After 20+ years, OJ Simpson is thinking about confessing to the murders. "to exorcise his demons" says his friend. Why now?

I’ll believe it when it happens. I don’t think that he will.

I’m sure his lawyer will advise him to shut the f up, and if he wants to confess, do it where nobody can hear it.

He can confess but it will not help if he does not atone. The idea that “I don’t have to go to prison for it because of double jeopardy laws” is an indication that he is still not truly penitent. (I also knew he was guilty, as I believe did his lawyers and friends.)

Exorcise his demons. Screw him. Cold blooded murder. I’m so disgusted.

I hope he does confess, and then I hope the media seeks to find some of those people caught on tape happy and clapping when the not guilty verdict came down and ask them what they think now.

He already did admit it in his book, “If I Did It”.

But he is coming up on being eligible for parole, and if he “comes clean” on everything, he will be more likely be paroled. And then he can go on talk shows and get paid interviews.

There aren’t any demons. It is a way out of jail and to make money.

Why not now? There is no one size fits all answer to a Q. like this. Who knows what his ulterior motives are, most likely what @zenvelo says. I don;t think he is remorseful or under some born again spell, he’s a pathological narcissist and these types don’t do anything without a payoff of some sort.

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He’s experiencing a deficit of attention.
I think the guy’s just jones’n for a “I’m the center of the Universe” fix. Confessing is a surer bet than finding the Lord or an Anna Nicole Smith to marry.

Regain the public’s attention and he has a shot at a Kardashian.

Why not now? He doesn’t exactly have anything to lose by confessing at this point.

Honestly, while I believe he probably is guilty, had I been sitting on that jury I would have voted for acquittal. The prosecution, in my view, failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.

@zenvelo makes an interesting point, but I am not certain if he is right. Does a person have a better chance of being paroled if he confesses to a crime? If that were the case then why not confess to a crime, regardless of whether you committed it?

I do agree that OJ might be looking for a way of getting back in the public eye. He is not going to be interviewed if he sticks to the same old story, but the confession angle might catch the public’s attention.

Because there would be no consequences for him and he wants to gloat about getting away with murder.

I think a person has a better chance of being paroled if they confess to and express remorse for the crime they are presently incarcerated for.

The obvious reason is that it is another opportunity to part gullible people from their money, and permit an oafish decrepit has-been another shot at celebrity.

Because Trump needs a diversion…. “Hey look over there!”

Simpson is serving time on a kidnapping and armed robbery conviction in Nevada. How would confessing to those murders help his case for parole on that conviction?

@Setanta While not confessing to the murders would not necessarily hinder his parole, confessing to it and “taking responsibility and showing remorse” for the murder would be a demonstration of being fully rehabilitated and on the straight and narrow going forward.

He sure seems relaxed in his latest mugshot.

If he got 33 years for a crime he committed in 2007, I doubt he’d be getting out on parole any time soon.

If you see the ESPN OJ documentary (great documentary, btw, if you’re a documentary fan), you’ll learn that the 33 million he owed to the Goldmans was not coincidentally equivalent to the 33 years he was sentenced to for the 2007 kidnapping.