LA police are testing a knife said
to have been found at a former home of OJ Simpson, whose acquittal at
his 1995 murder trial captivated the US.
Someone claiming to be a
construction worker gave an off-duty police officer the knife some years
ago and he kept it, thinking the case was closed.Police recently recovered the knife and are testing it for DNA and hair samples.
Simpson had been accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend in June of 1994.
But a jury found him not guilty after a dramatic televised trial. He cannot be prosecuted again for the same charges under US law.
Police cast some doubt on whether the knife was connected to the OJ Simpson case at a news conference on Friday, saying it could be "bogus".
"If this story is accurate, you'd think anytime you come into contact with evidence that you should submit it to investigators," said Captain Andrew Neiman of the LAPD. "I don't know why that didn't happen."
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