OJ Simpson Essentially Confessing To The Murder During "The Lost Confession" Special On Fox Was Wild
NYT – On Sunday night, Fox aired “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession,” a two-hour special that the network has been promoting for weeks as a shocking, must-see interview that was recently found.
Originally shot in 2006, the conversation between Mr. Simpson and the publishing magnate Judith Regan was intended then to promote the ReganBooks release of “If I Did It,” described as a “hypothetical” explanation of how the N.F.L. Hall of Famer might have murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman — a crime for which he was acquitted in 1995.
Thanks to the likes of the Oscar-winning documentary “O.J.: Made in America” and the Emmy-winning drama series “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” interest in Mr. Simpson and the Brown/Goldman killings is at a new peak. So this interview wasn’t so much rediscovered as dug up, to take advantage of a trend.
Still, “The Lost Confession” did offer a rare chance to hear Mr. Simpson’s own perspective on the murders (which he never testified about in the original criminal trial). And Fox tried to make the old interview relevant to today’s news by putting it in the context of powerful, famous men abusing women.
Hosted by Soledad O’Brien, “The Lost Confession” alternated clips from the interview with new commentary from a panel that included Ms. Regan, Christopher Darden (the lawyer who helped prosecute the original case), Jim Clemente (a retired F.B.I. profiler), Rita Smith (a spokeswoman for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence), and Eve Shakti Chen (a friend of Ms. Brown’s).
There was a lot going on last night on television. Selection Sunday, iHeartRadio Awards, the American Idol reboot, all while everyone still buzzing about Tiger being Back. But its still crazy to me how much this confession from OJ flew under the radar last night. Make no mistake about it, your boy OJ flat out said he did it during this 2006 interview which aired for the first time ever on Fox Sunday night. The footage is him retelling the night of the murder if…”hypothetically” speaking…it was he who had murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. He reiterates over and over again, “I’m just hypothetically speaking here,” but hes actually recounting the double murder in very specific detail. Anyone who read the book had already heard all this, but anyone who was watching last night was floored listening to this dude essentially cop to the murders.
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The craziest part of this whole chapter of his book and then subsequent interview was how OJ claims he showed up at the murder scene with someone named Charlie. He just straight up made up a fictional character named Charlie. Says he was the one who handed him the knife. The interviewer basically needed to jog OJ’s memory so that he would remember this made up person:
It was bananas, man. Nobody ever found “Charlie.” Nobody ever surfaced claiming to be him. Just the number 1 suspect (and now basically confirmed murderer) from the biggest court case maybe of all time, claimed he was at the scene with another person and nobody ever even talked about it. Clearly the most obvious idea is that Charlie is a completely made up person and OJ was all by himself. But also a deeper conspiracy claims it might be his son Jason. Either way its fucking hilarious that OJ is out here talking about Charlie and can barely even remember his own lies.
Crazy that almost 25 years later this one case is still giving us TV specials and series. But I feel like we can kinda put it all to rest now that OJ confessed and the world has heard it.
Hypothetically, of course.