Simpson Shoe Patterns

The bloody crime scene revealed bloody shoe impressions along the concrete walkway up to the front door of her condo. These shoe impressions were of extremely high quality and of elaborate detail. The news media broadcast countless images of these bloody shoeprints on television, making it obvious to the killer that those shoes would surely link him to the crime. Since the pattern was very clear and distinct with associated toe-to-heel detail, this seemed a simple task at first to investigators. The pattern was compared to the thousands of sole patterns in the FBI’s database, None matched. After exhaustive research, the shoe patterns were expensive, Italian-made casual dress shoes with a sole made from a synthetic material. After looking in the high-end stores for a similar pattern, a composite sketch of the sole was drawn and faxed to law enforcement agencies and shoe manufacturers and distributors …show more content…
There were two styles of shoe bearing this exact sole design, the Lorenzo and Lyon style. They were available for only a few years, and from a mere forty stores in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Lorenzo style shoe had a boot-like upper that came to the ankle. Due to the fact, that the impressions were made by a size 12 shoe, it was later determined that only 299 pairs of size 12 with this trend pattern were sold in United States. Simpson denied ever owning these shoes, adding he would never wear anything so ugly. However, he was known to wear a size 12. Photographs taken months prior to the two murders, show Simpson wearing a pair of black leather Bruno Magli Lorenzo shoes. These shoes were available in several colors so this narrows the number of shoes matching Simpson’s pair. Proving Simpson owned a pair of shoes that had the exact pattern found printed in blood at the crime scene was an essential component of the case, but it was not done in time to be used for the criminal