Jamie Flanz

In 1997, Flanz moved to Keswick, Ontario.

Flanz's reasons for moving to Ontario was his belief that as a Jewish Anglo (English-speaker), he had more of a future in Ontario than in Quebec, which was governed at the time by separatist Parti Québécois, which insisted that Quebec was the special homeland of the pure-laine ("pure wool") French-Canadians.

Flanz was married to Allison Harnett, by whom he had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce.

The journalist Jerry Langton described Flanz as a "strapping former hockey player" and "a well-liked and intelligent young man".

Flanz ran a successful computer consulting business in Keswick.

Flanz also worked part-time as a bouncer in a bar in Keswick, through his reasons for doing were not financial, but because he enjoyed being able to socialize with the bar's patrons.

After his divorce, Flanz became lonely and became convinced that if he became a "badass" outlaw biker, he would be attractive to women.

Flanz spent his free time cruising internet chat rooms under the name BigDaddyRogue looking for female company where he wrote with his terrible spelling: "If you are stong [strong] to love you have more strenght [strength] then most. I have that strength, the will and the confidence to give what I expect in return. IM [I'm] a diehard romantic who beleives [believes] in giving all of HImself [himself] when he finds that someone special".

In early 2005, Flanz joined the Bandidos, being sponsored by his friend Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli.

Sinopoli was obese, had no job, and still lived with his parents at the age of 30, but he was considered very attractive by many women because he wore the Bandidos patch.

Glenn "Wrong Way" Atkinson, the former Bandidos national secretary, in an interview stated: "How many guys that weigh four hundred pounds get laid that often?".

Seeing the way that the Bandidos patch had made Sinopoli into a sex symbol convinced Flanz that wearing the Bandidos patch would likewise make him attractive towards women.

As a "hand-around", Flanz served as a servant towards Sinopoli, having to chauffeur him around, pay for his meals, and do any chore that Sinopoli wanted him to do.

Flanz served as a sort of bank for his fellow Bandidos, as the well-off Flanz was always lending money to his fellow Bandidos.

His membership in the Bandidos ended him costing Flanz money.

Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, described Flanz as a pseudo-gangster who was "only playing tough", writing that he was a man who was seeking love in a very misguided way, unlike some of the other members of the Toronto chapter like Luis "Chopper" Raposo who were hardened career criminals.

Flanz's nickname of "Goldberg" was after the professional wrestler Bill Goldberg and as a way of reminding him that he was the only Jewish outlaw biker in Canada.

Flanz shaved his head bald and grew up a goatee beard to make himself look an outlaw biker.

Keswick was a stronghold of the Hells Angels.

Despite being a member of the Bandidos, the Angels ignored him as he was considered to be unimportant and not a threat to the Angels.

In late 2005, Flanz was promoted up to being a "prospect" (the second level in a biker gang).

Flanz wanted to be promoted up the Bandido ranks and was willing to engage in any action that allow him to be promoted.

On 6 December 2005, Flanz's townhouse at Hattie Court in Keswick was the scene of a murder.

A group of Bandidos consisting of Cameron Acorn, Pierre Aragon, Randy Brown, Paul Sinopoli, and Robert Quinn had Quinn's girlfriend, a woman known only by the pseudonym "Mary Thompson" due to a court order, call a local drug dealer, Shawn Douse, and asked him to come to Flanz's townhouse, saying she wanted to buy cocaine.

When Douse arrived at Flanz's townhouse on the evening of 6 December 2005, he was the subject of racist abuse as he was a black man whom Acorn was angry with because of his relationship with a white woman, whom he was also selling cocaine to.

Douse was dragged down to Flanz's basement and was beaten to death by Acorn, Brown, Aragon, Quinn and Sinopoli.

Flanz was not present at the time of the murder, but did not report the crime when he returned home and helped destroy evidence by washing away the blood in his basement.

Flanz was angry that the bikers had murdered a man in his townhouse, all the more so because Douse had arrived at his townhouse via a taxi, but chose not to report the crime out of his desire to be promoted up the ranks.

The charred corpse of Douse was found on 8 December 2005 in Pickering as his killers had set his body afire after dumping the corpse in Pickering.

The police viewed Flanz as a prime suspect as Douse had last been seen alive entering his townhouse on the evening of 6 December and placed him under surveillance.

The Bandidos national sergeant-at-arms, Wayne "Weiner" Kellestine, is an ardent Nazi and hated Flanz for being Jewish.

Kellestine's farmhouse at 32196 Aberdeen Line was decorated with Nazi memorabilia and he liked to paint the walls either red, white or black (the three colors of the National Socialist German Workers' Party whose flag was a black swastika in a white circle surrounded by red).

Langton wrote that Kellestine "...was obsessed with two things – guns and the Nazi Party".

Kellestine accused Flanz several times of being a police informer.

Kellestine argued that because Acorn had been arrested for the Douse killing while Flanz was still free that he must be an informer.

Jamie Flanz (1969 – 7 April 2006), better known as "Goldberg", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre.

Flanz was born in Montreal into an upper-class English-speaking Jewish family, the son of Leonard Flanz and Ellie Levine.

Leonard Flanz was a successful lawyer specializing in corporate and bankruptcy law.

It was decided that the entire Bandido Toronto chapter would go to Kellestine's farmhouse on 7 April 2006 to discuss Kellestine's allegations against Flanz in a "church" meeting (i.e. a mandatory meeting).

On the night of 7 April 2006, Flanz drove Sinopoli to the "church" meeting at the farmhouse of Wayne Kellestine.