Time Runs Out Before OJ Finds Real Killer

Well, it seems that O.J. Simpson’s relentless search for the “real” killer of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and the helpful-but-luckless waiter/friend, Ron Goldman, is not going to come to a successful conclusion.

Simpson died of cancer at age 76 on April 10.

Following the “trial of the century” back in 1995, former football star and lousy actor Simpson was found not guilty of slicing to death his former wife and Goldman in the narrow walkway next to her house that fateful night.

(Of course, the current and scheduled trials of former president Donald “Witch Hunt” Trump are shaping up to be the “trials of the 21st century,” but I digress…)

Upon his not guilty verdict, Simpson swore he would leave no stone unturned as he tracked down the actual killer of his ex-wife, whom he was extremely jealous of and had beaten up on many previous occasions.

But, by God, that wasn’t him who knifed the two to death that evening. No, he was nowhere near the area when the slaughter occurred. Simpson claimed he was in his house -- located only about 2 miles away -- packing for a trip while the vicious murders happened just outside Brown's residence.

The evidence against OJ was pretty powerful. But when his “dream team” lawyers had him put on the bloody black glove found at the scene, he struggled to get it on – proof positive that it could not possibly have been him wearing it during the double murder.

Oh, and the slow-motion car chase on the California freeway with his good buddy Al Cowlings at the wheel of the white Bronco -- and OJ hunkered down in the back seat with a pistol and phone threatening suicide?

Yeah, that wasn't too incriminating… 

So why didn’t the cops just shoot the tires or do a roadblock and bring them to a stop? Why? Because it was good old OJ, the former football star and Hertz rental shill who loved to sprint through America’s airports with that big toothy OJ smile.

He just couldn't possibly be guilty – could he?

Not in his criminal trial anyway. But a subsequent civil trial did result in Simpson being found liable for Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman’s deaths, and he was ordered to pay $33 million in damages to the victims’ families.

But the former star running back found a way to get around paying the money, scampering off to Florida – one of the few states where assets from a judgment in a civil court in another state cannot be seized.

He eventually spent about seven years in prison after he stole some sports memorabilia at gunpoint, which he claimed was his. 

But it wasn’t.

Before the murders, OJ found work as an actor in the three Naked Gun movies, which are actually pretty funny except for the parts he is in. To this day I can’t watch any of those movies because of his sickening presence.

OJ was 47 when Nicole and Goldman were murdered. He got to live it up for another almost 30 years after they violently died young -- in the prime of their lives.

During those three decades, he spent a lot of time on the golf course and partying it up, supported by his NFL pension. But he apparently didn’t have much time to find the “real killer” he swore he’d track down.

Prostate cancer eventually took down “the Juice,” as he was known by his one-time friends. Reports of his death said there was virtually no one at his bedside to say goodbye.

That’s so sad.

Actually, no it isn’t.

And the world is a much better place without him in it.