Unsealed O.J. Simpson Records Prompt a Request for a New Investigation

A sister of Nicole Brown Simpson, the slain ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, said this week that she would like to see law enforcement officials investigate whether multiple people were involved in the 1994 killing.

The sister, Tanya Brown, said she believed someone helped Mr. Simpson get rid of the murder weapon, and highlighted a recent New York Times article that, citing newly unsealed court files and interviews, examined the possibility.

“We deserve answers,” Ms. Brown said.

Ms. Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death in June 1994, and Mr. Simpson was charged with murder. He was acquitted by a Los Angeles County jury in a high-profile criminal trial but later held liable for the deaths in a civil case.

Ms. Brown said she was wary of anything that would fully reopen the case and the trauma of the 1995 trial. But at the same time, she said she would like to see prosecutors seek to answer whether someone helped Mr. Simpson or assisted in a cover-up.

She wasn’t alone in calling for renewed scrutiny of the case.

Alan Dershowitz, one of the lawyers who represented Mr. Simpson, said that a special prosecutor should be appointed to examine whether an accomplice was involved.

Mr. Dershowitz pointed to the findings of The Times’s report, which included documents detailing how a secret informant told law enforcement about the missing murder weapon and Mr. Simpson’s flight from justice. The informant’s brother told The Times that he saw his brother the night of the killings with what appeared to be bloody hands, and that he disposed of a bag with a heavy object inside at his brother’s request.

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