The 'Kardashian Cover-Up' Theory
In 1996, ABC News'
Barbara Walters asked Simpson's lawyer and longtime friend
Robert Kardashian to address the famous
Louis Vuittongarment bag that he was seen carrying from Simpson's house after the murders -- a bag that many speculated could have contained the murder weapon.
"I went to O.J.'s house just to support him," Kardashian told Walters. "I didn't know he was in Chicago. I just was standing there when he pulled up and walked right in."
Simpson's assistant then came out with the bag.
"I was raised to be a gentleman, I walked over and I said 'let me hold that for you,'" Kardashian said. "And then I walked up to the policeman standing guarding Rockingham and I said, 'I have Mr. Simpson's luggage.' And he said 'You can't come in.' I said, 'But it's his luggage will you take it?' And he said, 'No, you can't come in.'"
So Kardashian took the bag home. He said he then forgot that he had it and the bag "remained in the trunk of my car all night."
He told Walters he never opened it.
"It meant nothing at that point," Kardashian said. "Nothing about the bag came out until after he was arrested. And the bag was sitting, lying open in Mr. Simpson's bedroom in my home. The police were here, searched his room and the bag was lying open, just the way it was when he left."
Kardashian, who died in 2003, said he never saw or carried anything that looked suspicious.
"The police could have taken it [the bag] at any time. They never sought to do so," he said. "In fact when we turned it into the court 9 months later they still never did any tests to see if there was blood. I don't believe they really wanted to know the answer. I think it was better to leave speculation. And to let the public think there was something sinister about these bags."
