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Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, whose O.J. Simpson murder-trial testimony was undermined after a recording revealed racist slurs, died May 12 in Idaho. He had pleaded no contest to perjury in 1996, retired after Simpson's acquittal, and later became a TV/radio commentator and author.
Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Mark Fuhrman, a central figure in the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder case, has died in Idaho. He was later convicted of perjury for lying under oath about anti-Black slurs, a key issue during Simpson’s criminal trial that revolved around the bloody-glove evidence. Fuhrman retired from the LAPD, then became a media commentator and author. Simpson was acquitted in the 1995 criminal trial but found liable in a 1997 civil suit; Simpson died in 2024 in Las Vegas at age 76.
Former Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, whose testimony in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial was challenged after a recording revealed racial slurs, has died at 74 in Idaho. He was convicted of perjury in 1996 for lying on the stand, later retired from the LAPD, and moved to a 20‑acre Idaho farm with his family, later working as a TV/radio commentator and author. The Simpson case ended with a criminal acquittal for Simpson but a 1997 civil verdict finding him liable for the deaths; the piece notes Simpson died in 2024 of prostate cancer in Las Vegas.