According to the autopsy report conducted on Nicole Brown Simpson’s remains, her attacker stabbed her seven times in the scalp and neck. Cuts on her hands indicated that she had tried to fight back against her killer. The largest wound on her body was a gruesome slash across her throat that was over five inches long. The cut severed the carotid arteries on both sides of her neck, as well as her jugular veins. It was so deep that the knife left a mark on one of her vertebrae. Nicole was also stabbed four times on the left side of the neck.
During O.J. Simpson’s trial, medical examiner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran detailed how Nicole’s face was smashed into a wall when she was attacked, per the Tampa Bay Times. She ended up face-down on the ground, and her killer likely delivered the fatal neck wound by grabbing her hair and slashing her throat. “She was alive at least a minute or more before the last wound was inflicted,” Sathyavagiswaran said, per the Chicago Tribune. He revealed that Brown likely died in a matter of minutes afterward, saying, “She would have gone into rapid shock.” According to The New York Times, detective Tom Lange testified that the assailant likely killed Brown before murdering Ron Goldman, citing the lack of blood from the crime scene on the bottoms of her feet.
