O.J. Simpson's niece claims in a book proposal that his mother exclaimed, "He did it!" when she heard that Nicole Brown Simpson had been slain, the Daily News reported Friday.

Terry Baker's five-page book proposal, obtained by the newspaper, also describes how she watched while Simpson "invented his alibi and rehearsed it" with his house guest Brian "Kato" Kaelin.Baker, whose mother is Simpson's oldest sister, Shirley, said she publicly supported her uncle but had doubts about his innocence in the June 1994 slashing deaths of Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

"In an unguarded moment soon after the murder of Nicole, my grandmother, Eunice Simpson, exclaimed, `He did it!' " Baker said in the book proposal.

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