OJ Simpson allegedly confessed on tape to killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and a friend, according to his former bodyguard — but cops say there is no evidence to support this claim.
It was said that the so-called confession was on a thumb drive that Iroc Avelli, Simpson’s ex-bodyguard, gave to police in Bloomington, Minn., when he was arrested in 2022 for something unrelated.
Avelli told police earlier this year that the supposed confession was on the device. This was just two months after Simpson’s death in Las Vegas in April.
Avelli was said to have said that the recording also showed Simpson accusing a third person, who was not known, of killing two people in 1994.
Based on Avelli’s tip, a judge gave police a new search warrant in June to look at the thumb drive.
The police were then able to get to the drive, but sources in law enforcement told the outlet that they did not find any tapes of a confession.
Sources also said that Simpson was not even on the recordings; it was just Avelli talking to himself.
The drive, which the police seem to still have, was found in Avelli’s green backpack along with a few other similar devices and some ammunition when he was arrested.
One source said that Avelli and his lawyers have been filing court papers to try to get his things back.
Simpson was charged with killing his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman by slashing them to death in Los Angeles in 1994.
After a huge trial, the once-loved NFL star was found not guilty a year later.
Even though he did not go to jail for murder, he was later found responsible for the deaths in a civil trial in 1997.
Simpson passed away at his home in Las Vegas in April. He was 76 years old and had been sick with prostate cancer.
