That didn’t feel right to me. Simpson had packed a knife with a blade at least five inches long, along with cashmere-lined winter gloves and a ski cap—in the middle of June. This went beyond intent to scare. It was a plan to commit murder. It may well have been that the food run Simpson had taken with Kato was part of the planning, too. It seemed out of character for him to dash out for fast food with a houseguest cum lackey. “Remember,” I told my colleagues, recalling what Kato had said about that night, “Simpson had never done that before. The whole thing has the feeling of an alibi setup.”
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