Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective known for his role in the investigation into the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, has died at the age of 74.

According to reports confirmed by the Kootenai County Coroner’s Office, Fuhrman died after battling an aggressive form of throat cancer.

TMZ reported he had been diagnosed last year and stopped treatment shortly before his death.

Fuhrman became a nationally recognised figure during the 1995 murder trial of OJ Simpson.

He was one of the first detectives assigned to the case and testified about key evidence, including the bloody glove found at Simpson’s estate.

The trial later became a major moment in debates over race and policing in the United States. Simpson’s legal team accused Fuhrman of planting evidence, claims he repeatedly denied.

“There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility, not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility I could have planted anything,” Fuhrman told ABC-TV in 1996.

After retiring from the LAPD, Fuhrman worked as a media commentator and wrote several true crime books focused on high-profile criminal investigations.