Santa Rosa police have arrested two people suspected of killing the general manager of San Francisco’s historic topless bar The Condor Club, police said Saturday.
The two suspects were lovers and worked at a strip club formerly owned by the victim, 60-year-old Mark Calcagni.
Detectives suspect that Richard Lund, 43, shot and killed Calcani outside his Santa Rosa home on Oct. 3 as he waited for his manager to return from get off work. The second person, 25-year-old Asia Morton, allegedly helped Lund plan the attack, police said.
Police did not reveal the name of the club where Lund and Morton worked or a motive for the killings. Kalkani also manages “Vanity San Francisco,” another strip club near Condor Club.
The suspects lived together in an apartment in the 7500 block of St. Patrick Road in Dublin, Calif., where police arrested Lund on Friday. Police later arrested Morton at San Francisco International Airport after arriving on an international flight. As part of the homicide investigation, detectives executed search warrants at both men’s homes to collect evidence.
The Condor Club is famous for being the oldest topless bar in the United States and the birthplace of topless entertainment in 1964. The club is also known for several notorious incidents over the course of six decades.
In 1983, bodyguard Jimmy Ferrozzo was crushed to death by a piano suspended from the ceiling by cables. The bouncer was having sex with his girlfriend, exotic dancer Theresa Hill, on a white piano when the couple accidentally flipped a switch, causing the piano to rise to the ceiling and the instrument crushing Ferrozzo.
