Police investigating knife found at OJ Simpson’s former home

Los Angeles police are examining a knife that was reportedly found at a former home of OJ Simpson, the former football star who in 1995 was acquitted of stabbing his ex-wife and her friend to death.

Lieutenant Andrew Neiman told a press conferences that forensic investigators are conducting DNA tests on the blade, that was recently turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department by a retired motorcycle officer.

Neiman said that the officer claimed to have been given the knife by a construction worker some years ago but that he had kept it, thinking the case was closed.

Simpson had been accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simposon and her friend Ronald Goldman in June 1994 at her condominium.

Authorities asked Simpson to turn himself in after the murders, but he failed show up at the police station. He was spotted inside a White Ford Bronco hours later, leading to a slow-speed pursuit across Los Angeles' motorways.

However, a jury found the former American football star not guilty after a dramatic televised trial that transfixed the nation.

The murder weapon has not been recovered at the time of the trial, but police cast doubt over whether the knife was connected to the OJ Simpson case, warning it could be "bogus".

"If this story is accurate, you'd think anytime you come into contact with evidence that you should submit it to investigators," Neiman said. "I don't know why that didn't happen."

Citing police sources, NBC News reported that the knife was a utility-type knife and was not consistent with the one used in the crime.