The school was sometimes the site of his popular local TV show, Jim Wars, that aired on Friday nights.
Among them are Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker,[2] boxer Muhammad Ali, and wrestling and film star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
[3] Barrier also possessed a large collection of celebrity memorabilia,[3] from vehicles to a lock of musician Elvis Presley's hair.
[10][11][12] On the morning of April 6, 2008, the body of James Barrier was found in a Motel 6 on Boulder Highway, an older section of Las Vegas near a residential area.
According to police, Barrier was found lying in bed, face up, with an empty prescription bottle of Valium on the nightstand and his pants pulled down around his ankles.
Between April 2008 and June 2008, statements by then-Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy, also stated traces of cocaine in Barrier's toxicology reports as a contributing factor to his death.
"[24]Not satisfied with the findings of the Clark County Coroner, Barrier's family hired independent pathologist Dr. Rexene Worrell to perform an autopsy.
The Clark County Coroner's office stated they had no plans to exhume Barrier's body and that such an action could only be done at the request of law enforcement for a criminal prosecution.
"[27] Through interviews with his family members, friends, and others with knowledge of the case, the episode showcased some previously unknown details from Barrier's case that had been withheld from the news media and the public after Barrier's death in 2008 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Clark County Office of the Coroner and Medical Examiner.
[27] Reports obtained by Barrier's family from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, there is no mention of this backwards time jump.
The following is a description of the mourners who came to show their respects:Before he was to be buried, four weeks ago, the great multitudes filed into the Palms Mortuary in the old part of Las Vegas to see Buffalo Jim Barrier one final time.
They arrived in endless droves: midgets, wrestlers, Hells Angels, Native American Indians of unadulterated descent, lawyers, journalists, world-renowned neurosurgeons—the lame and the homeless—politicians, bankers, television executives, men who had more money than God, boxers, leviathans, Elvis impersonators, those like Buffalo who fixed cars and who arrived with fresh grease smeared across their jumpsuits, sinners, celebrities, folks as old as Vegas itself and young babes just born into the city this Spring.