George Zimmerman has drawn strong comparisons to O.J. Simpson following a 911 call from his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, who was terrified of him during a recent dispute that the two had which allegedly involved a gun, and much like Simpson, Zimmerman can't seem to stay out of headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Business Insider reports that there has been many comparisons from different people about Simpson and Zimmerman walking down similar paths.
The comparisons aren't farfetched, as both Simpson and Zimmerman were involved in televised and highly publicized trials that captivated an American audience, and both were acquitted of the allegations that brought them into the courtroom to begin with, but struggled publicly afterward.
Simpson, who was on trial for the brutal murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, seemed to lose his mind after he was found not guilty in 1995, and went through a series of headline-making events that involved legal trouble.
Zimmerman, who much like Simpson was acquitted, draws parallels to Simpson's behavior post-acquittal as he's also made headlines following being found not guilty in a case where he shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman failed to keep a low profile following the not guilty verdict he received in July, and has been making news ever since. Zimmerman has received two speeding tickets since the trial and even went on a private tour of a gun manufacturer that made the weapon he used to kill Martin. Then came the 911 call from Shellie Zimmerman, which George Zimmerman's lawyer claimed to be a miscommunication while adding that no gun was ever found after the incident, according to Business Insider.
The 911 call can be heard here.
Simpson also went through a plethora of legal troubles and turned up in flat-out crazy news stories following his trial. Simpson told Esquire in 1998, just three years after his murder trial, that if he would have killed Brown it would have been only because, "I love her very much." Things got even creepier when Simpson wrote "If It Did It," a hypothetical confession as to what he would have done if it was he who had killed Brown and Goldman.
Not long after that, Simpson was involved in a situation where he broke into a hotel room in Las Vegas and stole O.J. Simpson memorabilia before eventually landing in prison.
The two stories and lives of Simpson and Zimmerman are very similar, and the two will undoubtedly continue to make headlines as their lives go on and their stories continue after being found not guilty of two murders that captivated the nation.
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