The forensic testing is finished and the Los Angeles police confirmed what everyone had suspected: the knife that was reportedly found at O.J. Simpson’s former home is not connected to the 1994 murders. The news comes less than a month after the LAPD said it was investigating a knife turned over by retired officer George Maycott.
Maycott had claimed a construction worker at Simpson’s property gave him the knife while he was off-duty 12 or 13 years ago. He ended up keeping the knife after he claimed the LAPD was not interested. The retired officer feels vindicated and is “relieved that the process is now over,” his lawyer told ABC News.
“Because what he said from the start turned out to be true,” the lawyer added. “Although this was a knife that was allegedly found on the property, it was clearly not the knife connected to the murders.”
The forensic testing ended up proving what experts claimed from the beginning: the knife was very different from the suspected murder weapon. For starters, it only had a five-inch fixed blade when a coroner testified at the trial that the weapon that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had at least a six-and-a-half-inch blade.
