O.J. Simpson informant mystery revisited
The gist
Records unsealed after 30 years show a government informant gave police key information on the 1994 Simpson killings.
The case's missing murder weapon has long fueled questions of an accomplice.
How it unfolded
- 1994Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered in Los Angeles; the murder weapon has never been found.
- 1994Joseph Ippolito, a convicted drug trafficker and mafia associate, escaped from a Florida prison a month before the murders; according to his brother, the siblings went west to Los Angeles after the escape.
- 1995O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the murder prosecution; prosecutors maintained he alone killed his ex-wife and her friend.