Detectives rapidly focused on O.J. Simpson as a suspect based on physical evidence at the crime scene and the documented history of domestic violence between Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson.[1]
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On the morning of June 13, 1994, O.J. Simpson was in a Chicago hotel room when police in Los Angeles called with news that would upend his life and, eventually, the country. He had been at the hotel for barely two hours, in the city for a corporate event that had brought him two thousand miles from his Brentwood home. The call told him that his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, was dead, and that a friend of hers, Ronald Goldman, had been killed alongside her.
The murders had occurred the previous evening, on June 12, 1994, at approximately ten o'clock at night. Nicole's mother had come to check on her daughter after discovering what appeared to be a letter from Simpson — one that suggested he was struggling with the end of their marriage. She called 911, and investigators responding to the scene discovered the two bodies outside Nicole's home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Both had been stabbed to death. Within hours, detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department had identified their primary suspect.
Simpson flew back to Los Angeles on June 13. Upon landing, he was met by investigators, temporarily handcuffed, and taken in for questioning. The investigation had already moved fast. Detectives had focused on Simpson early, building a case from physical evidence collected at the scene, DNA samples, and a documented history of domestic violence between Simpson and his ex-wife. The accumulated evidence would form the foundation of what became one of the most closely scrutinized criminal cases in American history.