Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Nicole Simpson's Bundy Drive

Nicole Simpson's Bundy Drive

Bundy Drive is a congested north/south four lane thoroughfare that passes through the heart of West Los Angeles and is infamous for being the street where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered on June 12, 1994.

Nicole Simpson's Bundy Drive

On the morning of June 13, 1994, neighbors, alerted by a barking dog, found the mutilated bodies of Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the enclosed front courtyard of her condo on South Bundy Drive in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Goldman was a waiter at the restaurant Mezzaluna, where Brown and her family had dined that evening. He was at her condominium to return a pair of eyeglasses that Brown's mother, Juditha, had accidentally dropped outside the restaurant at the curb. Both Goldman and Brown had been stabbed multiple times. While the killer was committing the murders, Sydney and Justin, her children by Simpson, were asleep inside the condominium.

Nicole Simpson's Bundy Drive

O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson had divorced two years earlier. Evidence found and collected at the scene led police to suspect that O.J. Simpson was the murderer. Nicole had been stabbed multiple times through the throat to the point of near decapitation; her vertebrae was almost severed, and she also had a swollen face. Goldman's body was found with 'teaser' wounds on it, implying that the murderer taunted him with the knife before actually killing him.

Brown's bloody Akita dog was found barking at the crime scene at 11 p.m., and the prosecution narrowed the time frame of the murders to 10:15 to 10:40 p.m.

-- wiki

Nicole Simpson's Bundy Drive

Sunday, November 8, 2009

A Bad Day Continued at the Simpson Recital

Paul Revere Middle School

4:30 p.m. Dance for Kids presents a western-themed recital called "On the Farm" at Paul Revere Middle School in Brentwood. Sydney performs, to Kenny Loggins's "Footloose," in a bell-bottomed outfit decorated with silver-spangled fringes. Nicole, wearing a black cocktail dress, sits with Justin, her mother, Juditha Brown, 63, and several friends; O.J. Simpson arrives late, driving his 1988 Bentley, and sits apart from Nicole and the others.

Paul Revere Middle School

6 p.m. In the school parking lot after the dance recital, Nicole and Simpson, who were divorced in October 1992 but had attempted several reconciliations, talk briefly. He tries unsuccessfully to get the family together for a photograph.

Paul Revere Middle School

-- People Magazine Timeline

Friday, November 6, 2009

Where O.J. Played Golf That Morning

The Riviera Country Club

6 a.m. O.J. Simpson tees off 19 minutes after sunrise at the Riviera Country Club, a tony, old-money retreat studded with eucalyptus trees not far from his Brentwood home. One member of his foursome, movie producer Craig Baumgarten, 45, botches a shot and irritably blames Simpson, who becomes angry. But the tension quickly subsides. "There was never a moment when we thought they'd come to blows," says one member of the foursome. "We laughed about it later." Afterward, the golfers have lunch, then settle into the card room of the Spanish-style clubhouse to play gin rummy.

-- People Magazine Timeline

The Riviera Country Club