Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess

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However, by the late 1970s, counterculture had given way to criminal activity, largely due to the residents of one particular house. Exactly how things proceeded from Nash figuring out Holmes' connection to the robbery and the Wonderland murders is unclear, but the generally held belief is that the encounter wasn't very pleasant. A decade earlier, he was tried and later convicted on unrelated charges and had spent time in prison. Over his years of increasing fame, he developed a massive cocaine addiction, which took a toll on his professional life. There was this great Rolling Stone article, and I remember the description of this guy Eddie Nash in Speedos and the sheen of sweat on his body," the director said.

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According to Salon , they were a loose collective of drug dealers, evidently named after their base of operations on 8763 Wonderland Avenue. The pornstar was arrested and charged with the murders, but he was ultimately acquitted by an unconvinced jury in 1982. Over Zoom, Thorson has a plasticky sheen and eyebrows that look painted on — the appearance of someone who’s been under the knife. While there had been no arrests even to this day, the place still might be haunted with a spirit or two that may tell the story of what actually happened.

Ronald Lee ‘Ron’ Launius, William Raymond ‘Billy’ Deverell and his girlfriend Joy Audrey Gold Miller, David Clay Lind and Tracy Raymond McCourt were the Wonderland gang’s core. Holmes was accused of drawinga map of the inside of his friend's house, which directedthe Wonderland Gang on where to find the valuables. Ebert gave the film a mediocre review overall, granting it two out of four stars, and saying: " True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when they're jumbled glimpses of what might or might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose main claim to fame is that they're dead. As they’d been working at the house next door to 8763 Wonderland, they’d heard desperate, pained moans coming from the drug house. The robbers surprised the nightclub owner with his bodyguard, Gregory DeWitt Diles, who received a minor gunshot wound in the process.

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YouTube Crime scene footage of Butterfly Richardson, found in a pool of blood on the floor in front of the couch. In the book's conclusion, Sugerman says he is clean and sober, and he sometimes wonders what Jim Morrison would say to him if he could comment on his new way of life. In July 1981, four people died in a Laurel Canyon apartment near Los Angeles, the victims of bludgeoning. Born Adel Gharib Nasrallah on April 3, 1929, in Ramallah, Palestine, Eddie Nash belonged to a wealthy family that owned 48 hotels.Prior to the murders, five people resided in the home: Ron Launius, Billy DeVerell, DeVerrel’s girlfriend Joy Audrey Gold Miller, Tracy McCourt and David Lind.

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Thorson claimed that Nash had been so convinced that Holmes was involved that he had made his injured bodyguard track him down and beat the assailants’ names out of him. Director James Cox effectively weaves true crime into a narrative to present an unsanitized depiction of Hollywood and the once King of Porn.As for Nash, he went to court for the murders in 1990, but a single dissenting juror caused a hung jury and a mistrial. Prior to his passing, the LAPD was still investigating the murders long after the trial of Holmes had ended. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard.