Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 17, 2024 0:07:07 GMT -5
Law enforcement in Hollywood, California are dealing with a cold case on the murder of an aspiring actor on September, 1995. AMW have at least featured the case in January the next year. From a Reddit summary on the case:
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Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995) was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved.
The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star OJ Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments.
On the evening of September 8, 1995, Nigg and his girlfriend Julie Long were on their way to a restaurant in his Mercedes. They stopped at a bank branch in Hollywood, so Nigg could withdraw some money from his account. Long stayed in the car, parked in the branch lot, while Nigg went up to the automated teller machine, where he withdrew $40.
As he did so, two men walked up to him and demanded money. When he refused, one of the men shot Nigg in the head. Afterwards, both robbers walked away, departing in a waiting car. Long, who witnessed the entire incident, was not harmed. The killers did not appear to have taken anything despite their initial aims.
The crime was reported promptly. The LAPD looked for the suspects over the weekend but found no leads. On the night after the killing, Nigg’s friends gathered in the parking lot for a candlelight vigil. Among them was actor Mickey Rourke, who spoke to television news crews that came to cover the event. "If anyone knows anything about the shooting that took place," he said, "just give the cops a call."
Three months later the LAPD arrested three suspects, including the alleged getaway driver. However, they were quickly released for lack of evidence.
Authors Donald Freed and Raymond Briggs claimed in Killing Time (1996), their book about the Simpson case, that an unnamed source told them that while Nigg had lived in Colorado, he was known to law enforcement there to be "involved in the narcotics culture" in Aspen (where another branch of Mezzaluna is located) and Denver. According to journalist Joseph Bosco, who had a reserved seat at the entire trial, Nigg "lived beyond his apparent means", driving a Mercedes and living in a luxury condominium while ostensibly deriving most of his income from waiting tables and occasional low-level acting jobs.
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Thoughts?: Descriptions of the suspects have been vague depending on the source but the 1996 AMW segment noted two black males (one the triggerman wearing a stripped shirt and the other possible lookout with composites shown above). Although the OJ connection has some food for thought, I don't put too much stock in it since this seems like a typical robbery gone wrong.
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-275-5273:
www.lapdonline.org/
www.lapdonline.org/lapd-contact/west-bureau/hollywood-community-police-station/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Nigg
crimeimmemorial.com/2023/03/17/michael-nigg/
www.unresolvedhomicides.org/victim/nigg-michael/
www.deseret.com/1995/9/12/19192326/goldman-friend-is-slain-resisting-robbery
medium.com/@daisyaspencer4/was-his-murder-connected-to-the-o-j-simpson-murder-case-the-unsolved-murder-of-michael-nigg-27e9d46b4d0d
www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fhdgbp/the_unsolved_murder_of_michael_nigg/
books.google.com/books?id=gctUAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Nigg&article_id=1327,655213&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiig-Sly7GEAxVzG9AFHcSBDbMQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=Michael%20Nigg&f=false
