Former OJ Simpson attorney, longtime friend both support possibility of accomplice in 1994 murders

A mob-linked drug trafficker with ties to OJ Simpson secretly became a jailhouse snitch and claimed to have information about efforts to dispose of evidence, potentially including a murder weapon that was never recovered, according to a new report.

A former member of Simpson's "Dream Team" defense during one of the most scrutinized murder trials in American history says the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are still an "open case" and that the claims should be further investigated.

"It seems plausible and perhaps credible," former Simpson defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Fox News' "America Reports" Monday.

BROTHER OF POSSIBLE OJ SIMPSON ACCOMPLICE CLAIMS HE RETURNED WITH BLOODY HANDS ON NIGHT OF MURDERS: REPORT He said he believes there are "unresolved" questions that deserve to be looked into.

Those questions were raised in a New York Times report Sunday about Joseph Ippolito, a former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur who knew Simpson and had become close with Al Cowlings, the former NFL star who drove the white Ford Bronco ahead of Simpson's arrest in Los Angeles.

NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON TOLD FORMER LOVER SHE'D 'RATHER DIE' THAN RETURN TO O.J.

SIMPSON BEFORE HER MURDER Ippolito told federal prosecutors he had information on the murder weapon.

One has never been recovered.

Further, Ippolito's brother Sam told the Times that his brother returned home on the night of the murders with a heavy bag and apparent blood on his hands.

He claimed to have ditched the bag in a dumpster on Los Angeles' Doheny Drive without asking questions.

He later asked for payment for his story and recanted, according to the report.

But the claims are worth a look, Dershowitz said.

"I think we ought to start from scratch and look at this evidence anew and see if there is credible evidence of a second person," he told Fox News.

"I've often, right from the beginning, thought that this was very difficult for one person to have brought off and not only killed two people, but then disposed of the evidence and done all the things that we know occurred in this case." FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Charlie Ehrlich, a friend of Ippolito since 1971 and eventually a close pal of Simpson's, said it's possible that a second person was involved — while vehemently denying unproven online speculation that it could've been him.