Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 15, 1994 TAG: 9406160023
SECTION: NATL/INTL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: Associated Press NOTE: below
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LENGTH: Medium
These are a few of the elements in the killing of O.J. Simpson's former wife. But is one of America's best-loved sports stars a suspect in the slayings?
His attorney says no. Friends say it simply can't be true and that Simpson and his wife were trying to reconcile.
Police won't say.
And Simpson is emotionally drained, according to friends, relatives and the attorney, who met with him Tuesday at his mansion.
``It's difficult enough with the shock that your wife's been murdered; but to hear that you may be accused of it, well, it's awful,'' attorney Howard Weitzman said.
A crowd of reporters and camera crews kept vigil outside Simpson's $1.2 million gated estate, watching a stream of visitors that included his sister and former Buffalo Bills teammate Bob Chandler.
``He's totally distraught,'' a friend who identified himself only as Ron said of Simpson.
Simpson was questioned for more than two hours Monday in the slayings of his second ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and Ronald Lyle Goldman, 25, a waiter at a trendy restaurant near Nicole Simpson's Brentwood condominium.
Their bloodied bodies were found about 12:10 a.m. Monday near the condo, about two miles from Simpson's estate in Brentwood.
Simpson wasn't arrested or even publicly named by police as a suspect. But the Los Angeles Times cited unidentified police sources who said the retired National Football League star was under investigation.
Police said that investigators were no longer inside Simpson's house.
Autopsies were being conducted Tuesday. The Los Angeles Daily News reported that the victims' throats were slashed.
Both the Times and Daily News reported that a blood-soaked glove was found at Simpson's home. The Daily News said the glove matched one found near the bodies.
by CNB