Casefile Presents
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Step inside the shadowy world of the 90s music industry with Casefile Presents.We go behind the velvet ropes to explore the dark side of the Hollywood club scene and the nightlife king and queen pins who ruled it. In this world, secrets trade hands like currency; among the most compelling is who murdered Brett Cantor.The tragic death of Brett Cantor sent shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry. At just 25, Cantor had built an impressive career as an A&R executive at Chrysalis Music Group and was instrumental in helping discover bands like Rage Against the Machine.Brett was at...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A patient cold case series that tests overlooked witnesses, old tips and competing theories without pretending Brett Cantor's murder is solved.
Dragonfly: Brett Cantor Murder Mystery builds a serialized investigation around Brett Cantor's unsolved killing, returning to the nightclub and music-promotion circles connected to his life.
A doorman reportedly left the country after Brett Cantor's murder; you decide how much that matters.
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A sober look at clubland, money, and the people around Brett's story.
It follows Brett through Black & Blue, Dragonfly, and the surrounding Hollywood music scene, then brings in the Beverly Hills Vice Squad's investigation into Heidi Fleiss to sketch a world shaped by deals, nightlife, and constant motion.
A cold-case prologue that uses LA nightlife history as real context.
The episode frames Brett Cantor's murder against the Los Angeles club world around it, folding grunge, raves, and after-hours nightlife into the early 1990s mood.
A restrained Hollywood story about power, harm, and emotional weight.
This episode moves through Hollywood's darker corridors, where fame, silence, and the cost of being seen give the story its weight. It lands most cleanly when it keeps Brett and Rose's personal history close to the machinery of celebrity, so the result feels less like a neat…
A sober roundtable that treats Hollywood nightlife rumors as a question of evidence.
The episode frames Brett Cantor's murder as more than a crime story, tying it to Hollywood nightlife through Paul Stenning's roundtable on nightclub business, music promotion, money, and the idea that Cantor may have wanted out.
A cold-case revisit that ties Brett Cantor, Daniel Sandefur, and the Dragonfly together through Pat Tapia's steady, case-minded perspective.
The episode threads Brett Cantor's cold case together with Pat Tapia's view of Daniel Sandefur's killing, and keeps the Dragonfly at the center of that history.
A DNA-led case study where nightclub history, witness memory, and Brett's unsolved murder stay in frame.
The DNA angle gives this case its clearest frame, but the real weight comes from the way the story widens into the people and places around Dragonfly. It moves from DNA to nightclub history, reward-led tips, and witness accounts that the LAPD had not reached before.
A sober, interview-led story that treats grief as evidence, not decoration.
The episode treats an old case less like a hard-chase procedural and more like a grief-soaked look at what stays behind after death: sobriety, relapse, fellowship, and the people left to make sense of it.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
This episode of Dragonfly investigates new clues in the 1993 unsolved murder of music executive Brett Cantor, revealing a shocking second murder at the same nightclub exactly 30 years later.
Dragonfly: Brett Cantor Murder Mystery Episode 7 connects Brett Cantor’s unsolved 1993 murder to the wider Hollywood club world, from Dragonfly’s rise to the Viper Room, Limelight, and Club Lingerie.
The roundtable returns to Brett Cantor's murder.
Dragonfly: Brett Cantor Murder Mystery Episode 8, “DNA Investigation,” focuses on a 2006 DNA re-examination of Brett Cantor’s 1993 killing in Los Angeles.
This episode explores the aftermath of Brett Cantor's murder, focusing on his family's grief, his brother Cliff's overdose death linked to an AA friend, and the ongoing investigation into the cold case.
Black & Blue on Sunset Boulevard is the opening frame.
Dragonfly opens on Brett Cantor's cold case and sets it inside the early-1990s Southern California music and club world.