Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Knife Found Near O.J.'s Old Home > LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A construction crew found a > folding-blade knife in O.J. Simpson's former > neighborhood, but police said the knife cannot be > linked to the killings of his ex-wife and her friend. > > ``The evidence that we have is basically that there is > no detectable evidence to show that this knife was > related to any particular crime whatsoever,'' said Lt. > Anthony Alba, a Police Department spokesman. > > The latest knife was found encased in mud April 24 by a > residential construction crew in the area of Rockingham > Estates, a small section of Brentwood that includes > Simpson's former house on Rockingham Avenue. The > precise location wasn't disclosed. > > Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman and then-partner > Brad Roberts said they saw an empty Swiss Army knife > box in Simpson's bathroom while they were investigating > the killings. > > Detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter, who also > investigated the case, said they never saw a Swiss Army > knife box. > > On Thursday, Fuhrman told listeners of his weekly radio > show on KXLY-AM in Spokane, Wash., there was a ``high > probability'' that the knife found was the weapon used > in the murders -- ``unless they can explain it some > other way.'' > > He said he believes the murder weapon was a lockback > Swiss Army knife with a serrated blade, which he said > was the type that was excavated. Alba said he didn't > know if the newly found folding knife was a Swiss Army > type. > > Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were > knifed to death on June 12, 1994. Jurors in a criminal > trial acquitted Simpson of murder charges in 1995, but > jurors in a civil wrongful death trial last year held > him liable and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in > damages. > > The weapon used in the killings was never found. > > Several knives have been found in Simpson's former > neighborhood over the past few years, but technicians > couldn't find any blood, hair or any other evidence to > link them to any crime, Alba said. > > Fuhrman said a lack of evidence wouldn't be surprising, > given the passage of time. He stressed he didn't know > how deeply the knife was buried. > > Simpson moved from Brentwood last year; the home was > sold at a foreclosure auction. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
