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Murder At least seven murders are associated in one way or another to the principles in the O.J. Simpson case: Nicole Simpson, Ronald Goldman, Brett Cantor, Michael Nigg, Casimire Sucharski, Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers. Only O.J. Simpson and three Caribbean teenagers allegedly working for cocaine dealers were brought to trial for these crimes. For more about Brett Cantor see the Index in the Appendix of Iago in Brentwood. Michael Nigg worked as a bartender with Ron Goldman in 1994. A month before Ron and Nicole were killed he left his job at Mezzaluna Trattoria in Brentwood. In September '95, he was with his girlfriend Julie Long in the parking lot of a Hollywood restaurant when two men apparently tried to rob him. He refused to hand over his money and one of the men shot him in the head. No one has explained how he managed to own a Mercedes Benz at the time of his death. There were three Mezzalunas in all. The other two were in Beverly Hills, California and. Aspen, Colorado. Before Nigg moved to California he lived in Denver, Colorado. Keith Zlomsowitch, the man O.J. saw Nicole having sex with on her living room couch in 1992, was the Director of Operations for all three restaurants. He was also surrounded by rumors of drug trafficking at the Mezzaluna in Brentwood and was a passenger in a car that was stopped by police and found to have cocaine. The driver was charged for the cocaine. She claimed that it belonged to Zlomsowitch. All of which leads to why Zlomsowitch was not called as a staking witness against O.J. and to one of several cocaine connections to O.J. and Zlomsowitch. It wasn't just the rumors about Zlomsowitch and cocaine or the drug bust that made him a liability for the prosecution; it was his associations with cocaine dealers in Florida. On June, 26 1994 48-year-old Casimire "Butch" Sucharski, was mowed down by machine gun fire along with his young female companions Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers on his Miramar, Florida estate. In 1975 Sucharski owned a restaurant in Buffalo, New York that was frequented by O.J. Simpson. Simpson and a mutual friend of Simpson and Sucharski named Michael Militello with whom Sucharski was staying at the time. A police sting operation set up to catch O.J. and Militello failed. O.J. wasn't there. From 1975 to 1978 when O.J. moved to his Rockingham home in Brentwood, he was under Buffalo police surveillance. In 1995 contemporary historian Alex Constantine wrote a report called The Florida/Hollywood Mob Connection that linked the Bundy murders to the underworld traffic in cocaine. His report, which cited sources such as the Associated Press, The Philadelphia Enquirer, the Los Angeles Times and the book, L.A. Secret Police by Mike Rothmiller and Ivan Goldman, did not see wide circulation.
* 2013 update: All of the above was written before the lethal drug interaction deaths (officially classified as accidental) of William Wasz, Don Simpson, Steve Ammerman and Greg Coleman.
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