"Where are you?" Bob asks. "At the Bel Air Church." As casually as he can manage. he asks
."Are you doing it there?" "Nah, what a mess this is, right?" Simpson sounds oddly elated. "The police are here." Kardashian looks over his shoulder to see if anyone is listening.
"Al right. I'm going over to Nicole's now." He has no idea what this means. To see the crime scene? To join her in death?
"Okay. I'll talk to you later." Kardashian adds desperately,"I love you." Kardashian puts down the phone. As he walks back to the room where the police officers are he says to himself, If they ask who I was talking to. I have to tell them. But the cops never ask.
Louis Brown was at Nicole's condo sorting through his daughter's things when Simpson called. They exchanged pleasantries and O.J. said he was dropping by. When Simpson hung up Brown called the police. They converged on the Bundy-Dorothy corner within minutes. Cowlings and Simpson spotted them from a distance and didn't stop.
At Kardashian's home, Detectives are asking Dr. Faerstein if he knows where Simpson might go. He tells them that his patient may be severely depressed. 0.J. might try to visit his children. Kardashian cautiously suggests the possibility of a suicide. Shapiro interrupts. "You have this letter he gave you. Maybe it will reveal where he went."
Kardashian would know when to read it, Simpson had told him—and this is a last request. He has to respect OJ's wishes. This isn't the time. But he has no choice, Shapiro says. He climbs the stairs to retrieve the letter from his coat pocket. A detective immediately asks him for it. He is furious with Shapiro. "It isn't opened yet." Kardashian protests. "I want to read it first." Read it aloud, the detective says. Huizenga. Lee. Baden, Shapiro, and two detectives listen.
"First, everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder," begins the scratchy handwritten text."I loved her, always have and always will. If we had a problem it's because I loved her so much:'There are frequent misspellings, and occasionally Bob must pause to puzzle out a phrase. "Recently we came to the understanding that for now we weren't right for each other at least for now. Simpson thinks everyone should know how hard it was to separate from Nicole, how he hoped eventually for a "friendship ."
Kar-dashian reads each page and hands it to Shapiro, who scans it and passes it on to the police. Kardashian is amazed that Simpson would devote the entire first page to his marital history. The letter rambles through paragraphs alleging that the press fabricated much of what is being said. It adds a "last wish" that reporters leave his children alone.A long section follows thanking financial advisers, social friends, golfing buddies, teammates, lawyers, his first wife, Marguerite; there's a love note to Paula Barbieri. One name in the laundry list of special friends is "Bobby Kardashian." About all his friends, Simpson says:"I wish we had spent more time together in recent years."
It becomes clear that this odd mix of farewells and self-defense will not provide clues to Simpson's whereabouts.The detective asks to have the original. Kardashian argues that it is a personal letter. "It is evidence, Mr. Kardashian," the officer says. Can he give them a copy? He looks to Shapiro for support.The law requires the original, Shapiro explains with mild irritation. Kardashian struggles to contain his anger and goes to his office to make copies.
