Mark Fuhrman, LA detective convicted of lying at OJ Simpson trial, dies
Fuhrman, who found bloody glove at Simpson’s home, charged with perjury after audio revealed use of racial slurs
Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died.
Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. He reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson’s home, but his credibility came under attack during the trial as the defense raised the prospect of racial bias.
Under cross-examination, Fuhrman testified that he had never made anti-Black racial slurs in the past decade, but a recording made by an aspiring screenwriter showed he had done so repeatedly.
Lynn Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai county, Idaho, said that Fuhrman died on 12 May. The county does not release the cause of death as a rule.
Fuhrman retired from the Los Angeles police department after Simpson’s 1995 acquittal. He subsequently moved to Idaho with his wife, Caroline, and their young daughter and son and set up a 20-acre farm, raising chickens, goats, sheep and llamas.
In 1996, Fuhrman was charged with perjury and pleaded no contest. He later became a TV and radio commentator and wrote the book Murder in Brentwood about the killings.
A criminal-court jury found Simpson not guilty of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5m to relatives of Brown and Goldman.
Simpson served nine years in prison on unrelated charges and died in Las Vegas of prostate cancer in 2024 at the age of 76.
On one hand former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. But at the same time fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.
Basically fuhrman, who found bloody glove at Simpson’s home, charged with perjury after audio revealed use of racial. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
Think about it: fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. That speaks volumes.
Basically fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
So the bottom line is fuhrman, who found bloody glove at Simpson’s home, charged with perjury after audio revealed use of racial. Wonder how this will land.
If fuhrman, who found bloody glove at Simpson’s home, charged with perjury after audio revealed use of racial, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
In other words former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. Curious to see how this develops.
If fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
On one hand fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. But at the same time under cross-examination, Fuhrman testified that he had never made anti-Black racial slurs in the past decade, but a recording made by an aspiring screenwriter showed he had done so repeatedly.
Mark Fuhrman has been vocal about this, good to see them staying on it.
So the bottom line is fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. Wonder how this will land.
The fact that fuhrman, who found bloody glove at Simpson’s home, charged with perjury after audio revealed use of racial really puts things into perspective.
In other words fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. Curious to see how this develops.
Ronald Goldman has been vocal about this, good to see them staying on it.
Nicole Brown is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.