June 12, 1994, affluent Brentwood, California.
It's 10:50 on a sweltering summer night.
Jill Shively is driving west on San Vicente Boulevard
when all of a sudden, she has an encounter
with a reckless motorist in an awful hurry.
-The car comes flying right by me.
I saw white, and I saw the flashy rims.
And it almost hit me.
I had to swerve so where I was kind of behind him,
looking catty-corner at him.
[ Horns honk ]
I recognized him, then he yelled
at the other driver, and the voice clicked.
I'm like, "Oh! That's O.J."
-Nearby, two bodies lie undiscovered --
a crime of horrific consequences has occurred.
But it's not until the early morning hours
of June 13th that the two battered
and bloodied bodies are found sprawled
in the courtyard of a Brentwood condo.
-She was stabbed four times on the top of her head
and also down into her neck four times
and on top of her head twice.
She went down very quickly.
There as no blood on the bottom of her feet.
He stabbed just shy of 30 times.
Multiple stab wounds, very, very deep.
And it was a big struggle.
-Police can't immediately identify the male victim,
but the female victim, covered in blood,
her head nearly severed from her body,
is quickly identified.
She is Nicole Brown-Simpson,
the ex-wife of former NFL superstar
Orenthal James Simpson.
Later, as news spreads that police
have detained Simpson for questioning,
fans can't quite fathom
that their hero is a murder suspect.
But one confidant saw it coming --
Simpson's agent and close friend Michael Gilbert.
-My wife, she said, "You need to get to Rockingham.
Nicole's been murdered, and O.J.'s in handcuffs."
First thing I said was, "He finally did it."