Crime scene analyst Matthew Steiner answers the internet’s burning questions about forensics and crime scenes. Why don’t we use chalk outlines for dead bodies anymore? How did OJ Simpson get acquitted? How many people got away with murder before DNA evidence? How does height affect blood spatter? Matt answers all these questions and much more!
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Oj was acquitted because they didn’t want a second LA Riot to happen. Whether people would rise up because they convicted OJ is a whole nother question, but I have a feeling that the jury was kind of spooked. You can even reverse that and say if those police officers that had beat Rodney King were actually convicted, would there have been an LA riot and would OJ have been convicted also? I don’t know, it’s all just hindsight at this point.
Did someone just ask him to make a c*ke wrap?
OJ murders…ther is no ” IF” he did it….
8:43 no one knew about DNA in 1994? I think they did mate.
He meant the public didn’t really know about it.
Back then DNA wasn’t really around
8:48 Dude. The first DNA evidence was used in court in 1986. The LAPD was asleep at the wheel.
3:00 Yup.Somene didn’t watch Dexter!
4:13 Also known, among other names, as the “Chicago typewritter”.
08:00 – the “funny” thing about the whole OJ Simpson case is how much evidence the prosecutors had but simply chose not to enter because they were so sure the DNA evidence would be enough.
8:08 The LA Police Department was so very incompetent, they couldn’t even frame a guilty man! Honestly, it wasn’t that OJ won that case so much as it was the LA Police Department lost it.
I really liked oj. So happy he was aquitted
9:00 bro doesn’t even mention the planted evidence 😂
Stop putting those fake keyboard clicking noises on these videos
Not true here’s the story of two people having the same fingerprints
A man living in Switzerland was arrested because authorities believed he was Krsto Vujić, a Montenegrin man wanted for murder and organized-crime activity.
The arrest happened after fingerprints taken in Switzerland were reported to match the fingerprints in an INTERPOL Red Notice for Vujić.
The Swiss police arrested him and prepared to extradite him.
But when Montenegrin INTERPOL officers flew to Switzerland to confirm the identity in person, they immediately realized:
The arrested man was not Vujić at all.
He was a completely different man — reportedly a Slovenian citizen — who had never been involved in the crime or the gang.
This raised a major scandal because:
• The fingerprints supposedly matched several times
• The man had never been in Montenegro, the country where the murder happened
Shot spotter comment aged very poorly.
OJ was acquitted through jury nullification. Plain and simple.
Theres no such thing as forensic science. It’s a made up term for uneducated cops to sound intelligent when they are hired mainly for being low IQ according to SCOTUS.
There’s at least three famous cases of somebody having the same fingerprints as a criminal.
mark Furman lied on the stand and OJ got off because of his testimony.
What’s the difference between blood splatter and blood spatter ?
OJ was acquitted because of black jurors.
The Fingerprint Point is not true. We know for some time now that fingerprints are not unique. There was a majo case in england were this lead to a wrongfull conviction. With better methods of comparing them it got better but even in 2024 a study found that there are still examples of simillar ones.