Remembering Ron Goldman

Ron on the last day of his life

Every July 2, I am thrown back to 1994 and the time when a sports figure’s murder trial was plastered on every newspaper, magazine and tabloid, hijacking tv programs for months and being an endless topic of water cooler discussion and heated debates.

What was apparent then and remains apparent now was how Ron Goldman is lost in the shuffle of celebrity, domestic abuse and racial tensions. He was unidentified when the murders were discovered…