More Photos & John At 1986 Adult Video Convention
Date and movie unknown. Early 80s after trial?
Classic stuff
When you zoom in on his badge, it says 1986 Consumer Electronics Show or something like that.
Repost. Barbara Richardson – Sophomore at Cordova High School, 1974. Pretty girl. A relative tells me she was the apple of everyone’s eye. I believe it.
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localarts 11:01 am on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Barbara was attractive. Clearly at this point aids was ravaging Holmes body. Holmes said he thought he was being made an example of for the life he had led. Maybe he was right?
localarts 11:05 am on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Movie is from the 70’s. China Cat or jade pussycat. This is before things went south for Mr. Wadd.
dreamweaverjenn 6:56 am on May 18, 2013 Permalink |
One of the movies they were filming in Boogie Nights looks like this. Except Mark Wahlberg is hot and Holmes is not…….
krislyn 11:27 am on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Ill be in Laurel Canyon tomorrow doing more Doors research. i always do my wonderland drive for the hell of it.
John 4:53 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Snap some pics if you can get away with it! Thanks. I doubt that I have seen a recent pic of the house lately….
dreamweaverjenn 7:44 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
A little jealous, lol. If I ever do get to CA I want to see that entire area.
Bobby 11:37 am on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Poor Barbara. ‘Wrong place at the wrong time” couldn’t have been any truer for her… and to think she got screwed out of a life whilst Lind screwed a hooker behind her back in Sacramento. I keep reading conflicting reports, was it her or Billy that answered the door the night they were murdered? It makes sense that it was Billy and he was quickly ushered up to his room to recover the loot before he and Joy met their demise. Just don’t understand why they didn’t just go to the balcony and peer around the corner to see who was at the stairwell. Things could’ve been so different if they hadn’t been so complacent. Just goes to show how very little they thought of Holmes that they couldn’t have imagined he had the chutzpah to pull off anything like what transpired that night.
John 4:55 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
A kid once posted that his dad knew Barb in high school, was in love with her. David Lind pulled a gun on him once a few yrs after high school at some pool hall parking lot. The kid stated his dad still had a pic of Barbara looking beautiful sitting in a field of flowers. Sad, very sad.
dreamweaverjenn 7:49 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
I have also read it was Barbara and then read it was Billy. I have wondered how David Lind could say she was the love of his life, his butterfly and go screw the hooker in Sacramento. What a guy. I agree with you. They probably figured that they could handle Holmes by himself and just didn’t expect that he would be able to pull that off.
localarts 1:49 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
I’ve often thought the same thing, Deverell may have walked out on the balcony and peered around the corner and the killers may have been standing under the overhang just inside the garage. Once he went back in, Holmes probably waived the killers up.
John 2:06 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
I bet they were hiding under the patio! Very sneaky.
dreamweaverjenn 7:50 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink
They probably were. Gives me the willies….Would Billy have been able to see them from the balcony?
Bobby 9:18 am on May 18, 2013 Permalink |
Yeah this makes the most sense, if in fact Deverell did go to the balcony that night but now I’m starting to doubt it as I think the police video shows the balcony door’s blind/window being shut. From all accounts it seems the balcony was frequently used to throw drugs down to customers but maybe that particular night they were too lazy to go out there. Perhaps it was Barbara who made the fatal mistake of letting John and the thugs in? Maybe she wasn’t familiar with the “customer buzz-in protocol” or nobody in this bumbling gang of thieves informed her not to let anyone in. The UK-TV Wonderland Murders doco that’s on YouTube states that Barbara was on the couch watching TV whist everyone else was asleep. Don’t recall a TV in the lounge from the police video though. This doco could just be poorly researched but if it is in fact correct one could surmise that she was taken out first which then awakened Billy (who knows, maybe he was on the nod atop his bed clothed only in his jeans?) who then came barrelling down the stairwell only to promptly backpedal and beg for his life once he realised what was going down. Neighbours said they heard cries for mercy so there might’ve been a small window of time for him to retrieve the stolen goods for them all the while hoping that they’d spare his life. Just terrifying! You’d think the Wonderland gang would’ve been armed and ready but it seems that wasn’t the case at all. Was their arsenal stolen by Nash’s thugs or by dopehead looters the next day or had they already disposed of anything that might tie them to the robbery? Things would’ve been so different if Ron or Billy had a gun under their pillow and quickly opened fire on the assailants. Guess Nash’s thugs anticipated a possible armed retaliation hence why they were so fast to take everyone out. It must’ve been a bum rush of one thug per room. Also did somebody steal Billy and Joy’s VCR considering the TV was tuned to Channel 3 which is an input channel for such a device? Man oh man, so many unanswered questions..(!!)
John 2:31 pm on May 20, 2013 Permalink
Yes, Nash’s goons probably stole whatever guns were in the house, but I think they probably had a few laying around. Sadly, Ronnie was no help and looks like he died in his sleep! I wonder what VHS tape that Billy and Joy were watching?
krislyn 6:58 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
i take a pic each time i go which is monthly. lol looks just how it does on google street maps. ill get off the car again. the porch on the back is what i want to see. was the a door to tje outside from Rons room? in tje movie it dead but i dont think in the real house. eddie nash house is totally different than it was. but ill get some shots. steve marin lives up at the top of Wonderland .i know that lol.
John W 7:09 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink |
Thank you so much, Krislyn. I would like to post any nrw pics of Wonderland or Eddie’s old house if that’s okay. I think it would be great to tour the Eddie house! “this is where Greg Diles was lying down handcuffed”…. This is where Holmes was beaten up, thrown against the wall”
localarts 9:47 pm on May 17, 2013 Permalink
Yeah, Updated pics of Dona Lola would be nice.
scabiesoftherat 1:18 am on May 18, 2013 Permalink |
Sorry. But that stupid ass tux looks so idiotic on him. Blood red tie with a white-highlighted-with-blue frilly shirt. He looks like a clown. What a moron.
dreamweaverjenn 6:54 am on May 18, 2013 Permalink |
lol, he does!
localarts 11:16 am on May 18, 2013 Permalink |
Well, it’s not like were talking about the Academy Awards Show. It’s some porno convention so I’m not suprised by Holmes outfit.
localarts 7:14 pm on May 20, 2013 Permalink |
Yes, the antique guns were recovered by the LAPD during one their raids, I remember reading somthing about that.
localarts 10:06 pm on May 21, 2013 Permalink |
“Yes, Nash’s goons probably stole whatever guns were in the house, but I think they probably had a few laying around. Sadly, Ronnie was no help and looks like he died in his sleep! I wonder what VHS tape that Billy and Joy were watching?”
Would have been ironic if they were watching “Tell them Johnny Wadd is here” Just sayin.
Jimbodini307 10:37 pm on September 4, 2016 Permalink |
I’d like to say that one can surmise that since the blood pool was soaked into the pillow of the couch in the parlor where Barbara was found means she was lying down when her head was smashed in and not likely to have been the one who answered the door.. Actually I’d say there is a 99% chance that sue to the physical evidence, Billy was the only one who had at least gotten up and potentially could have left the room to open the door and brought back into his room during the ransacking.. it seems clearly evident that the other three victims were beaten pretty much where they lay and both Barbara and Susan rolled from where they lie, one who some how survived(Susan), and Barbara, who met her demise