the following is a cnn special report. >> 911, what are you reporting? >> this is ac. i have o.j. simpson in the car. >> o.j. simpson on the run. >> the los angeles police department right now is searching for mr. simpson. >> and on the edge. >> he is still alive but he has a gun to his head. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah, a real gun, real bullets. >> and real drama. >> they're going through orange county. >> news helicopters hovering above as the bronco drives past stunned onlookers. >> people were jamming on their

brakes, jumping out of their cars, sometimes in the middle of the freeway. >> i want to do it at the grave, at my house. >> you're not going to do anything. too many people love you, you got to whole world. don't throw it away. >> two bodies butchered, one of them? o.j. simpson's ex-wife. >> slashed, stabbed, everything else. nicole was nearly decapitated. >> this is deliberate, this is vicious. >> if you watched the o.j. simpson case unfold and i did as a tv reporter for kcbs in l.a., it is a moment in time you could never forget. a few decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterday. ta few decades later >> i remember it as if it were yesterdaywa few decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterdayoa few decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterday few decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterdayfew decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterdayew decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterdayw decades later.

>> i remember it as if it were yesterday decades later. >> i remember it as if it were yesterday. >> it is a loss as painful as it was 20 years ago. >> an extraordinary story of celebrities and murder. >> we saw perhaps the falling of an american hero. >> o.j.'s wild ride 20 years after the chase. >> on june 13th, 1994 at approximately ten minutes after midnight, a witness discovered the body of nicole brown simpson. the presence of a second body, an individual who has now been identified as mr. ronald goldman, 25 years of age. >> the bodies were found on the sidewalk outside nicole simpson's condominium, a few miles from where o.j. simpson lives. >> terrible questions are hanging in the air around o.j. simpson today as investigators in l.a. probe the violent death of his ex-wife and another man. >> we will probe this until we bring to justice the responsible party. >> the question was --

>> obviously we're not going to rule anyone out. >> orenthal james simpson, better known as o.j., or "the juice" had been in the spotlight for years. as a heisman trophy winner and nfl hall of famer. >> we'll do whatever we have to do to stay together. >> and recently, as an actor and pitchman. >> everybody stand back. >> but it would not be those accolades or celebrities that he would be most remembered for. instead, it would be his connection to a grisly double murder. >> he deserves to be in jail for murder. for slaughtering two people. and not giving a damn about one way or the other about anybody but killing them. >> tom lang was a detective with

the los angeles police department, he couldn't tell me what he felt years ago, but he sure can now. >> simpson is a sociopath. it took us a few minutes to figure that out. >> let's go back to june 13, 1994. >> how brutal was the crime? >> nicole was slashed, stabbed, it was obvious that ron goldman had fought, and fought hard. >> the scene did not add up. who was ron goldman and why was he there? as the lapd inspected the crime scene at south bundy drive they discovered a bloody glove. >> of course, the interesting thing was, it was the left glove. bloody trail, tailing in conjunction with the foot wear impressions going west. >> officers were dispatched to o.j.'s home on north rockingham avenue, to inform him about his

ex-wife's murder. o.j. and nicole had met when she was a teenager and were together for most of the next 17 years. a sometimes rocky relationship, with allegations of abuse. they divorced in 1992. it was at o.j.'s home where detective lang made the call to nicole's family to break the tragic news. >> nicole's dad answered. >> and what did you say? >> and i said, mr. brown i regret to inform you that your daughter has died, and has been killed. and right away i heard denise start screaming. >> i remember it as if it were yesterday. >> nicole's sister, denise brown, was also on the call. she says she had no doubt o.j. was the killer. >> and i said oh, my god, he finally did it.

something inside me just knew, something inside me just knew. >> what did she scream? >> that mf, i knew that son of a [ bleep ] did it, screaming just completely out of control. that is when something told me that something was going on with the simpson guy. and it was at that point that things started to come together. >> at rockingham, they didn't find o.j., but what they did find appeared to be the match to the glove found at the crime scene. >> the sun comes up, you have the front, and there is a blood trail from the bronco right on into the house. it is not tailing away from the house, it is tailing into the house. >> so are you thinking at this point -- >> he is a suspect, obviously. >> o.j. is your suspect? >> he is a suspect, didn't mean he did it. if he did it, we're going to be able to prove it. the blood it going to do it. it is at the core of the evidence in this case.

>> police finally reached o.j. at a hotel in chicago. he had flown there less than two hours after the murders. when police informed him of his ex-wife's murder, he flew home. the media and police were waiting. o.j. was briefly cuffed. lang knew he had to deal with the former football star carefully if he wanted o.j. to cooperate. your goal was to get him to trust you so you could get your blood sample? >> well, of course, get the blood, this is important, the fingerprints and everything else. and along the way we'll do what is called an interview where you attempt to glean inconsistent statements. this is hours after the murder. he doesn't have his head straight yet. >> surprisingly, o.j. agreed to an interview with lang and his partner, with no lawyer present.

>> the date is june sp 13, 1994 and i'm here with o.j. simpson.d i'm here with o.j. simpson. >> were you surprised that o.j. simpson agreed to an interview? >> it was a little surprising, especially when i looked at his hand and it was still bleeding and he had a band-aid on his left hand? >> how did you get the injury? >> i don't know, the first time, when i was in chicago, and all, but at the house i was just running around. >> how did you do it in chicago? >> i broke a glass, i just was -- one of you guys had just called me, and i was in the bathroom, and i just went bonkers for a little bit. >> did he screw up? >> many times, i think there are 16 or 17 of them in there. >> so he was inconsistent? >> inconsistent in all the statements, lied about others. >> o.j., we have got sort of a problem. we've got some blood on and in your car. we've got some blood at your house.

and ah, it's sort of a problem. >> well, take my blood test. >> well, we would like to do that. >> simpson allowed them to take a blood sample, fingerprints, even a photo of his finger. this would be the first and only time l.a. investigators would speak to o.j. simpson without a lawyer. >> coming up, o.j. disappears. >> he surrendered to police at 11:45 a.m. >> and murder turns into a manhunt. >> the los angeles police department right now is actively searching for mr. simpson.

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ron goldman, a 25-year-old waiter, with dreams of having his own restaurant, was very close with his sister, kim, and father, fred. >> we were just each other's safe haven. we knew we were each other's foundation and our comfort and it just was easy. >> he had a heart of gold. absolute heart of gold. >> they buried ron just days a of the murders. >> my dad just kept saying, it should be me, it is not supposed to be him. it should be me, it should be me. >> any parent that has ever had to do that knows what a painful,

horrifying, gut-tearing feeling it is. >> ron goldman was a waiter at a restaurant that nicole frequented. and that night, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. now, 20 years later, his sister, kim, reveals in her new book she still can't forgive the man she believes murdered her brother. >> this is deliberate, vicious, this is no act of forgiveness. >> nicole brown simpson, a 35-year-old mother of two, and sister of denise. >> tell me about the picture. >> oh, my favorite picture of me and my sister.

and that is how i remember her. like this, fun, fun-loving. >> her funeral, attended by friends, family. and the prime suspect. former husband, o.j. simpson. >> why would he even show up at her funeral? oh, god, you know what, you're going to have to ask him that. i don't even want to address that. >> how did that make you feel? how did that make the family feel? >> you know, honestly, i was numb. i had just lost my sister. i didn't even see what was going on around us. >> the very next morning, the lapd said there would be an announcement at noon regarding the murders. reporters and photographers packed the room at police headquarters. >> the bomb squad is still here. >> but the press conference would be unexpectedly delayed. >> we had multiple bomb threats in the auditorium that morning.

it didn't please me that i had to empty out the auditorium and get it checked, but it was the right thing to do. >> when commander david gascon stepped to the podium just before 2:00 p.m., no one was prepared for what came next. >> this morning, detectives from the los angeles police department after an exhaustive investigation sought and obtained a warrant for the arrest of o.j. simpson, charging him with the murders of nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman. mr. simpson, in agreement with his attorney, was scheduled to surrender this morning to the los angeles police department.

initially, that was 11:00. it then became 11:45. mr. simpson has not appeared. the los angeles police department right now is actively searching for mr. simpson. >> what were you thinking right there? all of those gasps! >> it was pretty interesting. i have heard a lot about that moment from a lot of people over the years. and no one seems to forget that moment. when they sucked the air out of the room with gasps. >> a media crush inside and a gathering crowd outside. the first inkling of what would explode into a national obsession. at 3:00 p.m., los angeles district attorney gil garcetti delivered a stern message.

>> i want to say something to the entire community. if you, in any way, are assisting mr. simpson in avoiding justice, mr. simpson is a fugitive of justice right now. and if you assist him in any way you are committing a felony. >> o.j. simpson is a fugitive. >> what do you remember about that, hearing that, what were you thinking? >> oh, my god, i was mad. >> three hours later there was another press conference. the first speaker, attorney robert shapiro, made a plea to his client, o.j. simpson. >> for the sake of your family, for the sake of your children please surrender immediately. surrender to any law enforcement official at any police station, but please do it immediately.

>> next, robert kardashian stepped to the microphone to read a note from his close friend. >> this letter was written by o.j. today. to whom it may concern. first, everyone understand i have nothing to do with nicole's murder. don't feel sorry for me. i've had a great life. great friends, please think of the real o.j. and not this lost person. thanks for making my life special. i hope i helped yours. >> it sounded like o.j. simpson was saying good-bye. a suicide letter. coming up, a white ford bronco on the run. >> i think i just saw o.j.

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believed o.j.'s whereabouts would not remain a mystery for long. >> i remember having a conversation, i told them directly, you know how it is going to end up. somebody is going to see o.j. out here on the freeway, we're going to get a call. >> highway patrol? >> yeah, i think i just saw o.j. simpson on the 5 freeway heading north. >> near nicole brown simpson's grave, south of los angeles, the white bronco is spotted. at the wheel, o.j. simpson's former teammate, al cowlings. >> did you see him? >> he stared us down. i got a cop coming here right now. >> okay, we'll put it out. >> okay, thanks. >> with police now in his rear view, cowlings calls 911, making sure they know o.j. is armed and desperate. >> 911, what are you reporting?

>> this is ac. i have o.j. in the car. >> okay, where are you? >> please, i'm coming up the 5 freeway. right now we're okay. but you got to tell the police just back off. he is still alive and has a gun to his head. >> is everything else okay? >> everything is okay, officer, everything is okay. he wants to get to his mom. he wants me to -- that is all we ask, he has a gun to his head. >> and what is your name? >> my name is a.c., you know who i am, [ bleep ]. >> with the police cars in pursuit, helicopters swoop in to join the chase. >> i'll never forget that night. >> the money that athletes are being paid today -- >> i interrupt this call, i understand we're going to go to a live picture in los angeles. is that correct? >> this is interstate 5.

police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> what do you remember from what was being said in your ear? were you thinking oh, my god, o.j. is on the run? >> yeah, we were saying that o.j. simpson is on the run, he has a driver in the car. the police are going slow behind him. this is crazy, coming up on i-405, nothing was bigger than this story. >> reviewing a car apparently being driven by al cowling, apparently one of o.j.'s oldest friends. >> they could be heading to l.a. police headquarters. >> the spectacle reeled in 95 million viewers. tom lang was blindsided by the news. >> next thing we hear, somebody

is sitting in the squad bay, they say simpson is on tv. what is he doing on tv? we have this slow speed chase. >> what was going on at the time? >> you hear people say surreal. it is kind of like you're in a daze. >> obviously, the car is not exceeding the speed limit. the california highway patrol has another helicopter, could be police helicopters trailing it. but nobody is pulling this car over. and we could only guess as to why not. >> victim ronald goldman's father, fred goldman, had his own ideas. >> i thought quit following him on the freeway. do what you would do with any other fleeing felon. he is a fugitive, he is running, take him down. i don't mean take him down, shoot him and kill him. stop him, arrest him. >> when you were meeting with other members of the lapd as this was going on tell me how you were preparing and strategizing for number one? possible gunfight, shootout, or number two, surrender?

>> when we had those discussions it was a dynamic situation whether or not we should do some type of intervention. he he could have gone side ways instantly. he could have jumped out of the car, going side ways, and it could have resulted in a shooting, officers trying to protect themselves. >> still free and leading police on this bizarre slow-speed chase, o.j. does something unexpected. he calls his deceased ex-wife's family from the back seat of the bronco. >> did o.j. at any time call you? >> i did talk to him. i said, listen you have two kids, then i give the phone to my dad. >> did your dad try to talk him out of it? >> he did. yeah, he did. because of his children. >> the browns are not alone in reminding o.j. of his children.

>> the kids need you. >> i've already said good-bye to my kids. >> listen, no. we're not going to say good-bye to your kids. >> detective lang got o.j.'s cell phone number from a colleague. >> i'm thinking, what the hell, what if he picks up? nobody is in control of this situation. what is it going to hurt. no reason not to call. >> i took lang back to that heart-pounding moment. let's take a listen. >> we're going to let you go there. just throw it out the window, please, you're scaring everybody. o.j., you there? nobody's going to hurt you. >> it is for me, it is for me. >> i know that, but do it for the kids, too, will you? think of your kids, please, just toss it out. you're scaring everybody. >> i'm not going to hurt anybody. >> i know you're not going to hurt anybody. >> i'm just going to go with me. >> please, you're scaring everybody, though. you're scaring them. >> just tell them i'm all sorry, you can tell them later on today and tomorrow that i'm sorry that i did this to the police. >> he is apologizing to you, he

is saying please apologize to all the police. >> yeah. >> why? >> i guess you would have to argue that as guilt? no, it is not guilt, he is a sociopath. he is playing this game. in the back of my mind, i know that. >> next, the slow-speed chase takes a frightening turn. >> think about everybody else, all right? >> i couldn't do it on the freeway, in a field, i want to do it at my house. we're moving our company to new york state.

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at this point we can only pray that they will be able to pull this off in a safe measure. >> distraught with gun to his head, o.j. simpson is on the run and threatening to end his emotional pain with a bullet. >> just throw it out the window. and nobody is going to get hurt. >> i'm the only one that deserves -- >> no you don't deserve. >> you do not deserve to get hurt. >> detective tom lang is on the phone hoping to prevent o.j. from committing suicide. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah. it was a real gun, real bullet. this is now a public safety issue. >> i love everybody.

i tried to show everybody my whole life that i love everybody. >> we know that, and everybody loves you, especially your family, your mother, your kids, all of your friends, a.c., everybody does. don't do this. >> lang is doing all that he can to try to stop things from escalating. >> well, if he shoots himself, cowlings, how about one of these dummies running up to the car? what he says doesn't matter, what i say really doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't shoot anybody. >> how did you know what to say? >> i didn't. some people kept putting notes in front of me. but i didn't have time to read all that crepe. so just kind of whatever came to me.

if he is the biggest sociopath in the world doesn't mean he hates his family. >> they hope they can keep o.j. alive. >> and so when everybody else was yelling shoot him, no, no, end this, i just wanted the truth. so i was very nervous. >> and she was right to be nervous. during the chase, o.j. sounds despondent. >> don't do this. >> all i did was love nicole, all i did was love her. >> it is going to be better tomorrow. get rid of the gun. toss it. please. too many people love you, man, don't give it all up. don't hurt anybody. you're going to hurt everybody. >> i'm just going to leave, that is all i'm trying to do. >> when tom lang and o.j. were talking in the bronco, and he said, i just want to go with nicole. i just want to go to her grave. i just want to be with her, was that true?

did you believe that? >> no, honestly, you feel remorse for what you did? a lot of people thought he was going to take his life. and i'm like no, sorry. >> you didn't think he was going to? >> no. >> why not? >> i just know that with the people i know that have committed suicide, they don't talk about it. they do. >> going to be a lot better tomorrow. believe me. >> please i'll let you go up to the house but i need you to throw it out the window. >> while o.j. was trying to determine what the do, fans and spectators stop everything just to get a front row seat to o.j.'s bronco drama. >> people were jamming on their brakes, jumping out of their cars, sometimes in the middle of the freeway to run over to the side to cheer o.j. on. >> brian cherkas the airline

pilot was visiting his parents in l.a. when he learned the juice was on the run and coming his way. >> at the media networks showed this in a pretty much play-by-play action, and i realized we were two blocks away from it. might as well go in there and watch it for myself. >> he is also an aspiring photographer and makes sure to bring his camera to the scene. he took these photos, capturing the spectacle. >> it was about 6:00, as far as i can remember on the palms overpass. and people were just meeting in droves on the overpass. there were people holding signs up, go o.j. signs, others were spraying the signs on the highway itself. it was a frenzy, a circus-like atmosphere. >> but those brief moments of frenzied energy would soon change as the bronco passes them by. >> people were jum muching jumping up and down, shouting,

screaming, all of a sudden it got quiet. and some people were actually crying at the time. i think just the gravity of the whole event hit them that this is a guy charged with a double murder, trying to escape police. and he is obviously not going to be able to do it. that is when it hit them, this is really a sad situation. >> the slow-speed procession is now winding its way closer to o.j.'s home. although he is talking suicide o.j. also seems afraid of the army of police that is waiting for him. >> you just tell them at my house, i know they're all over the place with guns. they're not going -- no, i'm not coming there to hurt any of them. >> okay, they know that. they don't want to hurt you. >> did you think he was going to hurt anybody else? >> at that point i didn't think he was going to hurt anyone else or himself, i just thought it was a matter of time before he surrendered. >> you going to go to the house? >> no, you let the police know i wasn't running.

>> i know you were not running. >> i just wanted to come to nicole's grave. >> as the bronco pulls off the boulevard and onto sunset boulevard it makes its way onto residential streets. o.j. is just now blocks away from his home. coming up. the chase becomes a standoff. >> the door is opening and let's see what happens now. we'll watch with you. ♪ ♪ ♪

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police believed that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> for hours. >> coming up on santa monica boulevard. >> the bronco has been slowly weaving its way through los angeles. >> listen, you have been a man all your life. don't stop now, o.j. >> keeps picking up, keeps talking, you're tired, too, aren't you? >> a little tired. >> i know, i know. >> lapd detective tom lang is trying to keep o.j. alive and calm as he reaches what is clearly his final destination. >> he got close to the house,

s.w.a.t. is waiting for him. >> i'm pulling into my driveway. >> i know, i see you, i see you, please toss the gun, juice, just toss it, come on, man, just toss it, please? all right. juice, just toss the gun. >> but it is not just police waiting for him. as soon as the car arrives to rockingham, o.j.'s 24-year-old son, jason, rushes to the bronco. >> a lot of things are going on here, he just pulled into his driveway. that is his son, jason, screaming and hollering. >> what was going on with jason? >> he was very emotionally upset, because he knows what is going on. his dad is in there with a gun. >> he is just trying to help. he is just trying to help, man.

>> a.c. cowlings, still in the bronco, shoves jason. and police officers quickly intervene dragging o.j.'s son away. >> juice? >> listen to me, o.j. >> you can hear a.c. screaming at him? >> yeah. he is very, very close. a.c. is as close as any family member. s.w.a.t. is yelling at him. cowlings is involved at this point, jason is yelling at him. he is getting all kinds of orders from the police. they do not want to see him step out of the car with the gun. >> with the car secured in the driveway, tom lang hands over negotiations to the s.w.a.t. team. >> the conversation is over, he didn't care about me anymore, he has his hands full. >> so that was it for you at that time, your job is done,

what was going through your mind at this point? >> just relieved. you're tired, i was tired before this began. i mean, really tired. this is an emotional thing that thrashes you. physically, mentally, i was completely thrashed. >> lang is done, but o.j. and a.c. remain in the car with a loaded gun. helicopters swirl over head and the world watches, waiting for something, anything to happen. and then? >> the door is opening, and let's see what happens now. we'll watch with you. this is the driver's side. >> a.c. exits the car and makes his way to the house. but police don't swarm to arrest him. in fact, a.c. seems to become a middle man between officers and

a despondent o.j. >> like he knew there was no way out. he was trapped by circumstances and he was literally trapped by law enforcement. there was no place to go. >> more than an hour of the stalemate would pass. >> there was no one rushing or standing around. >> al cowlings is having a conversation with somebody at this point. >> there are police scanners, talking to o.j. on the phone trying to negotiate something. >> viewers are glued to their tv. and the sun sets. o.j. is still holed up in the car. police don't approach the bronco, though. they want to avoid a potentially violent end. >> there would not be any mistakes. they would take him into custody without a shot being fired. and if a shot needed to be fired it would probably be one.

>> until finally? >> this is larry king in washington, we have greg lamont on the phone with us. greg, can you now confirm that o.j. simpson is arrested? >> yes, sir, he is in custody. >> hidden by night fall from prying cameras, o.j. simpson emerges from the bronco, clutching family photos, he staggers out of the car and collapses into officers' arms. >> how did the s.w.a.t. negotiators do it? how did they get him out of that car and into his house? >> well, they just talked to him. they were able to talk him out into submission. >> what do you think it was that clicked in o.j.'s head, all right, i'm getting out. this is over, i'm going inside with my hands up. >> i just thought it was from his perspective, it was inevitable. there was nothing else he could have done. it was over.

>> and he figured that out? >> saw it right in front of him. there was no place else to go.

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>> the lives of the brown and goldman families shattered. so too the iconic image of o.j. simpson. >> we saw, perhaps, the falling

of an american hero. >> in his court appear uns, o.j. went through a dramatic transformation. >> please speak up so you may be heard. >> yes. >> morphine from a grim depressed defendant at his first arraignment. >> not guilty. >> to a confident superstar just one month later. >> absolutely, 100%, not guilty. >> a rocky romance. a double murder. a superstar on the run. all leading up to what many people would call the trial of the century. a long-running tv drama. every minute broadcast live. the cameras turning every lawyer and every witness into a celebrity. >> nine months of craziness. nine months of theater.

nine months of acting. >> and nine months of debating every detail. >> how much hair do the people need? >> five to ten hairs from each area. which usually amounts to about a hundred hairs. >> i've never ever heard of such a request. >> i'm very surprised to hear mr. shapiro hasn't heard of the number of hairs before. that's a standard thing. >> this much was beyond dispute. two innocent people were dead. a superstar had been charged with murder. >> mr. simpson, would you please stand and face the jury. >> and the entire country was captivated.