When O.J. Simpson attempted to elude police in a now-infamous white Ford Bronco, he likely wasn’t thinking that it would someday end up in a Tennessee museum that was designed to look like Alcatraz.
Simpson, who’s death from cancer was announced Thursday, is still very much, for better or worse, a worldwide celebrity for being charged with the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, his former wife, and Ronald L. Goldman.
The Bronco now is on display at the privately owned Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, better known as the home of Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park. The SUV stands alongside the 1968 Volkswagen Beetle that was owned by serial killer Ted Bundy. There’'s also the 1933 Essex-Terraplane used by the bank robber John Dillinger and the so-called death car from the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” riddled with bullet holes.
“There are events in history that will always stick in people’s minds, and I think the O.J. chase is one of those for a large number of people,” Ally Pennington, the artifacts and projects manager for the museum, told the paper.
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