One Of The Most Controversial Figures From The O.J. Simpson Case Has Died
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Mark Fuhrman, a former Los Angeles police detective, died on May 12 in Kootenai County, Idaho. He was 74.
Fuhrman had been living in Idaho at the time of his death. Lynette Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai County, Idaho, confirmed his death to multiple outlets. She said, “There will be no other information provided through this office.”
TMZ reported that he died May 12 and that he’d been battling an aggressive form of throat cancer.
Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. His death comes two years after Simpson passed away.
Mark Fuhrman Was Exposed as Racist During OJ Simpson Trial
Audio recordings surfaced during the 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial. It revealed former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman using the n-word and bragging about police brutality.
Under cross-examination early, Fuhrman testified under oath that he had not used racial slurs in the previous 10 years. That was a bad decision on his part, as he did not know what was to come. The defense produced tapes recorded by an aspiring screenwriter, per Wikipedia.
Mark Fuhrma used the N-word approximately 41 to 42 times throughout the recorded interviews. Once his credibility was shattered, Simpson’s defense team successfully argued that Fuhrman was a racist who could have planted or fabricated evidence to frame Simpson.
In 1996, Fuhrman pleaded no contest to felony perjury for lying under oath. As a result, he was placed on probation and fined. His perjury conviction effectively barred him from working in law enforcement.
Following the trial, he relocated to Idaho and reinvented himself as a conservative political commentator.
