O.J. Simpson’s former bodyguard has claimed he has a shocking recording of the former footballer confessing to his wife’s murder.
Police have reportedly seized “multiple thumb drives” in an unexpected twist in the famous murder case.
The former football star was accused of killing his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994.
Law enforcement officers say they had justification to think that a thumb drive they took possession of contains a recording of Simpson admitting to the offense, as stated in a search warrant acquired by TMZ.
These recordings were reportedly taken from Simpson’s former bodyguard Iroc Avelli, as part of an investigation into a separate case.
Avelli was arrested in March 2022 and police conducted a search to collect evidence, and they took a green backpack with live ammunition and other items inside, according to TMZ.
Bloomington PD in Minnesota reportedly said they received a call two months after Simpson died, in April 2024, from an LAPD detective who asked to meet the former bodyguard.
LA cops reportedly believe a thumb drive in the green backpack, taken in 2022, had Simpson’s confession recorded.
Minnesota police obtained another court order in June, to access the drive, according to TMZ.
The outlet also reported that the contents of the drive are still pending.
These thumb drives have reportedly become the source of an ongoing legal battle as Avelli and his lawyer have sued Minnesota cops to retrieve his seized items.
This motion was denied by a judge in July, but the contents of the drive are still publically not known.
This shocking twist has emerged nearly 30 years after the incident that astonished the world.
Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The former NFL star became one of the world’s most watched people when he turned into the subject of a police chase and historic legal case.
He was sensationally acquitted a year after the pair were discovered dead.
His court appearances became famous across the globe as it was one of the first celebrity trials to be broadcast on television.
One of the trial’s most remembered moments was when the NFL star struggled to put on a glove the prosecution claimed he wore the night before.
The athlete’s lawyers argued the glove was planted by Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, who they said was a racist and determined to frame Simpson.
In a separate civil trial in 1997, Simpson was found liable for the deaths and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victim’s families.
He later served nine years in a Nevada prison after being convicted in 2008 on 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel.
Simpson died aged 76 on April 10 2024 after his battle with prostate cancer, and maintained his innocence throughout the rest of his life.
