Former O.J. Simpson Lawyer, Friend Back 1994 Murders Accomplice Theory

A drug trafficker with alleged mob connections and ties to O.J. Simpson reportedly became a confidential jailhouse informant, telling authorities he knew about attempts to dispose of evidence — possibly including the murder weapon that was never found.

Alan Dershowitz, a former member of Simpson’s famed “Dream Team” defense, said the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman remain an “open case” and that the informant’s allegations warrant additional scrutiny.

“It seems plausible and perhaps credible,” Dershowitz said Monday on Fox News’ “America Reports.”

Dershowitz said he believes the case contains “unresolved” issues that should be revisited.

The questions emerged in a New York Times report published Sunday about Joseph Ippolito. The former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur knew Simpson and was also close to Al Cowlings, the former NFL player who drove the white Ford Bronco during the slow-speed pursuit that preceded Simpson’s arrest in Los Angeles.

Ippolito reportedly told federal prosecutors that he had information about the missing murder weapon, which investigators have never recovered.

His brother, Sam, told the Times that Ippolito came home on the night of the killings carrying a heavy bag and appeared to have blood on his hands. Sam said his brother claimed he threw the bag into a dumpster on Los Angeles’ Doheny Drive without asking what was inside. Ippolito later sought payment for the account and then withdrew his claims, according to the report.

Dershowitz said the allegations nevertheless deserve examination.

“I think we ought to start from scratch and look at this evidence anew and see if there is credible evidence of a second person,” he said on Fox News. “I’ve often, right from the beginning, thought that this was very difficult for one person to have brought off and not only killed two people, but then disposed of the evidence and done all the things that we know occurred in this case.”

Charlie Ehrlich, who had known Ippolito since 1971 and later became a close friend of Simpson, also said he believes another person may have been involved. He strongly denied online speculation that he himself was that person.

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“In my mind, there is a secondary guy,” Ehrlich told News Media Monday. “Who? I have no clue. But I believe, in my mind, there is.”

Ehrlich was charged in connection with Simpson’s 2007 Las Vegas memorabilia robbery case. He has said he did not meet Simpson until the former NFL star relocated to Florida after his trial, but the two eventually became very close.

“Do I think he did it? I don’t know,” Ehrlich said. “If he did it, or if he did not do it, I never saw him get angry — and I was with him a lot the last 10-12 years here of his life here in Florida. We were together every weekend.”

Ehrlich has never been charged in the Brown Simpson and Goldman killings. Neither were Ippolito nor any of Simpson’s other associates.

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Dershowitz also pointed out that many central figures in the case have died. Simpson died in 2024, while Ippolito died in 2006.

“This should be looked at,” Dershowitz said. “This is not a closed case.”

Dr. Michael Baden, a Fox News contributor and renowned forensic pathologist who had been hired by Simpson’s defense alongside Dr. Henry Lee, had been tasked with evaluating the autopsy findings, including that the same weapon was used on Brown Simpson and Goldman.

While he said he was not involved with looking into whether someone could have assisted with the slayings after the fact, he told News Media that there was “no scene, autopsy [or] scientific evidence of more than one attacker.”

Cowlings did not immediately respond to a request for comment.