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O.J. Simpson publically maintained his innocence in the double murder he was acquitted of until he passed away earlier this year. However, there may be a wild twist on the verge of surfacing in the wake of his death due to a report that suggests his former bodyguard has a recording of him confessing to the slaying that’s ended up in the hands of the police.
If there were any doubts about the legacy O.J. Simpson would ultimately leave behind, they were put to rest when he died in April at the age of 76 after succumbing to prostate cancer.
He may have initially made a name for himself as a football player before pursuing a career in acting, but the coverage of his passing confirmed the seemingly obvious notion he’d be best remembered as the man who was charged with killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in a stabbing that unfolded in Los Angeles in 1994.
Simpson was ultimately charged with murder and spent eight months on trial before the jury issued a verdict of not guilty.
However, there was an ample amount of evidence presented that led to him losing the case in the court of public opinion, and the fact that police were never able to find the culprit he pledged to spend the rest of his life tracking down only added to suspicions about his culpability.
There was no deathbed confession for a man who once wrote a book about how he would have carried out the murders if he had been the person responsible and still owed the Goldman family more than $117 million at the time of his death due to the civil suit where he was found liable in 1997.
However, according to TMZ, Simpson may have confessed to the killings on a recording that has seemingly ended up in the hands of police in Bloomington, Minnesota based on a search warrant that suggests it was on a thumb drive seized from Iroc Avelli, his former bodyguard.
The outlet says the thumb drive was taken as evidence when Avelli was arrested in connection to another case in 2022. An LAPD detective subsequently contacted the department four months after Simpson’s death to tell them Avelli and his lawyer had met with them and said the thumb drive contained an audio file of Simpson copping to the murders and asserting another person was involved.
As things currently stand, it’s unclear if the Bloomington Police Department has obtained the alleged recording or if any information has been shared with their colleagues in Los Angeles, but this will be a very interesting situation to monitor as it presumably continues to unfold.