The Wonderland Massacre & The Secret History of Hollywood - Season 1
Season 1
In noir-style, verité interviews, Connelly seeks key details about this gruesome quadruple murder with the original detectives, prosecutors, and undercover cops he'd come to know as a young crime beat reporter for The Los Angeles Times.
As the investigation unfolds, weaving in rare archival footage and photos, a colorful cast of characters emerges - famous porn star John Holmes, drug dealers and kingpins, mafiosos, televangelists and multiple celebrities, including Liberace and his boyfriend, enigma Scott Thorson.
In a game of cat-and-mouse, Connelly tries to pin down the facts of Thorson's many larger-than-life and stranger-than-fiction stories. After four decades, Thorson's interview may be the last to help distinguish between the crime and the truth.
Episodes
The Heat of a Cold Case
Crime novelist Michael Connelly revisits one of the most famous murder cases in the history of Los Angeles - the 1981 massacre at Wonderland Avenue - which involved a colorful cast of characters, including a legendary porn star and a drug kingpin.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A key witness in the case, Scott Thorson, shares what he overheard the night of the murders, as well as the details of his extraordinary life with Liberace, Hollywood elite, and the drug underworld of 1980's Los Angeles.
Up in Smoke - September
Scott Thorson tells of building a drug empire in Hollywood in the 1980s, while the crack epidemic in Los Angeles explodes - all before being discovered as the missing puzzle piece to the Wonderland case almost a decade after the murders.
The Last Man Standing
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. What ensues is a stranger-than-fiction series of events... if we believe him.
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