Is O.J. Simpson innocent of murder after all? An explosive new documentary suggests that he is.
In the film "My Brother the Serial Killer,"
set to air tomorrow Wednesday Nov 21 on the Investigation Discovery network, Clay
Rogers, the brother of convicted serial killer Glen Rogers, claims Glen
murdered Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman—the
pair Simpson was accused—and controversially acquitted—of slaying in
1995.
Glen Rogers was arrested in November 1995—a
month after Simpson was found not guilty—in Kentucky "after leading
police on a high-speed chase in a car that belonged to a Florida woman
believed to be the third victim in a vicious, cross-country killing
spree that began in Van Nuys," Calif., seven weeks before. He was
convicted and sentenced to death in both California and Florida and is
currently sitting on death row in the Sunshine State, awaiting
execution.
According to Clay Rogers, Glen bragged to him about killing more than 70
people. (Glen later said the claim was a joke.) And Clay says Glen told
him he had been "partying" with Brown Simpson prior to her June 12,
1994, killing.
The documentary culls new details from interviews with police and family members and appears to rely on a pair of books about Rogers: Clifford Linedecker's "Smooth Operator" and Joyce Spizer's "The Cross Country Killer." (Glen Rogers, though, does not appear, nor does Simpson.)
After the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, Glen embarked on his cross-country killing spree. Clay turned his brother in after discovering the decomposed corpse of Glen's 73-year-old former roommate at the family's cabin.
"I wasn't turning in my brother," Clay Rogers said. "I was turning in a serial killer."
Following his conviction, Glen admitted to the Goldman-Brown Simpson slayings in interviews from prison, Clay said.
But Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman and a constant figure throughout Simpson's trials, isn't buying it.
"O.J. Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman," Fred Goldman said in a statement Monday.
"The criminal trial showed overwhelming and monumental evidence that
O.J. Simpson was the killer. There was no contrary evidence other than
guess, innuendo, and rumor. The fact of the acquittal at the hands of
the jury will never wash away this murder from the hands of O.J.
Simpson, no matter how many Glen Rogers pop up on the media radar
screen."
In 1997, a jury in Simpson's civil trial found him liable in the death of Goldman and battery of Brown Simpson.
In 2006, a book by Simpson—"If I
Did It"—was set to be published by HarperCollins' ReganBooks, but the
"hypothetical confessional" was subsequently canceled following a public
outcry.
In 2007, Simpson was arrested in
Las Vegas, charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was
found guilty and sentenced to 33 years in prison in Nevada, where he is
currently serving his sentence.
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