After that defeat, Dean Goss apparently realized that the jig was up. He abruptly withdrew the suit and sank into hardcore alcoholism. The 56-year-old one-time local celebrity was on food stamps and scrounging money from friends when on November 14, 1992, he dropped dead, drunk, in the bathroom of his youngest son Andy's apartment.

Dean Goss Jr. told the Chronicle that his dad's financial transactions in his name had ruined his credit record and left him with tax bills he could never pay. He also said that the Brawley family held him responsible for his stepmother's death. He said he wanted to change his name and leave town.

Over the last ten years, Dean Jr. has had one brush with the law after another -- he spent 15 days in jail for theft in 2002, received a seven-month state jail sentence for forgery and cocaine possession three months after that, and caught two more drug cases in 2003 and 2005, the last sending him to state jail for 300 days.

In 2009, he was convicted of stealing 11 bottles of liquor and his court-appointed attorney negotiated a sentence of a mere month in jail. He wasn't out long before he was caught breaking into cars a few days after Christmas 2009 and sentenced to almost a year in the county. Another theft rap and another six months in state jail came in August of 2010, and according to court records, he was just released from another nine months in state jail after yet another car burglary.

Craig Goss committed suicide sometime around 2008, according to this KHOU report.

It's a safe bet that answers to at least some of these mysteries went with him to his grave.