--- description: O.J. Simpson's friend Brian "Kato" Kaelin testified today that he heardthree mysterious "thumps"outside his guest house residence in the Simpson compound at about 10:40 p.m.... title: KATO RECALLS MURDER NIGHT 'THUMPS' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # KATO RECALLS MURDER NIGHT 'THUMPS' by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 22, 1995 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 22, 1995 5:00 AM CUT [O.J. Simpson](../../../magazine/domestic/1995/950327/950327.justice.html "undefined")‘s friend Brian “Kato” Kaelin testified today that he heard[three mysterious “thumps”](../../../magazine/domestic/1994/940718/940718.justice.oj.html "undefined")outside his guest house residence in the Simpson compound at about 10:40 p.m. on the night Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were killed. Describing the sounds,[Kaelin](../../../magazine/domestic/1994/940829/940829.justice.html "undefined")said he was frightened at first, but felt better when he went to investigate the noise and saw a limousine driver waiting for Simpson. Prosecutors contend the noise, in an area where police said they later found a bloody glove, was O.J. Simpson returning from committing the murders. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6923532/kato-recalls-murder-night-thumps/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6923532/kato-recalls-murder-night-thumps/"},"headline":"KATO RECALLS MURDER NIGHT 'THUMPS'","datePublished":"1995-03-22T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T22:28:07.066Z","description":"O.J. Simpson's friend Brian \"Kato\" Kaelin testified today that he heardthree mysterious \"thumps\"outside his guest house residence in the Simpson compound at about 10:40 p.m....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6923532/kato-recalls-murder-night-thumps/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6923532/kato-recalls-murder-night-thumps/","name":"KATO RECALLS MURDER NIGHT 'THUMPS'"}}]}] ```