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(Sunday, June 12, 1994, approximately 10:40 p.m. PDT) — Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death tonight on the walkway leading to her condominium at 875 South Bundy Drive in Los Angeles; their bodies were discovered the following day at 12:10 a.m. PDT.

Brown’s ex-husband, former professional football star and actor O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but was eventually held liable in a civil action.

An autopsy determined that Brown had been stabbed seven times in the neck and scalp, and had sustained a 5.5-inch gash across her throat, which had severed both her left and right carotid arteries and breached her right and left jugular veins.

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The wound on Brown’s neck penetrated 0.75 inches into her cervical vertebrae, nearly decapitating her.

She also had defensive wounds on her hands.

During a reconstruction of the events, the police came to believe that Brown and Goldman were talking when they were attacked or that Goldman had walked in on Brown being attacked.

In any case, the police believe that Brown was the intended victim and that Goldman was killed in order to silence him.

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Witness Robert Heidstra testified, that while walking near Brown’s house that night, he heard a man yelling, “Hey! Hey! Hey!” who was shouted at by a second man.

Goldman’s family came to believe that Ron was the man shouting “Hey! Hey! Hey!” and that he may have attempted to save Brown and intervened in the attack.

Following a controversial and highly publicized criminal trial, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of all charges. He was later found liable of the wrongful deaths in a civil lawsuit in 1997, filed by Fred Goldman, Ron’s father.