Here we had O.J. Simpson. 3

Accused of a capital crime and it was tragic. 4

It began last Monday 5

with an image no one ever expected to see. 6

O.J. Simpson in handcuffs. 7

His ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson 8

and her friend Ronald Goldman, 9

the victims of a brutal double murder. 10

(sirens wailing) 11

It would end with an unbelievable drama 12

played out on live TV. 13

O.J. Simpson, murder suspect and fugitive, 14

being pursued by police as the nation held its breath, 15

and Simpson's friends pleaded with the former football hero. 16

Give yourself up, man, just stop. 17

Please, stop. 18

In the time between those two events, 19

a media circus rivaling anything in print 20

and broadcast history. 21

Throughout it all, one question on everyone's mind. 22

A question no one imagined would ever be asked 23

about one of the nation's most beloved personalities. 24

Did he do it? 25

Everyone is speculating. 26

Last Thursday, 27

both victims were laid to rest separately. 28

25-year-old Ronald Goldman, 29

a man everyone said was full of dreams, 30

dreams that will never be realized. 31

And 35-year-old Nicole Simpson, O.J.'s ex-wife. 32

At her funeral, a grim looking O.J. Simpson, 33

the couple's young children by his side. 34

After the funerals, the media began to report 35

that the arrest of O.J. Simpson for murder was imminent. 36

It looked like this bizarre week-long drama 37

was about to come to an end. 38

But even here in Los Angeles, 39

a town full of screenwriters and storytellers, 40

no one could have predicted what was going to happen next. 41

O.J. Simpson, the former star running back, 42

was about to make his last desperate run. 43

He is a wanted murder suspect and we will go find him. 44

On Friday, O.J. Simpson 45

was to have surrendered to authorities. 46

He didn't. 47

Simpson was declared a fugitive. 48

As authorities mounted their manhunt, 49

the rumor mill churned. 50

At Nicole Simpson's condo, 51

the scene of the murders, 52

a huge crowd gathered amid speculation 53

that O.J. had killed himself there. 54

O.J. Simpson is not at this location. 55

There's nothing going on here. 56

The near hysteria over Simpson's whereabouts 57

continued to mount. 58

Don't feel sorry for me. 59

I've had a great life, great friends. 60

Please think of the real O.J. 61

and not this lost person. 62

At a televised press conference, 63

one of O.J.'s friends read a letter written by Simpson. 64

It appeared to us that it was a suicide note, 65

and at that point, we decided to get in the helicopter 66

and take a look at canyons, and see if we can find O.J. 67

Veteran pilot and reporter, Bob Tur, 68

has covered virtually every major 69

L.A. news story from the air. 70

His aircraft was one of a squadron of news choppers 71

that would document O.J.'s run. 72

Highway patrol. 73

Yeah, I think I just saw O.J. Simpson 74

on the 5 freeway and he's heading north 75

and I got the license plate of the white Bronco, 3DHY503, 76

and we like looked at him, you know, 77

Aha. 78

and he liked stared us down like he was possessed. 79

That 911 call helped police zero in 80

on the vehicle Simpson was riding in. 81

And within a matter of minutes we were overhead, 82

we found him, 83

the police found him, 84

and at first there was one patrol unit 85

and within a minute there were literally 86

20 patrol units behind him. 87

Simpson was in the back of the vehicle. 88

Driving was his long time pal, Al Cowlings, 89

who also called 911. 90

This is A.C. I have O.J. in the car. 91

Okay. Where are you? 92

Please. I'm coming up the 5 freeway. 93

Okay. 94

Right now we're okay, but you gotta tell the police 95

just to back off. 96

He's still alive, but he's got a gun to his head. 97

He just want to see his mother. 98

Let me get him to the house. 99

During the low-speed pursuit, 100

the motorcade would travel some 60 miles. 101

Going through two counties on three freeways. 102

It was an incredible sight. 103

Thousands of people lined up along the side of the road, 104

waving and trying to give O.J. Simpson support. 105

And what we were watching on live television was almost 106

like a funeral for a fallen friend. 107

This was one time when were able to help. 108

Because there had been enough blood shed, 109

enough hurt and enough pain 110

and we didn't want to see anymore. 111

Local Sportscaster, Jim Hill, 112

is a former pro football player 113

and longtime friend of O.J. Simpson's. 114

He was among the first to appeal to Simpson 115

over the radio. 116

Hoping the men in the White Bronco were listening. 117

O.J. if you can hear me, 118

Al if you can hear me, 119

whoever is in that truck, if you can hear us, 120

please, gentleman, please just pull over and stop. 121

It was just one of those things 122

that comes from the heart 123

and when it comes from the heart, 124

you hope you're able to reach out and to touch someone 125

and to help someone. 126

And we had some people speaking from the heart 127

on that Friday. 128

Just stop. 129

Please stop it. 130

In Jesus name, just stop man. 131

O.J. it's probably the fourth quarter 132

and this is the last play of the game 133

and no time on the clock. 134

(crowd yelling) 135

In one the most disturbing twists, 136

some spectators acted like they were at a sporting event, 137

a sharp contrast to the reality of a potentially 138

suicidal suspect in a brutal double murder. 139

I don't know what they were doing 140

or what they were even thinking. 141

(sirens wailing) 142

After some two hours on the road, 143

the caravan finally pulled up to the Simpson estate. 144

With dozens of police officers waiting 145

the tension continued to mount. 146

The SWAT team members were in a position 147

to make a move. 148

If it was necessary. 149

And, fortunately, it wasn't. 150

Al Cowlings went back and forth from the car 151

to the house on behalf of his friend, O.J. Simpson. 152

It was just an individual that was just lost. 153

He was just absolutely lost. 154

And he had his best friend in the world with him. 155

Who I think was trying to prevent him 156

from taking his life. 157

Finally, O.J. Simpson got out of the vehicle 158

and went into the house. 159

He had a couple of picture frames with him 160

and he walked inside the house 161

and that was the last we saw of him. 162

Inside, Simpson used the restroom, 163

had a glass of orange juice, 164

and did the one thing he needed to do the most. 165

He called his mother. 166

When you're at that end of the line. 167

When you're at the end of the rope. 168

You're trying to tie a knot in that end of the rope 169

and hang on. 170

You start calling for momma. 171

And so ended the manhunt. 172

O.J. Simpson was taken into custody. 173

And here in the city of the angels, 174

one of the most celebrated angels had fallen. 175

What route the assailant may have used that night 176

is still a mystery. 177

And the weapon used in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson 178

and Ron Goldman is still missing. 179

Was it, as the prosecution suggests, 180

contained in a bag that was disposed of 181

at the Los Angeles airport? 182

Or did it disappear in Chicago? 183

Well Inside Edition spoke to a retired 184

Los Angeles police officer whose beat was here 185

in the Simpson neighborhood 186

and he offers a unique theory. 187

I think there's clearly a possibility 188

of another route. 189

Jim King patrolled the west Los Angeles area 190

for 22 years. 191

He says he has personal knowledge of O.J.'s troubled past. 192

I dealt with O.J. the first time he was 193

in a spousal battery situation with Marguerite. 194

So very early on some 20 years ago I began to deal 195

with O.J. in that regard. 196

Marguerite has since denied 197

that O.J. ever hit her. 198

While he has no direct access to evidence 199

in the Simpson trial, 200

one thing he takes issue with is the route investigators 201

saying O.J. may have taken from Nicole's apartment 202

on Bundy Dr. back to his Rockingham estate. 203

If O.J. did commit the crimes, he would want to get back 204

to Rockingham as quietly and as surreptitiously as possible. 205

Kenter is a very easy road to do that. 206

Homewood is even better. 207

The LAPD refuses to comment on 208

what specific routes they searched, 209

but they did say they checked out all possibilities. 210

King believes he knows of areas where the police 211

didn't look and speculates that it would have been possible 212

for Simpson to have disposed of any incriminating evidence 213

before he reached his Rockingham estate 214

just a few miles from Nicole's. 215

Walking King's back route, 216

we found a sweatshirt deep in the vegetation growing 217

along one of the alternate routes to O.J.'s estate. 218

This is an area where you could drive along 219

and toss is out of the car, 220

out of the passenger side as your drive up Elkins Rd. 221

In the same area here. 222

It's coincidental that this is here, 223

but that's very typical of what we're talking about 224

that we're looking for. 225

King pointed out vegetation along the route 226

to O.J.'s that he believes hasn't been searched. 227

You can see how deep this ice plant is. 228

It's considerably deep and if you can move over 229

to this area, you know, you have a major root system 230

that you'd be hard pressed to find anything. 231

Because of the ability of it to penetrate and get down below 232

to the roots without a metal detector. 233

King says in addition to areas along this route 234

there are a number of trails and paths 235

which could've been overlooked. 236

He showed us a trail just down from O.J.'s home 237

on Rockingham that is hidden between the manicured lawns 238

and remote controlled security fences that only a street cop 239

who worked this area for two decades would know about. 240

And one of the trails just a mere two blocks north 241

on Rockingham from O.J.'s is here at this private residence. 242

You drive in and you never would see it. 243

And as you're looking forward this driveway turns 244

into a trail that accesses 245

the area alongside 246

this residence 247

down to Mandeville canyon. 248

How would O.J. know about this area here? 249

Well O.J. walked in the neighborhood. 250

He had his dogs and from time to time. 251

He would walk his dogs. 252

And a dog would find that trail in a second. 253

King pointed out that there could have been 254

a pre-dug hole where evidence could have been secluded. 255

Remember, there was a shovel found in the back 256

of O.J.'s Bronco. 257

Or the items could have been tossed into the dense brush. 258

I'm sure no one has looked back here. 259