LAPD: Tests on knife linked to Simpson estate to take weeks
Posted March 09, 2016 6:00 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A law enforcement official says the knife reportedly found at O.J. Simpson's former estate likely isn't connected to the killings of his ex-wife and her friend, but it will take at least three weeks to know for sure.
The official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that Los Angeles police detectives doubt the knife was used in the 1994 killings.
The official says the knife is common among gardeners and is too small to make the wounds that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
The official is not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Police Capt. Andy Neiman said Wednesday that investigators examining the knife don't expect results for at least three weeks.
The department's crime lab is looking for DNA or other material.
Los Angeles Police Capt. Andy Neiman takes questions from reporters during a new conference at police headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, March 4, 2016. Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Neiman said Friday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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FILE: EDITORS: NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT--The body of Nicole Brown Simpson is seen where she was found on the bloodstained walkway of her Bundy Drive condominium as seen in this LAPD evidence photo, introduced and accepted as evidence and released for publication, in the O.J. Simpson wrongful-death civil trial Friday, Oct. 25, 1996, in Superior Court in Santa Monica, Calif. Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Neiman said Friday. (AP Photo/LAPD)
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ADDS THAT THIS IS THE SITE OF FORMER HOME OF OJ SIMPSON - Members of the media gather at the site of the former home of O.J. Simpson on Friday, March 4, 2016, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Detectives are investigating a knife claimed to have been found some time ago at the former home of Simpson who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Police Capt. Andy Neiman said it will be tested for DNA and other evidence that might connect it to the killings, although he expressed a strong not of skepticism, adding, âThis whole story is possibly bogus from the get go.â (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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FILE - In this May 14, 2013, file photo, O.J. Simpson sits during a break on the second day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. Los Angeles police are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool, File)
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FILE: Crews demolish the former home of O.J. Simpson, Wednesday, July 29, 1998, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Neiman said Friday. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson, center, reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, as members of his defense team, F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran Jr., right, look on, in court in Los Angeles. Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Neiman said Friday. (Myung J. Chun/Daily News via AP, Pool)
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FILE: An aerial view shows Nicole Brown Simpson's condo, top with two chimneys, during a visit by principals in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial on Bundy Drive in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles Sunday, February 12, 1995. Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, Neiman said Friday. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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