The wounds are fresh for Fred Goldman, and his blood still boils at the mention of the name he still refuses to utter.
Goldman, whose son, Ron, was brutally murdered alongside O.J. Simpson’s wife Nicole in the 1994 bloodbath that drew international attention, has long believed Simpson is a killer who got off on a technicality. He rejoiced yesterday at the arrest of the man he called “a beast.”
“I hope he goes away forever,” Goldman told Fox News. “He’s an arrogant S.O.B. He believes the world is his for the taking. He can do what he wants. He’s helped us show the world what kind of a monster he is.”
Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister, Denise, told the network she laughed at O.J.’s claim that the hotel break-in was a “sting operation.”
“Don’t police do sting operations? I thought it was just a legal deal,” she said.
“He believes that he is above the law. It happened one more time and he was arrested, so right on.”
Goldman said his biggest worry is that the Las Vegas DA might make mistakes like the ones he believes were made in Los Angeles, where Simpson was freed following a jury trial.
“I hope they’ve dotted every ‘i,’ crossed every ‘t’ and been so incredibly careful that there is not one single opportunity for the defense to find a hole. And, hopefully, he goes away for a very long time,” he said.
“I’d love to be there when they find him guilty and sentence him to jail.”
News of Simpson’s arrest came as a “hypothetical” tell-all book he penned remained the No. 1 seller on bookseller Amazon.com.
“If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer” details how Simpson would have perpetrated the double-slaying. A judge blocked him from profiting from the tome and turned the rights to it over to the Goldman family.
Book-sale proceeds will go toward the $33.5 million wrongful-death settlement granted the Goldman and Brown families in 1997. Simpson has only repaid about $10,000, Fred Goldman said.
Goldman has come under fire for going forward with the publishing. He has vehemently defended himself.
“It was very disturbing and bothersome to me to read the words of the man that murdered my son,” Goldman has said. “These are his words. We can take his words and show him to be the monster that he is.”
With additional reporting by Sunnie Guglielmo