Mark Fuhrman, the former LAPD detective who found a bloody glove used as evidence in the nationally-televised O.J. Simpson trial— but was then discredited for lying about previously using racial slurs — is dead at 74.
On Tuesday, May 12, Fuhrman died in Idaho, the Kootenai County Coroner’s Office confirmed, per Deadline, People, and many other publications. He died following a battle with an aggressive form of throat cancer, TMZ reported. Reportedly, Fuhrman had been hospitalized for a week leading to his death.
Fuhrman played a pivotal role in the trial surrounding the 1994 murders of O.J.’s wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. During the 1995 murder trial, he testified about finding the bloody glove at O.J.’s Rockingham estate, which matched another glove found at the murder scene in Brentwood. DNA testing also found that it was Nicole’s blood.
However, O.J.’s defense attacked Fuhrman’s credibility during the trial, alleging that the glove had been planted. The defense team played recordings of him using the N-word after he testified that he had not used anti-Black slurs in the past 10 years. Additionally, when O.J. tried on the glove during the trial, he struggled to put it on.
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit,” defense attorney Johnnie Cochran famously argued in his closing statements.
Ultimately, Fuhrman was charged with perjury and pleaded no contest in 1996. O.J. was found not guilty of murdering Nicole and Goldman. The former NFL player was later sentenced to 33 years in prison for his role in an armed robbery of a Las Vegas hotel room. O.J. was released on parole in October 2017; he died at 76 in 2024.
After the trial, Fuhrman retired from the LAPD. He became a radio and TV commentator and also published a New York Times bestseller, Murder in Brentwood, in 1997. Steven Pasquale played Fuhrman in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
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