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Which case he was behaving strangely.

His mood had turned dark in the month leading up to his violent murder in June of 1994

in South Florida.

He seemed to sense he was in danger.

He spoke of machine guns, of battling mobsters.

And after he's beaten and gunned down on his dining room floor, along with two women

he had invited to his house for drinks after they closed his nightclub Casey's Nickelodeon,

friends and family tell police of his recent depression.

He's anxious, they say, about the arrest of one of his longtime friends on murder charges.

And it's that last revelation that sends detectives in the media on an intriguing and unexpected

tangent in the early days of the investigation.

His friend is O.J. Simpson.

From the Sun Sentinel and South Florida dot com and association with Wondery, this is

Fologna's Florida, the podcast that lead you into the dark side of the Sunshine State.

I'm Lisa Arthur and this is the story of the Casey's Nickelodeon murders.

Episode 2 O.J. and the Mob.

In the 1970s, long before the Casey's Nickelodeon bar in South Florida opened,

butch Casey's parents, Papi and Dottie Sucarski, ran a bar with the same name in Buffalo, New York,

where butch had grown up.

He managed the bar for his parents and as the club's popularity grew, so did butch's reputation

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