OJ Simpson was the only NFL player to ever rush for over 2,000 yards in the 14-game regular season format.
And, OJ did it.
On October 3, 2008—exactly 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and Ronald Goldman—Simpson was found guilty of all 12 charges* in the State of Nevada v. Orenthal James Simpson robbery case. On December 5, 2008, Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison with eligibility for parole in nine years (in October 2017). On July 20, 2017, Simpson was granted parole, and was freed on October 1, 2017.
And this time, there was no question that OJ did it.
*Count 1: Conspiracy to commit a crime
Count 2: Conspiracy to commit kidnapping
Count 3: Conspiracy to commit robbery
Count 4: Burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon
Count 5: 1st degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon (for Bruce Fromong)
Count 6: 1st degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon (for Alfred Beardsley)
Count 7: Robbery with use of a deadly weapon (for Bruce Fromong)
Count 8: Robbery with use of a deadly weapon (for Alfred Beardsley)
Count 9: Assault with a deadly weapon (for Bruce Fromong)
Count 10: Assault with a deadly weapon (for Alfred Beardsley)
Count 11: Coercion with a deadly weapon (for Bruce Fromong as an alternative to count 5)
Count 12: Coercion with a deadly weapon (for Alfred Beardsley as an alternative to count 6)
OJ Simpson was released from prison in Nevada on October 1, 2017, after completing 9 of the 33 years to which he had been sentenced. He turned 72 on July 9, 2019.
OJ Simpson owes millions to the Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson families. In 1995, the families filed a civil suit against him and won. The families were awarded $33.5 million.
Simpson “has never honored or paid one single penny of the judgment,” Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, told the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times was until recently owned by Tribune Publishing (formerly Tronc, for Tribune Online Content), a media company based on the Chicago Tribune. The company’s portfolio includes the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel, the Hartford Courant, additional titles in Pennsylvania and Virginia, syndication operations, and websites. It also publishes several local newspapers in its metropolitan regions, which are organized in subsidiary groups. It is the nation’s third-largest newspaper publisher (behind Gannett and The McClatchy Company), with eleven daily newspapers and commuter tabloids throughout the United States.
The (Bergen County, New Jersey) Record newspaper once ran this headline on its front page of its local section. The store was about the sentening of a man convicted of having sex with a corpse:
SEVEN YEARS FOR NECROPHILIA
The headline ran on September 11, 2008. They got a lot of complaints for that one!
The Page 1 headline in the New York Post on April 15, 1983 told the story of the discovery of a decapitated corpse: “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR”.
The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded beheading as a most honorable form of death.
A legend has developed that Paul’s martyrdom occurred at the Aquae Salviae, on the Via Laurentina. According to this legend, after Paul was decapitated, his severed head rebounded three times, giving rise to a source of water each time that it touched the ground, which is how the place earned the name “San Paolo alle Tre Fontane” (“St Paul at the Three Fountains”) However, the springs, called the Aquae Salviae, as in the Latin name for the church, were known in pre-Christian times, and excavations have revealed ancient mosaic pavements…
Hamida Djandoubi was a Tunisian agricultural worker and convicted murderer. He moved to Marseille, France, in 1968 and six years later he kidnapped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet, his former girlfriend. He was sentenced to death in February 1977 and executed by guillotine in September that year. He was the last person to be executed in Western Europe. Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner.
The jury deliberated for less than seven hours before convicting serial killer Ted Bundy on July 24, 1979, of the murders of Kimberly Bowman and Lisa Levy, along with three counts of attempted first degree murder (for the assaults on Kathy Kleiner, Kathy Chandler and CherylThomas) and two counts of burglary. Trial judge Edward Cowart imposed death sentences for the murder convictions.
Bundy would live for 9 1/2 more years before being executed January 24, 1989.
Ted Bundy escaped from custody not once, but twice. The first escape happened in June of 1977, when Bundy was being held in Aspen, Colorado. He jumped from a second-story window in the prison law library and ran into the mountains. He was captured six days later after stealing a car.
His second escape came on December 30, 1977, while Bundy was in custody in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. During his time of incarceration at that facility, Bundy lost enough weight that he could fit through the ductwork in the prison. He made his way to Florida, where he murdered his final three victims in January and February of 1978. He was arrested for the final time on February 15, 1978.
And he was not transferred back to Colorado.
David Letterman once joked that the word “bludgeoned” appeared at least once in every issue of the Post.
In play:
Colorado, the eighth-largest US state, is nicknamed the “Centennial State” because it joined the Union in 1876, a century after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
In 1876, Colorado became our 38th state. In that same decade the first brain tumor was surgically removed from a human patient, in 1879, by neurosurgeon William Macewen operating on a female patient.
After Colorado became the 38th state, there were no states admitted to the Union for the next 13 years. But, in a 9-day stretch in November of 1889, 4 new states were added: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington.
As the first President of the United States, George Washington got to appoint the entire U.S. Supreme Court. So did, following a terrorist attack, President Jack Ryan in the 1996 Tom Clancy novel Executive Orders.
Mount Washington in New Hampshire is the highest peak in New England. It is located in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, a range including mountains named for John Adams (the 2nd-highest peak), Thomas Jefferson (3rd-highest), James Madison, and so on.
However, due to a surveying error, Mt. Monroe is actually 22 feet taller than Mt. Madison, which is not the correct order of presidents.
The highest mountain in the USSR was Communism Peak, previously named Stalin Peak until Khrushchev’s policy of ending the Cult of Personality. It is now named Ismoil Somoni Peak after a ruler of the Persian Samanid Dynasty and can be found in Tajikistan in Central Asia.
The rock band Living Colour was founded by English-born guitarist Vernon Reid in New York City in the 1980s. The band’s music has been classified as hard rock and “funk rock,” though their music is also influenced by jazz, hip-hop, heavy metal, and punk.
Living Colour’s biggest hit was the 1988 song “Cult of Personality,” which Reid named after the title of an anti-Stalinist report by Nikita Khrushchev; the lyrics of the song reference a number of political leaders, including Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, and Mahatma Gandhi. The song reached #13 on the Billboard U.S. chart, and won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1990.
The Green Hornet television series aired for the 1966–1967 television season, which starred Van Williams as both the Green Hornet and Britt Reid, and Bruce Lee as Kato.
Williams and Lee’s Green Hornet and Kato appeared as anti-heroes in the second season of the live-action 1960s Batman TV series, in the two-part episodes “A Piece of the Action” and “Batman’s Satisfaction”. The episode ended with Robin questioning whether the Green Hornet was really a good guy or a bad guy; even Batman himself was not sure. Unlike the “campy” version of Batman, this version of The Green Hornet was played more seriously.