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Knife Found At O.J. Simpson’s Property

Los Angeles police are testing a knife that was reportedly recovered from O.J. Simpson’s old property where he used to live at the time his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed in 1994. NPR reports: Capt. Andrew Neiman of the LAPD said in a press conference Friday that the knife had been in the possession of a now-retired police officer. The story of the knife’s origin is third-hand at best: Neiman says that the retired officer said that he had received it from a civilian who identified himself as a construction worker, and that the civilian said he found the weapon at the Brentwood property formerly owned by O.J. Simpson. The dates of the alleged discovery and the transfer of the knife are not known. The house on that property has been torn down and rebuilt since the trial. The Los Angeles Times notes that when Simpson was found not guilty in 1995, the absence of a murder weapon fueled searches and speculation: “Finding the knife that killed the two had been an obsession of police and others in the wake of the murders. “Authorities searched for the murder weapon for months after the slayings, and there have [...]