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  • 2016-03-04 (xsd:date)
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  • O.J. Simpson Case Knife Claim (en)
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  • On 4 March 2016, entertainment gossip web site TMZ reported that the Los Angeles Police Department was conducting an investigation based on the recent acquisition of a knife possibly linked to the 1994 murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Lyle Goldman. O.J. Simpson was famously acquitted of all charges, and the case remains unsolved. The chain of events originally reported by TMZ prompted nearly as much incredulity as the Simpson knife claim itself. According to the article, a knife was discovered at some point between 1998 and approximately 2006 (the murders occurred in 1994): Not long after TMZ broke the story, the Los Angeles Times looked into what was originally described as a top secret investigation, reporting that a knife apparently was recovered on the property at some point: Los Angeles outlet KNBC interviewed Los Angeles police captain Andrew Neiman, who expressed skepticism at the chain of events leading up to the purported discovery of the knife: While it's true the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a knife reportedly found on the grounds of what was once O.J. Simpson's Brentwood home, the circumstances under which the knife emerged remains questionable. As yet, there is no evidence that the knife was linked to the murders. Finally, the timing of the revelation (in close proximity to renewed interest due to the airing of the miniseries The People Vs. O.J. Simpson) made such a coincidental finding further suspect. On 1 April 2016, the Los Angeles Times reported that the knife had nothing to do with the O.J. Simpson case: (en)
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