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The Wonderland murders, also known as the Four on the Floor Murders or the Laurel Canyon Murders, are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on July 1, 1981. It is assumed that five people were targeted to be killed in the known drug house of the Wonderland Gang, three of whom—Ron Launius, William "Billy" Deverell, and Joy Miller—were present.
On 20 June 2018, Leibel was convicted of first-degree murder, torture and aggravated mayhem. On 26 June 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. News media reported the crime as "grisly" and possibly "the most gruesome murder in the history of West Hollywood if not Los Angeles".
Black Widow Murders. The Black Widow Murders were a colloquial name for a pair of murders committed by two pensioners in California, United States: on April 18, 2008, Helen Golay, 78, formerly of Santa Monica, California, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, formerly of Hollywood, California, were convicted of the murders of two vagrants —Paul Vados ...
Phil Helsel. Updated April 10, 2024 at 7:55 AM. A Los Angeles woman fatally stabbed her partner and possibly threw her two children from a moving SUV on the freeway before she fatally crashed into ...
Known for. Murder victim. Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 14–15, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation of ...
A third suspect is in custody stemming from a shooting spree that killed four people, including a minor, in the span of a few hours, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Friday ...
The murders of Gerald and Vera Woodman, also referred to by the press as the ninja murders and the Yom Kippur murders, [1] took place on September 25, 1985, in West Los Angeles. The couple was killed by gunfire in the garage of their condominium as they arrived home from a festive meal at the conclusion of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
City of Los Angeles, Rasmussen v. Lazarus, Francis v. City of Los Angeles. On February 24, 1986, the body of Sherri Rasmussen (born February 7, 1957 [1]) was found in the apartment she shared with her husband, John Ruetten, in Van Nuys, California, United States. She had been beaten and shot three times in a struggle.