Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 - June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal trials in U.S. history. The daughter of Juditha and Louis Brown, Nicole (like her older sister) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but the family moved to Dana Point, California, where she grew up, …

Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 - June 12, 1994) was an aspiring actor and part-time model who was murdered in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 at the age of 25. Also found murdered was his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. The subsequent criminal investigation and trial was called by some the "trial of the century".

Mark Fuhrman (born February 5, 1952) is a former detective in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who found the bloody glove at the scene of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. He also found a matching glove in the yard of the O.J. Simpson home. In 1970, Fuhrman enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 18. He was honorably discharged in 1975 after attaining the rank of sergeant. He later joined the LAPD as a police officer, …

Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 - March 29, 2005) was a defense attorney best known for his role in the legal defense for O.J. Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. Cochran also represented Sean "Diddy" Combs (during his trial on gun and bribery charges), Michael Jackson, actor Todd Bridges, football player Jim Brown and rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg as well as Reginald Oliver Denny, …

Marcia Rachel Clark (born 31 August 1953) was a prosecutor for the State of California, County of Los Angeles in the O.J. Simpson murder case along with Christopher Darden. With Teresa Carpenter, she authored a book, "Without a Doubt", about the case, in a deal reported to be worth $4.2 million. Clark was on leave from her job following Simpson's acquittal in 1995, and officially resigned in 1997, before the release of her book.

Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito.

Christopher Allen Darden (born April 7, 1956) is an American lawyer and fifteen-year veteran of the LA County District Attorney's office. He was, along with Marcia Clark, a prosecuting attorney in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. He received criticism during the trial from legal observers. His worst blunder may have been his request that Simpson try on the "bloody gloves," which seemed not to fit. Darden received a B.A. from San Jose State University, …

Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists. Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in 1960 from the Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history.

Brian "Kato" Kaelin (born March 9 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American aspiring actor who received considerable notoriety due to his peripheral involvement in events surrounding the 1994-95 O.J. Simpson murder case. His name has become something of a byword, as a textbook example of Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame.

Robert Leslie Shapiro, is a high-profile attorney who is most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman in 1994 (the trial was in 1995). He also worked for famous athletes Darryl Strawberry, José Canseco and Vince Coleman as well as other celebrities like Johnny Carson and Linda Lovelace.

Barry C. Scheck (b. September 19, 1949 in Queens, NY) is an American lawyer. Although he received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder trial, Scheck's more influential legal work lies in his dedication to exposing wrongful convictions as director of the Innocence Project.

Robert Kardashian was a defense lawyer in the trial of O.J. Simpson. Following reports about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings returned from Chicago and were met at the airport by Robert Kardashian who handled Simpson's luggage, some of which was never seen again. In the days following the murder, O.J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house. When O.J. Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, Kardashian, …

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, …

Michael Baden is a board-certified forensic pathologist and medical doctor. Baden is the host of HBO's "Autopsy". Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1959. Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.

Bruno Magli is an Italian shoemaker, designing and handcrafting high quality luxury shoes and accessories.

Gilbert "Gil" Garcetti (b. August 5, 1941) served as Los Angeles County's 39th District Attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000.

Peter Neufeld is an American lawyer and is most famous as a cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project. With Scheck and Jim Dwyer he co-authored "Actual Innocence"; with Scheck and Taryn Simon he co-authored "The Innocents". In 1995 and 2000, he was appointed to serve on the New York State Commission on Forensic Science by then-Governor George Pataki. A partner in the law firm Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, …

Denise Brown (born July 29, 1957) is the older sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, who was found murdered along with her friend Ronald Goldman. Nicole's former husband, O.J. Simpson, was accused of the murder. Born in Germany to an American serviceman father and German mother, Denise grew up in Dana Point, California along with her younger sisters Nicole, Dominique, and Tanya Brown. Denise Brown "led a life remarkable only in its normalcy until June 12, 1994, …

Rosa López was a housekeeper from El Salvador and a witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The defense originally hoped that López' testimony would provide an alibi because she had reported having seen Simpson's Ford Bronco parked outside his estate in Rockingham around the approximate time of the murder (around 10:15 pm). Asserting that she wanted to return her native El Salvador because of death threats, …

Al Cowlings (born June 16 1947 in San Francisco, California) first gained fame as an American football player, but is also known for his role in the saga of O.J. Simpson's murder trial. He played in the NFL between 1970 and 1979 for the Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, and San Francisco 49ers. Cowlings and Simpson were teammates at Galileo High School, San Francisco City College, …

Allan Park was a limousine driver in Los Angeles, California who is noted for his testimony in the O.J. Simpson murder case.

Gerald Uelmen was named one of the "100 Top Lawyers" in California for the second year in a row by the Daily Journal. In June of 2008, he concluded his work as Executive Director of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. This past year, he drafted reports on the California death penalty, Professional Responsibility of Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers, and Remedies for the Wrongfully Convicted for the Commission.

Faye Resnick was the best friend of Nicole Brown Simpson. She testified in the civil suit of Fred Goldman vs. O.J. Simpson. She claimed that O.J. Simpson stalked his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in the months before she was killed with her friend Ronald Goldman. She claimed that O.J. Simpson used cocaine. O.J.'s defense team said Nicole and Ron may have been killed by drug dealers to scare Resnick to pay her drug debt.

Paula Barbieri is an American actress. She is best known for being O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend prior to and throughout his 1995/96 murder trial.

Francis Lee Bailey Jr., commonly referred to as F. Lee Bailey (born June 10, 1933, in Waltham, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer prior to his disbarment. He served as a defense lawyer in the Sam Sheppard re-trial, the court martial of Captain Ernest Medina, and the O.J. Simpson trial. Bailey has also had a number of visible defeats, legal controversies, and personal trouble with the law.