The Truth About The OJ Case:Hide The Ball, Hide The Assets

The O.J. case is this simple: Hide the ball, hide the assets.

Read between the lines and it's easy to see why O.J. Simpson failed to call the police after he found what he claimed to be his stolen personal properly being sold by "memorabilia" dealers.

What Simpson feared would happen did happen, and I don't mean his arrest.

Orenthal spun a nice yarn for the media, giving the AP a quasi-plausible explanation why he took the law in his own hands. "'The police, since my trouble, have not worked out for me,' he said, noting that whenever he has called the police 'It just becomes a story about O.J.' 'I'm at the point where I don't rely on the police and this is not a police issue anyway,' he said, expressing hope that it will soon be resolved."

Simpson knew he was going to "re-rob" the property, including his "absolutely, positively acquitted suit," and would never call police. This is a man who got away with a double homicide. Pulling off a small heist would be small potatoes.

Were he to have called police the authorities would have secured the scene and seized the property, pending disposition. He knew the Goldman and/or Brown families surely would have moved to seize the material pursuant to the $33.5 million outstanding civil judgment against the former football player.

Instead of calling police Simpson's next call would have been to a fence. (My hunch is that memorabilia dealers exist in a netherworld and O.J. assumed that the robbed would have kept quiet.)

As proof of my theory I present an AP report moved a couple of hours ago. Simpson's worst fear has already taken hold. The Goldman family is expected to file today to eventually take possession of O.J.'s "stuff."

"...the family plans to file request in Superior Court to obtain ownership of the sports memorabilia seized. David Cook, an attorney for Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, said he believed Nevada authorities would turn over the items with a court order after Simpson's criminal case finishes."

The latest O.J. case is that simple. Hide the ball, hide the assets.