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From: Jasper
Date: 8/31/03
Time: 12:50:27 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.199.37
Lollie,
You are right on. The article you found stating that depositions were taken from all of the Browns in ’86 and indicating what they said about O.J.’s “abuse” of Nicole tells it all.
In any interpretation of what they said about O.J. and Nicole before the child custody battle and after it, you have to figure that they talked to each other about their personal knowledge of the relationship and the things that Nicole told them about it. Yet, the only indication that any of them gave to feeling that O.J. was responsible for Nicole’s death was Denise’s outburst when Lange first broke the news of Nicole’s death on the phone. After that, all of them, including Denise, said in media interviews preceding O.J.’s criminal trial that they didn’t believe he did it. They had no basis for believing that he did it.
Nicole did repeatedly say, “O.J. is going to kill me.” But Cora Fischman said that she used that expression frequently as a figure of speech and applied to everyone she thought would be upset with her about one thing or another. Nicole did tell members of her family stories about O.J. abusing her. But they saw no evidence of it. Juditha suggested that Nicole was a bit of a con artist. She said that Nicole could convince anybody of anything. Nevertheless, she didn’t convince Juditha or Lou.
I found that VERY interesting since Nicole’s cousin Rolf Baur told DA Investigator Thompson that “She got beat up one time, and he [Lou Brown] took pictures…It stuck in my mind. But that’s years and years ago.” (American Tragedy, page 313)
It stuck in MY mind that neither Rolf, who worked as a live-in groundskeeper at Rockingham from 1980 to 1983 or his wife Maria, who worked there as a housekeeper from ’80 to ’84, ever saw bruises on Nicole. Maria told Chris Darden that Nicole told her O.J. had grabbed her by the hair and shoved her in a closet when she was living on Gretna Green. Maria said that Nicole was angry that her parents didn’t believe her and sided with O.J. (American Tragedy, page 311).
When Nicole divorced O.J. in ’92 and moved to Gretna Green, Lou and Juditha’s gravy train ride on the O.J. express was over. They had nothing to gain by taking O.J.’s side. Lou and Juditha knew O.J. They also knew their daughter Nicole. –Jasper