Editing Wonderland murders (section)

===Background===
The Wonderland Gang was a drug gang based at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, consisting of Ron Launius, Billy DeVerell, Joy Miller, [[David Lind]] and [[Tracy McCourt]]. On June 29, 1981, the five of them entered the home of nightclub owner and mobster Eddie Nash disguised as police officers and forced Nash at gunpoint to open his safe and retrieve $1.2 million in drugs, cash, jewellery and weapons. While Nash was being forced to open the safe, Lind accidentally shot and wounded his bodyguard Gregory Diles. The gang then handcuffed Nash and Diles and made their escape.

Nash suspected that John Holmes, a porn star with links to several drug gangs, had been involved in the robbery, as earlier that day he had visited the house several times and had left open the door through which the robbers entered. Diles was sent to retrieve Holmes for questioning, finding him wearing a ring taken from the safe. Scott Thorson, a drug addict at Nash's house to buy drugs, claimed that he had seen Holmes being tied to a chair and beaten by Diles until he confessed that the Wonderland Gang were the robbers.