Normal people don’t usually repeatedly do things considered abnormal; if abnormal things are repeatedly done then the person doing them can be assumed to be abnormal until proven otherwise (Friedenberg & Silverman 2005). The behavior exhibited is maladaptive or better still can be considered to constitute mental illness. Any behavior exhibited that could be showing mental illness or distress qualifies a character to have suffered a psychopathological functional breakdown especially considering the cognitive, emotional, biological and behavioral sense. In the case of O. J. Simpson, a renowned football player of all times in the American history, a movie star and a television news announcer had two sides of life, one, a legendary darling of the masses and on the other side an irresponsible wife batterer culminating into her murder and that of her boyfriend. One is then left to ask whether this absurd kind of gesture could have really happened out of the blues or whether it was ignited by a kind of mental illness and cognitive breakdown (Green 1994). In the cognitive aspect of psychology which explains how people perceive, interpret and react to issues surrounding them, every individual person perceives and interprets things differently. It delves to explain internal mental processes which are the motivation behind any action that comes from a person. These internal mind processes are the ones that trigger emotions which in return translate into an action (Friedenberg & Silverman 2005). The cognitive inspires all kinds of thinking and making of decisions which in return explain why individual people make different choices which is why there are varied interpretations of a single entity by many people. Having been a man who was not ready to let go of his marriage, O.J. Simpson, swore to never allow Nicole get married to another man, not when he was alive. He said that nobody was going to have her. This indicates that in as much as they had divorced physically and in the face of the world, he still considered her his property that no one was to take from him. Nicole on her part had let go of their marriage and was ready to move on now that they were divorced. O.J. on his part kept on stalking her and indicated that he wanted her back, if not, then murdering her and getting her off existence and preventing her from getting married to another man was the only way out. This could partly explain why he constantly assaulted her in their marriage. Beating her up at the slightest provocation (Friedenberg & Silverman 2005) and getting away with it all the time because she never pressed charges. It had been accustomed in his mind that no matter the battering, she could still forgive him thus the repeated behavior of accosting her. And even after divorcing, he just thought that all was going to work out in the long run and now that it had failed to work out his cognitive thinking led him to murder her. O. J had a rough childhood. His upbringing was characterized by poverty in the ghetto where they lived. His family was indeed poor to such an extent that early in life he suffered calcium and vitamin D deficiency and thereby diagnosed of rickets. He had to wear leg braces for about two years because of this. This could have led to his feelings of low self esteem as well as hindering his understanding of his self image and personality and this could have been the reason for his pathological behavior (Green 1994). Despite the correction given to his legs, long after the