MargotWendice

Ah, I stand corrected. Kathleen apparently owned a different house in Forest Hills before moving in with Michael. And your final line made me laugh (not that any of this is funny exactly), because I have thought that any woman who gets involved with this guy should be grateful he lives in a one story apartment now. I mean, I have been on this earth for more than 40 years and do not know of one person who died falling down stairs. This guys knows TWO women who died in such a way. What are the odds?

Knowing a fair amount about the case, I found this documentary completely infuriating. They left out so much important evidence that if I based my opinion solely on this documentary I would be completely perplexed about how they got a conviction in the first place. The prosecution had a financial motive front and center in this case. Kathleen was the major breadwinner and she owned their house. Peterson was in debt as were both of his sons. He wanted to bail them out (so he could be the "perfect dad") but told Patty that he couldn't ask Kathleen for the money. Clayton had just gotten out of prison for planting pipe bombs and Kathleen may have felt exhausted by his kid's issues. Given that she left her first husband over infidelity she may have lost it after finding porn or emails on Peterson's computer. If she threatened to leave him he would be financially ruined which is a pretty big motive. The documentary left out evidence that she had a broken hyoid bone which does not fit the scene of her 'fall'. They also did not show the evidence that his bloody footprint was on the back of her leg. How did that happen if she fell and landed face up? (This did get mentioned in the follow up episodes.) There was evidence of bloody footprints going to and from the laundry room, but they had been cleaned up. Kathleen had been dead for roughly two hours. Peterson changed his story, first saying he had come in to turn on the pool lights, but changed his story to say he had smoked a cigar for 45 minutes when he learned that she took longer to die than he thought. This also makes it less likely she was breathing when he made the first 911 call, as he claimed. The question remains: how did her blood get inside his shorts? Deaver was an idiot but his role was blood spatter. .There was no evidence that he planted any blood evidence. I could go on but I will leave it there...

I thought they mostly spoke freely in the garage. I feel like I have seen them turn of the faucet to speak before, even when the kids weren't around. But I may just be making excuses for plot holes. :-)

I thought they always did that when they were talking about private things--I assume it is in case the house is bugged.

I want to say the Martha Moxley case: a lovely young girl, a rich community, a Kennedy connection, a long road to prosecution. But that would bring us more Mark Fuhrman, so...

Yes! It has confirmed my thought that if I am ever charged with a crime I am going before a judge. No jury.

I am fascinated/baffled that people think that someone else might have killed Nicole and Ron. Nicole was clearly the target as she was killed first and most violently. Her throat was slashed so deeply it almost severed her head. That is a crime with real emotion behind it. This is not the style of a drug-related hit and as others pointed out, there would have been much easier ways to kill her. I don't think it was uncommon to recreationally use drugs in Brentwood at that time so there is no reason to believe she was hanging out with shady dealers in back alleys. I know the rumor has spread that Faye Resnick owed money, but then why wasn't Resnick killed? And if this was over debts, why not walk off with Nicole's expensive jewelry? Someone with incredibly strong feelings for Nicole went over there that night to kill her. There is one obvious person who fits that description. OJ had beaten her and was clearly stalking her. She was so worried OJ would kill her she left evidence in a safety deposit box. Then someone killed her. When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.

I seem to be in the minority in not liking that scene. First, I do not think Selma Blair is a good actor. I felt like I could see her thinking to herself: "You are sad. Emote!". Second, I could not get past the idea that Kris is cooking for the kids while dressed in a power suit. Third, focusing on the kids playing outside--I guess to show innocence--was heavy handed. And we get it, show--Kardashian is the moral compass forever tortured by his role in this saga. I like Schwimmer, though.

I think we have a different idea of what 'taking liberties' means in this context. The entire show, with the exception of the parts in the courtroom that were filmed, is based on stories people told and things that have been reported/published. Such is the case for every biographical document.

I see what you are saying. I thought you were calling bs on the whole scene, not the outcome (if that makes sense). Of course we have only Kardashian's/ Cowling's word for the fact that nothing was there. FWIW, I cannot imagine why OJ would take the knife to Chicago and bring it all the way back to L.A., but who knows? (I probably shouldn't post while drinking wine.)

I feel like I read that this happened, though--Kardashian had OJ's garment bag and the police didn't seem interested. Later Cowlings and he looked through the bag and found nothing. Can anyone confirm?

I have not read much about season 2--is it, by any chance, based on Five Days at Memorial? That was an incredibly powerful book.

So how did they get Nicole and Ron's blood, and swirl all three people's blood together?

Yes, this is an important point to me. If I was forced to try on gloves soaked with the mother of my children--a person I said I loved--I would be reluctant, maybe even devastated. It is difficult to imagine treating the whole thing like a hammy middle school play tryout. Even if you were innocently accused of something so heinous you would hopefully still remember that two innocent people were dead and stop mugging for your 'audience'. Ugh. I was shouting at the screen like I was watching a horror movie: "Don't let him try on the gloves!". It is funny how you can know what is going to happen but STILL hope for a different outcome.

I have little doubt that he was abusive toward Marguerite. Domestic violence tends to be an escalating pattern that begins when a man is young. She had many good reasons to keep it quiet--the culture of the 1960s/1970s, OJ's success, the fear of police intervention within the Black community, etc. Their marriage definitely wasn't happy and she began filing for divorce as early as 1970 (they married in 1967). She has kept a low profile ever since and I respect her for that.