Blue Knit Cap

Multiple crime scene photographs documenting the dark blue knit cap and leather glove as found beneath a plant near Ronald Goldman's body at 875 South Bundy Drive, taken from varying angles and distances, including close-up views showing a bloody shoe print in the vicinity and the cap's position near the gate support pole.

Dark blue knit cap recovered at the Bundy crime scene near the left-hand glove and Ronald Goldman's feet. Cataloged as LAPD Item 38, it was examined for hair and trace evidence; Douglas Deedrick testified that hairs from the cap were microscopically consistent with Simpson and that one Bronco carpet fiber was recovered by scraping, while other testimony and argument addressed dissimilar hairs and possible contamination or transfer.

People's 480 and People's 481 were introduced as photomicrograph comparison boards involving known defendant hairs, hairs from the knit cap, and hairs from Goldman's shirt. On redirect, Deedrick described Plaintiffs' 2178 (Q14) as an interior-cap hair microscopically matching Simpson.

Photographs of the Bundy blue knit cap, including People's 441 showing Item 38 and the laser image identified as People's 56 / 56-I.

Plaintiffs' 131 presented a dark blue knit cap in a brown paper bag, which Detective Lange identified as the same type he had observed at the scene. The exhibit was also referenced as Civil 131 / Criminal 77.

People's 485 is a photomicrograph chart comparing acrylic fibers from the blue knit cap (Q47) with fibers recovered from Goldman's shirt, alongside a separate comparison involving Nicole Brown Simpson's dress fibers and Q23 from Goldman's shirt. A defense-referenced photograph of cap fibers had the unresolved identifier “Q8B2 or K8B2.”

People's 179 is an after-placement photograph showing an evidence card beside the knit cap. An enhanced prosecution video showed Fung placing a card near the cap and was disputed, while People's 192 showed the evidence cards, glove, and cap and was used to address whether the glove and cap were touching.

Testimony described a dark blue or black knit cap pointed out during the August 27, 1994 defense walkthrough inside the Bundy residence; accounts placed it in a hallway box near Sydney's room, a second-floor closet, or a children's bedroom. Lange said it appeared to be a child's cap and was not seized, and another account stated that it was never photographed or booked and that its later whereabouts were unknown.