The wild true-crime story of one of Las Vegas' most colorful personalities
Buffalo Jim was a well-known and colorful character in Las Vega-a wrestler, promoter, owner of an auto repairs shop and cable TV personality, he was found dead in a hotel room in 2008. With a lethal amount of cocaine in his system, local police deemed his death an overdose, but his family is convinced he was the victim of foul play. So how did Buffalo Jim die really? It’s the subject of an episode titled “Death in a Vegas Motel Room” on Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries Volume 3.
Upon informing one of Barrier’s daughters of her father’s death, the coroner noted that the night before he passed, he told her he was going out but she didn’t know who with and he didn’t say. He was “in good spirits” when he left, according to the report. Taking into Jim’s medical history of diabetes and significant heart disease, the use of cocaine had caused his heart to stop and his death was ruled as accidental and it wasn’t treated as a crime scene.
Did Rick Rizzolo kill Buffalo Jim? Despite being a beloved character in Las Vegas, Buffalo Jim had some enemies. The owner of the Crazy Horse strip club, Rick Rizzolo, had been released from prison two days before Jim’s death. The pair had fought numerous times over parking spaces and how Jim’s auto-repair shop was disrupting Rizzolo’s plan to expand the Crazy Horse.
Was Buffalo Jim killed in a mob hit? Another sign that suggests Barrier might have been murdered is the contents of his back pocket. A folded one-dollar bill was found in Barrier’s jeans and it could be interpreted as a calling card for a mob hit, as Barrier’s daughters explain. When StyleCaster looked into this online, though, we couldn’t find anything to back up this theory.
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