It’s been revealed that a construction worker found a bloody knife “years ago” at O.J. Simpson’s property that he was living in at the time of the infamous murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and Ron Goldman in 1994. It was allegedly given to a off-duty police officer at the time, who then kept it in his home until finally turning it over to the police in January.
The story was broken by TMZ, which the LAPD confirmed in a later news conference. The police officer was off duty at the time, working as security for a movie that was being shot across the street. He was a motor officer, and retired in the late 1990s, but it is not known if he was retired at the time.
The knife has been recovered by the Murder Robbery Division and will be tested for DNA and other biological evidence at the LAPD’s Serology Unit.
At the news conference, the LAPD officer added that the ‘O.J. Simpson’ case was still open since no one had been convicted for the murders, but then quickly corrected himself, “I shouldn’t say the O.J. Simpson case, this is the Nicole Brown case, this is a double homocide that is still open.”
The double jeapardy law means that because O.J Simpson was acquitted in 1995, he can’t be retried. 11 years after the murders, it came to light that Simpson was writing a book titled “If I Did It” which reportedly had detailed scenes that ‘hypothetically’ described how the murders might have happened. The public became enraged and the book was dropped.
A civil court jury in 1997 found that Simpson was liable for the killings (which is different from being guilty of their murders), and millions of dollars was awarderd to families of the two victims.
However, Simpson couldn’t escape prison forever—He’s currently serving time for a 2007 armed robbery, where he and a group in Las Vegas took ‘back’ sports memorabillia at gunpoint. O.J Simpson said they were stolen from him, as he used be a professional football player.