22 ч 51 мин, 12 июн 1994 г. - Kato Kaelin hears three thumps on the wall

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10:51pm or 10:52pm O.J.'s houseguest, Kato Kato is staying in the guesthouse, and while he's talking on the phone, he hears three thumps on the wall outside his room.

THUMPS SOUNDED LIKE 'SOMEONE FALLING'
By William Claiborne; Sharon Waxman November 20, 1996

O.J. Simpson's houseboy, Brian "Kato" Kaelin, testified today that the thumps he heard the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman were murdered sounded like "someone falling back behind my bedroom wall."

During Simpson's criminal trial and an earlier preliminary hearing, Kaelin repeatedly testified that he thought the noises may have been caused by an earthquake and not a person.

Kaelin also testified today that the day after the murders, Simpson said to him, "You saw me go into the house" after the two had returned to the Simpson estate from a visit to a McDonald's the previous night within an hour of the estimated time of the slayings.

"I said, No, I didn't,' " Kaelin testified. When asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli in the civil suit against Simpson why he had given that response, Kaelin replied: "Because I didn't." The suggestion left with the jurors was that Simpson was seeking to establish an alibi for the time of the murders.

In a reprise of his testimony at the criminal trial last year in which Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend, Kaelin recounted the familiar details of the nocturnal noises behind the former football star's guest house.

But Kaelin's testimony today was the first time the would-be actor and occasional radio talk-show host directly linked the thumping noises to a person falling against the guest house. Prosecutors had contended the noises were made by Simpson crashing into a wall air conditioner as he climbed over a backyard fence after returning from the murder scene.

In contrast to his somewhat flippant and at times farcical demeanor during his appearances at the criminal trial, Kaelin today appeared older, thinner and more businesslike as Petrocelli peppered him with questions intended to prove that Simpson was not watching television or outside chipping golf balls at the time of the murders, as the celebrity defendant has maintained.

Kaelin, who was shaggy-haired and unkempt at the criminal trial, today showed up in a tie and sport jacket, his hair cut and neatly combed.

Kaelin said he heard no sound of golf balls being hit and no doors opening or closing, and heard or saw nothing indicating the presence of anyone on the property, except for the thumping noises.

Kaelin also told the jury for the first time that the day before the June 1994 murders, Simpson brooded over his ex-wife's sexual adventures and recounted seeing her having sex on a couch at her town house condominium with a former boyfriend.

He and Simpson were watching the movie "The World According to Garp" when there was a scene depicting oral sex, Kaelin said, and Simpson blurted out that it reminded him of the night in April 1992, when he watched through a window while his wife performed oral sex on the man.

Like the prosecutors before them, the attorneys for the families of Nicole Simpson and Goldman, who are suing for unspecified money damages, are seeking to prove that Simpson committed the murders in a jealous rage.

Kaelin also testified that Simpson complained just hours before the murders that his ex-wife was "playing hardball" over Simpson's access to their daughter, Sydney.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Robert Baker grilled Kaelin on details of his relationship with Simpson, seeking to establish that he was rarely permitted inside the main house of the estate in fashionable Brentwood and that the two men seldom saw each other because of Simpson's frequent business travel. Special correspondent Cassandra Stern contributed to this report. CAPTION: Brian "Kato" Kaelin, left, arrives at court with Goldman family attorney Daniel Petrocelli.


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The Washinton Post

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