Part 10

PART 10: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1998

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THE O.J. COVER-UP -- Part 10
Wasz: From star witness to nobody. Why his story took so long to get out.
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Editor's note: This is the 10th part of an
ongoing series of stories based on a
seven-month WorldNetDaily investigation
into the events surrounding the murder of
Nicole Brown Simpson. The investigation
includes exclusive interviews, conducted
in person and by telephone, with key
witness Bill Wasz, now serving time in a
high-security prison for other crimes.
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By David M. Bresnahan
(c) 1998, WorldNetDaily.com

Camera crews arrived at the Orange County Jail when the media first learned that there was a connection between Bill Wasz and the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. News crews were prevented from talking to
Wasz, an inmate in the jail.

Word was out that a hitman had been found who was hired to kill Nicole. The media frenzy to get the story was underway, but they would not succeed. Only now, five years later, have the facts been found through an exclusive WorldNetDaily investigation.

Wasz claims he was hired to kill Nicole by long-time friend of O.J. Simpson, Robert Kardashian. He was quickly discredited and silenced by both sides in the trial.

The murder had only happened two weeks before Wasz faced a hearing on his pending trial for the armed robberies that landed him in jail six months earlier.

A bailiff came to the holding cell to get Wasz and take him to the courtroom.

"So you're the murderer," he stated as he escorted Wasz. At the time, Wasz didn't understand what he was talking about.

The camera crews were outside while a closed hearing was held in the courtroom. Wasz was told he would face 37 years in prison on all the charges facing him, or he could accept 20 years if he would plead
guilty and avoid a trial.

"I felt they had me in a corner," said Wasz as he recalled the event. "Since the murders had just taken place, they seemed very adamant about getting out of the spotlight. On every table sat a Time magazine with O.J.'s picture on it.

"It wasn't until much later that I figured out that they had been informed by L.A. to shuffle me off out of the picture."

Immediately after the hearing, Wasz was shuffled off to Donovan Correctional Center in San Diego. All mail addressed to him there was returned and news crews were told he didn't exist. Wasz did get some visitors who found him easily however.

"They did send some of their best detectives down to see me and tell me they 'knew everything.' Well, I told them that if they knew so much, what did they need me for? Confirmation of course," explained Wasz.

With the prospect of 20 years of prison in front of him, Wasz told the investigators who came to interrogate him that he wanted a deal.

What he didn't realize was that the police did not want to make a deal. They wanted to be sure that Wasz didn't plan to talk. He wouldn't talk to them, and they made sure no one else got in to talk to Wasz.

He was doing just exactly what they hoped he would do. He was refusing to talk without a deal. To be certain reporters didn't get to him, they made sure that his mail was refused, the prison denied he was an inmate, and Wasz could only make one five-minute phone call a month.

>From Donovan he was moved on to Calipatria State Prison where he still remains. Mail now gets through, and he gets one phone call a day. News crews are still not permitted into the prison, and it took months of work before WorldNetDaily was permitted to meet personally with Wasz.

Wasz had retained the services of Larry Longo, a former assistant Los Angeles County district attorney. Joseph Bosco, crime writer, served as Longo's investigator. Together they gathered evidence and found witnesses to substantiate the claims made by Wasz.

In April, WorldNetDaily was given a copy of an attorney proffer letter sent by Longo to deputy district attorney Curtis Hazell. That letter detailed the claims that Wasz had been hired to kill Nicole.

Despite a phone conversation between Longo and Hazell with promises made to interview Wasz, nothing had happened.

"They've known about this for too long without doing anything. It's time for the truth, whatever it is, to come out."

WorldNetDaily began a detailed investigation, which is still underway. Initial articles published in April and May led to two separate interviews with Wasz by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department during the summer.

The first interview was very straightforward and simple. Two detectives from LAPD placed a suitcase on the table, pushed a button on the side of it, and told Wasz they were recording the interview.

"You don't need a suitcase that size for a tape recorder. I'm no fool. That thing was more than a recorder and they didn't want me to see it. That was a voice stress analyzer," said Wasz.

They asked him to state freely what he knew and what happened. He complied in full, holding nothing back. There were no deals made, and nothing was asked for by Wasz.

"They asked me a few questions as I went along, but they mostly listened," he said.

They asked Wasz to describe things in greater detail as he told his story, and they showed him copies of the note pad with notations about Nicole. Wasz was able to tell them that the phone numbers (blacked out in the copy here) belonged to Nicole, O.J. and Robert Kardashian.

"They seemed quite happy. I honestly believe those two detectives didn't want this investigation to stop," said Wasz.

There was no challenge made to Wasz overany of the statements he made. The onlyquestions asked were for clarification andgreater detail.

A month later the same detectives returned with a lie detector. Wasz agreed to take the test, and they prepared the equipment and hooked him up.

Wasz says he was told he would be asked only eight questions, and that he would be asked them again two additional times. He said the administrator of the test indicated that he was doing just fine, but doing well seemed to upset the detectives.

There were several times they all moved out of listening range to discuss the test. Each time the administrator would return and ask more questions -- far more than the three sets of eight they planned at the beginning.

Finally the operator stated that his computer was now "out of memory" and the interview would have to end. They promised to "process" the results and let Wasz know how he did.

"I've never heard from them again," said Wasz. His lawyer did.

Longo and Bosco were told that Wasz flunked the test badly, and they were so discouraged that they have discontinued their efforts to pursue the case. Longo was present for the test and said that Wasz did not flunk.

"Only a handful of cops and district attorneys know of the existence of the material fact and the suppression by the higher-ups. So what comes out in the general and manipulated media is only what they condone or see fit to release -- which, at this point, is nothing. They simply refuse to even speak of me. They neither confirm or deny any information that is put to them. Why? Because when you deny a fact, a fact that can be substantiated, then one risks their professional reputation and/or career. So why bother when the mainstream media refuses to publish or broadcast the facts.

"The worst insult is that the keepers of our illustrious justice system are in complicity with murderers," said Wasz.

"From my vantage point, all I see is a couple of district attorneys, cops, lawyers, and witnesses who made themselves a few million dollars from the case," he explained.

"So, what is going on downtown is a lottery system where they all wait, hope, and pray that a notoriety case falls in their laps.

"In all my prison days I have yet to meet an inmate who commits a crime in hopes of getting caught so that they get a book deal. But on the other hand, the district attorneys and cops wait and pray silently for that day when they can profit from someone else's tragedy and crimes.

"Not only did I threaten to disturb the prosecution's already proclaimed case, but I threatened their retirement deals."

The LAPD and district attorney have been contacted repeatedly by WorldNetDaily and have never responded.