Key Player In O.J. Simpson Case Speaks Out About Knife Discovery
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A key player in the O.J. Simpson case is sharing his thoughts about a knife that was reportedly discovered on Simpson's property years ago.
House guest Kato Kaelin said he's astounded a police officer would hide the weapon for nearly two decades. Kaelin spoke exclusively to TV 10/55's Peter Daut in Los Angeles.
"Why was this never turned in in 1998, why?" he said.
Kaelin shot to fame nearly a quarter-century ago in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. He was a star witness, the famous house-guest who lived on Simpson's Brentwood property. This is the same property where LAPD now say a construction worker reportedly found a knife in the 1990s and turned it over to an officer who held onto to it until recently.
"Sort of like, you think a police handbook 101 that you turn in any kind of evidence. To think someone wanted to keep something that's possibly the knife, the weapon used in this heinous crime. Why keep it? It makes absolutely no sense," Kaelin said.
Kaelin thinks the actual weapon might be in a bag he was supposed to put in Simpson's limo the night of the murders, right before Simpson left for the airport.
"That bag has never been found and I remember it sitting there and him saying 'no, no, I'll get that bag,' O.J. saying that to me," he recalled.
Even if the weapon does provide evidence linked to Simpson, he was acquitted of the murders in 1995. Under the Fifth Amendment that prohibits double jeopardy, he cannot be tried for the murders again.
