File 100
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Central Police Evidence Store, south London, Tuesday, 10:10 pm. During the night count, box 1996/0447 went missing from cage C in the basement.
Inside it was a leather glove from the Whitmore case, a jewellery shop robbery in 1996. Early tomorrow the glove was going to a DNA test requested by the criminal case review of the convicted man.
The cage only opens with a badge. The system logged the badge of clerk Gwendolyn Pryce at 9:22 pm. Since the count, the building has been locked and no one has left.
Three people were in the basement tonight. One of them knows where the glove ended up.
The store's consultation room, shelves of sealed boxes, a fluorescent tube flickering over the metal table.
Suspects
Gwendolyn PryceEvidence store clerk, 48
Reginald AshcombeRetired detective, 71
Chidi OkaforLab forensic scientist, 35
The real case
The glove in the O. J. Simpson case and DNA reviews
Los Angeles, United States, 1995
This case is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events in the game do not portray real people. The account below is a factual summary, based on public sources, of the case that served as inspiration.
At the 1995 trial of O. J. Simpson for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, a bloody leather glove found on his property by detective Mark Fuhrman became the center of the case. The defense argued that the evidence might have been planted and, in a famous scene, the glove did not fit the defendant's hand. Simpson was acquitted. Fuhrman was later convicted of perjury for having denied at trial that he had used racist slurs.
In the decades that followed, DNA tests carried out years after conviction overturned verdicts in several countries, as in the reviews conducted in the United Kingdom by the commission that reexamines convictions.
The game borrows the glove as evidence possibly planted by a detective and the late DNA test that can change the outcome of a case. The destruction of the evidence, the characters and the outcome are fiction.
Sources
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- criminal case review
- In the UK, the official reexamination of a past conviction that may be a miscarriage of justice.