In 2001, Nash pled guilty to a number of racketeering charges that effectively proved that he was involved in planning the murders, and threatened and bribed witnesses and a juror.

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From this point on, the events are going to be pretty much peppered with "allegedly" and "as the story goes," simply because the law has never officially been able to make sense of things. As much as it became a local legend, the story of the murders on Wonderland Avenue isn’t as frequently told anymore. She was found covered in blood on the floor next to the bed that held her dead husband’s body, her skull bashed in — but, miraculously, still alive. YouTube Crime scene footage of Butterfly Richardson, found in a pool of blood on the floor in front of the couch. In the book, Sugerman recounts his life, beginning with his childhood in Beverly Hills that was pleasant until his father filed for divorce from his mother.The only jail time he received for the case were the 111 days for contempt of court, because he refused to answer the grand jury's questions until Eddie Nash was locked up for an unrelated narcotics charge. Boogie Nights (1997), a feature film loosely based on the life of John Holmes, includes a sequence inspired by the initial robbery of Nash's home. It appeared to have been an interrogation of some kind, which may have lead to Holmes identifying some personal associates of his who were targeting Nash. Suspecting Nash had murdered the gang for revenge, police questioned and eventually arrested the rival drug dealer.

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The pornstar was arrested and charged with the murders, but he was ultimately acquitted by an unconvinced jury in 1982. The following year, blues artist John Mayall recorded and released the album Blues from Laurel Canyon based on his experiences during a vacation that he spent in the Canyon. Eddie liked John, found him amusing especially when he was entertaining friends, and often supplied him with free drugs just to have the famous porn star around.m. on July 1, over twelve hours later, when furniture movers working at the house next door to the crime scene heard Susan moaning and went to investigate. He had a history as a police informant during his days as a porn star, happily snitching on industry people he didn't get along with to a Vice Squad connection. And then there's the case of the Wonderland slayings, an unsolved crime where four people were brutally slain in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, California on July 1, 1981. Stealing from their rivals was both a source of income and an effective way to keep their competitors out of the game — until it backfired one terrible, bloody night. Afterwards they took John Holmes out by the scruff of the neck, and they made him take [Diles] up to the Wonderland address where they then did the beatings and the killings.

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A decade earlier, he was tried and later convicted on unrelated charges and had spent time in prison. These people, known as the Wonderland Gang, included Ron Launius and his wife Susan, Billy Deverell, Lind's 22-year-old girlfriend Barbara Richardson, and Joy Miller.

Ron Launius is reluctant to go along with the robbery at first, but after Holmes gives him a rundown of what's there, he is eager to participate.