When it comes to celebrity and the American media,we live in a post-Simpson worldSo the knife allegedly found near OJ Simpson’s house was not, it has been confirmed, and the murder weapon. There was a rush of excitement when this potential lead came to light recently,and a generation fresh from swapping online conspiracy theories about Adnan Syed in Serial and Steven Avery in Making A Murderer thought they could solve a 22-year-traditional case they’d discovered through the current miniseries American Crime account: The People v OJ Simpson.
But ’tis not to be, and that is because the Simpson case is nothing like Syed’s or Avery’s stories. There is little mystery here. The current Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, and who wrote the book on which the miniseries is based,final month wrote a chillingly evocative account detailing precisely how he thinks Simpson nearly decapitated his ex-wife Nicole Brown and stabbed Ron Goldman. The general consensus about Simpsons guilt isn’t simple intestine feeling it’s because there was so much evidence against him that his defence team insinuated it must have been planted, as no murderer could have been that clumsy. The writers of the TV indicate realised early on that they couldn’t retry OJ”, or as Larry Karaszewski put it final weekend. Rather,they had to help viewers “understand the [not guilty] verdict”, something even those of us who obsessively watched the original trial need a refresher course on.
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Source: theguardian.com