Los Angeles authorities do not believe that the knife found on OJ Simpson's former property is connected to the 1994 murders of his wife and her friend.
The American footballer-turned-actor was acquitted of killing his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman in 1995. A now-retired policeman kept the weapon at his home until January, when he passed it on to a friend working in the Los Angeles Police Department.
Despite his 1995 acquittal on criminal charges, in 1997 a jury in a civil trial in Santa Monica, California found Simpson liable for the wrongful death of Ron and Nicole, and ordered him to pay US$33.5 million (S$46.1 million) in damages to their families.