Murder Noir: Who Killed June Mack? Who Really Killed June Mack? – Part 2: Podcast 115

June Mack was dead. And no one was on the hook for her murder.

Somehow being shot by Russ Meyer made her almost-famous, but being shot by a mystery killer made her almost-forgotten.

She’d come to Tinseltown to escape. To start a new life – and she’d been a movie star, bared her charms in magazines, and shared her body in nightly schemes. She made money, bought cars, and lived in clover.

But then June Mack crossed paths with Greg Cavalli.

The normal story of boy meets girl. If boy meets girl when he buys phone sex. Then boy falls in love with girl over the phone. Before boy goes to girl’s house and finds there’s more to her than he expected. Much more. And then girl is shot dead.

But Greg was officially not guilty. He’d been fingered by the cops for June’s murder, and put on trial. He got off. And it wasn’t even close.

So if Greg didn’t kill June, who did?

Sometimes to get to the heart of a story, you have to look at the outsides, the characters around the edges.

People like Arthur Michael Pascal, who ran a shady L.A. security company, a collection of hitmen for hire. 

Or William Rider, Larry Flynt’s head of security, who used Pascal’s guys to protect the porn king, and eliminate anyone who got in their way.

People like Bill Mentzer, the hitman who worked for Pascal, who was hired to protect Greg Cavalli and his family from supposed threats like June Mack.

And there was Laney, Bill Mentzer’s girlfriend who dealt cocaine to the stars – who also needed protection.

They were all connected to June in different ways. Someone must know the truth. The truth about who killed June Mack.

Who really killed June Mack.

This podcast is 45 minutes long.

June Mack

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Whether Greg Cavalli was guilty or not didn’t amount to a hill of beans. He couldn’t be tried for the same crime twice.

“Never,” said LAPD brass. “He’s been tried once. That’s it. He’s a free man. Forever.”

So the Cavalli family retreated. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong. That’s the system. They’d won the game. There was no need to stay on the stage.

Other players had less luck in the aftermath of the trial. Christian Pierce, June’s devoted follower who’d been with her when she was shot, died of AIDS. June’s transexual friend, Robin Taylor, disappeared, swallowed up by the lonely streets.

Arthur Michael Pascal, owner of the security company that had hired William Mentzer and Robert Lowe to tackle June Mack, retired his business. His health was poor. Dirty schemes earn more than straight job income streams, but they lower your life expectancy too. Pascal had had enough.

Then there was William Rider, Larry Flynt’s head of security, who’d hired Pascal and Bill Mentzer to protect Flynt. Rider had got into a scrap with the porn king himself. Their beef was over John DeLorean, the car magnate. Maker of the ‘Back to the Future’ sportscar. DeLorean had been charged with cocaine trafficking. 55 pounds of it. That’s $24 million of profit. Or big trouble if you get caught. And DeLorean had just got caught.

But it was government entrapment. DeLorean had been framed. The coke scheme was a sting put together by Feds anxious to take down the auto king. DeLorean had only one person who could help him.