The knife found on O.J. Simpson's former property that nearly made cable news anchors' heads explode when it was revealed last month is not connected to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, says the Los Angeles Police Department through their twitter account.
There was only a tweet and no further explanation as to how the LAPD determined the knife, which had previously been buried, wasn't involved in the murders, CNN reports. In March, TMZ cited an anonymous source close to the investigation who said the knife contained no DNA since the soil had degraded any possible samples.
George Maycott, the former LAPD officer who had the knife since 2002, when a construction who'd been at Simpson's former home handed it over to him, has previously said he'd tried to give the knife over to the LAPD, but they weren't interested since Simpson couldn't be tried for the murders again. That construction worker allegedly found the knife in the '90s, possibly when Simpson's Los Angeles mansion was knocked down in 1998.
News that the knife had been found in Maycott's possession was even bigger considered that O.J. Simpson's trial is back in the news with the success of FX's miniseries, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.
This won't necessarily be the end of mysterious knives being involved in the decades-old murder case, which is still technically open. A docuseries set to premiere in the beginning of 2017 titled Hard Evidence: O.J. Is Innocent will be based on the work of a private investigator who says he's in possession of a knife he believes is the actual murder weapon.
