O.J. Simpson Lead Detective Tom Lange Trashes New Accomplice Theory | TMZ

How much credence do you put in this story that Joey Eppolito was the cleanup man? Pretty close to zero. How come? Zero. Well, again, I'd have to tell you this, but homicide cops deal with evidence, not supposition. You have a central figure in the story now who's been dead for a number of years. His brother came out with a lot of information that's been questioned. His credibility has been questioned. I don't know one way or the other It makes for an interesting story As far as entertainment goes But as far as evidence goes There's nothing really there Most high-profile cases, if not all of them You get a lot of information that's erroneous Coming in So we built a so-called fluff file Initially, we had like 518 Of these call-ins Various information And we had to categorize them Some of them were worth looking at Others weren't As far as Eppolito goes, we did have his name, I believe, in three different so-called clues, call-ins, but they were from other organizations. Somebody cleaned up for O.J. Simpson. He left too quickly that he could not have disposed of that knife, his clothing, and whatever other evidence there was. Well, I don't know what you mean by clean up. As far as the knife goes, if that's what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah. We actually have a witness at the airport that saw Simpson probably within 45 minutes after the murders, before the bodies had been even discovered, at the airport getting on a flight to go to Chicago, standing by the left side of the entrance of the airport at American Airlines, with a little tote bag on top of the container, taking items out of the container, shoving them down into the trash container, and zipping it up, picking it up, and walking back into the airport. I remember that well, but that guy didn't see what was taken out of the bag. But I get your point. That's certainly better than hearsay or someone thinking that this may have happened or that may have happened. This is a solid witness. Nobody says it's direct evidence, but circumstantially, that looks pretty good, time-wise and everything else. So that's the story. You ask where the murder weapon could be or how did he clean up? certainly that to me is more relevant than any anybody talking about hearsay saying well this could happen because so-and-so said Joey Apollo of course is dead which makes it pretty convenient for that story to be out there so you think uh do you think his brother Sam his brother Sam spoke to the New York Times are you saying that Joey lied to his brother or is his brother telling stories to the New York Times well uh Sam he doesn't have a reputation his credibility has been questioned in that very article the New York Times article a lot more than i could for people have a lot more information on him than i do again this is not evidence of anything uh if there's anything there then you got to pick it up regardless of the whether or not the case has been solved, which it has been solved, he wasn't convicted, it doesn't mean the case wasn't solved. So this is interesting to talk about, but where's the meat? Where's the beef? I don't know.