Ronald Goldman was murdered on June 12, 1994 at the residence of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of pro football star and actor O.J. Simpson. Nicole Brown Simpson was also found dead outside her home, her throat slashed. O.J. Simpson was arrested and tried for Goldman's murder but acquitted. Simpson was later found liable for Goldman's death in a subsequent civil trial and ordered to pay the Goldman family $33 million in damages.

Goldman was raised in Illinois and moved to Los Angeles at the age of eighteen with his father, Fred Goldman. Ron Goldman worked at restaurants in Los Angeles, and on June 12, 1994, while employed at the Brentwood restaurant Mezzaluna, offered to return a pair of eyeglasses Nicole Brown Simpson and her mother had left a few hours earlier. At some point in the evening, Goldman and Simpson were murdered, their bodies left in the walkway of Simpson's residence.

While O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders, he was found liable for the death of Ron Goldman in a civil trial. In 2007, the Goldman family won rights to O.J. Simpson's fictionalized confession to the murders, the book If I Did It.

• Google News: Ronald Goldman
• New Zealand Herald: The Inside Story on If I Did It (January 13, 2008)
  • "Simpson was ordered to pay US$19 million to the Goldmans in damages but avoided doing so by never paying it and moving to Florida where state law safeguards his assets and income."

• WashingtonPost.com: "Throwing the Book at O.J. Simpson" (September 12, 2007)
  • " 'I made a promise to Ron,' Goldman [Ron's Father] says in a long, late-afternoon interview in his modest home, 'that I would pursue this bastard. That we would never let this go.' "

• FoxNews.com: Transcript: Goldman, Brown Families Feud Over O.J. Simpson Book (August 29, 2007)
• Slate Magazine: O.J.'s Victims' Families Slug It Out (August 21, 2007)
• Bloomberg.com: Beaufort to Publish O.J. Simpson Book (August 15, 2007)
• CBS News: Fred Goldman: Justice Not Served (June 7, 2004)