O.J. Simpson’s Missing Murder Weapon: Secret Informant’s Claims Surface in Newly Unsealed Federal Records

The knife used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman has never been found. More than three decades after the brutal murders, newly unsealed federal court records reveal that a former drug dealer turned FBI informant claimed to know what happened to the missing murder weapon and how O.J. Simpson allegedly got rid of it. The five-page letter obtained by Los Angeles, dated December 4, 1996, was written by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Kelley to federal Judge Kimba Wood in the Southern District of New York. Federal prosecutors were asking for a lighter sentence for Joseph Joey Ippolito, a convicted drug trafficker who had escaped from a Florida federal prison before becoming a government informant. Ippolito LetterDownload The letter details that Ippolito had developed close relationships with people connected to the Simpson murder case; including Simpson, his ex-wife Nicole and longtime friend Al Cowlings, who famously drove the white Ford Bronco during Simpson s wild