What route the assailant may have used
that night is still a mystery.
And the weapon used in the murders of
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman
is still missing.
Was it, as the prosecution suggests,
contained in a bag that was disposed
of at the Los Angeles Airport?
Or did it disappear in Chicago?
Well, Inside Edition spoke to a
retired Los Angeles police officer
who's beat was here in the Simpson neighborhood.
And he offers a unique theory.
I think there's a clearly a possibility
of another route.
Jim King patrolled the west
Los Angeles area for 22 years.
He says he has personal knowledge
of OJ's troubled past.
I dealt with OJ the first time he was
in a spousal battery situation with Marguerite.
So very early on, some 20 years ago,
began to deal with OJ in that regard.
Marguerite has since denied
that OJ has ever hit her.
While he has no direct access to evidence
in the Simpson trial, one thing he takes issue
with is the route investigators say OJ
may have taken from Nicole's apartment on Bundy Drive
back to his Rockingham estate.
If OJ did commit the crimes, he would want
to get back to Rockingham as quietly and as
surreptitiously as possible.
Kenter is a very easy road to do that.
Homewood is even better.
The LAPD refuses to comment
on what specific routes they searched,
but they did say they checked out
all possibilities.
King believes he knows of areas where the
police didn't look and speculates that it
would have been possible for Simpson to
have disposed of any incriminating evidence
before he reached his Rockingham estate
just a few miles from Nicole's.
Walking King's back route, we found a sweatshirt
deep in the vegetation growing along one
of the alternate routes to OJ's estate.
This is an area where you could drive along
and toss it out of the car, out of the passenger side
as you drive up Elkins Road in this same area.
It's coincidental that this is here but that's
very typical of what we're talking about that
we're looking for.
King pointed out vegetation along
the route to OJ's that he believes hasn't been searched.
You can see how deep this ice plant is.
It's considerably deep and if you move over to this
area you have a major root system and you'd hard
press to find anything because of the ability
of it to penetrate and get down below the roots
without a metal detector.
King says in addition to areas
along this route there are a number of trails
and paths which could have been overlooked.
He showed us a trail just down from OJ's home
on Rockingham that is hidden between the
manicured lawns and remote controlled security
fences that only a street cop who worked this area
for two decades would know about.
Now one of the trails just a
mere two blocks north on Rockingham
from OJ's is here at this private residence.
You drive in you would never see it and as you're
looking forward this driveway turns into a trail
that accesses the area alongside this residence
down to Mandeville Canyon.
How would OJ know about this area here?
OJ walked in the neighborhood.
He had his dogs from time to time.
He would walk his dogs
and a dog would find that trail in a second.
King pointed out that there could
have been a pre-dug hole where evidence
could have been secreted.
Remember there was a shovel found
in the back of OJ's Bronco.
Or the items could have been tossed
into the dense brush.
I'm sure no one has looked back here.
Once you know about this particular trail,
with the proximity that it is to OJ's house
it's a wonderful place for someone to plan
to dump murder weapon and burnt bloody clothes.