Ron Goldman was murdered by O.J. Simpson
Assume that JonBenet Ramsey was murdered by an intruder or group of intruders (SFF)?
If your child were murdered, would your reaction be closer to that of the Ramsey’s or would it be similar to that of Fred and Kim Goldman
The “grief” and “anger” of the Ramseys:
One of John Ramsey’s first acts was to call his lawyer
John Ramsey’s demeanor when he initially greeted Arndt was cordial.
Arndt says that the Ramsey's did not spend those morning hours in each other’s company, but that Patsy stayed in the sunroom with friends and John stayed mostly in his den, and read his mail in the kitchen.
Thirty-seven minutes after finding JonBenet's body, a detective overheard John Ramsey talking by phone to his pilot and arranging a trip to Atlanta that evening for himself, his wife and son.
…
Something seemed odd to French, and later he would recall how the grieving mother's eyes stayed riveted on him. He remembered her gaze, and her awkward attempt to conceal it- peering at him through splayed fingers held over her eyes.
…
Though they were faced with the most calamitous tragedy of their lives, he did not see them console each other. But it was the image of Patsy weeping and watching him that haunted French, especially after he learned that she had been sitting directly over the spot-less than 15 feet below-where her child's body lay.
The grief and anger of the Goldman family:
"Did you love your son?" attorney Daniel M. Petrocelli asked gently.
"Oh God, yes," Goldman answered, gripping a tissue.
"Do you miss him?" Petrocelli asked.
The barely audible answer: "More than you can imagine."
Twice, Goldman's anger burst through his grief and he turned fiercely to stare at Simpson, who sat somberly at the defense table looking straight ahead. Both moments came while Goldman was recounting Ron's dream of opening a restaurant. Ron had designed the floor plan, he told jurors, in the shape of the Egyptian ankh symbol. He wore the same symbol on a necklace. Sobbing openly, Goldman explained: "It stands for eternal life."
He shot a venomous glance at Simpson, then added: "He doesn't wear it anymore."
Goldman was the 65th and final witness to testify for the plaintiffs. Simpson's team then launched its defense by calling a familiar figure: former Los Angeles Police Det. Philip L. Vannatter.
Seven months later, he was slain--stabbed more than 30 times in his head, neck, chest and legs and left to die draped over a tree stump near the bloodied body of Nicole Simpson. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him," Goldman said. "My life will never, ever be the same."
-Simpson Civil Trial
Juanita: And you actually, in what I just said, you actually don’t use OJ’s name, you refer to him as “the killer”?
Kim: Yes, I haven’t heard his name since 1994 probably.
Juanita: Is that right? So tell me about that. Why not use his name?
Kim: … it frustrates me and I think he’s a killer. He murdered my brother, he stabbed him in the heart and he nearly decapitated Nicole. That’s what he is.
Fred: And additionally, I would add that when people use his name which are his initials, I think they think of him as this “ex-big-deal-football-player” and the bottom line is that’s not who he really is. Who he really is is a vicious murderer.
…No, I think as Kim said, Pablo virtually verifies everything that we’ve known for years. That he’s a monster.
Kim: You’re incredibly articulate, Dad. I echo everything that you just said. I also want to add specifically as it relates to this specific book that I hope that the next time someone goes to shake his hand or get an autograph from him that they are reminded that those are the hands that killed two people. And I hope that our efforts and the efforts of this country to ensure that justice prevails that he is pushed into a state of exile and you know and that he just sort of falls by the wayside. That would be fantastic for us.
http://www.readerviews.com/InterviewGoldman.html
Goldman tells Inside Scoop Live he believes the book to be Simpson’s admission of guilt and confession. “[The public] will learn in his own words what kind of monster he is,” Fred says. “This man is a monster and a piece of trash, calling him a murderer is not enough.”
http://www.insidescooplive.com/author-pages/Goldman-Fred-Kim-reading-interview.html
14 years after the death of Ron Goldman, there is more rage evident than was ever shown by the Ramseys.
Would people who suffered a similar loss be more likely to compare their feelings to that of the Ramseys or would they be more likely to experience the pain and anguish of the Goldmans?
Here is an example of one person who suffered similar loss:
For me, the most haunting and lasting images from that whole ghastly saga are those of Fred Goldman, who bravely and tearfully faced the media and the entire country night after night, and how we wept along with him as we shared his pain, anguish and heartbreak over the devastating loss of the handsome, promising son he loved so much. So to have Simpson, the murderous beast, get off scot free was simply unthinkable.
Watching the Goldmans and the Browns live out this horrific nightmare so publicly, I could not imagine what it must've been like to be them. It was all so unfathomable to me. Until the night of November 1, 2006, when I was thrust into my own nightmare when I found my wife, the actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, the love of my life, brutally murdered in her Greenwich Village office. And in that split second, as Joan Didion wrote in The Year of Magical Thinking, life as I knew it was over. I no longer had to imagine what it was like to be Fred Goldman. I was Fred Goldman.
I will skip the gory details, which are just a mouse-click away for anyone who's interested. Though Adrienne's killer, Diego Pilco, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and received a sentence of just 25 years without parole--not the murder conviction and 25-to-life we hoped for--justice was served on some level. While there's no such thing as true closure, and one can never truly ever forget such tragedy, my family and I could at least begin to move on with our lives knowing that our soulless, murderous beast would be locked away in prison, in solitary, for a very long time. The Goldmans and the Browns were not afforded this peace of mind
http://www.ostroyreport.com/2008/12/butcher-of-bundy-finally-goes-to-prison.html
Let’s switch names and see if the story sounds believable. You decide.
For me, the most haunting and lasting images from that whole ghastly saga are those of John Ramsey, who bravely and tearfully faced the media and the entire country night after night, and how we wept along with him as we shared his pain, anguish and heartbreak over the devastating loss of the handsome, promising daughter he loved so much. So to have the SFF, those murderous beasts, get off scot free was simply unthinkable.
Watching the Ramseys live out this horrific nightmare so publicly, I could not imagine what it must've been like to be them. It was all so unfathomable to me. Until the night of November 1, 2006, when I was thrust into my own nightmare when I found my wife, the actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, the love of my life, brutally murdered in her Greenwich Village office. And in that split second, as Joan Didion wrote in The Year of Magical Thinking, life as I knew it was over. I no longer had to imagine what it was like to be John Ramsey. I was John Ramsey.
I will skip the gory details, which are just a mouse-click away for anyone who's interested. Though Adrienne's killer, Diego Pilco, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and received a sentence of just 25 years without parole--not the murder conviction and 25-to-life we hoped for--justice was served on some level. While there's no such thing as true closure, and one can never truly ever forget such tragedy, my family and I could at least begin to move on with our lives knowing that our soulless, murderous beast would be locked away in prison, in solitary, for a very long time. The Ramseys were not afforded this peace of mind
Assume that JonBenet Ramsey was murdered by an intruder or group of intruders (SFF)?
If your child were murdered, would your reaction be closer to that of the Ramsey’s or would it be similar to that of Fred and Kim Goldman
The “grief” and “anger” of the Ramseys:
One of John Ramsey’s first acts was to call his lawyer
John Ramsey’s demeanor when he initially greeted Arndt was cordial.
Arndt says that the Ramsey's did not spend those morning hours in each other’s company, but that Patsy stayed in the sunroom with friends and John stayed mostly in his den, and read his mail in the kitchen.
Thirty-seven minutes after finding JonBenet's body, a detective overheard John Ramsey talking by phone to his pilot and arranging a trip to Atlanta that evening for himself, his wife and son.
…
Something seemed odd to French, and later he would recall how the grieving mother's eyes stayed riveted on him. He remembered her gaze, and her awkward attempt to conceal it- peering at him through splayed fingers held over her eyes.
…
Though they were faced with the most calamitous tragedy of their lives, he did not see them console each other. But it was the image of Patsy weeping and watching him that haunted French, especially after he learned that she had been sitting directly over the spot-less than 15 feet below-where her child's body lay.
The grief and anger of the Goldman family:
"Did you love your son?" attorney Daniel M. Petrocelli asked gently.
"Oh God, yes," Goldman answered, gripping a tissue.
"Do you miss him?" Petrocelli asked.
The barely audible answer: "More than you can imagine."
Twice, Goldman's anger burst through his grief and he turned fiercely to stare at Simpson, who sat somberly at the defense table looking straight ahead. Both moments came while Goldman was recounting Ron's dream of opening a restaurant. Ron had designed the floor plan, he told jurors, in the shape of the Egyptian ankh symbol. He wore the same symbol on a necklace. Sobbing openly, Goldman explained: "It stands for eternal life."
He shot a venomous glance at Simpson, then added: "He doesn't wear it anymore."
Goldman was the 65th and final witness to testify for the plaintiffs. Simpson's team then launched its defense by calling a familiar figure: former Los Angeles Police Det. Philip L. Vannatter.
Seven months later, he was slain--stabbed more than 30 times in his head, neck, chest and legs and left to die draped over a tree stump near the bloodied body of Nicole Simpson. "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him," Goldman said. "My life will never, ever be the same."
-Simpson Civil Trial
Juanita: And you actually, in what I just said, you actually don’t use OJ’s name, you refer to him as “the killer”?
Kim: Yes, I haven’t heard his name since 1994 probably.
Juanita: Is that right? So tell me about that. Why not use his name?
Kim: … it frustrates me and I think he’s a killer. He murdered my brother, he stabbed him in the heart and he nearly decapitated Nicole. That’s what he is.
Fred: And additionally, I would add that when people use his name which are his initials, I think they think of him as this “ex-big-deal-football-player” and the bottom line is that’s not who he really is. Who he really is is a vicious murderer.
…No, I think as Kim said, Pablo virtually verifies everything that we’ve known for years. That he’s a monster.
Kim: You’re incredibly articulate, Dad. I echo everything that you just said. I also want to add specifically as it relates to this specific book that I hope that the next time someone goes to shake his hand or get an autograph from him that they are reminded that those are the hands that killed two people. And I hope that our efforts and the efforts of this country to ensure that justice prevails that he is pushed into a state of exile and you know and that he just sort of falls by the wayside. That would be fantastic for us.
http://www.readerviews.com/InterviewGoldman.html
Goldman tells Inside Scoop Live he believes the book to be Simpson’s admission of guilt and confession. “[The public] will learn in his own words what kind of monster he is,” Fred says. “This man is a monster and a piece of trash, calling him a murderer is not enough.”
http://www.insidescooplive.com/author-pages/Goldman-Fred-Kim-reading-interview.html
14 years after the death of Ron Goldman, there is more rage evident than was ever shown by the Ramseys.
Would people who suffered a similar loss be more likely to compare their feelings to that of the Ramseys or would they be more likely to experience the pain and anguish of the Goldmans?
Here is an example of one person who suffered similar loss:
For me, the most haunting and lasting images from that whole ghastly saga are those of Fred Goldman, who bravely and tearfully faced the media and the entire country night after night, and how we wept along with him as we shared his pain, anguish and heartbreak over the devastating loss of the handsome, promising son he loved so much. So to have Simpson, the murderous beast, get off scot free was simply unthinkable.
Watching the Goldmans and the Browns live out this horrific nightmare so publicly, I could not imagine what it must've been like to be them. It was all so unfathomable to me. Until the night of November 1, 2006, when I was thrust into my own nightmare when I found my wife, the actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, the love of my life, brutally murdered in her Greenwich Village office. And in that split second, as Joan Didion wrote in The Year of Magical Thinking, life as I knew it was over. I no longer had to imagine what it was like to be Fred Goldman. I was Fred Goldman.
I will skip the gory details, which are just a mouse-click away for anyone who's interested. Though Adrienne's killer, Diego Pilco, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and received a sentence of just 25 years without parole--not the murder conviction and 25-to-life we hoped for--justice was served on some level. While there's no such thing as true closure, and one can never truly ever forget such tragedy, my family and I could at least begin to move on with our lives knowing that our soulless, murderous beast would be locked away in prison, in solitary, for a very long time. The Goldmans and the Browns were not afforded this peace of mind
http://www.ostroyreport.com/2008/12/butcher-of-bundy-finally-goes-to-prison.html
Let’s switch names and see if the story sounds believable. You decide.
For me, the most haunting and lasting images from that whole ghastly saga are those of John Ramsey, who bravely and tearfully faced the media and the entire country night after night, and how we wept along with him as we shared his pain, anguish and heartbreak over the devastating loss of the handsome, promising daughter he loved so much. So to have the SFF, those murderous beasts, get off scot free was simply unthinkable.
Watching the Ramseys live out this horrific nightmare so publicly, I could not imagine what it must've been like to be them. It was all so unfathomable to me. Until the night of November 1, 2006, when I was thrust into my own nightmare when I found my wife, the actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, the love of my life, brutally murdered in her Greenwich Village office. And in that split second, as Joan Didion wrote in The Year of Magical Thinking, life as I knew it was over. I no longer had to imagine what it was like to be John Ramsey. I was John Ramsey.
I will skip the gory details, which are just a mouse-click away for anyone who's interested. Though Adrienne's killer, Diego Pilco, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and received a sentence of just 25 years without parole--not the murder conviction and 25-to-life we hoped for--justice was served on some level. While there's no such thing as true closure, and one can never truly ever forget such tragedy, my family and I could at least begin to move on with our lives knowing that our soulless, murderous beast would be locked away in prison, in solitary, for a very long time. The Ramseys were not afforded this peace of mind