Sometimes, crime does pay. At least, it might for the survivors of one bygone victim.

The family of the late Ron Goldman, which has spent the better part of a decade trying to collect its share of a $33.5 million wrongful-death award from O.J. Simpson's civil trial, is seeking to confiscate more of the former footballer's assets—specifically the ones Simpson is alleged to have stolen last week—to help satisfy the judgment.

David Cook, an attorney for Fred Goldman, Ron's father, filed a turnover request in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday morning, seeking to obtain ownership rights to the bounty of sports memorabilia.

"In our wildest dreams, we never believed that would occur," Cook said of the headline-grabbing and asset-revealing incident outside the courthouse. "We think the name of the hotel was not the Palace, but Area 51."

Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg gave Goldman one week to come up with a list of the stuff Simpson supposedly stole; the judge plans to individually rule on each item. A follow-up hearing on the matter is tentatively slated for next Tuesday, though it may take place even sooner depending on when Goldman submits his list.

The judge has already sided in favor of the Goldmans to collect on Simpson's gold Rolex Submariner watch, valued between $5,000 and $10,000, allowing attorneys for the family to retrieve the watch from Las Vegas and get it appraised.

The judge, however, denied the family's bid to order Simpson to hand over his earnings from autograph signings and a videogame featuring his likeness.

Whatever Rosenberg's ruling on the Vegas cache, Simpson has unwittingly helped his longtime nemeses.

"The event has aided the Goldmans in some bizarre way, because it will probably sell another 300,000 copies of [If I Did It]," Cook said outside the courtroom.

Just five days in release, the book is already a bestseller, having hit the number two spot on Amazon.com and on Barnes & Noble's Website, with Beaufort Books publishing an additional 50,000 copies of the hypothetical confession.

"The arrest brought the whole question of O.J. and the law back into everybody's consciousness," Beaufort owner Eric Kampmann told the Associated Press.

Simpson is currently holed up in Las Vegas' Clark County Detention Center. He has been jailed without bail since his arrest Sunday on six felony charges. Authorities say Simpson led a group of men into the Palace Station casino hotel last Thursday, where they allegedly confronted memorabilia collectors at gunpoint and made off with a litany of valuable items, including the Rolex, Simpson's Hall of Fame certificate, a framed picture of the former athlete with J. Edgar Hoover and the suit the Naked Gun star was donning when he was acquitted in his criminal trial of murdering Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

Jail officials said they have given Simpson no special treatment but that they are keeping him separated from the rest of the inmate population for his own protection.

Police have already managed to recover several of the items taken in the heist—Simpson claims they were stolen from a storage locker belonging to his late mother—including some autographed footballs, which were handed over by 53-year-old Clarence Stewart, one of the men suspected of serving as an accomplice to Simpson. Stewart turned himself in to Las Vegas police Monday.

Like Simpson, Stewart is currently being held on six felony counts, including robbery with a deadly weapon and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. On Tuesday, police secured a warrant for Michael McClinton, 49, who was expected to face the same six felony charges, and were looking for two other men whose identities had not been made public

An early suspect, Tom Scotto, was brought in for questioning, though cleared of suspicion after police determined he was not in the room at the time of the break-in.

Walter Alexander, 46, a golfing buddy of Simpson's arrested over the weekend for similar felony counts but since released on his own recognizance, appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday to defend his alleged coconspirator.

"It sounds like a setup to me," he said of Simpson's bust. "He did believe that he was going to retrieve his own property."

Alexander believes Simpson's arrest was orchestrated in part by Thomas Riccio, the auction house impresario who tipped SImpson off to the items whereabouts and recorded the entire incident.

One of Riccio's recordings was reportedly sold to TMZ; he claims another has been sent to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Riccio, whose extensive rap sheet has been documented on The Smoking Gun and includes time served for conspiracy to receive stolen goods, is reportedly attempting to get immunity in exchange for his cooperation with prosecutors.

Unsurprisingly, Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, agrees with the set-up scenario.

"You can't rob something that is yours," he said. "If it was anyone other than O.J. Simpson, he would have been released by now.

"We are definitely on the attack."

Simpson is due in court Wednesday morning for a bail hearing and possible arraignment. Galanter said he is preparing a bond motion to get the 60-year-old released on his own recognizance.

Meanwhile, one of the memorabilia victims who identified Simpson as one of his robbers and who spoke publicly Monday about the incident, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after complaining of chest pains.

Bruce Fromong, a collector who has tried in the past to hawk Simpson's acquittal suit on eBay, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, though no information has been released about his condition.