`IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THE O.J. WE KNEW' VICTIM'S SISTER SAYS SIMPSON DISPLAYED A FRIGHTENING COUNTENANCE HOURS BEFORE HIS EX-WIFE WAS SLAIN.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

LOS ANGELES O.J. Simpson had a ``spooky . . . frightening'' look in his eye during a dance recital hours before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered, and sat by himself in the back of the auditorium, staring at his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson's sister testified Monday.

Another witness, Candace Garvey, said Simpson appeared to be ``simmering'' during his daughter's recital.

``When he stared at me I felt like he was looking right through me,'' Garvey said, ``and it scared me a little bit.''

Simpson is accused of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman on the night of June 12, 1994. Prosecutors maintain that Nicole Simpson was killed by her ex-husband as the final act in an abusive, controlling relationship and that Goldman was murdered because he happened upon the scene.

Simpson has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have accused prosecutors of belaboring the evidence of domestic …