OJ Simpson confession: Bloomington police find nothing on USB drives

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OJ Simpson shows the jury a new pair of extra-large Aris gloves, similar to the gloves found at the Bundy and Rockingham crime scenes on June 21 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles. Deputy Sheriff Roland Jex (l.) and Prosecutor Christopher Da (POO/AFP via Getty Images)

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) – Police in Bloomington, Minnesota, said they “found no conclusive information” after being asked by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to search several USB flash drives that investigators believed contained a confession from OJ Simpson in the murder of Nicole Brown could include Simpson and Ron Goldman.

What we know

According to a search warrant application filed in Hennepin County, Officer George Harms requested a judicial search warrant to search for images of USB flash drives so that “a complete forensic examination of all USB flash drives can be conducted in an attempt to obtain the recording “. .”

The search warrant was filed on the grounds that the USB flash drives “constitute evidence suggesting that a crime has been committed or that a particular person has committed a crime.”

Receive evidence

According to the filing, on March 3, 2022, Harms investigated an assault at a home on Lyndale Avenue South in Bloomington, for which he executed a search warrant to collect evidence at the scene.

After the search warrant was executed, several pieces of evidence were seized, including a backpack containing ammunition. Iroc Avelli has been formally charged in the ongoing case.

On June 14, 2024, Harms received a call from LAPD detectives who said that Avelli and his attorney had met with investigators and that in the backpack seized during the search there was a USB flash drive containing a recording of the confession OJ Simpson included the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Detective Mojarro of the LAPD has now asked Harms to look in the green backpack for USB sticks for recording.

Nothing found

According to an update provided by the Bloomington Police Department, in July 2024, all six USB drives were scanned by a Digital Forensics Examiner and a readable version was produced.

According to police, investigators found no conclusive information for the LAPD.

background

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found dead outside Brown Simpson’s home in Los Angeles in 1994.

Months later, Simpson was arrested for the murders after an infamous police chase.

In 1995 the case went to trial. Simpson, represented by a group of high-profile lawyers including Johnnie Cochran, was eventually acquitted of the murders by a jury.

However, in 1996, Simpson was found responsible for the murders in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the Brown and Goldman families.

Simpson never served any sentence for the murders, but was arrested years later after a sports memorabilia robbery in Las Vegas. That case resulted in a 33-year prison sentence for Simpson in 2008. He ended up serving just nine years behind bars before being paroled in 2017.

Simpson died on April 10, 2024.