Mark Fuhrman, former LA police detective convicted of lying during OJ Simpson murder trial, has died

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By REBECCA BOONE and HALLIE GOLDEN
Updated 6:20 PM CDT, May 18, 2026

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died.

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, in Los Angeles. He reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson’s home but his credibility came under attack during the trial as the defense raised the prospect of racial bias.

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.

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.




Read more: https://apnews.com/article/detective-mark-fuhrman-dies-oj-simpson-trial-26944a536ea9c78566d340858df82805

[Polybius]

1. Wow, 74 years old

Time sure flies.

[TBF]

2. There's an obit in the NYTimes -

it's likely a paywall so I'll just paste the first few sentences. Apparently, he was a right-wing pundit as well in later years, but I'm sure many will remember him from the OJ trial.

By Clyde Haberman
May 18, 2026
Updated 6:10 p.m. ET
Mark Fuhrman, a Los Angeles police detective who in the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson went from being the prosecution’s star witness to its disastrous liability when defense lawyers used his past racist language to discredit him, died on May 12 in Kootenai County, Idaho. He was 74.

The Kootenai County coroner’s office confirmed the death, but did not say where in the county he died. Lynda Bensky, Mr. Fuhrman’s manager, said the cause was throat cancer. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/mark-fuhrman-dead.html

[underpants]

3. I was in the Army when tis happened. Across the board everyone hated the LAPD.

In the city to the suburbs. They’d all had asshole experiences with the LAPD.

[oasis]

4. He planted that glove, now he gets planted.