# OJ Simpson has died

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**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oj-simpson-has-died/1000157 "2024-04-11T14:58:34Z")\
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For me, the Bronco chase was the “almost never” in “[What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3531)”

I was with a group of friends at one of their houses, when another one called to tell us “Turn on the TV…”

An acquaintance I see frequently is friends with Bill Dear, a private investigator who writes books about OJ being innocent. I don’t remember what his arguments are, and I don’t care to be dragged through them again, so hopefully it won’t come up.

> **[William Dear (detective)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dear_(detective))**
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> William C. Dear (born August, 1937) is a Dallas-based private investigator.
> Dear owns the firm William C. Dear & Associates. His notable cases include the original "steam tunnel incident" involving James Dallas Egbert III, the murder of millionaire businessman Dean Milo in 1980, the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981 and the Glen Courson murder case in 1986.
> Television work includes being an investigator on Alien Autopsy, a 1995 Fox Television program about an autopsy supposedly carried ou...

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