The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever

A long time ago, the latest O. J. story goes, a construction worker discovered a knife in the fresh ruin of Simpson’s house, where he’d been part of a crew tasked with tearing the haunted place down. He handed the knife over to an off-duty police officer, whom he met on a movie set. The cop held onto the knife—apparently believing it to be a possible murder weapon—for an inexplicable twelve years, until about a month ago, just as television audiences had begun to thrill to the morbid nostalgia of FX’s “American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson.” Just last Friday, investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department announced that there was “no nexus” between the knife and the most bizarre exercise in justice yet undertaken in America. Thus, let’s hope, ends the odd journey of an innocent piece of silverware.