The bloody glove on O.J. Simpson's estate that changed everything — but the jury never saw it that way

The glove was found on the morning of June 13, 1994.

Detective Fuhrman of the LAPD went to Simpson's estate on Rockingham Avenue.

He discovered a blood-stained glove on the property.

Hours earlier, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had been found stabbed to death at the Bundy Drive crime scene.

A matching glove was found there.

One glove at the scene of the killings.

One glove on the estate of the man who would be charged with them.

It is a documented piece of evidence.

It is also the center of a claim that the glove was planted.

That claim was a defense argument.

The defense argued that Detective Fuhrman had planted the glove.

Fuhrman pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked whether he had planted evidence.

The theory circulated widely.

It was never established as fact in the criminal trial.

The record does not resolve the question.

Why did a glove end up on the estate?

What does it really prove?

A glove is an object.

An object can be placed.

An object can be moved.

That would require evidence.

The glove was introduced in court.

The jury saw it.

The jury deliberated for less than four hours.

The verdict came back not guilty on both counts.

The glove remains what it is: a piece of the scene, found where the prosecution said it would be.

Whether it got there by accident or by design was never settled.

Not in the criminal trial.

Not in the record.

12:10 A.M. — THE BODIES ARE FOUND

The neighbor was walking her dog.

At approximately 12:10 a.m. on June 13, 1994, she discovered the bodies outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s condominium at 875 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood.

Nicole, 35, was found at the base of the walkway leading to her front door.

Ronald Goldman, 25, was found slumped against a fence in the rear of the property.

He was a waiter at the nearby Mezzaluna restaurant.

He had been off-duty that night.

He had returned to the restaurant to pick up eyeglasses left by Nicole’s mother, Juditha Brown.

Then he had driven to the condominium to deliver them.

That errand put him there.

Police arrived shortly after the bodies were found.

Detectives Vannatter and Lange were assigned to the case.

The exact time of the murders is not in the record.

The night is known by what came after it.

Not by the hour the wounds were inflicted.

That would require evidence the record does not provide.

What is known is the placement of the bodies.

What is known is the errand.

What is known is that two people were stabbed to death outside a Brentwood condominium on a Sunday night in June.

The neighbor’s dog walk fixed the discovery at 12:10 a.m.

The discovery fixed the timeline the prosecution would later build.

Goldman was 25.

Nicole was 35.

Both had suffered multiple stab wounds, according to the record.

The knife itself was never recovered.

The murder weapon was not found.