O.J. Simpson Saga Continues: LAPD Confirms It’s Looking Into a Knife Found on Star’s Property

Robert Kessler
·Editor

While we’re all remembering life in the ’90s week by week as The People v. O.J. Simpson airs on TV, the twists and turns of the actual O.J. Simpson case continue to be truly stranger than fiction. As it turns out, even in 2016, we’re still not finished uncovering bizarre revelations.

In a news conference Friday, LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman confirmed that the department is investigating a knife that was found years ago on the site of O.J. Simpson’s old Brentwood home which could possibly be linked to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Capt. Neiman confirmed TMZ’s report that the knife was found, perhaps by a construction worker during the 1998 demolition of the Rockingham property, and given to an LAPD officer who retired sometime in the late ’90s. Saying he was “surprised” the officer didn’t know any better, Capt. Neiman also confirmed that the officer held onto the knife for years.

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O.J. Simpson’s former Brentwood home. (Photo: Getty Images)

During the trial, a coroner reported that Simpson and Goldman had been murdered with a six-inch knife; TMZ wrote that the knife found on the property was a folding Buck knife.

“Investigators have asked that we not be very descriptive of the knife,” Capt. Neiman said Friday.

In case you forgot, the knife used to murder Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was never found.

Capt. Neiman also would not confirm certain details of the story as they were reported by TMZ, such as the fact that the LAPD only found out about the knife after the retired officer — whose name is not being released — asked a fellow officer for the departmental record number for the Simpson/Goldman murders, so he could have it engraved on the frame in which he planned to display the knife.

Should evidence on the knife point to O.J. Simpson, he could not be charged again for the double homicide, due to double jeopardy laws. However, Capt. Neiman said the LAPD would “look into potentiality of criminal charges” for the retired officer who kept the knife a secret for nearly two decades.

While Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife and Goldman, he was found guilty for their wrongful deaths in a civil court. He was then convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in December 2008 and is currently serving 33 years in prison.