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MISSING MEDIA MOMENTS
By Mervyn Osborne Hagger
The murder of Kimberly Anne Hagger Scaramastro
Guglielmo on May 10, 1994, is but a forgotten footnote in the
chronicle of history and so is the imprisonment of Mark Guglielmo on
June 15, 1995, for her murder. But it is also a history of the
headline murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on June
12, 1994 and the massive bomb blast that destroyed the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Government office building in Oklahoma City on April
19, 1995. They were the events that the media covered in detail.
WHAT BECAME
OF
KIMBERLY ANNE?
Everyone remembers the Bronco "chase"; the glove that would
not fit and the not guilty verdict in the criminal trial of O.J.
Simpson on October 3, 1995. But what became of Kimberly Anne? That
answer is still unfolding. However, it began to unravel for me when
I first read a California newspaper obituary notice about my
ex-wife, which had posted on the Internet. That is what eventually
prompted me to hire a former Memphis policeman turned private
investigator to find answers to my questions. He began by making
phone calls, which eventually resulted in him delivering me the bad
news about Kimmy's murder. Yet her murder only raised more
questions.
 THE HAPPIER
DAYS:
Mr. and Mrs. Guglielmo in a local New York newspaper
photograph of their wedding day in February.
Because there was no criminal trial of Mark Guglielmo for the
murder of Kimberly Anne Guglielmo, the plea bargain that led from
his arrest to imprisonment, merely buried the truth concerning the
murder. It was due to the misconduct of Prosecutor Michael Politis
and the tainted testimony of the mother of Kimberly Anne that the
plea bargain was offered to Mark Guglielmo. However, Mark Guglielmo
had first been arrested for destroying evidence at the crime scene
and as it later turned out, it was evidence that would have helped
Mark Guglielmo and evidence that would have provided answers to
questions that remain to this day. But there was no trial. No
witnesses were put on the stand in open court. There was no cross
examination. There is no trial transcript. All that exists are
notes, statements and reports. Mark Guglielmo kept quiet until years
later when I wrote to him in prison.
 TO TOP
Kimberly Anne, by all accounts which appear to be credible,
died in her own apartment bedroom on May 10, 1994. Why she died is
not clear. The Prosecutor painted up Mark Guglielmo as a hateful and
violent man who tried to live up to a Mafia stereotype that would
match his Italian heritage. But this is the same prosecutor who lied
to the court about the disposition of the corpse of Kimberly Anne:
Michael Politis rushed that corpse into the flames of a crematoria.
In the plea bargain offered to Mark Guglielmo his own attorney told
his client to shut up and let the prosecutor have his day. Like a
trusting client, Mark Guglielmo did just that and said nothing to
anyone until he began to talk and write to me. But the downside of
his silence at sentencing was that Michael Politis asked for and
received an upward departure in sentencing so that Mark Gugliemo
received 40 years imprisonment.
Mark Guglielmo was stunned,
but the prosecutor did indeed have his day: he told the suicidal
prisoner at the bar to go ahead and kill himself in order to save
the tax payers of Florida a lot of money that they would be spending
in keeping him in prison for 40 years. So when the prisoner arrived
in prison, he attempted to carry out the wishes of the prosecutor
and commit suicide. Obviously he was not successful because he was
found by prison guards, just in time.
The purpose of this
page is to show how the Mark Guglielmo Murder Case fits within
the chronology of the O. J. Simpson Murder Case and the Oklahoma
bombing, in order to give the reader a sense of time.
TO TOP
THE ARREST OF MARK
GUGLIELMO
 Tuesday, May 10, 1994: Kimberly
Anne Hagger (Scaramastro) Guglielmo was murdered at age 20 years, 11
months. She was 5 foot, 7 inches in height, and weighed 170 lbs. The
killing is alleged to have taken place in her apartment at the
Marcell Garden Apartments, 562 Reed Canal Road, in South Daytona,
Volusia County, Florida by the hand of her husband who is 5ft 6ins.
According to court depositions, the tenant in the ground floor
apartment underneath the Guglielmo apartment was David Gobin, a
reserve Daytona Beach police officer who complained by telephone to
apartment manager Harry Ford about red fluid seeping through his
ceiling on to his floor below. A work order was issued to
maintenance workers David Watson and David Davidson at 3:20 PM and
they banged on the door of Mark Guglielmo who told them that he had
spilt film developing liquid and was trying to clean it up with
water. He said that he would pay for any damages. This explanation
satisfied everyone at the time.
Wednesday-Thursday, May 11-12, 1994:
According to the sworn deposition of Kim Scaramastro (former
Kimberly Hoskins Hagger and mother of Kimberly Anne), which was
taken on March 1, 1995, on page 16, lines 6-14, Kim Scaramastro
claimed to have had telephone conversations with Mark Guglielmo and
asked where her daughter was, because she claimed that Kimberly Anne
had told Kim Scaramastro by telephone that she was leaving her
husband on the day that she died. Kim Scaramastro claimed that “He
thought that maybe she (Kimberly Anne) might have gotten a letter
from her grandmother in England saying maybe that her dad (Mervyn
Osborne Hagger) was alive and in South America, and that maybe she
went to South America because only summer clothes were
packed.”
TO TOP Saturday, May 14, 1994: According to the sworn
deposition of Kim Scaramastro on page 9, line 5, she sent the first
of two fax fliers to South Daytona Beach Police Department. She
reported her daughter Kimberly Anne as a missing person, and
confirmed this in a voice conversation with Officer Cruz. She
claimed that her son-in-law Mark Guglielmo was a violent person.
Unknown to South Daytona Police, on that same day the lower half of
the corpse of KAH was discovered on the banks of the Hudson River in
a wooded part at Tarrytown, Westchester County, New
York.
Monday,
May 16, 1994: According to the sworn deposition of Kim
Scaramastro on page 12, line 8, Kim Scaramastro sent the second of
two fax fliers to South Daytona Beach Police Department in which she
accused her daughter of being mentally unstable and a “psychopathic
liar”, while denying that her husband Mark Guglielmo had harmed
her.
Monday
10:02 AM, May 16, 1994: Mark
Guglielmo called Sergeant William C. Hall with South Daytona Police
from another state to ask if the Police had located his missing
wife. He claimed that Kimberly Anne had taken money from their bank
account and left with an unknown person in an unknown vehicle for an
unknown destination. He said that on the previous Wednesday (May
11), that he left the apartment when his wife did not return home
and drove up to Stanford, Connecticut to see his mother and stay
with her. He left Sergeant Hall with his mother’s phone number and
asked him to call with additional information.
TO TOP Monday 10:28 AM, May 16, 1994: Kimberly
Scaramastro called Sergeant William C. Hall and said that he was to
ignore her previous comments to Officer Cruz about her son-in-law
being a violent person, because that was a false statement. She
added that her daughter Kimberly Anne “has a mental problem and she
is a habitual liar, and has been most of her life.” Kimberly
Scaramastro stated that she had been in contact with her son-in -law
and that he was flying back to Florida on the next available plane.
Sergeant William C. Hall then sent Investigator McGaha and Sergeant
Halligen to the Marcell Apartments to check on Kimberly Anne, and
they were then told by Manager Harry Ford what had taken place in
apartments 10 and 16 on Tuesday, May 10, 1994 at around 3:30 in the
afternoon.
The Manager unlocked apartment 16 for the two
officers to do a “well being check”, and they saw that several
square feet of carpet had been cut out of the floor and a large
portion of the mattress had also been cut out and removed. Red
stains were observed on the east bedroom wall and on the telephone.
The two officers reported back to Sergeant William C. Hall and he
obtained a Search Warrant from Judge John Doyle for apartment 16.
Blood was found on the bed comforter, towels, mini blind and carpet.
(South Daytona Police entered and searched the apartment of Kimberly
Anne and Mark Guglielmo at their Marcell Garden Apartment - before
obtaining a Warrant to search the home. According to former
prosecutor Politis in a telephone call made to him by Mervyn Hagger
on Monday, July 30, 2001, the Judge ordered the evidence found to be
struck due to the illegal search.)
Friday, May 20, 1994: Mark Guglielmo
called Sergeant William C. Hall to say that he was at an address in
Lexington, Kentucky, and that he would not be returning to Florida
for a few days. The address given by Mark Guglielmo was fictitious
and he was not in Kentucky.
TO TOP Saturday, May 21, 1994: The upper half of the corpse
of Kimberly Anne is discovered off a dirt road in woods near a
reservoir at Bedford, Westchester County, New York. However. the
corpse was not identified until Thursday, May
26.
Monday,
May 23, 1994: Because Sergeant William C. Hall needed a blood
sample to identify the blood stains that had been discovered at the
apartment, he called Bedford, New York (where Kimberly Anne and Mark
had lived before moving to Florida) to try to obtain a sample given
at the time that the marriage license was issued. He discovered that
New York did not require blood tests. He was then told about the
discovery of the top half of a corpse which had been found at
Bedford over the weekend, and about a lower half which had been
found along with a note a hatchet, hammer and knife back on May 14
in Tarrytown. Sergeant Hall spoke with Sergeant Gene Buonanno of the
Village of Tarrytown Police Department, who gave a matching
description of KAH - found in garbage bags and a suitcase belonging
to Kimberly Anne. Sergeant Hall then sent dental X-Rays by overnight
mail for confirmation.
Thursday, May 26, 1994: Westchester County, NY Medical
Examiner identified remains as being those of Kimberly Anne. In the
afternoon her husband Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo, 24, turned
himself in to South Daytona police on a felony charge of tampering
with evidence: (he removed carpeting, bed linens. a mattress and
other items from the apartment, all of which could have been used as
evidence in the crime.) He arrived with an attorney and bail
bondsman and was released minutes later on a $25,000 bond. South
Daytona police investigator Mark McGaha said that Mark Guglielmo
would go to stay with his mother at her residence in Stamford,
Connecticut, which is 21 miles from both of the locations where the
remains of Kimberly Anne were discovered.
TO TOP Friday, May 27, 1994: Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo
was arrested again while still in Florida and charged with first
degree murder in the death of his wife Kimberly Anne in Volusia
County, Florida.
Wednesday, June 1, 1994: The Westchester County
Medical Examiner released the corpse for cremation by a funeral home
in Westchester County. No family member was present. The ashes were
mailed to the grandfather of Kimberly Anne at Mathis, Texas.
Kimberly Scaramastro (her mother), who lived in California with her
husband Julio Bruce Scaramastro, did not want them or arrange for
their transfer. There is a question of whether Kimberly Anne was pregnant on
the day that she died, and that question remains unanswered as a
result of the rushed cremation of her
corpse.
Saturday, June 4, 1994: Demand for Florida officials
to retrieve body from New York officials is denied by Circuit Judge
James Foxman. Second autopsy hearing was requested by attorney James
Crock representing Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo. However, the
remains of Kimberly Anne had already been cremated a few days
earlier on June 1.
Tuesday, 3:30 PM, June 7, 1994: Bail hearing for Mark
Anthony Alexander Guglielmo, who answered to charges of first degree
murder brought by prosecutor Michael Politis. Mark Guglielmo pleaded
not guilty and claimed that his wife had tried to self-induce an
abortion on May 10, hence the blood in their apartment. He claimed
that she had then taken money out of their bank account, left town
in one of their two vehicles, and headed for New York where she was
killed by someone else. A circuit judge denied him bail on the new
charge, and then remanded Mark Guglielmo to the Volusia County
Branch Jail, pending answer from the Volusia Grand
Jury.
THE ARREST OF O.
J. SIMPSON
According to that foundation document called the "Declaration
of Independence" as modified by civil war and a civil rights
struggle, the United States of America is a nation that is ruled by
"The People" of its Constitution and the constitutions of its
various states. "The People" are sovereign and equal, at least in
theory. Of course in practice some corpses are more important than
other corpses. In the instance of Ronald Reagan, his corpse was
flown at great expense from coast to coast and back again for a lot
of people to gawk at, using their imagination, as they filed by a
mere wooden box with the U.S. flag draped on top of it. Everyone had
to imagine that a corpse was on the inside of the box. But for the
corpse of Kimberly Anne it was just a matter of mailing a few ashes
in a box to a relative (her own mother did not want them), with U.S.
postage affixed to their shipping container.
As for media
coverage of the murder of Kimberly Anne, the press began to take an
interest, especially when New York police found her corpse in two
halves, twenty miles apart. But then the corpse of the former wife
of O. J. Simpson was found in California, along with another corpse
belonging to a man that most people in the USA had never heard of.
However, a high percentage of people in the USA had heard of O.J.
Simpson from football, TV commercials and the movies. Now all eyes
were glued on him. Not on the corpses, but on O.J. For a brief
moment Timothy McVeigh grabbed the headlines. That is when he
blasted away the front of the federal building in Oklahoma City and
created a lot more corpses that belonged to former human beings that
the vast majority of people had never heard of.
Then it was
back to watching O.J. on Court TV and CNN. The murder of Kimberly
Anne was reduced to a minor story about two parts of a female corpse
that once belonged to a girl that the vast majority of people never
knew, who was by a killed by a man that the vast majority of people
never knew. Continued at the top of the next
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So the two parts of the corpse were incinerated without
fanfare. The man who was arrested for the murder of the girl, who
became a corpse, was told in open court to go away and kill himself,
so that the public would not have to pay for his room and board in
prison. The judge, who was later kicked off the bench by the Florida
Supreme Court for abuse of office, gave the prisoner 40 years and
off he went in custody to try and hang himself, just as the
prosecutor had requested. Meanwhile, on Court TV, CNN and just about
every other news outlet that you can name, all eyes were glued on
O.J. and his "Dream Team" of lawyers. I was among those watching
this media circus, because at the time I knew nothing about the fate
of Kimberly Anne.
The timeline that follows demonstrates how
the media circus refocused its attention:
Mervyn Hagger, birth father of
Kimberly
Anne Hagger Scaramastro Guglielmo
1994:
June 12
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Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are stabbed
to death. Their bodies found in the front courtyard of
Nicole's condominium in Brentwood,
California.
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1994:
June 13
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O.J. Simpson is notified of the murders while on a
business trip in Chicago. He returns to Los Angeles,
is temporarily handcuffed, and taken in for
questioning. Robert Shapiro is contacted on Simpson's
behalf and asked to become defense
counsel.
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1994:
June 16
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About to be arrested for murder, Simpson slips out of
Robert Kardashian's home. He is chased by police while
riding in his white Ford Bronco, driven by friend A.C.
Cowlings. When he returns to his home on Rockingham,
Simpson is taken into custody.
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1994:
June 20
Tuesday
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A
first degree murder indictment was handed down by a Volusia
County Grand Jury against Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo,
who continued to maintain that he was innocent of the
charges brought against him.
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1994:
June 24
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The
O.J. Simpson Grand jury is
recused.
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1994:
June 29
Tuesday
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Kimberly Anne Hagger would have been 21 years of
age, had she not been murdered by her husband the previous month.
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1994:
July 8
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Six-day preliminary hearing ends with Judge Kathleen
Kennedy-Powell ruling there is sufficient evidence for O.J.
Simpson to stand trial on two counts of first-degree
murder.
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1994:
July 22
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O.J. pleads "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" to
the charges. Judge Lance A. Ito assigned to hear
case.
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1994:
Aug. 7
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A
gray 4 door 1988 Ford Tempo which had been returned from New
Brunswick, Canada to Florida was searched according to
Warrant and inventoried. Previously a note which read: “If I
can’t be with her in life, I’ll be with her in death.” had
also been found in this car. Among the many items listed is
a brown "Airworthy” tote bag containing a school report card
envelope addressed to Kim Scaramastro (mother), and a school
report card with the name of "Kimmy Hagger" on
it.
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1994:
Aug. 18
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Defense counsel files motion to obtain personnel
records of Detective Mark
Fuhrman.
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1994:
Sept. 2
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District attorney files motion to sequester
jury.
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1994:
Sept. 9
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District attorney announces that the death penalty
will not be sought.
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1994:
Sept.19
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Judge Ito upholds the legality of the search of
Simpson's home.
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1994:
Nov. 3
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Jury panel selected: eight Black, one White, one
Hispanic, two mixed race; eight women, four
men.
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1994:
Dec. 8
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Alternate jury selected.
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1995:
Jan. 4
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Defense waives hearing for challenge of prosecution's
DNA evidence.
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1995:
Jan. 11
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The
jury is sequestered. Hearing held on admissibility of
domestic-abuse evidence.
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1995:
Jan. 13
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Prosecutor Christopher Darden and defense attorney
Johnnie Cochran argue over racist language regarding the
upcoming testimony of Mark
Fuhrman.
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1995:
Jan. 24
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Trial opens. Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher
Darden deliver opening
statements.
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1995:
Jan. 25
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Johnnie Cochran makes opening statement for the
defense.
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1995:
Jan. 27
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O.J. Simpson's book, "I Want to Tell You", is
published.
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1995:
Feb. 3
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Nicole Brown's sister Denise testifies about O.J.
Simpson's abuse of her sister.
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1995:
Feb. 12
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Jurors take field trip to Simpson home and Bundy
Drive crime scene.
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1995:
March 15
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Detective Mark Fuhrman, cross-examined by defense
attorney F. Lee Bailey, denies using the word "Nigger" at
any time in the previous ten
years.
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1995:
April 11
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L.A.P.D. criminalist Dennis Fung concedes, under
cross-examination by defense attorney Barry Scheck,
procedural errors.
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1995:
April 19 |
Oklahoma bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Government office building in Oklahoma
City.
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1995:
April 21
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After three sheriff's deputies are reassigned, jurors
protest. They first refuse to come to court, the show up
dressed in black.
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1995:
May 4
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Wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the
Goldman family.
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1995:
May 10
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DNA
testimony begins.
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1995:
May 15
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Simpson tries on the bloody gloves. They seem
not to fit.
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1995:
June 15
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Just over a year from his indictment on first degree
murder, and a day when Kimberly Anne would have been almost
22 years of age, her killer husband Mark Anthony Alexander
Guglielmo (25) changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.
He was sentenced to 40 years under the terms of a plea
bargain of 2nd Degree Murder, Dangerous Actor. FBI Number
172227WA7. Social Security Number 049629041. Date of Birth:
December 12, 1968. According to the prosecutor, the plea
bargain was necessary due to the search and taking of
evidence without a Warrant, from the South Daytona apartment
on May 10, 1994, which appeared to have been abandoned by
Mark Guglielmo the day previous day following his murder of
Kimberly Anne.
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1995:
June 29
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On
this day Kimberly Anne would have celebrated her 22nd
birthday, but on this day her killer and husband is ordered
to repay the costs of the case: Florida State Attorney’s
Office - $8,500. South Datona Police - $26,565. New York
Village of Tarrytown Police - $10,530. Canadian City of
Fredericton and Royal Canadian Mounted Police -
$4,776.
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1995:
July 6
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The
prosecution rests.
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1995:
July 10
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The
defense calls its first witness, Arnelle Simpson, O.J.
Simpson's daughter.
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1995:
Aug. 15
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Controversy over possible conflict of interest
concerning Judge Ito. Marcia Clark asks Ito to recuse
himself from Simpson trial.
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1995:
Aug. 16
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Clark changes her mind on Ito
recusal.
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1995:
Aug. 29
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Fuhrman tapes played in court, with jury
absent.
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1995:
Aug. 31
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Judge Ito rules that jury will hear two excerpts of
controversial tapes.
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1995:
Sept. 5
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The
jury hears excerpts from Fuhrman
tapes.
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1995:
Sept. 6
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With jury absent, Mark Fuhrman appears on
stand. He refuses to answer questions, citing his
Fifth Amendment privilege against self
incrimination.
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1995:
Sept. 7
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The
defense announces that Simpson won't testify on his own
behalf. The defense asks Judge Ito to instruct jury as
to reason for Fuhrman's further nonappearance. Judge agrees,
but prosecution objects. The question is
appealed.
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1995:
Sept. 8
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Appeals court rejects Ito's jury
instruction.
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1995:
Sept. 11
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Defense refuses to rest their case due to the
unresolved question of judge's instruction to jury
concerning Fuhrman. Judge Ito orders prosecution to
begin its rebuttal.
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1995:
Sept. 18
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Prosecution conditionally rests its
case.
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1995:
Sept. 19
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Detective Vannatter is cross-examined by Shapiro on
statements he made to mob informants about why police went
to O.J. Simpson's residence.
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1995:
Sept. 21
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Both defense and prosecution rest their cases.
In a statement to judge waiving his right to testify,
Simpson says "I did not, could not, and would not have
committed this crime." Judge Ito gives jury
instructions.
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1995:
Sept. 26
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Clark and Darden deliver prosecution's closing
arguments.
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1995:
Sept. 27
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Cochran and Scheck deliver defense's closing
arguments. Cochran makes controversial statements to the
jury comparing Fuhrman to
Hitler.
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1995:
Sept. 29
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The
case goes to the jury.
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1995:
Oct. 2
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After less than four hours, jury announces that it
has reached a verdict.
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1995:
Oct. 3
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Jury finds O.J. Simpson not guilty of two counts of
murder.
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