“O.J. was with the guy who (committed the murders) at the beginning, but after O.J. got cut, he ran out and left,” said Pardo. “So, O.J. wasn’t really there for all the murders; he was only there and just got cut. The other guy did most of it.”
That man, according to Pardo, was serial killer Glen Rogers.
Rogers, also known as “The Cross Country Killer” or “The Casanova Killer,” was convicted of first-degree murder at two separate trials in the deaths of two women (the first in Florida in 1997 and the second in California in June 1999). He remains a suspect in numerous other murders throughout the United States.
“He (Rogers) was there, and our investigators found all the evidence, including where he worked and where he lived,” Pardo said.
FILE – O.J. Simpson bites his lip Friday, July 8, 1994, as he listens to Dr. Irwin L. Golden, a medical examiner, describe the extent of Nicole Simpson Brown’s wounds during testimony in Los Angeles Criminal Courts. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
FILE – In this May 14, 2013, file photo, O.J. Simpson sits during a break on the second day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool, File)
FILE – In this June 15, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson, left, grimaces as he tries on one of the leather gloves prosecutors say he wore the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered in a Los Angeles courtroom. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Sam Mircovich/Pool Photo via AP, File)
O.J. Simpson leaves the Santa Monica Courthouse after a day of testifying in his civil trial for the murders of Nicole BrownSimpson and Ronald Goldman. (Photo by Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Pardo says Goldman and Rogers got into a fight, during which Simpson received the cut on his hand and left.
“That’s why O.J. never believed he did it (committed the murders). Because he had already stepped out of the gate by the time it happened,” Pardo said.
A criminal jury found Simpson not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to relatives of Brown and Goldman.
