{"id":1055,"date":"2026-05-18T23:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:34:57","slug":"mark-fuhrman-former-la-police-detective-convicted-of-lying-during-oj-simpson-murder-trial-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during OJ Simpson murder trial, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By REBECCA BOONE and HALLIE GOLDEN, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1053\">Adults hospitalized after school bus, 2nd vehicle collide in Orlando, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the\u00a01994 killings of Simpson\u2019s ex-wife\u00a0Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. He reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson\u2019s home but his credibility came under attack during the trial as the defense raised the prospect of racial bias.<\/p>\n<p>Under cross-examination, Fuhrman testified that he had never made anti-Black racial slurs in the past decade, but a recording made by an aspiring screenwriter showed he had done so repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai County, Idaho, said that Fuhrman died May 12. The county does not release the cause of death as a rule.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1051\">Boating accidents increasing in crowded Florida waters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuhrman retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after Simpson\u2019s 1995 acquittal. He subsequently moved to Idaho with his wife Caroline and their young daughter and son and set up a 20-acre (eight-hectare) farm, raising chickens, goats, sheep and llamas.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Fuhrman was charged with perjury and pleaded no contest. He later became a TV and radio commentator and wrote the book \u201cMurder in Brentwood\u201d about the killings.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal-court jury\u00a0found Simpson not guilty\u00a0of murder in 1995, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable in 1997 for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to relatives of Brown\u00a0and Goldman. He served nine years in prison on unrelated charges and\u00a0died in Las Vegas of prostate cancer\u00a0in 2024 at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1049\">New upgrades: $10 million headed to Donald J. Trump International Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Golden reported from Seattle.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuhrman retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after Simpson\u2019s 1995 acquittal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during OJ Simpson murder trial, has died - Orlando Relocation Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1055\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during OJ Simpson murder trial, has died - 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