O.J. Simpson case's lead investigator weighs in on knife find, A hasty new development has actually dug up the O.J. Simpson annihilation case from 1994.
The Los Angeles badge are administering DNA tests on a knife reportedly begin active on Simpson's acreage years ago.
Simpson was accused in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, but badge never begin the knife that prosecutors affirmation he acclimated to annihilate them.
Simpson was acquitted in a diffuse accessible trial.
CBS News' Carter Evans letters that while badge are demography the analysis seriously, they attention it could about-face out to be addition apocryphal lead.
"I was absolutely surprised," Los Angeles Badge Department Capt. Andrew Neiman said Friday.
The LAPD was abashed if a retired badge administrator afresh angry in a knife that was allegedly begin about two decades ago by a architecture artisan during the annihilation of O.J. Simpson's estate.
"The off-duty, or retired, administrator was alive in the breadth of the Rockingham estate, and he claimed that an alone who claimed to be a architecture artisan provided him with this knife claiming that it was begin on the property, so he captivated on to it," Neiman said.
That above administrator has not been about identified, but he's believed to accept had the knife for abounding years afore axis it in about a ages ago.
Retired LAPD Detective Tom Lange was the advance investigator on the case and says Simpson's acreage was thoroughly searched.
"It's consistently a achievability that it was overlooked," said Lange, "but the time that we had and the time that Simpson had this knife, I would be actual afraid if we would accept absent something like this."
The knife that could accept angry Simpson to the murders has never been found. During his trial, Simpson abundantly approved on a blood-soaked cuff apparent at his house. That affirmation was absolved by his attorney, Johnnie Cochran.
"If it doesn't fit, you accept to acquit," he abundantly told jurors.
Marcia Clark, who prosecuted Simpson for the cutting deaths, batten to "Entertainment Tonight" Friday.
"If it does about-face out to be affiliated to the murders of Ron and Nicole, it would be absorbing if there was some affirmation on that knife that acicular to who ability accept helped to coffin it, if absolutely anyone abroad did," Clark said.
It comes as a cable mini-series account the O.J. adventure has renewed absorption in the case.
"You accept to catechism the timing," said law assistant Laurie Levenson. "Right at the time of the miniseries on the O.J. case and all of the abrupt they appear up with this knife. It's gonna accession some eyebrows."
LAPD board said this new knife development could about-face out to be "bogus." And even if it's not, according to Carl Douglas, who was allotment of Simpson's aegis team, it will be of little acceptation to his above client.
"The case is over involving O.J. Simpson," Douglas said. "He can never be prosecuted for those crimes again. So what I would say for anyone who's acquisitive for straws is amuse to move on with their life."
The Los Angeles badge are administering DNA tests on a knife reportedly begin active on Simpson's acreage years ago.
Simpson was accused in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, but badge never begin the knife that prosecutors affirmation he acclimated to annihilate them.
Simpson was acquitted in a diffuse accessible trial.
CBS News' Carter Evans letters that while badge are demography the analysis seriously, they attention it could about-face out to be addition apocryphal lead.
"I was absolutely surprised," Los Angeles Badge Department Capt. Andrew Neiman said Friday.
The LAPD was abashed if a retired badge administrator afresh angry in a knife that was allegedly begin about two decades ago by a architecture artisan during the annihilation of O.J. Simpson's estate.
"The off-duty, or retired, administrator was alive in the breadth of the Rockingham estate, and he claimed that an alone who claimed to be a architecture artisan provided him with this knife claiming that it was begin on the property, so he captivated on to it," Neiman said.
That above administrator has not been about identified, but he's believed to accept had the knife for abounding years afore axis it in about a ages ago.
Retired LAPD Detective Tom Lange was the advance investigator on the case and says Simpson's acreage was thoroughly searched.
"It's consistently a achievability that it was overlooked," said Lange, "but the time that we had and the time that Simpson had this knife, I would be actual afraid if we would accept absent something like this."
The knife that could accept angry Simpson to the murders has never been found. During his trial, Simpson abundantly approved on a blood-soaked cuff apparent at his house. That affirmation was absolved by his attorney, Johnnie Cochran.
"If it doesn't fit, you accept to acquit," he abundantly told jurors.
Marcia Clark, who prosecuted Simpson for the cutting deaths, batten to "Entertainment Tonight" Friday.
"If it does about-face out to be affiliated to the murders of Ron and Nicole, it would be absorbing if there was some affirmation on that knife that acicular to who ability accept helped to coffin it, if absolutely anyone abroad did," Clark said.
It comes as a cable mini-series account the O.J. adventure has renewed absorption in the case.
"You accept to catechism the timing," said law assistant Laurie Levenson. "Right at the time of the miniseries on the O.J. case and all of the abrupt they appear up with this knife. It's gonna accession some eyebrows."
LAPD board said this new knife development could about-face out to be "bogus." And even if it's not, according to Carl Douglas, who was allotment of Simpson's aegis team, it will be of little acceptation to his above client.
"The case is over involving O.J. Simpson," Douglas said. "He can never be prosecuted for those crimes again. So what I would say for anyone who's acquisitive for straws is amuse to move on with their life."
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