Detective Tom Lange is a police detective for the city of Los Angeles, assigned to the Robbery Homicide Division, Homicide Special Section. He has been a police officer for approximately 27 years. He has been assigned to the Robbery Homicide Division, Homicide Special Section, since November, 1978. During his career, Lange has investigated between 250 and 300 homicides. Out of all these cases, over 200 of these were while he was part of Robbery Homicide.

Lange was assigned as one of the investigating officers of the Bundy murder case, when he received a call at approximately 3:00 a.m. on Monday, June 13th, at home. He received information that there was a double homicide at 875 South Bundy, in the West Los Angeles area. After receiving the call, he responded to the Bundy location, arriving approximately at 4:30 a.m.

At the time that Tom Lange arrived at the Bundy location, other L. A. police officers were already present. The Bundy crime scene was secured by police yellow marker tape, as well as by uniformed patrol officers. When he first arrived at the scene someone lead him through a path that would avoid disturbing evidence, while he would observe the overall crime scene. The path that Tom Lange walked on was a walkway along the north side of the residence, which was perpendicular to the sidewalk in front. From a certain vantage point on the walkway, Detective Lange observed one victim, Nicole Brown Simpson, lying on the walkway at the foot of the three steps leading up to the front entrance. Just to the north and a little west of the first victim, Detective Lange observed a second victim, Ronald Lyle Goldman, lying beneath a large tree in an area just off the walkway.

Tom Lange was given what Detectives call a "Walk-Through" at the Bundy crime scene location, by West Los Angeles Police Detectives Phillips. Lange and Phillips walked up to the bodies and observed them at close range. At this point various things were pointed out to him by Detective Phillips. Lange and Phillips then proceeded up the steps towards the front entrance of the home and eventually entered the home. Again, at this point several things were pointed out to Lange, by Phillips that he had initially observed.

Lange described the items that were pointed out to him. Initially, near Ronald Goldman, there was a white envelope containing what appeared to be prescription glasses, lying in the dirt just off the walkway, between the first and second victims. There appeared to be a dark blue knit cap that was found in the dirt at the feet of Mr. Goldman, the second victim. He also observed a dark brown left-handed men's glove, also near the feet of Mr. Goldman. Lange also observed a key ring, with five keys just below the buttocks of Mr. Goldman. He observed a great deal of blood both on and around the area surrounding Mr. Goldman and Miss Simpson.

There was also what appeared to be paw prints, or animal prints, that had apparently walked through the blood that was draining downwards down the sidewalk in an easterly direction, towards the sidewalk, from Nicole Simpson. Lange observed that these animal tracks had gone through the blood eastward and then proceed south along Bundy from the location. Additionally, he observed what appeared to be bloody shoe prints leading from the area of the two victims up the steps and in a westerly direction along the walkway that was along the north side of the residence. They appeared to go directly by the open front door of the residence and proceeded to continue in a westerly direction. As the shoeprints progressed, they began to fade towards the rear of the house.

There also appeared to be several blood droplets leading away westerly from the bodies. THESE BLOOD DROPLETS ALSO APPEARED TO HAVE LANDED STRAIGHT DOWN ON THE PAVEMENT. [NOTE: This is very significant because the blood patterns indicate that the the blood drops were perfectly circular. This is not consistant with Mr. Simpson committing this crime. because if he did commit this crime, the blood drop patterns would be consistent with a person who was in a big hurry and would slow some lateral movement.] Lange said believed that the blood drops were lying toward the left of the shoeprints.

Lange described the nature of the building and the crime scene of the Bundy residence as he observed it, and the path he took in relation to the stairs and the landing and the building in front of which the detectives observed Miss Simpson. The building was described as a large, three level, duplex condominium. Lange said that up the path before you would come to the bodies of the victims, there was a gate. The gate was observed to the east of where the victims were located, and was found to be wide open at the time of the finding of the victims. Lange said that the gate was serviceable and could be locked from the inside and opened from the inside without a key; however, from the outside one would need a key. Additionally, Lange testified there was an outside latch that would have to be activated in order to get in after one keyed their way in or someone on the inside would allow them to go in. Lange said he observed the operation of that gate personally. He also said that there was a way to open the gate electronically from the inside of the house by pressing an inside release button. But Lange said that he could not activate it, because to him the button was unserviceable at that time.

This defect was observed the morning of the crime scene investigation and during subsequent visits to the crime scene. So as of the morning of June 13th, Detective Lange found the release button on the inside of the Bundy residence to be inoperable; that is he found the button would not open the gate. Based on his own observations, Lange testified that he was able to manually unlatch the gate if someone went down to it and unlatched it from the inside. He also said that the inner knob of the gate was a smooth knob. The outer knob, towards the street, is keyed. So he said from the inside you could open it by the knob, but that one would have to, if they were opening it from the inside, reach over the gate and undo the latch on the outside as well.

Detective Lange indicated, that he found Miss Simpson next to the stairs that were leading up to the landing that leads to the front door. She was lying more or less on her left side, in what he would term a semifetal position, with the head in a north by northeasterly direction. Lange was asked to describe the path that a person would take after going up the stairs, and towards the back alley. He said there were three or four steps leading, above where Miss Nicole Brown was located, to a porch area; and then he believed that there were two more steps up another area towards the front door, which would be off to one's left if you were walking in a westerly direction. This pathway continued in a westerly direction to the point where there was a small gate. One would then go through the latch gate and then descend several steps to a lower area, where the housekeeper's quarters would probably be located, and then would proceed along that area to a point where there are some more steps going up, to another level area; and one would eventually reach a locking gate similar to the front gate, which was located at the northwest corner of that property.

This particular gate had a dead-bolt lock, again, accessible from the inside and not the outside. [NOTE: DETECTIVE LANGE WAS NEVER ASKED ABOUT THE BLOOD DROPS ON THE BACK OF THIS GATE (supposedly "found" on July 3rd, just before the prelim. hearing)!!!!!!!]. So from the pathway that is perpendicular to the sidewalk, a person would go up some stairs, across a landing, down some stairs and out through a rear gate to the residence driveway area, that is, in front of the garage that leads to an alley which runs from north/south, behind the Bundy residence. [NOTE: In his Grand Jury testimony Detective Lange was asked about whether a car could have parked next to the Cherokee Jeep in the driveway. He was not asked this question here.]

Detective Lange also looked at the inside of the house at 875 South Bundy. When he saw the house, the front door was found wide open. The information that Lange initially received was that is the way the door was initially found by the first officer at the Bundy scene.

Detective Lange was then shown a photograph (People's 10) and was asked about what it depicted. Lange testified that this photograph depicted a white envelope that was found located between the two victims, on the ground, with what appeared to be prescription glasses in it. When turning the envelope over, he saw some writing on the face side of the envelope. The writing he testified said to some effect " Nicole Simpson, prescription glasses."

Lange was shown a pattern just below that white envelope, that appeared to be a pattern in blood. He testified that he observed this pattern, when he was at the Bundy crime scene that morning on June 13th. Tom Lange said that the pattern appeared to be a bloody shoeprint of the same type of tread as the other shoeprints that were leading away from the victims.

He was then shown another photograph (People's 11), this photograph depicted what appeared to be a bloody footprint, the dark blue knit ski-type cap that was described earlier, and the dark brown leather glove that was located near the feet of Mr. Goldman. The bloody shoeprint seen in this photograph also appeared to be consistent with the bloody shoeprints leading away from the victims. He was then shown other photographs of the same evidence pieces but at different angles. ( These photographs are of people's 12 and 13) He was then shown another photograph, which was an overall shot of the direct crime scene after the victims had been removed, indicating again the white envelope with the glasses, the dark brown leather glove, the blue ski cap and the shoeprints. This photograph was a perspective shot of all of the same items that he had been shown before.

He was then shown another photograph ( No. 107, People's 15), this was a photograph at the stoop or stairs, where Nicole Brown was located, looking in a westerly direction. He noticed what appeared to be an outline of a shoeprint on the first step leading up in a westerly direction, in a large pool of blood. In this photograph there was also a sheet, and he confirmed that where this sheet was is where Miss Brown was found. Lange was then shown another photograph (People's 16), this photograph depicted the sole and heel of the right shoe of Mr. Goldman, the second victim. Lange wanted this photograph to be taken because he thought it was important to determine whether or not the victims had any blood on the soles or heels of the shoes. This photograph was also important in seeing the pattern of the soles of the shoes. Miss Brown was not wearing any shoes, she was discovered barefooted.

Detective Lange was asked to describe what Nicole Brown Simpson was wearing at the time he observed her. He said that she was wearing what he described as a black shift sleeveless halter dress, that had one strap around the neck. He was then also asked to describe what Ronald Goldman was wearing when was observed. Lange said that he was wearing some type levi's. He was also wearing athletic-type boots that were secured high on his ankle. He also had on a light-colored plaid, long-sleeved shirt. When Lange had first arrived at the Bundy scene, no one was able to identify Ron Goldman. He was later identified that morning, when a coroner's representative had arrived, and conducted a search through his pockets where his driver's license was recovered. Lange was then shown this driver's license in court, which he confirmed was indeed the same person who was found dead at the crime scene.

Detective Lange was then asked a series of questions asking him to describe the lighting as he found it when he arrived early in the morning, at 875 South Bundy. Lange testified that when he arrived initially, there was a porch light on over the front door--the ceiling-type light. There was a small light located to the south of the stationary gate near where Miss Simpson was located, a lamp that shown directly straight up. There was also a very dim "malibu" light located east of the location on the street; however Lange continued to state that the illumination of these lights appeared to have no bearing on the overall scene itself. There was an additional hanging lamp on the northeast corner of Dorothy and Bundy that gave some indirect lighting on the scene. Additionally, there was a light on the building itself, on the residence, in the southeast corner of the residence, outside, that he said really had no direct bearing on the immediate scene. Overall, Lange described the lighting in the area where the victims were discovered as "not very well lit." He said there was some light, but this light would be blocked out by the great deal of foliage and shrubbery around the area. Those would not only have blocked out the overhead lighting above the scene, but would have also blocked some lighting from the residence itself. Also Lange noticed that there was no light on the gate itself. On whether lighting was working on the night that he was there, he stated that he initially observed a small light that was planted in the ground near the mailbox south of the victims, which was initially found on. The porch light was also on, but he said that it did not give a great deal of light.

Detective Lange was shown a series of photographs of a blood trail that went from the area where the victims were found to the outer area--all the way to the alley behind the house. [These photographs were marked as People's 19.] He then described what was shown in each photograph, and described the location in which was seen each of the markers:

Photograph A, People's 19 -- This was a photograph looking in a westerly direction, this was the walkway that Lange described earlier. The victims would have been found below this photograph. He described the first landing area, and then three steps which lead up to the front entrance, which would just off to the left of what he described in the photograph. The numbers in the photographs depicted in the photographs were placed there by the criminalist, indicating the blood droplets that were located.

Photograph B, People's 19 -- This was a closeup photograph depicting no. 112, a blood droplet.

Photograph C, People's 19 -- This photograph depicted item 113, which is another closeup of the blood droplet , depicted overall in photograph A.

Photograph D, People's 19 -- This photograph indicates a stairwell on the walkway, overall depicted in photograph "A," leading in a westerly direction downwards. In this photograph we have overall shot of the blood droplet item 114.

Photograph E, People's 19 -- is a closeup shot of the blood droplet, item 114.

In Photograph "D," there were various letters , these corresponded to bloody shoeprints which he described earlier. These bloody shoeprints were marked A-G, A-H, A-I, A-J, A-K, etc. These markers were placed there by the criminalist, to mark the bloody shoeprints.

Photograph F, People's 19 -- this photograph was looking westerly. This was a photograph of the rear gate located in the northwest corner of the property. This is the gate that opens out to the garage and alley area. In this photograph he stated you could also see the stairs going up. This photograph depicted an overall shot of bloody droplet, item 115.

Photograph G, People's 19 -- This is a closeup of which appears to be item 115

He was then shown a series of three photographs, which were marked as People's 20. He was asked to depict what was depicted in these photos, and to describe the location that was shown in these photographs.

Photograph A, People's 20 -- This photograph shows a closeup of the rear gate, and also what appears to be blood droplets.

Photograph B, People's 20 -- This photograph showed what appeared to be an overall depiction of what appears to be a blood droplet, item 116.

Photograph C, People's 20 -- This was a photograph showing a closeup of the blood droplet in Photograph B.

These photographs were located in the outer area, the driveway of the garage and alley. To the left of the location of the photographs would be the Jeep Cherokee vehicle that belonged to Miss Nicole Brown Simpson. This is all indicated in photograph B, that is looking in a north by northwesterly direction . The north/south alley is depicted at the top of where the photographs were taken from left to right. [NOTE: What we have here is Detective Tom Lange describing the location of the famous "Bundy blood drops" which supposedly came up consistent with Mr. simpson's DNA match. The blood drops are items 112, 113, 114, 115, and 116. At no time was Detective Lange ever asked about the three blood drops of the back rear gate, that were collected three weeks later after the murders.]

Tom Lange continued to testify that the photograph in photograph "A," people's 20 was the rear gate. Lange said that when he was at the crime scene that morning on June 13th, the gate which is depicted in photograph "A" was in the open position . His recollection as to whether the gate was open when the first officer arrived, his recollection was that the gate was ajar, somewhat open, but not secured or locked. [NOTE: Now here is where it gets interesting. Tom Lange was again recalled in the preliminary hearing about this particular photograph, and specifically asked about the photograph "A" pertaining to the rear gate of the location of 875 South Bundy. At the time he was testifying about this, he was very disturbed about it. And after concluding his testimony, he approached Marcia Clark and said that he wanted to review his notes. He said to Mrs. Clark, that he was not happy with his identification of photograph 'A' as being the rear gate, and he believed it to be the front gate, and that he went back and ascertained whether that was correct. And he made very clear that photograph 'A' was indeed a picture of the front gate, not the rear gate, and that he was mistaken when he earlier testified that it was the rear gate. [NOW WHY WOULD HE DO THIS?]

Detective Lange stated that part of his duties as an investigating officer is to direct the collection of evidence and the taking of photographs, while working with the criminalist. And so at the crime scene he would assess what he thought was important, what is evidence, and what should be preserved by either photographing or collection or both. In this particular case, Detective Lange directed the photographs described in People's 19 and 20 to be taken. Because it was apparent to him that these blood droplets were not directly associated with the victims and that they were perhaps in association with the bloody shoeprints leading from the scene. It was also apparent to Lange that they would be connected to a suspect in this instance. Therefore his instructions to the criminalist with respect to these blood drops that he identified in People's 19 and 20, was to photograph, preserve and collect these items of evidence. And that with respect to all of the items that he had identified in photographs and that had been marked during the course of his testimony, that these were all items that he requested to be collected by the criminalist and photographed in places that they were found. And are depicted in the photographs in the way that they were found.

Detective Lange testified that he attended both the autopsies of both Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. He was then shown two exhibits [ which had been previously marked as People's 3 and 2 ] , and confirmed that these were the same two people whose autopsies he was present at with respect to this case. He testified that in his presence, blood samples were taken from both victims. And that these blood samples were retreived by his partner Detective Vannatter, the following day, which would have been June 15th.

Lange was asked to describe what is a "D.R. number." D.R. numbers are the letters for what in the LAPD is termed a "division of records number." This is a number that is assigned to a particular crime, or to a particular victim. The first two digits of the D.R. number would indicate the year. Something occuring in the year the murders occured would be preceded by the number 94. The second two digits would indicate the geographical division involved. In this case, he said, geographically, the West Los Angeles division is 8; so the second two digits of the D.R. number is 08. And the five subsequent numbers are the individual report numbers. Lange stated that there are two D.R. numbers assigned in this case, one assigned to each victim. The numbers assigned are 94-08-17431 and 94-08-17432. The main number is the first number 94-08-17431, this is what is called the key number. this would be the first number obtained, and that all subsequent reports would be keyed off. The number 94-08-17432 exists to designate a second victim. All the evidence collected in this case is assigned the first D.R. number 94-08-17431, so if it bears this number, it indicates it was the evidence that was recovered in this case.

When asked by Robert Shapiro, Lange testified that the case was still in the process of an ongoing investigation. and that from the onset of the investigation to the present (his testifying in the preliminary hearing) he had been getting leads on possible other suspects. He said that he was not personally investigating these leads, but at that point the leads were being gathered, categorized, and he was assigning them out as quickly as he could. The detective in charge of investigating these other leads was Detective Paine. The number of people under his direction investigating these other leads varied at that point in the investigation. He expected to have anywhere from six to ten or perhaps more people, depending on the amount of information coming in, and that these leads were in a very early stage of development.

Then Lange was asked a series of questions about the first call relative to the Simpson/Goldman investigation; whether out all the information that he had, had anything to do with a radio call that night that there was a burglary suspect at 874 South Bundy Drive. Lange believed that there was some type of a radio call about a prowler or something to that effect, but that he did not recall exactly about what was the substance of the first radio call that lead to the Bundy investigation. He said that that the officers who received the call about the burglary suspect, should have filled out a daily field activity report recording it. That the exact time of the radio call and the type of the call are required by L.A.P.D. policy, should have been recorded. But he did not have any information as to how that call regarding a burglar suspect at Bundy was broadcasted. Again, he stated that he was not familiar with the particular details of that specific radio call. It was just to his knowledge that he believed there was a previous call to that location. He believed that he might have possible information in his book that this radio call was broadcasted on June 13th, 1994, at approximately 0010 hours (12:10 A.M.).

On whether this radio call would be a high priority call, would depend on whether the suspect was at the location at that time. If the suspect were at the location at that time , it would be a high priority call. But if the suspect had left the location, it would not necessarily be high priority, unless it was known that the suspect was still in the area. Again, he stated that he did not know the exact details about this specific radio call.

Lange said he did not recall the address of the location of this radio call -- whether the location of this radio call originated from 874 South Bundy, directly across the street from the homicide scene. He believed that there were some records, that the origin of this call was right in the vicinity of the 875 South Bundy location. But that if the origin of this call was from 874 South Bundy, that would indeed be across the street from the homicide scene at 875 South Bundy. He did not, and was not aware that anyone else under his direction -- other than the responding officers to the radio call -- located the person who initiated this phone call. He could not honestly give an answer on whether he or anyone else under his direction interviewed anybody at 874 South Bundy. He really did not know, because he and the people under his direction have done an excess of a hundred interviews and that there were perhaps a dozen investigators working on the case. He had information coming in all time and he did not know whether a person from this location had been interviewed.

On whether a radio call of this nature would cause an incident report to be generated, he said this would depend on whether or not a crime had occured. If the radio call were just a prowler call, it would perhaps be mentioned in the activities report. But if a crime had occured then then an incident crime report would be required. But then Shapiro asked; "What if it said, 'burglary suspect there now at 874 South Bundy drive' , would this type of radio call would be required to generate an incident report. Lange responded, "Not necessarily." He did not know if any such incident report had been generated, however, he would hope that he would eventually get this incident report in his murder book, if such a report existed. But he did not recalled seeing such a report in his murder book. He was then asked a question about whether there was any report saying the burglary suspect that was at the location was Caucasian. Again he stated that if there was such a report he had not seen it and would not know its specific details.

Lange testified that the first officers at the scene are required to protect the crime scene and cordon off the vulnerable areas. He said it would be helpful, but that it would not nessarily be required, to determine if an ambulance crew or any other person moved the body or any other items within the crime scene. He said it would be preferable for the first officers at the crime scene to record the names, addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of all persons at the crime scene. Lange said if an ambulance crew is present at the crime scene, then the officers present should also record their names, serial numbers, and obtain a rescue report, on the crime scene log.

When asked if such an ambulance crew was present, he said that he did not believe so. He was then asked then to check this in his chronological record. While checking the chronological record to see if there was any indication on whether there were any emergency crews present at the Bundy scene other than the police, he found something in the chronological log that indicated that there was a Los Angeles Fire Department captain at the scene. It stated in the log that he was not needed. This, however, he said, does not necessarily mean that this was a paramedic, but a representative from the L.A. Fire Department. He said that he had never talked to this person, and that to his knowledge nobody that he knew of has ever talked to this person.

When he continued to check the log as to whether anybody recorded the names of any other personnel that may have been there with the Fire Department, the only representative listed in the log was the Fire Department captain. Lange said testify that he did not know what type of vehicle the person arrived in. Regarding whether anyone had checked to see whether this captain inspected the bodies, it was not indicated in the log. Lange said the only thing written was "not needed". He did not know if anyone knew whether he went near the bodies at the Bundy crime scene, and he had no knowledge if anyone checked to see if he disturbed anything at the crime scene. And he also pointed out that if the captain had come out with a crew, their names should have been logged. But he said since the only thing he saw recorded in the log was his name, so he assumed that the captain was the only one there.

Lange testified that the first officers assigned to secure the crime scene would have the responsibility to see that no one enters the crime scene. Again referring to his chronological log, these officers would have been: Cummings and Sanchez, McAllen and Walley, Zeigler and Glorioso. The primary unit, Riske and Terrazas, would have something to do with securing the crime scene. Also at the Bundy scene were assisting officers Gonzales and Aston.

Shapiro continued to ask questions about what he knew prior to his arrival. Lange testified that he did read the reports that were generated by the other officers that were at the Bundy crime scene, but that he had not talked to any of them. He personally did not ask them if they did anything at the crime scene upon arrival, but this was done by someone else, Detective Phillips. He stated that Detective Phillips interviewed each officer separately as to what they did at the location, where they stepped, whether or not they were injured. There were reports about each officer's activities at the crime scene. Each officer's shoe prints were photographed and each had given a statement as to exactly what they did at the scene.

Lange was asked a question about certain policies regarding how persons can enter a cordoned-off crime scene. Lange testified that the policies are merely guidelines. Since no two crime scenes are alike, they have a policy but that this policy is merely a guideline. This guideline cannot dictate as to how to handle any particular crime scene. He continued to say that the general policy or guideline can be generally interpreted as, "no crime scene shall be entered except in the accompaniment of an officer". But that this was merely a guideline. And continued to state that this policy is to caution anybody who does regarding enter a crime scene regarding contamination or alteration of evidence.