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(Gray News) – Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles Police Department detective known for his role in the O.J. Simpson case, has died, sources say.
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Furhman was 74. According to TMZ, who was the first to report his death, he died from an aggressive form of throat cancer.
The New York Times also confirmed Furhman’s death.
He was known as the cop who found a bloody glove connected to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994.
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Simpson’s defense team suggested the glove had been planted by Furhman. Despite denying the use of such language, the defense team played a recording of him using racial slurs. The year after Simpson was acquitted, Furhman pleaded no contest to felony perjury.
After his retirement from the LAPD in 1995, Furhman moved to Idaho and began to write true crime books. He also became a television and radio personality, including working for Fox One.
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