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edbermac

(16,487 posts)
Mon May 18, 2026, 05:34 PM 3 hrs ago

OJ Simpson case detective Mark Fuhrman dies.

Former LAPD detective, Mark Fuhrman who discovered the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case and later torpedoed the prosecution with his use of the n-word, is dead ... TMZ has learned.

Sources tell TMZ ... Mark died from an aggressive form of throat cancer, which he was diagnosed with last year. Mark had been hospitalized for about a week before he died. He had done some cancer treatment ... but made the final decision to stop. There won't be a funeral.

He retired from LAPD way back in August 1995 and started writing true crime books. He became a TV and radio personality and even worked as an expert for Fox News.

A year after retiring, Mark pleaded no contest in 1996 to a felony count of perjury for lying about using a racial slur when he testified during O.J.'s trial.

With Mark as the cop who found the bloody glove, O.J.'s legal team called out Mark's credibility by resurfacing old tapes of the detective using racist language ... ultimately suggesting he might have planted the evidence.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/18/mark-fuhrman-dead/

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OJ Simpson case detective Mark Fuhrman dies. (Original Post) edbermac 3 hrs ago OP
That's a shame. BlueTsunami2018 3 hrs ago #1
I wouldn't call it "Chinese" but we're having a veggie stir-fry for dinner . . . hatrack 2 hrs ago #3
he helped a double-murderer go free Skittles 3 hrs ago #2
Yes! LoisB 1 hr ago #4

hatrack

(65,138 posts)
3. I wouldn't call it "Chinese" but we're having a veggie stir-fry for dinner . . .
Mon May 18, 2026, 06:46 PM
2 hrs ago

With good peanut oil, you can wok anything delicious!

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