Los Angeles Police are investigating the discovery of a knife reportedly found on the property, once owned by Simpson. The worker then gave it to an off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard at a filming location, police said.
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LAPD Capt. Andy Neiman cautioned at a Friday press conference that the investigation is still in early stages.
Simpson was acquitted by a jury in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, and therefore can not be retried on murder charges, Douglas explained.
Andrew Neiman said he could not release details about the knife, but TMZ, which broke the story, described it as a folding buck knife. -Carl Douglas, Former Defense Attorney for O.J. Simpson ” There is no way that O.J. Simpson could ever be charged again for the circumstances of those two deaths”, he confirmed. He added that police were “quite shocked” to learn about the knife after so many years.
Police never found the knife used in the murders.
Jeffrey C. Eglash, who served as the LAPD’s inspector general from 1999 to 2002, said that if the story is true, it’s troubling that an ex-officer “would retain for himself the possible murder weapon from the O.J. Simpson case” instead of giving it to the police for analysis. According to his attorney, Maycott chose to keep the knife in a bag, storing it in his garage for years before finally turning it over to officials in January.
The officer who he told was so disturbed by what he was told he immediately informed bosses at LAPD who demanded it be handed over. The L.A. County DA’s Office had no comment on the discovery of the knife or whether charges would be filed against the officer. “What happened?’ And he stopped and he looked at me and he asked, ‘What do you think happened”?” However because Simpson was acquitted, Neiman said it’s not likely he could be prosecuted because of double jeopardy.
That same month a woman turned in a red-stained kitchen knife she said she found near Simpson’s home, and a handle and a piece of blade of a knife were found in a tank that collects waste from airplanes at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where Simpson flew the night of the killings.
During his trial the owners of a cutlery shop testified Simpson had purchased a large knife from them weeks before the murder.
So far, the LAPD says that no evidence has emerged to link the knife with the deaths of Brown and Goldman.
The knife buried on O.J. Simpson’s former Rockingham estate may hold lots of secrets, but unlocking them may be next to impossible. with one glimmer of hope.
He reached out to a colleague in the police department for a case number, and there’s a possibility that colleague may have notified officers about the knife, according to the attorney. In 1997, a jury found him liable and awarded the family $8.5 million in damages and millions more in punitive damages.
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Simpson was jailed in 2007 for up to 33 years for an armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas, and remains behind bars.
