Knife from O.J. Simpson property not murder weapon, police confirm

LOS ANGELES – Forensic testing concluded that a knife reportedly found at the former home of O.J. Simpson is not connected to the 1994 homicide case, Los Angeles police confirmed Friday.

The LAPD performed a variety of forensic tests on the knife before make the conclusion.

Sources told the Los Angeles Times earlier this month a preliminary review suggested that the weapon appeared to be unconnected to the brutal 1994 slayings of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Simpson was tried for murder but a jury found him not guilty.

The weapon has been described as a relatively small buck knife, and some experts in the case say that is different from the type of knife investigators believe was used in the killings.

The knife was supposedly found while crews were tearing down the Simpson estate in Brentwood after the property changed hands.

A retired Los Angeles police officer given the knife found by the construction worker called the LAPD to report it years ago, his attorney said.

When the department showed no interest, the retired officer, George Maycott, put it in his toolbox for more than a decade, attorney Trent Copeland said.

Copeland said Maycott, who retired in 1998, was working security on a movie set around 2003 when a construction worker at the demolished estate handed him the knife.

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