Knife find 'a joke,' says man who demolished O.J. Simpson's former home

Knife find 'a joke,' says man who demolished O.J. Simpson's former home, Everyone capital a section of the O.J. Simpson adventure aback in the 1990s, Mike Weber remembers.

“He evoked a lot of affect in a lot of people. He’s absolutely a amount in history – not a acceptable one,” said Weber, buyer of Weber-Madgwick Inc., the architecture aggregation that razed Simpson’s old home in 1998.

On Friday, badge breathed new activity into the 1994 case of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman if the LAPD appear that a retired administrator afresh gave them a knife that he said was active on the Simpson property.

The knife was reportedly activate by a annihilation aggregation artisan who helped batter Simpson's Brentwood mansion, authorities said.

On Friday, Weber said he was accepting none of this knife talk.

“I anticipate it’s a joke. I anticipate it’s just accompaniment … no one on my aggregation activate anything” said Weber, 70. “I had instructed my people, ‘If you acquisition anything, don’t accumulate it. Tell me, we’ll yield the adapted action.’”

Weber’s aggregation was at the website for six weeks disturbing down the home and adjustment the ground, but jobs were accepting done at the acreage for at atomic two years as a new home was built, he said.

“Hundreds and hundreds of humans were there afterwards me,” he said.

But if he was there, Weber said the arena about the North Rockingham Avenue home was a bit of a circus.

“When I was traveling to plan I had my two children. I capital them to be a little allotment of history. There was astronomic absorption – I was accepting interviewed by [radio station] KNX while I was active to work,” Weber said. “A lot of humans capital me to advertise them a section of the home. I wouldn’t alone acquiesce it. That’s claret money.”

Even the new homeowner capital to get in on the event, he recalled. The buyer asked to be the aboriginal to drive a tractor into the home to activate demolition, but Weber refused.

“I’m first,” Weber recalled saying. “Everybody capital to yield a bite on O.J. So if I could sit in the bench and do something to his house, so abundant the better.”

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Ever aback the knife account bankrupt Friday morning, Weber said he’s been accepting emails from accompany with links to online stories, some with one-liners abandoning how he told the media aback in 1998 he would attending for the weapon.

“Jokingly, I said I was searching for the knife. And that’s not just accepting flippant. We never activate it.”
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