I'm sure this incident will be discussed forever by old school fans.  Fact is, folks, I've waded into this conversation many times before and the only thing that is clear to me is we're never going to know what really went down.  All we know for sure is that Bruiser Brody was stabbed in the dressing room, and Jose Gonzales was charged with murder and later acquitted.  Everything else is rumor, speculation, conjecture, hearsay, legend, fact mixed with fiction.  Even the wrestlers and other people on the scene at the time haven't been able to come up with a fully credible story.  I've heard so many different storylines concerning this incident, and a lot of speculation on motive.  

There is a strong criminal element and a lot of violence and intimidation in wrestling culture dating back to the carny days.  Brody and Gonzales were entertaining workers who both had extremely shady reputations in the industry.  

No journalist or scholar has ever done a serious inquiry into this story (or, if they have, it hasn't come to light around these parts), and it's clear that the matter was dropped by Puerto Rican officials AND Brody's friends years ago.  

I think instead of always entertaining ourselves with conspiracy theories and bickering over points we know nothing about, us wrestling fans should be looking at it from a different angle.  That is, what is it about the wrestling business that allows such tragedies to happen without consequence?  

We're led to believe that kayfabe was broken years ago, but there's still a deeper, darker 'fabe in the industry's undercurrent that protects rather than punishes criminal behaviors.