CRIMINAL CONDUCT Season 5 The Life and Death of Buffalo Jim Barrier

Criminal Conduct

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Buffalo Jim Barrier was a wrestling promoter, mechanic, and Las Vegas icon. He faced off against Rick Rizzolo, a powerful strip club owner with alleged mob ties. Their feud lasted decades. Days after Rizzolo’s release from house release, Buffalo Jim was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a motel room. Evidence is missing, and there are anonymous threats. Questions remain unanswered. Criminal Conduct Season 5 unravels a story of corruption, crime, and one man’s fight for justice. CRIMINAL CONDUCT Season 5 premieres Friday, January 17th 🎧Binge the entire season now on Patreon or Apple Podcast Research by Haley Gray Research Theme music by Ruby Rose Fox Edited by Puneeth Shenoy with the Podcast Pundits Written and Produced by John Taylor and Javier Leiva Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Babble
0:02.0	Buffalo
0:04.0	Buffalo Jim was found dead this weekend here inside a room at this motel 6. Barrier's nemesis is this man,
0:23.9	former Crazy Horse 2 owner Rick Rizzolo, whose club was next door to Barrier's auto repair shop.
0:31.2	Yeah, that's right. On the morning of April 6th of 2008, Jim Barrier, one of Las Vegas's most
0:36.4	colorful personalities, was found inside a Motel
0:39.5	6 room, and he had white powder on his beard and his pants were around his ankles. He'd likely
0:44.6	been dead for hours. Police found an empty bottle on the nightstand, and at first it just
0:49.8	seemed like an accidental death, right? Maybe it was an overdose. Maybe it was a heart attack.
0:54.8	But many people who knew Buffalo Jim immediately suspected foul play.
0:59.5	I believe it's a homicide. I mean, that's how it sums up to be. I mean, he's been getting
1:03.7	threat letters in the mail since last November.
1:06.8	This is Jennifer Barrier, Buffalo Jim's daughter, talking to reporters.
1:11.3	I mean, it's pretty obvious. Rick Rislo got out of jail Friday night, and my dad's killed on
1:16.0	Saturday. I mean, it's pretty obvious. Rick Rosola was the owner of the Las Vegas
1:21.0	Crazy Horse Two strip club, and who many suspected had ties to organized crime. For years, Buffalo
1:27.3	Jim and Rick Rosolo were at each other's throats.
1:30.5	And to say that these two had a beef as an understatement, you see, these two guys both had
1:35.8	separate businesses, but they shared the same building.
1:39.5	And it started off as a feud about a few parking spaces. But in February 2003, it ended with an FBI
1:47.4	raid and Rick Rosolo going to federal prison for racketeering and tax evasion. And then a couple
1:53.5	days after Rick Rosolo being released from house arrest, Buffalo Jim is found dead. Coincidence?
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