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" If, like us, you&amp;#039;ve been hooked on BBC drama\u00A0The People v OJ Simpson, you might be interested to hear a huge development that has just happened, despite having been discovered years ago... According to recent reports, a bloodied knife was found buried on OJ&amp;#039;s property by a construction worker who was carrying out building work on the site. And as you might remember, OJ&amp;#039;s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her lover Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death by a killer who has never been prosecuted. Although it&amp;#039;s not been clarified exactly when the knife was found - with some reports claiming it was in 1998, while others merely state that it was discovered &amp;quot;several years ago&amp;quot; - what is certain is that it&amp;#039;s not new evidence. So why has it taken so long to come to police attention? Apparently, the construction worker handed it over to an off-duty police officer who - for whatever reason - kept the knife in his home for years before giving it to investigators. Sounds sensible.  It&amp;#039;s likely that now, with the high profile case being back at the forefront of our minds given the recent TV series, the officer in possession of the knife was spurred into action to do something with it. Which is why now, the folding buck knife is undergoing a series of tests to establish whether there is any DNA evidence tying it to OJ and/or the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman.\u00A0 But with such a frenzy surrounding the case, LAPD officers are apparently keeping this new evidence under complete wraps, even storing information associated with it in a completely separate computer system to the original case file. According to The New Yorker, however, even if DNA testing did show some kind of link to OJ Simpson - who is currently serving 33 years in prison for an armed robbery on a sports memorabilia collector in Las Vegas - he wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to be prosecuted again thanks to double-jeopardy laws, &amp;quot;which prohibit someone from being charged with the same crime twice&amp;quot;. Follow Cat on\u00A0Twitter.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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