Police, however, say they have no evidence to back up claims that any such recording exists
The latest twist in the O.J. Simpson double-murder case comes eight months after he died.
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Simpson’s former bodyguard claims that the infamous ex-NFLer confessed on tape to killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994.
However, police say they have no evidence to back up claims that any such recording exists.
Avelli reportedly told police about the purported confession being on the device earlier this year and they began investigating.
He allegedly claimed that the recording also featured Simpson – who died in April, months before Avelli’s claim — implicating an unknown third party in the 1994 double murder.
Police were able to access the thumb drive,but found no such confession in the recordings, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
Sources added that Simpson wasn’t even featured on the recordings and that it was just Avelli talking to himself.
Police apparently are still in possession of the device, which was among several similar items and ammunition found inside Avelli’s backpack at the time of his arrest.
The bodyguard and his lawyers have been filing legal papers in a bid to get his belongings back, the source told the outlet.
Simpson was charged in 1994 with the murders of his ex-wife and Goldman in Los Angeles, leading to what was dubbed the “Trial of the Century.”
He was acquitted the following year, but a separate civil trial jury later found him liable in 1997 for the deaths.
He infamously co-wrote the 2007 book If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer with Pablo Fenjves, in which Simpson puts forth a hypothetical description of the murders.
Simpson died at 76 years old in his Las Vegas home on April 10 following a battle with prostate cancer.