George Maycott was the former LAPD officer who was given a knife found by a construction worker from O.J. Simpson’s property and he is calling b.s. on the reports that the department never knew about the knife. In fact he claims he told them the same day he received it back in 2002 and nobody he spoke with seemed to care about it.
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Maycott retired in 1998. In 2002 he was providing security for a movie shoot that happened to be right across the street from Simpson’s mansion that was being demolished.
Maycott claims he called the West L.A. Division of LAPD and spoke with a female officer who was working the desk and explained the story and said the knife was “rusty, dirty and muddy.”
The cop says the officer put him on hold for a while and a supervisor came on the line, who said, “This case is closed and O.J. was acquitted.” The cop says the supervisor then discussed how O.J. could not be prosecuted again because of double jeopardy.
He says after that he decided to just keep it and threw it in a tool box for all these years until he decided he wanted to get it framed. That’s when he asked a friend still with the department for the case number so he could have it engraved and the friend decided to tell others in the department and this is where we find ourselves now.
For what it’s worth, some members of the LAPD are not sold on Maycott’s story. They say it’s strange if he was really interested in alerting the department that he did not call the Robbery Homicide Dept.
We’re told Robbery Homicide will now look into the cop’s story about allegedly calling the WLA Division of LAPD.
On a separate but related note, the doctor who examined the wounds of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman during their autopsies says the buck knife that was found “definitely” could have been the murder weapon.
Dr. Irwin Golden, who served as the Deputy Medical Examiner, testified in the O.J. Simpson case and performed both autopsies, tells TMZ the folding buck knife could have severely cut both victims. Nicole was brutally attacked with a deep neck wound — 2 1/2 inches deep and 5 1/2 inches across — and Golden says a 4″ blade could have done the deed. We broke the story … the knife in question has a 5″ blade.
Sources connected with the 1994 investigation and others involved in the evaluation of the knife tell us there was always a wide belief among LAPD cops that Simpson used a buck knife.
This could be the opening of Pandora’s box or could still be nothing but it at least has the feel that some pieces are coming together. Will it matter in the end since Simpson can’t be charged again?
