Ron Goldman

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Ronald Lyle Goldman was born on July 2, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, and he grew up in the community of Buffalo Grove. After his parents divorced in 1974 and after spending a brief time in the custody of his mother, Sharon Rufo (née Fohrman), he was raised by his father, Frederic Goldman (born December 6, 1940). Goldman lived with his father and his younger sister, Kimberly. Goldman was raised Jewish.

Goldman attended high school at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He was a student at Illinois State University for one semester, where he planned to major in psychology, and he also had an interest in becoming a pledge in Sigma Nu fraternity. After his family relocated to Southern California when he was 18 years old, however, Goldman discontinued his studies and followed his family.

Prior to relocating with his family, Goldman worked as a camp counselor and had experience volunteering with children who suffered from cerebral palsy.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oj-anniv-goldman-story.html |title=Victim Thrived on Life in Fast Lane, His Friends Recall |author1=Mosk, Matthew |author2=Hall, Carla |journal=The Los Angeles Times |date=June 15, 1994}}{{cite book |title=His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice |author1=Family of Ron Goldman |author2=William Hoffer |author3=Marilyn Hoffer |name-list-style=amp |isbn=978-0-688-15117-1 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |year=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/hisnameisron00hoff}}

While living in Los Angeles, Goldman took some classes at Pierce College. He learned to surf and enjoyed playing beach volleyball, rollerblading, and nightclubbing.{{cite news |journal=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-03-mn-11580-story.html |page=4 |title=Dreams of Better Days Died That Night: Ronald Goldman: A young man was finding his way through the maze of L.A. |date=July 3, 1994 |author1=Hall, Carla |author2=Krikorian, Greg}}

Upon arriving in California, Goldman lived independently from his family and supported himself as an employment headhunter, tennis instructor, and waiter. He worked occasionally as a model for Barry Zeldes, owner of the Z90049 store in Brentwood Gardens.{{cite news |author=Hall, Carla |author2=Krikorian, Greg |date=July 3, 1994 |title=Dreams of Better Days Died That Night: Ronald Goldman: A young man was finding his way through the maze of L.A. |pages=2–3 |journal=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-03-mn-11580-story.html}}

Instead, Goldman told friends that he wanted to open a bar or restaurant in the Brentwood area. He planned for the venue to be known not by a name but by the ankh, an Egyptian religious symbol of life that he had tattooed on his shoulder. According to his friend Jeff Keller, he wanted to learn all facets of the restaurant-bar business and occasionally worked as a promoter at a Century City dance club called Tripps. He had also tended a bar called Dragonfly, which co-incidentally was owned by Brett Cantor. For Memorial Day, he participated with a group of event promoters in organizing a party at Renaissance, a club and restaurant on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.

Goldman also expressed aspirations to act; he appeared on an episode of the dating game show Studs (hosted by Mark DeCarlo) in early 1992.{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-handsome-lightweight-with-hazy-ambitions-1575988.html | title=A handsome lightweight with hazy ambitions | website=Independent.co.uk | date=October 4, 1995 }}

According to a June 15, 1994, Los Angeles Times article published three days after his death, Goldman met Brown only six weeks prior to the date they were murdered, when he borrowed her Ferrari. The two were seen together in clubs, occasionally meeting for coffee and dinner in the weeks before their deaths. According to police and friends, however, the relationship between the two was platonic. One article noted that he had borrowed her car when he met his friend, Craig Clark, for lunch. According to Clark, Goldman told him it was Brown's car, but he did not say she was his girlfriend. Instead, Goldman said they were friends.{{cite news |author=Mosk, Matthew |author2=Hall, Carla |name-list-style=amp |date=June 15, 1994 |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oj-anniv-goldman-story.html |title=Victim Thrived on Life in Fast Lane, His Friends Recall |work=Los Angeles Times}}

He dated Jacqui Bell for nearly two years before she broke off their relationship three months before his death.{{cite news |author=Vito, Bob |date=January 1, 1995 |title=Ronald Goldman: July 2, 1968 - June 12, 1994 |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/victims/goldman/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000517170727/http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/victims/goldman/index.html |archive-date=May 17, 2000 |access-date=2008-10-18 |publisher=CNN}}{{cite news |title=Ronald Goldman |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/victims/goldman/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000517170727/http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/victims/goldman/index.html |archive-date=May 17, 2000 |access-date=2008-10-18 |publisher=cnn.com}} Not long before his death, Goldman earned an emergency medical technician license, but he decided not to pursue that as a career.

{{Further|Murder trial of O. J. Simpson}}

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On the evening of Sunday, June 12, 1994, Goldman worked a server shift at Mezzaluna Trattoria in Brentwood. Brown called to report that her mother had inadvertently dropped her reading glasses outside by the gutter when they dined there earlier in the evening. Goldman had not been their server, but after a search at the restaurant turned up the glasses, Goldman agreed, at Brown’s request, to drop them off at her home after work. "Ron interjected he’d be happy to return them," said Tia Gavin, who waited on the Brown party.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Mason |title=Santa Rosa woman who testified in O.J. Simpson trial reacts to his parole |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-woman-who-testified-in-o-j-simpson-trial-reacts-to-his-parole/|access-date=2024-08-26 |publisher=pressdemocrat.com |date=2017-07-21}}

The Los Angeles Times reported that Goldman "punched out at 9:33 pm and stayed another 15 minutes to have bottled water at the bar." He made plans to go out with Mezzaluna's bartender Stewart Tanner later that evening. Before returning the glasses, Goldman stopped by his Brentwood apartment at 11663 Gorham Avenue, presumably to shower and change clothes; his autopsy indicated he ate a salad less than 40 minutes before he was killed.{{Cite web|url=http://simpson.walraven.org/autop-rg.html|title=Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts - Ron Goldman's Autopsy Report|website=simpson.walraven.org}} He then drove to Brown’s condominium, using his friend Andrea Scott's car.Lange, Tom. Evidence Dismissed. Regnery Publishing, 1997, p. 93.

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Goldman*{{cite web |last1=Simon |first1=Alexandra |title=Disturbing Details Found In Ron Goldman's Autopsy Report |url=https://www.grunge.com/709929/disturbing-details-found-in-ron-goldmans-autopsy-report/ |website=Grunge.com |access-date=13 April 2023 |date=16 December 2021}}

• {{cite web |title=Ron Goldman's Autopsy Report |url=http://simpson.walraven.org/autop-rg.html |website=Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts |access-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010603081259/http://simpson.walraven.org/autop-rg.html |archive-date=3 June 2001}}
• {{cite news |last1=Kiner |first1=Deb |title=O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death 25 years ago |url=https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2019/06/25-years-ago-the-murder-of-nicole-brown-simpson-and-ron-goldman.html |access-date=13 April 2023 |work=pennlive |date=12 June 2019 |language=en}} and Brown were stabbed to death on the walkway leading to the condominium at 875 South Bundy Drive; their bodies were discovered shortly after midnight. Goldman's knuckles were bruised; Simpson's defense team argued that this indicated he had fought strongly, while prosecutors argued it was probably from a fall.{{Cite web |title=Cop: Goldman had defensive wounds - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/03/07/Cop-Goldman-had-defensive-wounds/4300794552400/|access-date=2024-08-26 |website=UPI |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Coroner Testifies No Punches Landed / Wounds on Ronald Goldman's hands were from fall, he says |date=June 13, 1995 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/coroner-testifies-no-punches-landed-wounds-on-3030438.php |access-date=2024-09-05}} Goldman had several small wounds to his face.{{Cite web |title=Attacker may have checked if Ron alive - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/06/13/Attacker-may-have-checked-if-Ron-alive/7995803016000/|access-date=2024-08-26 |website=UPI |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Clary |first1=Susan |title=Simpson coroner describes Goldman's death |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/06/09/simpson-coroner-describes-goldman-s-death/ |website=tampabay.com |publisher=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=26 August 2024}} During a reconstruction of events, the police theorized that Brown and Goldman were talking on the front patio of Brown's condominium when they were attacked or that Goldman arrived while Brown was being attacked; in any case, the police believe that Brown was the intended target and that Goldman was killed in order to silence him.{{Cite news |date=2024-02-25 |title=GOLDMAN WAS TRAPPED, CORONER SAYS |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/06/10/goldman-was-trapped-coroner-says/029cf8b3-4f65-42d8-b691-bdf075040293/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} Witness Robert Heidstra testified that while walking near Brown's condominium that night, he heard a man yelling, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" who was then shouted at by a second man. He also heard a gate slam.{{Cite web |date=1995-07-12 |title=WITNESS HEARD VOICES, SLAMMING GATE |url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/7/12/19181946/witness-heard-voices-slamming-gate/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Deseret News |language=en}} Goldman's family came to believe that Goldman was the man shouting "Hey!" and that he may have attempted to save Brown by intervening in the attack.{{cite web |date=June 14, 2004 |title=Goldman family still struggles with murder |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5190358 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418040500/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5190358 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |website=NBC News}}{{cite web |date=February 4, 2016 |title=The People v. O.J. Simpson Criticized By Ron Goldman's Sister: "My Brother Was a Hero" |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/736915/the-people-v-o-j-simpson-criticized-by-ron-goldman-s-sister-my-brother-was-a-hero |website=E! Online}}

In the 1996 book Killing Time: The First Full Investigation into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, authors Donald Freed and Raymond P. Briggs wrote that lipstick was found on Goldman's cheek after his death, and suggested that Brown kissed Goldman when he arrived and that they were together on the front porch when they were attacked.{{cite book|last1=Freed|first1=Donald|last2=Briggs|first2=Raymond P.|authorlink1=Donald Freed|title=Killing Time: The First Full Investigation Into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman|date=1996|publisher=MacMillan|isbn=9780028613406|page=[https://archive.org/details/killingtimefirst00free/page/131 131]|url=https://archive.org/details/killingtimefirst00free|url-access=registration}}

Goldman was 20 days shy of his 26th birthday when he died. He is buried at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.{{Cite web |date=2015-08-06 |title=Fred Goldman hugs his wife Patti at gravesite of his son Ron Goldman... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/fred-goldman-hugs-his-wife-patti-at-gravesite-of-his-son-news-photo/569185063 |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us}}

{{Main|Murder trial of O. J. Simpson}}

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After leading police on a low-speed chase in a now infamous white Ford Bronco, Simpson was tried for the killings of both Brown and Goldman. The trial spanned eight months, from January 24 to October 3, 1995. During the trial, there was some speculation as to whether Goldman and Brown were secretly dating, compounded by three facts, that Brown was wearing a slinky, revealing cocktail dress when she was found dead, candles were lit in the master bedroom and bathroom, and the master bathroom’s tub was full of water.{{Cite web |date=1995-02-23 |title=WAS NICOLE PREPARING FOR ROMANCE? |url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/2/23/19160875/was-nicole-preparing-for-romance/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}

Though prosecutors argued that Simpson was implicated by a significant amount of forensic evidence, he was acquitted of both murders on October 3.{{cite news |last=Meier |first=Barry |date=September 7, 1994 |title=Simpson Team Taking Aim at DNA Laboratory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/07/us/simpson-team-taking-aim-at-dna-laboratory.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112050906/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/07/us/simpson-team-taking-aim-at-dna-laboratory.html |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Thomas L. |title=O.J. Simpson |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/simpson/home_15.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209063157/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/simpson/home_15.html |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |access-date=December 6, 2008 |work=truTV}}{{cite news |date=October 3, 1995 |title=1995: OJ Simpson verdict: 'Not guilty' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_2486000/2486673.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117104907/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_2486000/2486673.stm |archive-date=January 17, 2018 |access-date=January 18, 2020 |work=On This Day: 3 October |publisher=BBC}}{{cite news |date=January 25, 1995 |title=The O.J. Simpson Murder Trial : Excerpts of Opening Statements by Simpson Prosecutors |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-25-mn-24229-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412082747/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-25-mn-24229-story.html |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |access-date=January 30, 2012 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} Commentators agree that to convince the jury to acquit Simpson, the defense capitalized on anger among the city's African-American community toward the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which had a history of purported racial bias and had allegedly inflamed racial tensions in the beating of Rodney King and subsequent riots two years prior.{{Cite magazine |date=May 5, 2014 |title=How O.J. Simpson's Dream Team Played the "Race Card" and Won |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1995/11/dunne199511 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006170307/https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1995/11/dunne199511 |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |access-date=August 23, 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a House Divided {{!}} Office of Justice Programs |url=https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/race-and-justice-rodney-king-and-oj-simpson-house-divided |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823050734/https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/race-and-justice-rodney-king-and-oj-simpson-house-divided |archive-date=August 23, 2022 |access-date=August 23, 2022 |website=www.ojp.gov}}{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2016 |title=OJ Simpson Juror: Not-Guilty Verdict Was 'Payback' for Rodney King |url=https://www.thewrap.com/oj-simpson-juror-not-guilty-verdict-was-payback-for-rodney-king/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607172233/https://www.thewrap.com/oj-simpson-juror-not-guilty-verdict-was-payback-for-rodney-king/ |archive-date=June 7, 2020 |access-date=August 23, 2022 |language=en-US}} The trial is often characterized as the trial of the century because of its international publicity and has been described as the "most publicized" criminal trial in history.{{cite news |date=February 12, 1997 |title=Confusion for Simpson kids 'far from over' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns224.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207045410/http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns224.htm |archive-date=December 7, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |newspaper=USA Today}} Simpson was formally charged with the murders on June 17; when he did not turn himself in at the agreed time, he became the subject of a police pursuit.{{cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |date=June 18, 1994 |title=The Simpson Case: The Fugitive; Simpson Is Charged, Chased, Arrested |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/18/us/the-simpson-case-the-fugitive-simpson-is-charged-chased-arrested.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107093504/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/18/us/the-simpson-case-the-fugitive-simpson-is-charged-chased-arrested.html |archive-date=January 7, 2014 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times}} TV stations interrupted coverage of the 1994 NBA Finals to broadcast live coverage of the pursuit, which was watched by around 95 million people.{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Geis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdbQMywnrdwC&pg=PA174 |title=Crimes of the century: from Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson |last2=Bienen |first2=Leigh B. |publisher=Northeastern University Press |year=1988 |isbn=978-1555533601 |page=174}} The pursuit and Simpson's arrest were among the most widely publicized events in history.

Simpson was represented by a high-profile defense team, referred to as the "Dream Team", initially led by Robert Shapiro{{cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |date=June 16, 1994 |title=Lawyer for O.J. Simpson Quits Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/16/us/lawyer-for-o-j-simpson-quits-case.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921011607/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/16/us/lawyer-for-o-j-simpson-quits-case.html |archive-date=September 21, 2017 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite news |last=Newton |first=Jim |date=September 9, 1994 |title=Power Struggle in the Simpson Camp, Sources Say – Shapiro, Cochran Increasingly Compete For Limelight In Case |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19940909/1929720/power-struggle-in-the-simpson-camp-sources-say----shapiro-cochran-increasingly-compete-for-limelight-in-case |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821145702/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940909&slug=1929720 |archive-date=August 21, 2011 |access-date=November 21, 2009 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} and subsequently directed by Johnnie Cochran. The team included F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Shawn Holley, Carl E. Douglas, and Gerald Uelmen. Simpson was also instrumental in his own defense. While Deputy District Attorneys Marcia Clark, William Hodgman, and Christopher Darden believed they had a strong case, the defense team persuaded the jury there was reasonable doubt concerning the DNA evidence. They contended the blood sample had been mishandled by lab scientists{{cite news |date=October 18, 1996 |title=List of the evidence in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns25.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202115019/http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns25.htm |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |newspaper=USA Today}} and that the case had been tainted by LAPD misconduct related to racism and incompetence. The use of DNA evidence in trials was relatively new, and many laypersons did not understand how to evaluate it.

The trial was considered significant for the wide division in reaction to the verdict.{{cite web |date=October 4, 2005 |title=the o.j. verdict: Toobin |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/interviews/toobin.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806013452/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/interviews/toobin.html |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=March 29, 2020 |website=www.pbs.org}} Observers' opinions of the verdict were largely related to their ethnicity; the media dubbed this the "racial gap".{{cite web |date=October 4, 2005 |title=the O.J. verdict: Dershowitz |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/interviews/dershowitz.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327235116/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/interviews/dershowitz.html |archive-date=March 27, 2020 |access-date=March 29, 2020 |website=www.pbs.org}} A poll of Los Angeles County residents showed most African Americans thought the "not guilty" verdict was justified while most whites thought it was a racially motivated jury nullification{{cite web |last=Chakravarti |first=Sonali |date=August 5, 2014 |title=The OJ Simpson Verdict, Jury Nullification and Black Lives Matter: The Power to Acquit |url=https://publicseminar.org/2016/08/the-oj-simpson-verdict-jury-nullification-and-black-lives-matter-the-power-to-acquit/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329174507/https://publicseminar.org/2016/08/the-oj-simpson-verdict-jury-nullification-and-black-lives-matter-the-power-to-acquit/ |archive-date=March 29, 2020 |access-date=March 29, 2020 |website=Public Seminar}}{{cite web |last=Monroe |first=Sylvester |date=June 16, 2014 |title=Black America was cheering for Cochran, not O.J. |url=https://andscape.com/features/black-america-was-cheering-for-cochran-not-o-j/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401233320/https://theundefeated.com/features/black-america-was-cheering-for-cochran-not-o-j/ |archive-date=April 1, 2020 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |website=Andscape}} by the mostly African-American jury.{{cite web |last1=Decker |first1=Cathleen |date=October 8, 1995 |title=The Times Poll : Most in County Disagree With Simpson Verdicts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-08-mn-54801-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116120627/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-08/news/mn-54801_1_times-poll |archive-date=January 16, 2015 |access-date=January 16, 2014 |website=Los Angeles Times}} Polling in later years showed the gap had narrowed since the trial; more than half of polled Black respondents expressed the belief that Simpson was guilty.{{cite web |date=June 9, 2014 |title=Most Black People Now Think O.J. Was Guilty |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/most-black-people-now-think-oj-simpson-was-guilty/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329174504/https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/most-black-people-now-think-oj-simpson-was-guilty/ |archive-date=March 29, 2020 |access-date=March 29, 2020 |website=FiveThirtyEight}} In 2017, three jurors who acquitted Simpson said they would still vote to acquit, while one said he would convict.{{cite magazine |title=O.J. Simpson jurors reflect on the history-making trial in Oxygen's The Jury Speaks |url=https://ew.com/tv/2017/07/22/jury-speaks-oj-simpson-trial/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009181712/https://ew.com/tv/2017/07/22/jury-speaks-oj-simpson-trial/ |archive-date=October 9, 2021 |access-date=March 14, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

Comparisons were made years later between the Trayvon Martin case and the O.J. Simpson case, and how race impacted both. During an interview with Piers Morgan, when asked if there was a similarity in the racial aspects of the cases, Kim Goldman said all of the evidence pointed towards guilt in Simpson’s case, while she believed George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict was correct because it was a self defense case and that the killing of Trayvon Martin was not racially charged.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaj3iA6cvdI|title=Kim Goldman defends George Zimmerman’s acquittal for killing Trayvon Martin, denies he was racist| website=Youtube | date= 2013}} Fred Goldman also denied racism played a factor in the killing of Trayvon or the outcome of the Simpson trial in an interview.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICeXNO7IJFs|title=Fred Goldman: Zimmerman trial very disturbing| website=Youtube | date= 2013}}

In 1996, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo, the parents of Ron Goldman, and Lou Brown, father of Nicole Brown filed a civil suit against Simpson for wrongful death.{{cite web |title=Fight over money may follow court battle |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns183.htm |website=Usatoday30.usatoday.com}} Presiding Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki did not allow the trial to be televised, did not sequester the jury, and prohibited the defense from alleging racism by the LAPD and from condemning the crime lab.{{cite web |title=Judge Fujisaki was able to keep trial in control |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns200.htm |access-date=March 5, 2022 |website=Usatoday30.usatoday.com}} The physical evidence did not change but additional evidence of domestic violence was presented as well as 31 pre-1994 photos of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes,{{cite web |title=Judge allows new shoe photo in Simpson trial – CNN |url=http://articles.cnn.com/1997-01-06/us/9701_06_simpson_1_robert-groden-bruno-magli-shoes-photos?_s=PM:US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011044633/http://articles.cnn.com/1997-01-06/us/9701_06_simpson_1_robert-groden-bruno-magli-shoes-photos?_s=PM:US |archive-date=October 11, 2012}} including one that was published 6 months before the murders, proving it could not be a forgery.{{cite web |title=Confusion for Simpson kids 'far from over' |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns224.htm |website=Usatoday30.usatoday.com}} Results from a polygraph test that Simpson denied taking showed "extreme deception" when he denied committing the murders.

One significant difference between the two trials was the admission of Nicole Brown's diary entries in the civil case.{{cite magazine |last1=Lafferty |first1=Elaine |date=February 17, 1997 |title=The Inside Story of How O.J. Lost |magazine=Time |pages=32–33}} The civil judge found the diary entries were admissible because they were pertinent to Nicole's state of mind, which in turn was relevant to Simpson's motive{{cite web |title=Nicole's diary shows state of mind, judge rules |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/23/nicole.diary/ |access-date=20 March 2024 |website=www.cnn.com |publisher=CNN}}—reversing a crucial ruling from the criminal case that excluded the diary as "inadmissible hearsay".{{cite web |title=Tabloid runs excerpts of Nicole's diary |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/OJ/daily/9510/10-17/index.html |access-date=20 March 2024 |website=www.cnn.com |publisher=CNN}} The civil court's ruling was upheld on appeal.{{cite web |title=Rufo v. Simpson |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1211279.html |access-date=20 March 2024 |website=caselaw.findlaw.com |publisher=FindLaw}} The jury found Simpson liable for the murders and awarded the victims' families $33.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.{{cite web |title=Race factor tilts the scales of public opinion |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/index/nns212.htm |website=Usatoday30.usatoday.com}} Simpson filed for bankruptcy afterwards and relocated to Florida to protect his pension from seizure. His remaining assets were seized and auctioned off with most being purchased by critics of the verdict of the criminal trial to help the plaintiffs recoup the costs of litigation. Simpson's Heisman Trophy was sold for $255,500 to an undisclosed buyer. All the proceeds went to the Goldman family, who said they have received only one percent of the money that Simpson owes from the wrongful death suit.{{cite web |title=Court: Simpson Still Liable For $33.5M Judgment – News Story – WMAQ {{!}} Chicago |url=http://www.nbc5.com/news/15364921/detail.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009230444/http://www.nbc5.com/news/15364921/detail.html |archive-date=October 9, 2008}}{{cite news |title=O.J. Feels the Heat – Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985629-5,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409121035/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985629-5,00.html |archive-date=April 9, 2008}}

During the civil trial, Kim Goldman said that she and Michael Nigg were set-up on a blind date. After a good first date, the two went on 5 or more dates. At the time they were going out together Michael Nigg worked at a restaurant in Santa Barbara and at some point after 1992 Michael moved to Los Angeles. Kim Goldman testified that she never introduced her brother to Michael Nigg and she did not see Michael after he moved to Los Angeles. She stated she was unaware how her brother, Ron, and Michael met; she testified that the two met by happenstance. The two men apparently became good friends because, according to Ms. Goldman, Michael Nigg got her brother the job at Mezzaluna. While Kim Goldman does not have knowledge of Michael having worked at Mezzaluna, according to the Los Angeles Times Michael Nigg had been employed at Mezzaluna in Brentwood at some point. At the time of his death Michael Nigg was working at a restaurant called Sanctuary that was located in Beverly Hills. Some news reports claim that Michael Nigg “befriended Ronald Goldman when both worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant” however Ms. Goldman’s testimony establishes that the two men were friends prior to Ron being hired at Mezzaluna. It is unknown if Michael Nigg and Ron Goldman’s tenures at Mezzaluna overlapped.{{Cite web|url=http://simpson.walraven.org/kg_depo1.html|title=Jack Walraven's Simpson Trial Transcripts - Kim Goldman Deposition of February 5, 1996|website=simpson.walraven.org}} In an interview with 20/20, Kim Goldman said that one day some time after Simpson's acquittal, she was driving in her car when she saw him in a parking lot in Los Angeles. She considered running him over to get vengeance, but decided otherwise.{{cite web |title=20/20 02/18/17: The O.J. Simpson Tapes |date=March 13, 2017 |via=www.youtube.com |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGF1gVi0bUc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/oGF1gVi0bUc |archive-date=2021-12-12}}{{cbignore}}

Simpson was subsequently jailed for an unrelated armed robbery at a Las Vegas hotel in 2008.{{cite news |date=February 4, 1997 |title=Jury unanimous: Simpson is liable |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/04/simpson.verdict1/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990128154709/http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/04/simpson.verdict1/index.html |archive-date=January 28, 1999 |access-date=June 16, 2008 |publisher=CNN}}{{cite web |date=February 21, 2008 |title=Court: Simpson Still Liable For $33.5M Judgment |url=http://www.nbc5.com/news/15364921/detail.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009230444/http://www.nbc5.com/news/15364921/detail.html |archive-date=October 9, 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2008 |publisher=NBC5.com}} Both Fred and Kim Goldman were present at the robbery trial, and after Simpson's conviction, Fred Goldman expressed his satisfaction and referred to it as a "bittersweet" moment.{{cite web |date=December 5, 2008 |title=O.J. Simpson sentenced to long prison term |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28067187 |website=NBC News}}

In July 2017 after Simpson was granted parole, Fred Goldman inquired about the real estate purchases made by Sydney and Justin Simpson, Brown’s children with Simpson.

David Cook, a lawyer for Fred Goldman, said he would seek bank records and depositions to follow the kids’ money trail and see if any of the homes were bought with their dad’s cash, which could make them eligible for a clawback. “The kids’ loss is no greater than Fred’s, but Fred’s loss should be no greater than theirs,” Cook said.{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/oj-simpsons-kids-raise-eyebrows-real-estate-ventures-210824156.html| title=O.J. Simpson’s Kids Raise Eyebrows With Real Estate Ventures| website=Yahoo | date=31 July 2017 }} In June 2022 Fred alleged in court papers (intended to keep the wrongful death and battery judgment viable) that Simpson owed $96 million due to significant interest generated on the initial order to pay damages.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2022 |title=O.J. Simpson currently owes Ron Goldman's estate $96 million |url=https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/06/26/o-j-simpson-currently-owes-ron-goldmans-estate-96-million/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627072755/https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/06/26/o-j-simpson-currently-owes-ron-goldmans-estate-96-million/ |archive-date=June 27, 2022 |access-date=June 27, 2022 |website=ProFootballTalk}} Following Simpson's death in 2024,{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Emily |date=April 11, 2024 |title=O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240411144714/https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000 |archive-date=April 11, 2024 |access-date=April 11, 2024 |work=ABC News |language=en}} Simpson estate lawyer Malcolm LeVergne pledged to prevent the Brown and Goldman families from obtaining the money which was promised in the civil trial judgement, but later reversed course.{{cite news |last=Dolak |first=Kevin |date=April 15, 2024 |title=O.J. Simpson's Lawyer Reverses Opinion on Payments to Goldman Family (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oj-simpsons-lawyer-reverses-statement-civil-judgement-goldman-family-1235874717/ |accessdate=April 16, 2024 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter}}

While several members of Simpson's family still advocated for Simpson's innocence,{{Cite news |title=O J's last defender – F. Lee Bailey |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/20/o-j-s-last-defender-f-lee-bailey-is-broke-disbarred-and-working-above-a-hair-salon/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{cite web |date=January 12, 2017 |title=O.J. Simpson's Sister Believes He is Innocent: 'I Know He Did Not Kill Nicole and Ron' |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/o-j-simpsons-sister-believes-211300461.html}} such theories have been rejected by prosecutors, witnesses and the families of Brown and Goldman, who have expressed the belief that Simpson committed the murders and was the sole perpetrator,{{cite web |date=April 5, 2016 |title=O.J. Prosecutor Marcia Clark Says Upcoming TV Series 'O.J. Is Innocent' is 'Hideous' |url=https://www.insideedition.com/15685-oj-prosecutor-marcia-clark-says-upcoming-tv-series-oj-is-innocent-is-hideous |website=Insideedition.com}}{{cite web |date=January 17, 2017 |title='Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence': Series Concludes with Debunk of Simpson Son Theory |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/is-oj-innocent-missing-evidence-series-concludes-debunk-simpson-son-theory-964874/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite web |date=11 April 2024 |title=Kato Kaelin reflects on O.J.'s death: 'I believe he did it,' wonders 'if he made peace with God' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/kato-kaelin-reflects-oj-simpson-death-believe-did-it-made-peace-god |website=Foxnews}} with Hunt opining that these claims were attempts to tap into the public interest in the case and were never meant to be taken seriously.O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions News Rituals in the Construction of Reality; pp. 40–43

The 2000 BBC TV documentary O.J.: The True Untold Story,{{cite news |last=Brinkworth |first=Malcolm |date=October 4, 2000 |title=New clues in OJ Simpson murder mystery |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/954700.stm |work=BBC News}} primarily rehashes the contamination and blood planting claims from the trial and asserted that Simpson's elder son Jason is a possible suspect, due to - among other reasons - Simpson hiring defense attorneys for his children first before himself, pictures of Jason's descriptive wool cap, and an alleged prior arrangement to meet with Nicole that evening.{{cite web |title=Simpson |url=http://www.afrocentricnews.com/html/simpson.html |website=Afrocentricnews.com}}{{cite news |title=BBC News {{pipe}} Americas{{pipe}} New clues in OJ Simpson murder mystery |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/954700.stm |website=News.bbc.co.uk}}{{cite web |title=New Evidence OJ Was Framed - Police 'Almost Certainly' Planted Blood in House and Car |url=https://rense.com/general4/oj.htm}} William Dear published his findings in the book O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It.{{cite web |title=O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It {{pipe}} William C. Dear |url=https://billdear.com/oj-is-innocent-and-i-can-prove-it/ |website=Billdear.com}}

A 2012 documentary entitled My Brother the Serial Killer examined the crimes of convicted murderer Glen Edward Rogers and included claims that Rogers had killed Brown and Goldman in California in 1994.{{Cite web |author=Alan Duke |date=November 21, 2012 |title=Documentary: Serial killer, not O.J., killed Simpson and Goldman |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/justice/o-j-simpson-film-claim/index.html |website=CNN}}{{cite news |date=November 21, 2012 |title=Documentary: Serial killer, not O.J., killed Simpson and Goldman |url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/justice/o-j-simpson-film-claim/index.html |access-date=November 29, 2012 |publisher=CNN}}{{cite web |title=O.J. Simpson film: Serial killer murdered Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman 9 |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/21/oj-simpson-film-serial-killer-murdered-nicole-brown-and-ronald-goldman |access-date=November 29, 2012 |publisher=Toronto Sun}}{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Dan |date=November 20, 2012 |title=Serial Killer Murdered Nicole Brown Simpson, New Documentary Claims |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/serial-killer-oj-simpson-murdered-nicole-brown-simpson/story?id=17765728 |access-date=January 1, 2014 |work=ABC News}} According to Rogers' brother Clay, Rogers claimed that, before the murders, he had met Brown and was "going to take her down." During a lengthy correspondence that began in 2009 between Rogers and criminal profiler Anthony Meoli, Rogers wrote and created paintings about his involvement with the murders. During a prison meeting between the two, Rogers claimed Simpson hired him to break into Brown' house and steal some expensive jewellery. He said that Simpson had told him, "You may have to kill the bitch". In a filmed interview, Rogers' brother Clay asserts that his brother confessed his involvement. Rogers' family stated that he had informed them that he had been working for Brown in 1994 and that he had made verbal threats about her to them. Rogers later spoke to a criminal profiler about the murders, providing details about the crime and remarking that he had been hired by Simpson to steal a pair of earrings and potentially murder Brown.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} LAPD responded to the documentary as follows: “We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved.” Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman stated: “The overwhelming evidence at the criminal trial proved that one, and only one, person murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. That person is O.J. Simpson and not Glen Rogers.”{{cite news |last1=Colburn |first1=Randall |date=17 October 2019 |title=O.J. didn't do it, apparently, in The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson |url=https://www.avclub.com/o-j-didnt-do-it-apparently-in-the-murder-of-nicole-b-1839132451 |access-date=28 April 2024}}

When filmmaker Ezra Edelman, director of the documentary O.J.: Made in America, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, he dedicated the award to both Goldman and Brown in his acceptance speech. Fred Goldman was among those whom Edelman interviewed in the documentary.

When Simpson died in 2024, Fred Goldman initially called Simpson’s death "no great loss to the world" but also said that it was "just a further reminder of how long my son has been gone...how many years, and how much he’s been missed. And the only thing that is important today are (Ron and Nicole). Nothing else is important."{{Cite web |date=2024-04-12 |title=Father of murdered Ron Goldman speaks on OJ Simpson's death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nicole-brown-ron-goldman-oj-simpson-b2527616.html |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=The Independent |language=en}} Kim and Fred later issued a statement that read, "The hope for true accountability has ended... Thank you for keeping our family, and most importantly Ron, in your hearts".{{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Kim |title=Goldman's Family statement about O.J. Simpson's death |url=https://twitter.com/KimEGoldman/status/1778569978784219372 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |access-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412043559/https://twitter.com/KimEGoldman/status/1778569978784219372 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-12 |title=Ron Goldman's father and Alan Dershowitz react to O.J. Simpson's death |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oj-simpson-trial-murder-comments-death-rcna147409 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412133507/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oj-simpson-trial-murder-comments-death-rcna147409 |url-status=live }} Fred Goldman said that he will still pursue "justice" for his son after Simpson's attorney said that the Goldman family will get "nothing" from the estate. A few days later, Simpson's attorney backtracked and confirmed that Simpson's estate will settle the legal verdict with the Brown and Goldman families, and said that his statements were made out of a moment of frustration over what he felt were "insensitive" remarks about Simpson's death.{{cite web | url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/fred-goldman-will-keep-pursuing-justice-over-o-j-simpsons-will/ | title=Fred Goldman Will Keep 'Pursuing Justice' over O.J. Simpson's Will | date=April 16, 2024 }}

The Goldman family contributed a portion of proceeds from the If I Did It book sales to the newly founded Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice.[https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/2007-08-14-2176918527_x.htm "Denise Brown wants O.J. book boycott"]. USA Today. August 14, 2007 It provides grants for multiple organizations and programs that provide resources to victims and survivors of violent crimes.Deutsch, Linda (June 17, 2014). [https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/06/17/key-figures-in-the-oj-simpson-saga-have-moved-on "Figures in the O.J. Simpson Saga Have Moved On"]. U.S. News & World Report. One of the largest donors to the foundation is Las Vegas executive Mark Goldman, Fred Goldman's first cousin.

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giant pools of blood. I had never seen so much blood in my life. It

didn't seem real, and none of it computed."

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Simpson wrote a book, If I Did It, a first-person account of how he would have committed the murders if he had committed them. In Simpson's hypothetical scenario, he has an unwilling accomplice named "Charlie" who urges him to not engage with Brown, whom Simpson plans to "scare the shit out of".{{Cite book |last=Truth_Merciless |url=http://archive.org/details/OJSimpsonIfIDidIt |title=OJ Simpson - If I Did It}} Simpson ignores Charlie's advice and continues to Brown's condo, where he finds and confronts Ron Goldman. According to the book, Brown falls and hits her head on the concrete, and Goldman crouches in a karate pose. As the confrontation escalates, Simpson writes, "Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you how."{{Cite web |last=Linder |first=Douglas O. |date=April 11, 2024 |title=Famous Trials: "IF I Did It": The Quasi-Confession of O. J. Simpson |url=https://famous-trials.com/simpson/1858-ifididit |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112090636/https://famous-trials.com/simpson/1858-ifididit |archive-date=January 12, 2024 |access-date=April 11, 2024 |website=Famous Trials by Professor Douglas O. Linder |publisher=UMKC School of Law}} He writes that he regained consciousness later with no memory of the actual act of murder.

Simpson's eldest daughter, Arnelle Simpson, testified in a deposition that she and Van Exel, president of Raffles Entertainment and Music Production, came up with the idea for the book and pitched it to her father in an attempt to make money.{{cite web |title=ABC News Exclusive: 'If I Did It': O.J's Daughter's Idea |url=https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3282110&page=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317015242/https://abcnews.go.com/amp/TheLaw/story?id=3282110&page=1 |archive-date=2021-03-17 |access-date=2021-01-03 |website=abcnews.com |language=en}} She testified that her father thought about it and eventually agreed to the book deal. Simpson stated, "I have nothing to confess. This was an opportunity for my kids to get their financial legacy. My kids understand. I made it clear that it's blood money, but it's no different than any of the other writers who did books on this case."

According to court documents, in August 2007, as part of the multi-million dollar civil jury award against Simpson to ensure he would not be able to profit from the book, the Goldman family were granted the proceeds from the book. The Goldman family still own the copyright, media rights, and movie rights{{cite web |author=Timothy Noah |date=November 22, 2006 |title=Defending If I Did It |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/11/defending-if-i-did-it.html |access-date=January 30, 2013 |newspaper=Slate}} and have acquired Simpson's name, likeness, life story, and right of publicity in connection with the book. After renaming the book If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, the Goldman family published it in September 2007 through Beaufort Books.{{cite book |author=The Goldman Family |url=https://archive.org/details/ifididitconfessi00simp_0 |title=If I Did It Confessions of the Killer |date=September 13, 2007 |publisher=Beaufort Books |others=Dominick Dunne (Afterword), Pablo F. Fenjves (Foreword) |isbn=978-0825305887 |edition=1st}} Denise Brown, Nicole Brown's sister, criticized the Goldmans for publishing the book and accused them of profiting from Brown and Goldman's deaths.{{cite news |title=Victims' families feud over O.J.'s 'If I Did It' book |url=https://www.today.com/news/victims-families-feud-over-o-j-s-if-i-did-1C9011454 |newspaper=Today.com}}

Goldman is portrayed by:

• Paul Witten (1995) The O.J. Simpson Story (TV movie){{cite news|title=Actually, It Was Required By The Rules Of Disclosure|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/feb/08/actually-it-was-required-by-the-rules-of/|work=The Spokesman-Review|date=February 8, 1995|access-date=October 24, 2024}}
• Russ Russo (2004) Reenactment of the Century (short film)
• Jake Koeppl (2016) The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story{{cite news|last=Constable|first=Burt|title=Constable: O.J. miniseries tough for Ron Goldman's family|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/20160202/lifestyle/constable-o-j-miniseries-tough-for-ron-goldmans-family/|work=Daily Herald|date=February 2, 2016|access-date=October 24, 2024}}
• Drew Roy (2019) The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson{{cite news|last=Young|first=Kevin|title=The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson movie is as gross as you'd think|url=https://charlestoncitypaper.com/2020/01/22/the-murder-of-nicole-brown-simpson-movie-is-as-gross-as-youd-think/|work=Charleston City Paper|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=October 24, 2024}}
• Oliver Walker (2025) The Juice

• Killing of Michael Nigg, unsolved killing (in 1995) of Goldman's friend and fellow Mezzaluna waiter
• Brett Cantor
• List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)

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• {{cite news |author1=Buettner, Russ |author2=Wyatt, Edward |date=February 3, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/books/03OJ.html |title=Simpson Transcript Describes Murder |newspaper=The New York Times}}
• {{cite web |author1=Glasiter, Dan |date=January 15, 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jan/15/books.usa |title=OJ: I was drenched in blood, holding a knife |work=The Guardian}}

• {{Find a Grave|1412}}
• [https://soundcloud.com/real-crime-profile/episode-11-the-people-vs-o-j Real Crime Profile] podcast by Jim Clemente, Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti. Episode 11 is dedicated to Ron Goldman: who he was and his victim profile.

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