Howard had no idea what happened to the knife, so it only seemed logical to ask the court. As it turns out, there was no museum afterlife for Lorena Bobbitt’s weapon. The knife was ordered destroyed in July 2004 and was most likely incinerated, a court spokeswoman said. 
 
 And what of the glove that O.J. Simpson struggled to wriggle his hand into during his 1995 murder trial in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman? Might its muted existence provide a clue about the future of Martin’s hoodie? 
 
 The glove was the subject of defense attorney Johnnie Cochran’s famed line: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Now it lives inside a plastic evidence bag stowed in a vault at “an undisclosed location” in Los Angeles County, a spokesman for the county district attorney’s office said. 
 
 The office knows of only one time that the glove was displayed publicly: at the Palms Resort casino in Las Vegas during the 2010 California Homicide Investigators Association meeting. It drew a crowd. 
 
 A hoodie’s travels 
 
 Trayvon Martin’s hoodie has been on a journey since the verdict, shuffled from one place to another, its final destination far from certain. 
 
 Prosecutors got it first. But they quickly passed it to the Sanford Police Department, the beleaguered law enforcement agency that came under caustic criticism for its initial decision not to charge Zimmerman. Protesters wore hoodies at massive rallies called to trash and shame the Sanford police; now the police were back in possession of the symbolic core of the case. 
 
 There, in a secure room, officers had the elaborate frame disassembled. The hoodie was folded and repackaged in an evidence bag, according to a police spokesman. Its arms were no longer spread wide. 
 
 Then it was on the move again, this time to the U.S. Justice Department. Last week, Sanford police packed several boxes of evidence and drove them to a Justice Department office in Orlando. In those boxes were a bag of Skittles and an AriZona brand fruit drink, the two items that Martin’s family so poignantly noted were the only things he was armed with on that rainy night in February 2012 when Zimmerman spotted him walking through a modest gated community in Sanford. ||||| Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which has become a symbol for race relations in America, could be headed to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. 
 
 The director of the Institution's coming National Museum of African American History and Culture said he'd like to have the hooded sweatshirt on display. 
 
 “It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It’s rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol,” Lonnie Bunch told the Washington Post. “Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama.” 
 
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 Martin, 17, was wearing the gray pullover last year when he was fatally shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. 
 
 The garment became a sign of solidarity with the slain teen: Hoodies were worn at rallies, church services and by senators and celebrities. 
 
 Other items from famous criminal cases have ended up on display. The Newseum in Washington, D.C, has Ted Kaczinski's cabin and the ill-fitting gloves from O.J. Simpson’s trial were part of an exhibit at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas. 
 
 Bunch has assembled a collection of court artifacts for the African American History museum, which is expected to open in 2015, including the handcuffs used to restrain Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the guard tower from Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary. 
 
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– It's one of the most talked about sweatshirts in America. Now, the dark gray hoodie Trayvon Martin was wearing the night he was killed may be put on display for all to see. The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (set to open in 2015) thinks the iconic sweatshirt would be a meaningful addition to its growing collection. "It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case," Lonnie Bunch told the Washington Post. "Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama." How likely is it to happen? The Post reports it could be years before Trayvon's family has a chance to collect the hoodie. It's currently being held on orders from the Justice Department as a civil rights investigation is under way. Once the family is permitted to pick it up, they'll be able to decide what to do with it. Should they hand it to the Smithsonian branch, it'll join items like the handcuffs that were infamously placed on Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Los Angeles Times notes other signature items from high-profile cases have ended up in museums: The Newseum has Ted Kaczinski's cabin in its collection.