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Cop Found Possible OJ Murder Weapon. Here’s What He Did With It.

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The Los Angeles Police Department may very well be in the possession of the knife used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

According to TMZ, a folding buck knife was found buried on the property by a construction worker. A TMZ source said the worker either found it “several years ago” or in 1998, when the house was being demolished.

“Our law enforcement sources say the construction worker took the knife to the street, where he saw an LAPD cop,” the TMZ staff writer posted, adding, “He told the officer where he found the knife and the cop took it.”

Turns out the cop — who worked in the traffic division — was off duty at the time, working security for a movie shoot at a house across the street on Rockingham. Our sources say the officer took the knife home and kept it … kept it for years.

In late January of this year, after the cop retired from the LAPD, he contacted a friend who worked in LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Division (RHD). The cop told the friend about the knife and said he was getting it framed to put on his wall. He wanted his friend to get the DR (Departmental Record) number for the Nicole Brown Simpson/Ronald Goldman murder case, which he planned on engraving in the frame.

We’re told the friend was indignant, and told his superiors. The brass was outraged and demanded that the retired cop turn the knife over, which he did.

The LAPD is currently testing the knife for hair and fingerprints; the knife will soon be transported to the Serology Unit for further DNA and biological evidence.

Although the weapon is said to be extremely weathered and rusted , cops who’ve seen it say that it has appears to have what looks like blood stains.

Because O.J. was found criminally not guilty for the murders back in 1995 the case is still open, but he cannot be prosecuted again because of the double jeopardy rule which “forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges in the same case following a legitimate acquittal or conviction.”

Simpson was later found guilty in a civil court in 1997. As Wikipedia notes, “The jury in the civil trial awarded Brown and Simpson’s children, Sydney and Justin, $12.6 million from their father as recipients of their mother’s estate. The victims’ families were awarded $33.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages, thereby finding Simpson “responsible” for the respective murders.”

In 2006, Simpson and ReganBooks announced they were releasing a book titled, “If I Did It.” A judge later awarded Ronald Goldman’s family the rights to the book to partially satisfy the civil judgment against Simpson. The Goldmans changed the title to “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer”…

Simpson is currently sitting in Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center until 2017 for charges resulting from a 2007 robbery he committed.

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