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The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood

The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood

Best-selling crime novelist, Michael Connelly, narrates the story of the massacre at Wonderland Avenue on July 1, 1981, one of Hollywood's most famous murder cases that has fascinated people for more than 40 years.
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Season 14 of 4 Episodes

  • Crime novelist Michael Connelly revisits a murder case in Los Angeles, the 1981 massacre at Wonderland Avenue.

  • The last known surviving witness in the case, Scott Thorson, shares what he overheard the night of the murders, as well as the details of his life with Liberace, Hollywood elite and the drug underworld of 1980s Los Angeles.

  • Scott Thorson talks about building a drug empire in Hollywood in the 1980s.

  • In 1990 Scott Thorson testifies against the alleged mastermind behind the massacre at Wonderland; the trial doesn't go as planned and Thorson enters witness protection.
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Best-selling crime novelist, Michael Connelly, narrates the story of the massacre at Wonderland Avenue on July 1, 1981, one of Hollywood's most famous murder cases that has fascinated people for more than 40 years.

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