In the nearly half a century-long history of Gallup polling, the only people or institutions that have been more unpopular than the current Congress are Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Mark Fuhrman, a detective in the O.J. Simpson...

Vannatter was born in Griffithsville, West Virginia. His father was a coal miner who died when Philip was a boy. He moved with his mother

Nicole Simpson in the Brentwood section of the city on June 13, 1994. There he found the slashed corpses of Nicole Simpson, the former wife of O.J. Simpson, the football star and broadcaster; and a young acquaintance, Goldman. After surveying the scene,...

Dismissed,” written with Dan E. Moldea, saying that the documentation they provided for Mr. Simpson’s guilt was a solid “mountain of evidence” and that defense lawyers, led by the flamboyant Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. , “used a handful of police errors and...

"He was really hurt and dejected by allegations that he mishandled the crime scene and mishandled the blood vial, but he was a kind man with a big heart. I never heard him say a cross word about anyone on the defense team." Vannatter was perhaps more...

Soon she was headed to the studio in a livery car, tapping furiously on her BlackBerry and strategizing with Tom Lowell, a producer of the show. "That's good, our viewers know him and will be interested," she said, referring to Mark Fuhrman, the O.J....