It was revealed on Wednesday that during the 1998 demolition of O.J. Simpson’s Brentwood estate, an excavator found numerous pieces of aluminum that he took home. The man’s neighbor, a retired LAPD detective, later noticed the man assembling what appeared to be the fuselage of an airplane in his garage.
Before long, word of the discovery leaked out and a team from the Smithsonian examined the pieces of what turned out to be part of the Lockheed aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart when she and her navigator disappeared in 1937.
A new excavation at the Brentwood property was launched, and most of the aircraft was recovered, along with a 55 gallon drum stored in the rear of the aircraft. The remains of neither Ms Earhart nor her navigator Fred Noonan were found in the plane, but investigators opening what was assumed to be an empty 55 gallon fuel drum were stunned to discover the body of missing Teamster boss, Jimmy Hoffa.
Interviewed at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Reno, Nevada, where he is currently serving a 20 year sentence for robbery, OJ Simpson disavowed any knowledge of the Earhart plane or its tragic cargo and added, “I’m just glad they never found the f**cking knife!”