This will be conducted solely by us and for our purposes only, Robert Shapiro
told Kardashian when he phoned Bob in Encino at 3:30 PM. Shapiro directed
Simpson and Kardiashan to an office in the mid-Wilshire area. Skip Taft
would be coming, too. For our purposes only, he repeated in his best
professional voice.
Privately Kardashian both feared and welcomed this idea. A polygraph would
settle things. O.J. loved Nicole. He didn't kill her. The polygraph would
be it. Settled, Finished. Every day was a new experience. This was just
another one.
Kardashian drives Simpson to Wilshire in the Mercedes and parks in the
building's basement. They take the elevator and locate the office of Edward
Gelb. A receptionist hands them a sheet to fill out. The waiting room is
grim. No art on the walls, no color, just the woman's desk and a credenza.
If he didn't know better, Kardashian would guess no one worked here. It's a
scene from a surreal spy movie.
Simpson starts filling in the form. Kardashian tells him this is no place to
leave a paper trail. Shapiro enters with Skip Taft. Kardashian asks Shapiro
about the form.
It's taken care of, Shapiro says quickly. Don't fill it out.
A middlel-aged man, who Kardashian thinks is Gelb but is actually Dennis
Nellany, opens a door from an inner office. (Gelb is in Spain.) Nothing
personal will happen here, his face says. He's a pro. He's been through
this a thousand times. He takes Simpson inside, and Kardashian and the
others sit in the lifeless room and talk. The emptiest small talk. Shapiro
wears a suit. Taft wears slacks and a golf shirt. Kardashian is in jeans.
Half an hour later, Simpson comes out alone. He's wound up, talking a blue
streak: It was very emotional. Every time he heard Nicole's name, his heart
started to pound. The test was very hard to get through. Difficult, very
tough.
Kardashian assumes the examiner is scoring the test. The receptionist has
left. Appearing at the office door. Nellany, Gelb's right-hand man, invites
Shapiro, Kardashian, and Taft in. I'll give you the results, he says.
Simpson isn't invited.
Larger and better appointed, the examiner's office has framed diplomas and
licenses on the walls, solid furniture, thick carpeting. Kardashian is
surprised to see that the polygraph machine is fairly small. It ought to
look sinister, or at least imposing. But it isn't.
Simpson scored a minus 22, Nellany says.
Kardashian has no idea what that might mean. Nellany speaks in a
matter-of-fact voice. But Kardashian can feel the weight of the minus 22.
He and Taft look to Shapiro. That is about as bad as you can do, Shapiro
comments. His tone is crisp and factual, too.
Minus 22 means Simpson failed virtually all of the questions about the
murders. Bob Kardashian can't believe he's hearing this.
Kardashian knows that polygraph tests contain reference questions about
matters like your name, age, address. That way the examiner can identify
your normal response when you tell the truth. He is vaguely aware that the
reference questions are scattered among questions about the pertinent issues.
The average test contains about thirty questions related to the crucial
topic--in this case, the double murder.
There are some factors to consider here, Nellany adds. The test was
administered close to the time of death, a very emotional time. The validity
of the result...and now he lapses into professional jargon. Bob tries to
make sense of the technical talk and concludes that O.J.'s intense emotional
level might have affected the results.
Kardashian knows that doesn't settle it. He just doesn't know what to do.
No way his friend could have done this.
O.J. is invited in now. Nellany tells him the same thing. Simpson's words
explode from him: "What I said about Nicole, you know? Every time he said her
name, my heart would beat like crazy! You guys have got to understand. I
didn't do this!"
Kardashian watches his friend's face as if staring through an opaque window,
desperate for the glass to become clear.
"I'm not surprised at what happened because I'm so distraught. I'm so upset.
This test, you know, I'd like to take it again. I didn't do this!"
Kardishian and Shapiro watch Simpson, then look at each other. Wait a while,
maybe a week, and do it again? Vaguely they agree. Taft nods. Shapiro
slides the test results into a manila envelope and thanks Nellany. He
carries the envelope as they leave. Outside Shapiro turns to them. This is
only between us. They walk to their cars in awkward silence.
"I was nervous," O.J. keeps saying on the ride back to Encino. "I was very
nervous. They shouldn't have asked me some of those questions. Every time I
heard Nicole's name, my heart would beat so fast. It would race, you know?
And that thing would jump."
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WHY DIDN'T HE? Or did he and BB failed again??
I didn't do this!"
>
> Kardishian and Shapiro watch Simpson, then look at each other. Wait a while,
> maybe a week, and do it again? Vaguely they agree. Taft nods. Shapiro
> slides the test results into a manila envelope and thanks Nellany. He
> carries the envelope as they leave. Outside Shapiro turns to them. This is
> only between us. They walk to their cars in awkward silence.
>
> "I was nervous," O.J. keeps saying on the ride back to Encino. "I was very
> nervous. They shouldn't have asked me some of those questions. Every time I
> heard Nicole's name, my heart would beat so fast. It would race, you know?
> And that thing would jump."
Funny how BB said he never took one while under oath. And Flea's story about
this said BB did two strips, while Shapiro held this over the heads of the
other lawyers as a club. Could it be that BB is the murderer? WHY YES - I DO
BELIEVE, I DO BELIEVE
>
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A stone fell into the Pacific, hitting a fish, which jumped out of the
water, eaten by a T-Rex, who choaked, falling on a grassy knoll,
causing a knife to fly though the air, killing Ron and Nicole, leaving a
glove retrieved by a time machine built by Kato.
How in the world can you say that they are proven to be accurate? That is not
true.