5:45 PM PT — The LAPD tells TMZ … “The Metropolis of Bloomington, Minnesota Police Division examined the drives in query and decided they contained nothing of evidentiary worth. The LAPD has by no means listened to, or been in possession of, these drives.”
2:42 PM PT — Legislation enforcement sources inform TMZ … Bloomington Police accessed the thumb drives and decided there was no confession by O.J. Simpson.
We’re instructed … not solely was there no confession, there was no O.J. on any of them — it was simply Iroc Avelli speaking to himself.
New twist within the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman … police declare they’ve motive to consider they’ve a recording of O.J. Simpson confessing to the murders.
In response to a brand new search warrant, obtained by TMZ, cops in Minnesota say they’ve a thumb drive they have been instructed has a recording of O.J. admitting to the double homicide of Nicole and Ron.
What’s extra, police say they have been instructed the recording additionally options O.J. implicating an unknown third social gathering.
Within the warrant, cops say they seized a backpack containing a number of thumb drives from a person named Iroc Avelli as a part of an investigation in a separate case. Avelli is Simpson’s former bodyguard.
The docs say Avelli was arrested in March 2022 and police executed a search warrant to gather proof, together with a inexperienced backpack with reside ammunition and different gadgets.
Bloomington PD in Minnesota says in June 2024 — 2 months after O.J. died — they acquired a name from an LAPD detective who suggested that Avelli and his lawyer met with LAPD and instructed cops contained in the inexperienced backpack was a thumb drive with the recording of O.J.’s confession.
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With a purpose to entry the contents of the thumb drive, Minnesota cops wanted a brand new search warrant … so that they went to a decide in June and acquired permission.
However, this is the factor … authorized docs say the outcomes of what is truly on the thumb drive are nonetheless pending.
Our legislation enforcement sources say the thumb drive in query was tied up in ongoing litigation … with Avelli and his lawyer suing the Minnesota cops to get again all his seized gadgets — nonetheless, in July, a decide denied a movement to return the belongings.
So, because it stands, the drive is in Bloomington PD’s custody, however we do not know in the event that they’ve dug into what’s on it … or whether or not they’ve shared any data with LAPD.
As you recognize, O.J. was charged in 1994 with Nicole and Ron’s murders. He was acquitted within the “Trial of the Century” … although he was later discovered liable for his or her murders in a civil case.
Simpson’s longtime lawyer and executor of his will and belief, Malcolm LaVergne, tells TMZ … he thought LAPD thought of the homicide case closed, that their place was O.J. did it however beat the case, and that police have by no means actively seemed for every other suspects for the reason that finish of the legal trial in 1995.
LaVergne says he is attempting to get his palms on all of the proof — together with the suicide letter, gloves and the pullover cap — to public sale off to cowl Simpson’s money owed … however this thumb drive may very well be probably the most essential proof but.
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