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Apr 14, 1988 · John C. Holmes, the world’s premier pornographic film star, sobbed as he sat in a steaming bathtub early one morning in July, 1981. Haltingly, Holmes confessed to his wife that he had played...
Shortly after the murders, in her first newspaper interview in July 1981, Holmes' first wife, Sharon Gebenini Holmes, stated he had told her he had known the people in the Wonderland Avenue townhouse, and had been there shortly before the murders occurred.
Feb 14, 2022 · John Holmes reportedly fell in with the Wonderland Gang because of his own drug habit. They were almost certainly not his first choice of company, seeing as The Globe and Mail tells us that the gang was extremely small-time. However, beggars can't be choosers.
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Sep 17, 2021 · When Sharon and John were first married, she says, he was very naive, looking for the perfect relationship. “He was very possessive. He wouldn’t even let me meet the people he worked with.”
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The house on Wonderland Avenue was home to many things, though most notably the members of the Wonderland Gang. The gang trafficked drugs, mainly cocaine, throughout the late 70s. They had rented 8763 Wonderland in member Joy Millers name to house their exploits. The gang made most of their money on drug deals, mainly cocaine, but occasionally hero...
Millers boyfriend, Billy DeVerell, as well as gang members Ron Launius and his wife Susan, were the homes usual residents, though over the years other gang members passed through the doors. John Holmes, the most successful pornographer of his time, was a frequent guest of the home, purchasing or scrounging cocaine from the gang.
Though police didnt identify a suspect initially, Nash pointed fingers at several people he knew had been in his home the day of the crime. People like John Holmes, who had been there just that morning, and several other drug users who had been in to buy drugs like Scott Thorson, former lover of Liberace. Thorson claimed later that Nash had been s...
At 4 p.m. on July 1, police received a panicked phone call from a pair of furniture movers. As theyd been working at the house next door to 8763 Wonderland, theyd heard moans coming from the drug house. Upon investigating, they found a brutal scene.
John Holmes was also arrested after a handprint of his was found in the Wonderland house. He was charged with four counts of murder, but acquitted after a highly publicized, three-week trial. He ended up serving 110 days in jail for contempt of court after refusing to testify, but never for anything having to do with the murders.
After both trials, the case eventually ran cold. Nash was indicted in 2000 on racketeering charges and Holmes died in 1988 from complications from AIDS. After his death, his wife alleged that he confessed knowing of the murders and having some involvement, though she didnt specify to what extent.
Read about porn star John Holmes and the Wonderland Murders. The cocaine-addicted star of over 2,500 porn films was the most famous suspect in the 1981 murders at an L.A. drug den.
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It was there that, through a bizarre twist of fate, she ended up on the doorstep of the Glendale bungalow complex managed by John and Sharon Holmes. In 1976, when Dawn was fifteen years old, John befriended, seduced and eventually took her as his own possession.
