According to TMZ, a recording of The Juice confessing to the 1994 killings that captivated a nation and led to one of the most high-profile murder cases in American history has gotten loose and found its way into the hands of police.
Per the media outlet, the recording wound up with Minnesota police after being found in the backpack of Simpson’s former bodyguard Iroc Avelli as part of an investigation of a separate case.
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Stored on a thumb drive, the recording allegedly features Simpson confessing to the twin killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her gentleman friend Ron Goldman.
Acting on a tip from the LAPD, police in Bloomington, Minnesota, began looking into the contents of a backpack they’d seized from Avelli two years earlier, including the thumb drive.
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TMZ explains: “Our law enforcement sources say the thumb drive in question was tied up in ongoing litigation … with Avelli and his lawyer suing the Minnesota cops to get back all his seized items — however, in July, a judge denied a motion to return the belongings. So, as it stands, the drive is in Bloomington PD’s custody, but we don’t know if they’ve dug into what’s on it … or whether they’ve shared any info with LAPD.”
No matter what’s on the thumb drive, it won’t have too much of an impact on Simpson as he died in April at the age of 76. It also won’t really affect his legacy all that much as many people have believed he got away with murder ever since his acquittal in 1995 following an 11-month trial that generated movies, books, and TV series by the boatload.
Largely lost in the limelight of the murders and the fallout was Simpson’s decorated football career. The winner of the Heisman Trophy as a senior at USC, Simpson became the first overall pick in the 1969 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. A powerful runner, Simpson played nine seasons in Buffalo and earned six Pro Bowl selections while leading the NFL in rushing yards four times.
Simpson won the MVP award and the AP Offensive Player of the Year Award in 1973 and remains among the league’s all-time leaders in several statistical categories: 29th in career rushing attempts (2,404), 21st in rushing yards (11,236), and 11th in rushing yards per game (83.2).
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