OJ Simpson murder trial witness Kato Kaelin reveals Barbara Walters' shock ... trends now
OJ Simpson murder trial witness Brian 'Kato' Kaelin has revealed Barbara Walters' reaction when the NFL star was found not guilty in his 1995 murder trial.
Kaelin, 65, found fast fame for his role as Simpson's houseguest amid the international publicity surrounding the murders of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, followed by the infamous low-speed chase and subsequent double murder trial, which he was a witness in.
Speaking with People Monday - less than two weeks after Simpson's death at 76 from cancer - Kaelin said at the time the verdicts were read, he was sitting alongside Walters as they prepared "for a segment for ABC's 20/20.
'It was just her and I sitting and she asked me, "What do you think of the decision?" I just say, "I think the jury made a mistake,"' Kaelin said he told the late broadcast journalist, who died at 93 on December 30, 2022.
Kaelin added: 'I think that she agreed. I think she kind of nodded, and that was really about it.'
OJ Simpson murder trial witness Brian 'Kato' Kaelin has revealed Barbara Walters' reaction when the NFL star was found not guilty in his 1995 murder trial- Kaelin pictured in 2019
Simpson expressed relief as the not guilty verdicts were read on October 3, 1995, while flanked by members of his legal 'Dream Team,' (L-R) F. Lee Bailey, Robert Kardashian and Johnnie Cochrane, all of whom have passed in the 29 years since the end of the trial
Kaelin said that he was friendly with the late television personality, who co-created The View, as they went out to dinner on multiple occasions.
'By that time when I sat next to her,' Kaelin told the outlet, 'we had already seen each other three or four times on shows or when she visited Los Angeles.'
In the criminal trial, Kaelin told the court he had heard a bump outside on the night of the double murders, and saw Simpson in his yard.
The case's prosecutors said that Kaelin's recollections established that Simpson had re-entered his estate in the wake of the deadly encounter.
Speaking to People Monday, Kaelin said he 'thought [Simpson] was a guilty person'
