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Published Monday, April 7, 2008 | noon
Updated Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 | 5:20 p.m.
Buffalo Jim Barrier, a colorful wrestling promoter and auto mechanic who had a running feud with former Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo, has died. Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy says the body of the 55-year-old Barrier was found Sunday afternoon at a Motel 6 on Boulder Highway and positively identified by a family member. Barrier was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m.
“Buffalo” Jim Barrier, a colorful wrestling promoter and auto mechanic who had a running feud with former Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo, has died.
Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy says the body of the 55-year-old Barrier was found Sunday afternoon at a Motel 6 on Boulder Highway and positively identified by a family member. Barrier was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m.
“Foul play is not suspected at this point,” Murphy says. “But we still have a lot of work to do.”
Murphy says a medical examination of the body was planned for today, and the coroner’s office would wait for the results of toxicology tests and an analysis of tissue samples before ruling on the cause of death.
To Barrier’s longtime lawyer and friend, Robert Lueck, his death appears suspicious.
“Nothing is adding up here,” he says. “It makes no sense.”
Lueck says that prior to his death, Barrier was excited about a deal to move his auto repair shop away from Rizzolo’s Crazy Horse Too business mall on Industrial Road. Barrier also had told a reporter that he was close to an agreement to do a reality television series about his chaotic life.
Throughout his long conflict with Rizzolo, his landlord, Barrier had kept in frequent contact with reporters and FBI agents investigating the former strip club operator. He helped attract media interest in the federal racketeering probe, which eventually led to Rizzolo striking a deal with the government and pleading guilty to tax evasion in 2006.
Rizzolo gave up control of the Crazy Horse Too as part of his agreement with the government and recently finished serving 10 months behind bars. He is back in Las Vegas.
Here is the Canadian Media's assessment of the MURDER:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/art...
Sam Dehne, The Encyclopedia of Reno gvmt
Coroner Murphy HAS to talk with Steve Miller IMMEDIATELY.
THAT is where the Truth will be found.
This is one of the most obvious cases of MURDER in Nevada history.
Sam Dehne
Hey Sam maybe you should get back on those meds you've been prescribed. Or at least switch to decaf.
My problem with an article like this is they give absolutely no insight into what killed Buffalo Jim. Were there any wounds, or did it appear to be a heart attack that got him? You'd think there would be some idea of what got him. More relevant details please.
I did Buffalos hair along with his daughters. He had said on several occasions that if he ended up dead, I would know who did it! Rizzolo! This has been an on going fued for a long time. He knew this was coming.
Steve Miller is a very credible person.
Steve knows they were murdered, so believe
him. He and Buffalo Jim were so close.
Steve probably will be next.
Please be careful Steve.
Our hearts go out to Buffalo Jims
daughters.
God Bless You all
and God Bless Steve Miller
I think that encyclopedia is exactly right! Either this was a homicide or it was the most amazing coincidence in the history of the world. Buffalo Jim had reportedly been receiving numerous death threats for months, and then he turns up dead from a "suicide". This one stinks to High Heaven!
Who killed "Buffalo" Jim Barrier?
Veterans In Politics International lost a friend and a brother still without answers
Las Vegas, Nevada Jim "Buffalo" Barrier was a friend to many Southern Nevadans, he was also a friend and a brother to many members of the Veterans In Politics International and many of us still feel the lost of "Buffalo" Jim.
Buffalo Jim's daughter Jennifer Barrier still battles with the loss of her father who passed away April 6, 2008, under mysterious, but yet obvious reasons.
Jennifer Barrier explains:
I have no doubt in my mind that this was a set-up, a murder due to the way that my father was found dead and the threatening letters he received prior to his death. I have been fighting since then to unravel the truth to my father's death. Circumstantial evidence surrounding my father's death remains unclear.
My father was a Professional Wrestler and Auto Shop Owner. My father fought for his business right to exist against Rick Rizzolo. During the last ten years, prior to my father's passing, Rick Rizzolo wanted to take my father out of business so that he could expand his strip club.
Rizzolo owned the infamous Crazy Horse Too strip club, which was closed by the United States Department of Justice on April 2007. My father assisted the Federal Government in their Organized Crime investigation that landed Rizzolo in prison for one year for tax evasion and racketeering in which Rizzolo also lost his strip club as part of a plea bargain to lessen his sentence. The United States Marshals owned the property before the first deed of trust purchased the property for $3 million. When the United States Marshals took control of the property it was worth $35 million.
Rick Rizzolo was released from prison on April 4, 2008, my father was found dead in a Motel 6 on April 6, 2008, two days following Rizzolo's release. Many failures occurred on the part of the local authorities in regards to following the standard protocol procedures towards securing and protecting the crime scene. As a result the evidence was contaminated and "apparently" could no longer be used. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had my 20 year old sister to identify the body at the crime scene. Elise, 20 (at that time) arrived with my baby sister Jerica, 15. They even granted Jerica my 15 year old sister access to identifying my father and they handed all evidence and belongings of my father to her when they should have bag and tagged all evidence for future investigation. To this day, Elise and Jerica are still traumatized from this experience.
During the time of my father's death in 2008, I was living in Seattle, Washington operating my Skin Care Clinic. I was distraught in knowing that what was told to me over and over again by my father became a reality. My father had predicted his own death at the hands of Rick Rizzolo.
I remember my father clearly telling me over the phone two days prior to his death that "if Rick or his associates kill me, it will be done statically -- more so they will make it look like a drug overdose."
Rick Rizzolo was sent back to prison on September 14, 2011 for nine months on parole violation.
I strongly believe that Rick Rizzolo, or his friends killed my father. My only wish would be for justice to be served.
I will not give up with my quest for the truth to be told in the death of my father Jim "Buffalo" Barrier. If anyone knows anything about my father's death, please contact me.
For More Information:
The Ghost of Buffalo Jim:
http://jonmosero.googlepages.com/Buffalo...
Here are some links regarding the death of James "Buffalo Jim" Barrier:
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/...
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archi...
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archi...
http://www.lvrj.com/news/17591044.html
http://www.lvrj.com/news/17380739.html
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story....
http://www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com/Rick...
http://www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com/Buff...
http://www.lvrj.com/news/17591049.html
http://www.americanmafia.com/Inside_Vega...
http://www.lvrj.com/news/prosecutors-ask...