Gretchen Stockdale testified in August 1995 about her relationship with O.J. Simpson, describing what she called a "communicative friendship" that began with a casual meeting at a 1988 charity event and resumed years later when she contacted him for investment advice. Examined by Marcia Clark and cross-examined by defense attorney Gerald Uelmen, her testimony was significant for establishing Simpson's state of mind in the hours before the murders — he had left her a voicemail declaring himself "totally unattached," a detail the prosecution used to suggest he viewed himself as free of his relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson on the very night of her death.