Phillip vannatter biography

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    Philip Vannatter dies at 70; LAPD detective in O.J. Simpson case

    Philip Vannatter, the Los Angeles police detective who led the investigation of the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, has died.

    Vannatter died of complications from cancer Friday in Santa Clarita, his wife, Rita, said. He was

    “He was a real blue-collar detective,” O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden said in an emotional interview Sunday. “He did his job the best he could and he was a fine detective, one of the best.”

    Vannatter was among the first detectives to arrive at former football star Simpson’s mansion in June after the stabbing deaths of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Goldman.

    In , Vannatter arrested film director Roman Polanski in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on charges of having unlawful sex with a year-old girl.

    A grandfather known as “Dutch” among friends and as a “super cop” among colleagues, Vannatter rose to the elite Robbery-Homicide division o

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    Philip Vannatter, who as a Los Angeles police detective helped lead the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman in and who was a major prosecution witness in the failed attempt to convict O. J. Simpson of the crime, died on Friday, January 20th, in Santa Clarita, California. He was

    The cause was cancer, said his wife, Rita.

    Detective Vannatter was a year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department and no stranger to high-profile crimes &#; he arrested the rulle director långnovell Polanski in on charges of having unlawful sex with an under-age girl &#; when he was called before dawn to the home of Ms. Simpson in the Brentwood neighborhood on June 13th, There he found the slashed bodies of Ms. Simpson, the former wife of Mr. Simpson, the football star and broadcaster; and an acquaintance, Mr. Goldman.

    Philip Lewis Vannatter was born on April 18th, , in Griffithsville, West Virginia. His father was a coal miner who died when Phili

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    Philip Vannatter was a senior LAPD robbery-homicide detective who was described as "a beefy, slow moving cop with a head of caramel colored hair."  Vannatter was one of the first detectives at the murder scene, arriving at a.m.  There he worked with other detectives, including Fuhrman, in investigating the crime scene.  As the LAPD employed over detectives, Vannatter had never met Fuhrman prior to the Simpson case.

    It was Vannatter's decision to contact Simpson. He believed that Simpson may need some assistance in retrieving his two children from the police station, where they had been kept in police custody since being discovered sleeping on the night of the murders.  Vannatter decided that the four detectives he was working with at the crime scene should make the trip to Simpson's home.  While at Simpson's Rockingham mansion, the detectives noticed the blood on Simpson's Bronco.  Rationalizing their initial warrantless entrance onto Simpson's Rockingh