O.J. Simpson may have had help allegedly covering up 1994 murders, unsealed files suggest

October 19, 2026 / 12:02 PM EDT / CBS News

More than three decades after the O.J. Simpson murder trial, a new investigation offers a different account of what might have happened the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death in 1994.

After O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the deaths in 1995, Los Angeles prosecutors received new information from Simpson's friend about the murder weapon's disposal, according to newly unsealed court documents obtained by the New York Times.

"You would think that there could not possibly be anything new, and now, for the public, there certainly is," said legal analyst Rikki Klieman, who covered the case at the time for Court TV.

According to court records, a letter from an assistant U.S. attorney to a federal judge requested a lenient sentence for Joey Ippolito on a prison escape charge because the convicted drug trafficker had become a federal informant.

The letter described Ippolito as a valuable source who "had become privy to many facts relevant to the [O.J. Simpson] case," including Simpson's "disposal of the murder weapon," which was never found.

Ippolito allegedly met Simpson through Al Cowlings, the man behind the…

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