[Hot Air] In the wake of O.J. Simpson’s parole last week, CBS News has a story today titled "Who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman?" Curiously, the story doesn’t attempt to answer that question. Instead, the entire premise of the story is that the investigation into the murders is officially still open in Los Angeles:CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan reports the case is still an open investigation for the Los Angeles Police Department.
A reported 13.5 million people tuned into Simpson’s parole hearing last week. That’s far fewer than the estimated 150 million people who watched his 1995 acquittal.
Still, it shows the O.J. obsession lives on, as well as the debate over who killed Nicole Brown and Goldman.
Does that mean this is really still a debate? One law professor tells CBS that the ’open designation, "may simply mean that because O.J. was acquitted, and they’ve never found another murderer, there’s no reason to shut it down." In other words, if it means anything it’s probably only that there are no other good suspects. And yet, CBS closes the piece by suggesting that the passage of time could make it hard to find the real killer: