Breaking: OJ Simpson Witness and LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman Dead at 74

One of the most dramatic characters of the O.J. Simpson trial that captivated the United States three decades ago has died.

Mark Furhman, the former Los Angeles police detective who reported finding the bloody glove that became iconic in the acquittal of the former football star and actor who was accused of murdering his wife and her friend, died in Idaho May 12, according to The Associated Press.

He was 74. No cause of death was released.

BREAKING: Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, who discovered the bloody glove in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder case and was convicted of lying on the witness stand, has died at the age of 74. pic.twitter.com/jub984PXUr

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Furhman’s testimony as an investigator assigned to the scene where Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were knifed to death in Los Angeles in June 1994 was