If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

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In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims' families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression.In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to satisfy the civil judgment in part. The Goldman family views the book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson's original manuscript, approved by him, with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary.

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4 out of 5 stars

The Ghostwriter Put One Over on Simpson! September 16, 2007
412 out of 456 found this review helpful

Once, in being questioned about some commment in his first autobiography. Simpson said that he had never read the book. The same seems to be true here.

First, he gives himself an additional motive for the murder. Not jealousy, but the irrestible urge to silence a whining bipolar woman whom he thought was a bad influence on his kids. Driven-to-the-wall nuts like many a murderer before him.

Second, as Sam Goldwyn would say, it's "chock full of omissions". Simpson presents the murders as spontaneous, and gives a reason for happening to have gloves and a cap in his car. He does not explain why he was wearing black dress socks and thousand-dollar teal shoes with a midnight blue track suit. In reality, of course, he wore dark socks to minimize the show of blood, and wore a pair of shoes he had decided he disliked and had not often been seen in. (But he had worn them at least once, since a picture of him wearing them had been published in a magazine 6 months before the murders.)

He says that he talked with a fan at the airport about his Hall of Fame ring, and there was no cut on his ring finger. THEN he reproduces his first police interview in which he admits he cut his finger in L.A. and the cut opened up again in Chicago. Mr. Simpson, please read the books you "write"!

He invents an accomplice called Charlie, a casual acquaintance who just drops in on a first visit to tell him Nicole was doing immmoral things. He and Charlie rush off to Nicole's house and Simpson does the deed while Charlie stands guard. This Charlie never comes forward and leaves no trace at the scene.

Charlie also takes Simpson's bloody clothes right at the crime scene and ditches them, although when limo driver Alan Park saw Simpson run into his house, Park did not mention that the man was in his underwear.

Simpson unwittingly explains what many people have wondered about: how he could take on two people. His malice, element of surprise, physical strength, probable high on crystal meth, and weapon were enough, but he tells us he knocked out Nicole first, killed Ron, then finished off Nicole. Thank you, Mr. Simpson.

He claims to have been blacked out or amnesiac about the actual murder. Some peole have ridiculed this, but according to Connie Fletcher's WHAT COPS KNOW, it's a normal reaction for an amateur murderer, who is generally traumatized be what he has done. In other words, the blackout story makes the notion that he killed them MORE, not less, convincing.

In case you're wondering, he says he never once hit Nicole. Not ever.

He talks about his freeway ride, but fails to mention the many thousands of bucks and the false beard he was carrying.

He forgets about apologizing to Nicole's corpse at the wake.

He insists that he was emotionally wholly through with Nicole and was willing to talk to her ONLY about the kids, yet tells her mother, "I loved her too much [to have killed her]." Her death, more than his fall from grace, drives him to consider suicide. He gives up the notion of suicide abruptly when he hears Dan Rather say that the cops had been out to Simpson's place five or six times on domestic abuse calls. He is so angered by this lie that he peps up and vows to fight.

Read enough? The book is an interesting curiosity, and sales will finally benefit the right people. Go ahead.

3 out of 5 stars

Yes, I've actually read the book September 15, 2007
337 out of 391 found this review helpful

Of course, I, as everyone else, was very familiar with the details of the actual murders. But this book spends most of its time with the year or so prior to the murders. Since it is told by O.J., it is difficult to determine how much of it is true. The actual "confession" part is very sketchy: he sort of blames the whole thing on an imaginary accomplice named Charlie, and conveniently goes blank exactly when the murders take place. I read somewhere Barbara Walters said this was one of the most chilling things she's ever read. Maybe I've just been desensitized, but he just didn't say enough to qualify this as a confession. I realize just the idea that he would agree to something like this is enough of an admission of guilt (and stupidity, of course), but this was not the bombshell book I expected. I hope this gives the Goldmans some peace; for me, I was hoping for more of a concrete admission and a better sense of closure than this offers.

3 out of 5 stars

A light bulb will come on once you read it September 16, 2007
300 out of 363 found this review helpful

Once you give this book a read you will see why the Goldmans did what they did. It's not that they are making huge profits from their son's murder and the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. It's about showing the world that this smug, arrogant man had the gaul to come up with something like this strange book in the first place and once you do read it, you see that there is no way O.J. mourns his dead wife and mother of their two children. There is no way on earth that he's searching for the real killer, either. And in his impudence and pugnacious obtuseness the twisted and vitriolic blame he lays on his dead wife gives him away like nothing else could.

To read it with your own eyes is a very odd experience.

The Goldmans have tried for a decade to get recompense from the GUILTY (Liable) verdict in the Civil suit against Simpson and have not succeeded. Before they were able to seize this as assets, they only received about $10k of the $38 Million that was awarded them. In the meantime, they have racked up huge legal fees. They don't receive OJ's lush Million NFL pension --payed out in about $300k or more per year ad infinitim.

The Goldmans are ordinary working people like you and me. They had to take hold of something as O.J.'s residency --the primary reason why he moved to FLORIDA-- protects him from paying ONE PENNY to these people. A Court of Law found the man Guilty and he owes them millions but got off this one, too. Thanks to O.J.'s sharp and sleazy legal team. (which HE has no trouble paying, due to that generous pension).

Just when O.J. was about to make more $money off this garbage book--in stepped the Goldmans and rightfully so. A court of law awarded them the rightful owners of this book as seizable assets. (ironic what just happened today! Speaking of karma and "seizable" assets!) It's the basic principal of the thing, bottom line. Once you see the facts, you might want to buy this book. Most of it will go to legal fees for the Goldmans. But ultimately, it does more than put 17 cents in the pockets of the loving father and sister of Ron Goldman. It clearly shows the truth in its glaring weirdness--like funhouse mirrors-- that its author, OJ himself, couldn't be more telling about his delusional and ego-centric self. The self-puffery and crude arrogance spun through the man's prose says it all.

3 out of 5 stars

O.J.'s Confession September 14, 2007
71 out of 83 found this review helpful

The thing that blows me away about 'If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" is the utter stupidity and ignorance of O.J. Simpson for agreeing to this publication. This book should be required reading for psychology majors that want to read about murderers, I wouldn't be surprised if universities are creating classes solely based on the double homicides from 1994.

This isn't a book that is written well, but that is not the purpose here. The purpose for the Goldmans to publish this after O.J. lost the rights to it is to show once and for all that O.J. Simpson committed these heinous crimes, the 14,000 words having been added by the Goldman family to the original manuscript certainly accomplishes this goal.

For O.J. Simpson to have agreed to this book, I can see 3 possible reasons:

1. He had to finally gloat to the public that he truly got away with murder. O.J. obviously assumes that by beginning the title of this book with the word 'If' that it would be seen as just ramblings from his mind and not confessions (obviously not).

2. He hoped to profit, even though all financial gains have to be transferred over to the Goldman family.

3. He was tricked and used by the original publisher who got him to take actions any reasonable attorney would have told him to NEVER do.

If you are interested in the O.J. Simpson case (and I think there will be public interest until the day he dies), pick up this book. As you read the pages and learn how stupid it was for Simpson to actually take part in this book you will be introduced into the mind of a killer. While reading, be happy in the fact that your $$$ isn't going into the Juice's pockets, but to the fund of Ron Goldman who (along with Nicole Brown) was brutally murdered that night in June way back in 1994.

O.J. Simpson is a murderer and he should be in jail instead of playing golf (but that's as obvious as the stars in the sky).

*** RECOMMENDED

3 out of 5 stars

For my friend! September 16, 2007
71 out of 125 found this review helpful

This has to have been the most difficult book I have ever read! PERIOD!
Nicole was a friend to me for many years. We went to school together,and we hung out at the beach often. Then like so many friends we lost track of one another after high school. I was devastated by her death and have over and over again suffered nightmares trying to find a reason for the sense-less-ness of her death. I completely sympathize with Denise and the rest of the Brown family, especially the kids. This book just furthers their anguish. But, it also shows the world the mind of her and Ron's murderer. If there were any who doubted the guilt of O.J. they have been silenced by this book. Read it and weep!

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