FOX Airs OJ Simpson's "Lost Confession"

While this almost feels like Geraldo Rivera is going to jump out of the wings with a wild conspiracy theory or a second vault that might have belonged to Al Capone, last night FOX aired O.J. Simpson - The Lost Confession?

FOX planned on airing the interview in 2006 in conjunction with Simpson's book If I Did It but an outcry of objections pressured the network into cancelling the TV special.

After being acquitted of the double murder of his wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1995, O.J. Simpson gave this "interview" to publisher Judith Regan in 2006 wherein he explains a "hypothetical" version of events the night of the murders.

It's hard to understand why Simpson would even go down this road. Throughout his "hypothetical," he slips with "I remember" and "I was" comments that really help cement that this was a kind of subconscious confession.

Regan joined moderator Soledad O’Brien along with prosecutor Christopher Darden, Nicole’s friend Eve Chen and retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente for a panel to discuss Simpson's comments as part of the TV event.

While he escaped punishment for the 1995 murders, Simpson was arrested and convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas and spent 9 years in prison. He was paroled last October.

O.J. Simpson Granted Parole After Nine Years In Prison

Former NFL star O. J. Simpson, in prison for nine years since being convicted stealing sports memorabilia in Las Vegas, has been granted parole.

He will be released from prison no sooner than October 1st.

From the New York Times:

O. J. Simpson, the former football hero and actor whose good-guy image vanished when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, will go free after serving nine years in a Nevada prison on charges stemming from an armed robbery, a state parole board ruled on Thursday.

Mr. Simpson, who turned 70 this month, went before the board as a man convicted of taking a group of accomplices, two of them armed with guns, to a cheap Las Vegas hotel room in 2007 to take hundreds of items from a sports memorabilia dealer. But it is the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, for which he was acquitted after the most-watched trial in history, that have cast the longer, darker shadow over his life and reputation.

After his conviction in 2008, a judge sentenced Mr. Simpson nine to 33 years in state prison, meaning that he becomes eligible for parole for the first time on Oct. 1. Based on his age and the fact that he has been a model prisoner, the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners granted his release the first time it was considered, rather than denying parole and making him wait years for another chance.

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