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Count me among those who wish Aja had done Crystal LaBeja! Though now that I'm thinking, you know ehat would have been a *great* Snatch Game character? Dorian Corey. For the question about what the gay cat coughed up, she could have said "a 1982 ballroom trophy for Executive Realness", and for the Snapchat question, she could have said something like "Closets! There's a weird smell coming out of mine!" She could also have a suitcase with a mummy hand coming out of it, if she wanted to be *really* dark...

I agree. I was thinking about this case earlier, and how personally many of us seem to react to it...questioning why I don't feel the overwhelming hatred and vindictiveness towards OJ that I perhaps should, given the fact that I think he did commit this awful crime. Where I *do* feel visceral anger is towards the LAPD and police corruption in general. Perhaps because corruption is institutionalized, whereas murder is more aberrant. I'm not sure why, and I'm not saying I'm right, but I do think the extreme emotional reactions to this case might have to do with our underlying thoughts about the justice system.

All good points, thanks for the food for thought, Umbelina and Psychoticstate. I wanted to point out who the true hero of this story is...Nicole's Akita. She actually led the neighbour to the crime scene. Now that's a friend.

The blood was found on the sock weeks after the sock was collected from Rockingham. Experts conducted an initial examination of the sock after it was collected and didn't spot the blood, but re-examined a couple weeks later and found it. Re: Nicole's blood...wasn't there a test vial of her blood, to use as evidence control? I think Furhman noted the dark clothing in the washing machine but it wasn't followed up on so we don't know for certain whose clothes it was. If it was the murder sweatsuit, though, what happened to it? The blood in the shower drain and sink was minute amounts, not enough to test.

How about Sacco and Vanzetti?

I think it was 15 drops at Rockingham, but I'm not certain. It was a small amount and less than the 1.5 missing ml from the Simpson control vial. Now, that info comes from Cochran, so I'm not sure what the prosecution fact check is on that. More blood questions I've always had...I also read (can't remember where) that the laundry in the washing machine was Arnelle's clothes. Does anyone know anything about that? Also, is it true that there was blood in the shower? I read that the LAPD took apart the pipes and found nothing, but I've *also* heard that there was blood in the shower that wasn't admitted into trial. Does anyone know about the laundry or shower blood?

Hi Jel, the testimony about OJ being fastidious is from AC in the civil deposition...there might have been other testimony to that effect but I recall him discussing his borderline OCD tidiness. It's also in Nicole's lockbox letter to him -- one thing he berated her for was leaving clothes on the ground. The socks not only had cross contamination (EDTA), but seemed to appear out of nowhere in the bedroom. The blood stain was such that it could not have gotten into the sock if someone was wearing it: http://documents.routledge-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/9781455731381/student/Resources/O.J._Simpson_Sock_Evidence.pdf

How vast would it have to be though? Wouldn't it just be the tech spilling blood in the lab, leading to cross contamination? Labs turn up sloppy misleading work all the time without it being the result of a vast criminal conspiracy. Sometimes someone just wants to go home early. I've had blood tests for medical things that wound up being erroneous -- supposedly statistically near-impossible, but it's happened to me more than once.

I'd watch the hell out of that. Also: Waco.

I think cases with dramatic trials would work best for the miniseries format. How about the Unabomber? Kaszinsky was a pretty colourful character, and the leadup to his arrest was pretty suspenseful and dramatic. There was a lot of criminal profiling and technical investigation on that case that would be an enjoyable change of pace from OJ, where the narrowing in on the prime suspect took all of half a day. One that's less known but still an interesting story: Steven Jay Russell, a high level impostor and embezzler. I like the idea of doing a non-violent crime and one that's more money-oriented.

Thanks Deerstalker, that's what I meant to say. As for the other evidence...Evidence that is improperly or illegally handled *should* be discounted, regardless of who it does or does not point to. The justice system has to do its job *properly* if we are going to let it take someone's freedom. Personally I'm a lot more scared of a corrupt police/justice system than I am of individual incorrect acquittals. That's a personal thing, but rules around how evidence should be collected and analyzed are in place for a really good reason.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was blood samples from the back gate and the sock that had EDTA in them, right? Also, these samples were collected later than the others? I think he did it, but I do think it's possible that some of the forensic evidence was either unintentionally botched or intentionally planted. It didn't have to be an LAPD-wide conspiracy, just a matter of a few people speeding up evidence analysis for someone they had already decided was guilty. It sounds outlandish, but this kind of evidence falsifying happens a surprising amount in police departments across the country. I really do wonder about that lack of blood. Why would OJ discard his bloody shoes and clothes but keep on his bloody socks to trek through his white-carpeted home and then leave the socks in the middle of his bedroom? Why were there no transfer stains from the socks to the carpet? If he lost his murdering glove at Bundy, why was there no more than a few drops of blood in the Bronco? Wouldn't the bloody exposed hand leave a print on the steering wheel? I haven't heard a satisfying explaination for the murder timeline that accounts for the blood. Now the domestic abuse evidence...now that I believe in, 100%. Motive galore.

Yeah I think OJ definitely suffered in a way that might be even worse for him than jail, where he might have retained some celebrity status among other inmates. Watch the video of his robbery trial...he's a broken, broken man.

Lizzie Borden would be great, but I agree that anything pre-1980s would be less likely. I'm wondering how Katrina will play out, since it's not focused on a trial, which gave the OJ series a natural structure. Are there any good impostor/identity theft stories? That might be interesting, to see detectives put the story together.

Wasn't it that they did find the (untouched) bag for the spare tire in the trunk alongside a shovel and were going to claim it was a body bag until they found out it just came in the trunk of every Bronco? Yeah...the blood. In If I Did It, the "hypothetical" OJ takes off all his clothes at the end of the driveway and then drives home in his underwear. I don't remember, though, where he put the clothes, and why there wasn't a ton of blood in the trunk. Did he take off his shoes and throw them out with the rest of his bloody clothes, but for some reason leave his socks in the middle of his white-carpeted bedroom? Why was the "trail of blood" going to his front door at Rockingham and not through the alley where he jumped over the fence and the glove was found? It makes no sense to me. This crime the way the prosecution theorized it has OJ being both super-meticulous (disposing of blood evidence and the murder weapon) and incredibly stupid (leaving his own cap and glove at the crime scene, and scattering evidence around his own home).