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Sam Ippolito claims his brother Joey returned to a Los Angeles apartment on the night of the 1994 murders with apparent blood on his hands and asked him to discard a bag containing a heavy object.

Newly unsealed records show Joey later became a federal informant and shared information about O.J. Simpson’s alleged disposal of the missing murder weapon, though prosecutors never called him to testify.

Sam later tried to retract his account after the New York Times refused to pay him, while former prosecutors and Joey’s relatives disputed his alleged involvement. The LAPD says the case remains open.

The brother of Joseph “Joey” Ippolito, a friend of O.J. Simpson, reportedly told The New York Times that Ippolito returned to a Los Angeles apartment around midnight on the night of June 12, 1994, with what appeared to be blood on his hands and a bag containing a heavy object.

Sam Ippolito’s account, published in the Times’ Oct. 18 re-examination of the O.J.…