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Nicole Brown Simpson’s family recalls the "nightmare we lived" in the aftermath of the double slayings. In the final two episodes of the Lifetime docuseries , which aired June 2, the family and friends of O.J.

Simpson’s slain ex-wife talked about her funeral and his infamous car chase and arrest. Nicole’s sister Denise Brown said it was a real-life “nightmare,” including handing over the couple’s two children, Sydney and Justin, to O.J.



Simpson after he was acquitted. In episodes 3 and 4, there were never-before-heard details about the investigation into the killings of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994 — including how a set of keys from Nicole’s L.A.

home that had gone missing were found in a bag in O.J.’s Bronco.

Here’s what we learned from episodes 3 and 4. Denise called it a “nightmare” burying her sister while her former brother-in-law was being investigated but not yet arrested. He also attended the wake.

She wept talking about having to find a turtleneck to bury Nicole in because she had been “almost decapitated.” Nicole’s friend Robin Greer remembered O.J.

standing over the coffin, saying, “Nicole, I’m so sorry” over and over, feeling like it was a confession. O.J.

asked Nicole’s sister Dominique to walk up to the casket with him (“Why me?” she remembered thinking). While kneeling together, she said he was consumed with asking about a ring he had given to Nicole, wanting to know where it was. Denise recalled O.

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