Police found no forensic evidence linking a knife reportedly recovered from the former home of O.J. Simpson to the 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department was unable to immediately comment on the report.
Disclosure of the knife’s existence caused a stir last month when it was turned over to police by a retired officer. Los Angeles police officials said the officer had held onto the knife rather than providing it to police after it was given to him in the late 1990s by a construction worker who said it was found on the property.
Police said they planned to run forensic tests on the knife to determine whether it might be related to the brutal 1994 slayings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Simpson, a former football star, was charged with the slayings but acquitted in 1995. He was later found liable for the two deaths in a civil trial.
The murder weapon was never recovered.
• Andrea Noble can be reached at anoble@washingtontimes.com.
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