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Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, Known for Role in O.J. Simpson Case, Dies at 74

The former Los Angeles Police Department detective was the only person criminally convicted in the Simpson case after his perjury plea.

  • Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman died Tuesday, May 12, in Idaho at age 74, The Kootenai County Coroner Office confirmed. He was the central figure in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial.
  • During the 1995 trial of Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, Fuhrman discovered a bloody glove prosecutors intended as key evidence against the former football player.
  • Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran portrayed Fuhrman as a racist who planted evidence, presenting recordings of the detective using racial epithets that undermined his credibility with the jury.
  • Retiring from the LAPD in 1995, Fuhrman later pleaded no contest to a perjury charge; his subsequent career included hosting radio programs and providing commentary for Fox News.
  • TMZ reported that Fuhrman died after battling an aggressive form of cancer, while sources indicated the detective had been suffering from the illness for some time.
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Racist LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, Who Lied During O.J. Simpson Trial, Dead At 74

KEN LUBAS / Mark Fuhrman Mark Fuhrman, the racist former Los Angeles police detective who was convicted of lying during the O.J. Simpson murder trial, is no longer in the land of the living. He was 74. Fuhrman was one of the first two detectives who were sent to investigate the 1994 grizzly murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.  He famously found the bloody glove (that allegedly didn’…

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