You guys may want to google Brett Cantor - he was Ron Goldman's friend and a restaurant owner, who was killed in the same exact manner as Ron Goldman, a year earlier.
Rumors involve a cocaine ring, that OJ, Nicole and Co. were involved with.
EDIT:
Bob writes,
I'm not sure of the facts as presented above. There was Michael Nigg, a
waiter at the Mezzaluna who was driving a Mercedes was gunned down in
one of those LA robberies (like Ennis Cosby) where the person is gunned
down without anything being taken. That was in September 1995, so it
wasn't Simpson on that one. The question arises how Nigg could afford to
own a Mercedes. It's been a long time since I worked as a busboy, maybe
they tip a lot better these days, but owning a Mercedes is a little
curious.
Remember that Keith Zlomsowitch took off for Florida. He has been
described as the maitre 'd at the Mezzaluna, and also "Director of
Operations". He also held a similar position at the Aspen Mezzaluna. I
don't know whether he was threatened or not, but I never heard that he
died.
Recall, Aspen was where Nicole met Kato Kaelin and her lover Grant
Cramer.
There was John Debello, the manager who did the books and came in on
Sunday nights for a free meal, who supposedly had gotten into a fight
with Goldman over Nicole (KILLING TIME and an interview during the trial
with someone identified as "Jack," a PI with the Simpson case I'm
guessing was McKenna). Debello testified at the prelim and then
disappeared.
"A restaurant colleague's car was torched in 1994 in Corona Del Mar,
California." - KILLING TIME
"A second friend's life was threatened at his Aspen Colorado night club.
Both potential victims have disappeared..." -KILLING TIME
Brett Cantor, who has been described as Goldman's former employer,
former friend, and also as owning the club regularly attended by Ron,
Nicole, and Faye Resnick (The Dragonfly, in Hollywood) had his throat
slashed like the two Bundy victims on July 20, 1993, a year before the
murders.
Then there was OJ's organized crime friend, Casimir "Butch" Sucharski,
who was machinegunned along with two lady friends at his Miramar,
Florida, estate a week or so after OJ was behind bars. Sucharski had
visited OJ two weeks before the murders. -A PROBLEM OF EVIDENCE
The Mezzaluna was known for being a cocaine distributing location in LA.
Joey "the Ip" Ippolito had been the biggest Hollywood cocaine
distributor before he went to jail prior to the murders (although he was
on the lam after escaping from a roadside workteam before the murders).
Al Cowlings had been a "driver" for Ippolito and had been at the Ip's
place when the cops raided it. AC testified on the Ip's behalf at a
grand jury in 1993.
Then there's the story about Samantha Hill who's suitcase contained the
addresses and phone numbers of AC and OJ, as well as ten to fifty pounds
of cocaine (depending on which press account you read).
We all saw the National Enquirer story on Denise Brown's acquaintance
with Tony "the Animal" Fiato, former mob "enforcer" and now in the
federal witness protection program. But when she left the nurturing nest
that was the Browns' home, she first moved in with Robert Evans,
Hollywood producer/one-time head of Paramount Pictures, who was
implicated in the murder of Roy Radin ("the Cotton Club Murder"). Evans
started his career in the entertainment field operating gaming tables in
pre-Castro Cuba, in a milieu with the likes of Santos Trafficante, Meyer
Lansky, Jack Ruby, and Frank Sturgis (aka Fiorini), one of the Watergate
burglers. Denise, spokeswoman for battered women, also bedded down with
such stalwarts as funkster Rick James (recently released from jail after
serving time for some sort of rape/torture/kidnap sentence). By some
accounts, Denise had also been intimate with Al Cowlings, who as we know
had worked for Joey Ippolito.
