Nicole Brown Simpson's condo

This is the house where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.

It is located at 879 South Bundy Drive in Los Angeles, California.

The original number was 875. However, the owner changed the address after the killings.

The property was also renovated in the years that followed. The tiled path and gate seen in the crime scene photos were altered significantly to change the property's appearance.

Murders

Brown and Goldman were stabbed to death on the walkway outside this condo on the night of Sunday, June 12, 1994.

The police charged Brown's ex-husband and former NFL star, O.J. Simpson, with the crime a few days later. However, he was acquitted of the murders on October 3, 1995, following a highly publicized trial.

Although Simpson was found not guilty at his criminal trial, a civil trial found him liable for both deaths.

Bloody shoe prints found at the crime scene matched a rare and expensive pair of size 12 Bruno Magli shoes. Simpson denied owning such a pair, calling them "ugly."

During the civil trial, lawyers for the victims' families produced more than 30 photographs of him wearing the shoes in the years before the murders. They also provided evidence that Simpson was physically abusive to Brown on numerous occasions.

Timeline of events

On the evening of the murders, Brown and Simpson attended their daughter's dance recital at Paul Revere Middle School.

Brown had divorced Simpson in 1992. Although they tried to reconcile, the relationship had ended one month prior.

After the recital, Brown and her family went to a local restaurant called Mezzaluna to celebrate.

The family did not invite Simpson to join them, as Brown felt he had been stalking and harassing her since their breakup.

Following dinner, Brown's mother, Juditha, realized she had left her glasses at the restaurant. When she called Mezzaluna, a waiter named Ron Goldman agreed to drop them off at her daughter's condo when he finished his shift.

Goldman volunteered to bring Juditha's glasses to the condo because it was just around the corner from the restaurant.

The exact details of what happened that night remain unclear.

The prosecution argued that Simpson drove to the residence hoping to reconcile with Brown and that he stabbed her in a fit of anger after she rejected his advances. When Goldman arrived at the scene, Simpson killed him as well to prevent him from identifying him.

A competing theory is that Brown and Goldman were talking at the entrance when Simpson ambushed them with a knife.

Arrest

Simpson did not inquire about the manner, location, or identity of his wife's killer when the police informed him about her death. He also didn't express any concern for his children.

He was charged with the murders on June 17, 1994, after investigators discovered a blood-stained right-hand glove at his home.

The glove was a match with the left-hand glove found beside Goldman's body.

Normally, the police will arrive at a murder suspect's house and immediately take them into custody. However, following discussions with Simpson's lawyer, the LAPD allowed him to surrender later that day.

Instead of surrendering before the deadline, Simpson wrote an apparent suicide note and led the police on a low-speed car chase across Los Angeles.

Trial

The DNA evidence against Simpson was strong. Drops of his blood were retrieved from the crime scene, and blood from the victims was found inside his vehicle.

Despite this, his defense team was able to persuade the jury that the LAPD had either contaminated or planted the evidence.

Most people in the mid-1990s weren't familiar with the accuracy of DNA, as it was still a relatively new science. Popular TV shows such as Forensic Files and CSI had not yet premiered.

As a result, the prosecution struggled to explain the significance of the DNA evidence in terms the jurors could easily understand. One juror later admitted that the DNA evidence didn't even factor into her decision.

The defense capitalized on the LAPD's sloppy crime scene work and its reputation for racism, police brutality, and corruption.

This strategy worked, as the majority-Black jury found it difficult to convict Simpson beyond a reasonable doubt.

Although Simpson vowed to "find the real killer" after his acquittal, he never attempted to do so.

On April 10, 2024, he died from prostate cancer at the age of 76.

To this day, no other viable suspect has been identified in the killings.