Mark Foreman, former LAPD detective involved in OJ Simpson murder trial, dies at 78

Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective who gained notoriety for his role in the 1995 OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. He was 78.

Foreman was living in Idaho at the time of his death. Lynette Acebedo, Idaho’s deputy chief medical examiner, confirmed his death to multiple media outlets, saying, “There will be no further information provided through this office.” TMZ He reported that he died on May 12 and that he had been suffering from an aggressive form of throat cancer.

Foreman was the detective who found a bloodstained glove on Simpson’s Brentwood property while investigating the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, outside Simpson’s home on June 12, 1994. That glove became a key piece of evidence in the 1995 trial.

When prosecutor Christopher Darden asked Simpson, who was on trial for murder, to try the glove on in court, it either didn’t fit or Simpson was intentionally manipulating his hands so it wouldn’t fit, according to some experts. This led defense attorney Johnnie Cochran to utter his now famous phrase: “If it ain’t right, you gotta acquit.” Simpson was eventually found not guilty.

During the trial, Fuhrman’s testimony was called into question, and after recordings emerged of him making racist remarks, his credibility was also damaged. He was convicted of perjury in 1996.

After retiring from the LAPD, he became a true crime author and talk radio host.

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