After it was reported that O.J. Simpson’s former bodyguard claimed to have recordings of Simpson confessing to the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, police now update that Simpson did not confess on the confessional recordings seized and that it was just the former bodyguard “talking to himself.”
On Tuesday (November 3), TMZ reported that they obtained a search warrant revealing cops in Minnesota seized a thumb drive that allegedly contained confessional recordings belonging to O.J. Simpson and regarding the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend.
The initial report claimed that authorities were told that the confessional recordings also included Simpson implicating an unidentified third party. The Bloomington Police Department (BPD) said they confiscated a backpack loaded with several flash drives from a man named Iroc Avelli, O.J. Simpson’s former bodyguard.
The seizure was conducted during an investigation into a separate case. The BPD said that in June 2024, two months after Simpson passed away, they received a tip from a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective, who mentioned that Avelli, along with his attorney, met with the LAPD and alleged that there was a thumb drive in a green backpack that held O.J. Simpson’s confession to the 1994 murders.
In June, police in Minnesota got a new search warrant for the green backpack and were able to seize it. At the time of the initial report, the contents of the thumb drive were still pending, with TMZ’s sources claiming the thumb drive was tied up in an ongoing legal battle that saw Avelli and his attorney suing the police in Minnesota to return his belongings.
However, in July, a judge dismissed the motion to return his items and the thumb drive remained in the possession of the Blooming Police Department.
After their initial report went viral, TMZ updated their story and now claims that law enforcement sources told them that Bloomington Police Department officials finally assessed the contents of the thumb drives and determined that there was no confession by O.J. Simpson in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend.
They were told that O.J. Simpson did not confess on the recordings, nor was he even on them, it was just his former bodyguard talking to himself. Officials with the LAPD told them, “The City of Bloomington, Minnesota Police Department examined the drives in question and determined they contained nothing of evidentiary value. The LAPD has never listened to, or been in possession of, these drives.”
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