According to SeattlePI.com, retired Los Angeles Police Department Detective Phil Vannatter has died of cancer at age 70 in Santa Clarita, CA.
Vannatter was one of the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Detectives involved in the 1994 homicide investigation into the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The suspect in that investigation, O.J. Simpson, was charged with their homicides but acquitted by a jury.