Mark Fuhrman, detective who investigated OJ Simpson, dies at 74

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on May 18, 2026

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Former Los Angeles police detective and Fox News personality Mark Fuhrman is dead at 74.

An associate of the controversial officer told TMZ he died from an aggressive form of throat cancer in Idaho last week.

Fuhrman came to national prominence in 1994 after discovering a bloody glove outside the California home of O.J. Simpson’s murdered wife Nicole Brown.

His testimony in Simpson’s 1995 criminal trial was undercut by the defense, which unearthed recordings of the veteran investigator using inflammatory racist language. Simpson was later acquitted. Fuhrman, who’d earlier denied engaging in such rhetoric, retired from the Los Angeles Police Department before that verdict was announced. He pleaded no contest to perjury in 1996.

Furman was formally banned from working in California law enforcement in May 2024 because of his misconduct.

He went on to become a Fox News personality who hosted a show on the right-wing cable outlet’s Fox Nation internet service.

Furman told Court TV in 2025 that he wished he still worked in law enforcement.

“I’m not sure I’d still be in L.A., but I think I would have stayed probably five to seven years after the Simpson trial had, uh, everything not gone sideways,” he said.

Fuhrman insisted the offensive tapes jurors heard during Simpson’s trial were recorded when he was helping a screenplay writer understand life on the streets.

He denied being a racist.

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