🎙️ Simpson Voicemails Calls
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Simpson Voicemails Calls

14 items · 14 audio · 5 with detail pages

The catalog brings together June 12 communications involving Simpson, including his 7:35 p.m. voicemail to Gretchen Stockdale, Paula Barbieri’s morning voicemail to him, and exhibits displaying cell-phone and message-manager records. The custody of copies of the Stockdale message was disputed, while a reference to a separate Barbieri answering-machine tape during civil closing drew a sustained objection and an instruction that the jury disregard it. Other entries include a Simpson microcassette made approximately five days after the murders, interview recordings, calls or recorded conversations involving additional participants, and oral statements attributed to Simpson, some of which were contested or excluded.

Detailed entries (5)

Defense 1019 — Phillips–Willis Coroner Call Recording
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Defense Exhibit 1019, an audiotape of Detective Phillips's telephone calls to deputy coroner Paul Willis on June 13, 1994, at approximately 6:49 AM and 8:08 AM, played and re-referenced during Phillips's cross-examination.

Defendant's 1019Defense 1019
2 procs · 2 people
Exhibit 2217 — Message-Manager and Barbieri Call Records
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Telephone records displayed on a television screen showing message-manager calls at 6:56 and 8:55 and calls at 8:58 and 8:59 to Paula Barbieri's 305 cell-phone number.

Exhibit 2217
1 proc · 2 people
Plaintiffs' Exhibit 434 — June 12 Cell-Phone Call Board
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Board showing Simpson's cell-phone calls on the night of June 12, 1994, including message-manager calls at 6:56 and 8:55 p.m.

Plaintiffs' Exhibit 434
1 proc · 2 people
OJ Simpson voicemail to Gretchen Stockdale, June 12, 1994
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The original voicemail OJ Simpson left for Gretchen Stockdale at 7:35 PM on June 12, 1994, recorded through Prestige Voice Mail service in Lomita, California, subsequently copied to standard cassettes. Multiple copies were made, including one given to defense investigator John Pavelic in September 1994; a second copy was later taped over by Stockdale in March or April 1995, while the original digital recording remained on Prestige Voice Mail's systems. The chain of custody — whether Pavelic held the only copy — was disputed between prosecution and defense.

6 procs · 4 people
OJ Simpson microcassette tape (~5 days post-murders, Schiller copy)
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Microcassette tape recorded by OJ Simpson approximately five days after the June 12, 1994 murders, given to author Lawrence Schiller by Robert Kardashian along with a stack of other tapes. Schiller made a digitized copy to reduce background noise; both the original and the digital copy remained in Schiller's possession during civil proceedings. A subpoena seeking to compel production was quashed after Schiller asserted reporter's shield; an excerpt was played on national television.

2 procs

Additional references (9)

Brief references from transcripts that don't warrant an individual page. Each has a single source or is mentioned only in passing.

  • Anticipated Testimony About the Star 69 Feature — Johnnie Cochran discussed anticipated testimony that Simpson's secretary ordered the Star 69 telephone feature at Simpson's request around June 2.
  • Fiato–District Attorney Conversation Recording — Tape recording of Lawrence Fiato's September 13 conversation with the District Attorney concerning Vannatter's statements; counsel referenced the recording and Fiato confirmed its existence.
  • Kaelin Interview Recordings with “Eliot” — Tape recordings of Brian Kaelin’s prior interviews with an investigator identified as “Eliot,” used through a tape transcript to refresh or challenge Kaelin’s recollection about tension and using the jacuzzi as an escape.
  • O.J. Simpson's Alleged Exclamations While Watching Murder News Coverage — Verbal exclamations attributed to O.J. Simpson while he watched television news coverage of the murders at Rockingham, as reportedly witnessed by friends and family. The defense sought admission as state-of-mind evidence, but the court excluded the statements under Evidence Code sections 1250 and 352.
  • OJ Simpson 'I Want to Tell You' interview audiotapes and transcripts — Audiotapes and transcripts of OJ Simpson interviews conducted for the book 'I Want to Tell You.' During his deposition, Lawrence Schiller confirmed he no longer possessed the tapes, as they had been transferred to Simpson's attorney Taft.
  • Paula Barbieri answering machine tape — A disputed Paula Barbieri answering-machine tape referenced by Baker during civil closing argument to argue that the 10:03 call was not made from inside the Bronco. The objection was sustained, and the jury was admonished to disregard the reference.
  • Paula Barbieri voicemail to Simpson, June 12, 1994 — A voicemail Paula Barbieri left for OJ Simpson on the Bentley phone at 7:00 a.m. on June 12, 1994. Barbieri testified that she assumed Simpson received it based on his reply messages.
  • Simpson Statement to Allan Park: “I've Been Sleeping” — Oral statement attributed to Simpson and addressed to limousine driver Allan Park—“I've been sleeping”—which Lewis characterized as a volunteered lie while Judge Ito questioned whether Simpson owed Park an explanation.
  • Simpson's June 14 Call to Jim Merrill — Phone call from O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles to Jim Merrill on June 14, discussed during Merrill's direct examination.
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