ailleurs, je pense que pour le coup, quand c'est arrivé, la preuve, on a encore eu des séries télé, documentaires ou pas documentaires, fictions dernièrement qui sont revenus là-dessus.

Le truc, c'est qu'on revient au fait que c'est les stars ultimes, les joueurs de NFL, et comme tout ce qui attire l'argent, le pouvoir, la gloire, la fame, etc., il y a toujours des petits pas de côté.

He's been doing that in the Nolan Wells case, the death of this young man down in Mississippi.

Um, and y- the, the movie does a good job of taking us through the history, because I will tell you, as someone who was alive in 1994 and watched the O.J. Simpson trial-

Mm-hmm

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As a writer for Vanity Fair, he has covered Claus von Bülow, William Kennedy Smith, and the Menendez brothers.

He was a fixture at the Simpson trial beside the family of Ron Goldman.

He is a bestselling author.

His novels mirror real-life dramas and look behind the facade of high society.

Travel anywhere in the world, a free university education anywhere in the world, and my attorney will send you handsome checks monthly.

That's on CBS May 5th and May 7th, A Season in Purgatory based on an early book by Dominick Dunne.

Uh, you're now writing this book that's based, uh, the novel about the Simpson trial and, and I don't know what else, all the characters and all the stories that you couldn't talk about, you'll be able to talk about in that book.

Um, and if there is a great trial somewhere in America, you will be there.