Last week, in yet another sensational beat in a sensational case, the state laid out its most finely tuned picture yet of O.J. - and it wasn't pretty.
Over a period of 17 years, the state argued, an obsessed and jealous Simpson had inflicted a litany of physical and psychological abuse on Nicole Brown Simpson.
It culminated last June 12, the state contends, in a classic batterer fashion - the slashing death of Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Lydia Bodin, offered the state's clearest statement yet of what it believed happened: "When he finally couldn't control her, when she was finally breaking away from him, when she had finally estranged herself from him and tried to distance herself from him, it is the people's contention that he killed her."
It's the stuff of cheap mystery novels...
Newsweek Magazine
January 23 1995