Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess

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One of the funniest books ever written, right up there with K.M. Peyton's 'Downhill All The Way' and Gene Kemp's permanent Classic of Funny, 'No Place Like'. (Mucho aggro!)

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a b c d e Sebree, Mac; Ward, Paul (1973). Transit's Stepchild: The Trolley Coach. Los Angeles: Interurbans. pp.10, 12–13. LCCN 73084356. An initial theory of the murders centered on Holmes. After his left palm print was found at the crime scene on the Launius' headboard, he was arrested and charged with four counts of murder in March 1982. The prosecutor, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Ron Coen, attempted to prove Holmes was a willing participant who betrayed the gang after not getting a full share of the loot from the Nash robbery. However, Holmes' court-appointed defense lawyers, Earl Hanson and Mitchell Egers, successfully presented Holmes as one of the victims, who had been forced by the real killers to give them entry to the house before the murders took place.

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After the trial, Holmes would serve out his jail time. However, he died in 1988. Prior to his passing, the LAPD was still investigating the murders long after the trial of Holmes had ended. Detectives were questioning Holmes about what happened, with the latter giving little to no information about the incident. Employees of the VA hospital where Holmes lived out his last days recalled seeing Holmes give incoherent answers or not even responding to the questions at all due to the severity of his illness. In his last days, it was reported that Holmes no longer wanted to cooperate with authorities regarding the murders. However, a month after his passing, Holmes’s first wife disclosed in an interview that John Holmes had arrived at her home with blood splatter all over him. She claimed that John told her that he witnessed the murders after leading the apparent assailants inside the house and watched the murders occur. He did not disclose the names of those responsible. a b c Bruce, Ashley (2017). Lombard-Gerin and Inventing the Trolleybus. Bildeston, Suffolk, UK: Trolleybooks. pp.111–112. ISBN 978-0-904235-25-8.

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YouTube Crime scene footage showing the bloodstain in the bedroom of Susan and Ron Launius. The blood is Susan’s. At Zillow Home Loans, we can pre-qualify you in as little as 3 minutes with no impact to your credit score. a b c d e Ebert, Roger (October 17, 2003). "Wonderland: Review". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved September 20, 2011. Wonderland Avenue covers the first eight years of Sugerman's show business career, commencing with his first job at age 12 opening the Doors' fan mail, and concluding just beyond his 21st birthday, when he is a frail and severely drug-addicted mental patient who has been given less than a week to live. His exposure to the decadent music industry world of parties, groupies, and drugs at such a young age would facilitate a relentless heroin addiction [among other addictions] [ citation needed] that nearly killed him. Notable in the book is Sugerman's close personal friendship throughout his adolescence with late Doors frontman Jim Morrison, who served as a kind of mentor to Sugerman, and his post-Doors activities in L.A attempting to manage the flagging career (and supervise the behavior of) an increasingly unstable Iggy Pop. This section of the book is titled "the blind following the blind."

Perhaps the most horrifying sight was Launius’s wife, Susan. 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.

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Bettmann/Getty Images Porn star John Holmes, who would later go to trial for the Wonderland murders. Launius and DeVerell, disguised as police officers, led fellow gang members David Lind and Tracy McCourt into the rival leader’s home, where they handcuffed Nash and his bodyguard, Gregory Diles.David Lind testified against Holmes during his 1982 murder trial for the Wonderland murders, but could not offer any more evidence other than he had partook in the robbery of Nash's house. He died from a heroin overdose in 1995. Lind also explains that Ron had a fondness for antique guns and quite frequently shows them off. When Ron learns that Holmes knows a notorious gangster and nightclub owner, an Arab immigrant with the alias of Eddie Nash (Eric Bogosian), he gives Holmes a pair of stolen antique guns to take to Nash so that Nash can fence them and they can split the loot. Around 3 amonJuly 1, 1981, a group of men armed with lead pipes entered8763 Wonderland Avenue, a known drug house in Los Angeles, California. Five people - who were a part of what was referred to as the Wonderland Gang - were staying in the townhouse that morning, including Ronald Launius, the leader of the drug circle, his wife Susan, BillyDeVerell, DeVerell'sgirlfriend Joy Miller, and their accomplice Barbara Richardson.

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John Holmes was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He's estranged from his wife, holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress, and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue? — monkeykingma Nash and Holmes history, chequered and with multiple run-ins, is where the Wonderland Connection comes in. 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. Only Billy and Joy lived in the house (Joy held the lease), while their associates Susan A. Murphy Launius (Ron’s wife) and Barbara Lee ‘Butterfly’ Easton Richardson (Lind’s girlfriend) dealt cocaine and made the occasional heroin deal from the location. To acquire some extra cash, the gang conducted a series of armed robberies. Unfortunately, and foolishly, one of the houses they targeted was Nash’s. Guaranty Building ( Church of Scientology International, Foundation for a Drug-Free World, Religious Technology Center, Scientology Missions International, World Institute of Scientology Enterprises) Find sources: "Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( February 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) He began working with the Doors when he was 12 years old, answering their fan mail. At age 17 he replaced the Doors' original manager, Bill Siddons, following the death of Morrison in July 1971.

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If you ask Thorson — now nine years sober — all of his troubles can be traced to his time with Liberace, or Lee, as he sometimes calls him. “I had never touched drugs until I met Liberace,” he says. “I was just very young, I was very frightened. I was thrown into all these positions with these people, some evil, evil people that I met through Liberace.” Until the twentieth century, passage up the canyon was made on foot or by mule. In 1907, an 82-mile dirt road, later named Laurel Canyon Boulevard, was built. It ran up the canyon, dividing at what is now Lookout Mountain Road; the left road went up to the summit of Lookout Mountain, and the right branch of the road went to the top of the Santa Monica Mountains and then down to the San Fernando Valley.