John Holmes Preferred Suicide To Prison
News Library Catalog Card. Story is not related to the article below.
Jail and prison suck – unless you’re in Norway. The key is not to get sent to the joint in the first place… unless it turns out like Shawshank at the end, where Morgan Freeman finds you on the beach in Zaywahtaneo’.
“Bad people with guns, bad breath and no sense of humor.” – I guess Nash couldn’t just laugh off what had happened to him, nor could the cops just chuckle at 4 grisly murders and let that slide. Yeah, lighten up guys.
The prison morgue workers would have definitely sold Holmes’ johnson to some curiously morbid collector. That had to be going through his mind (that, and paying his editors). The “unit” would have been stored in a jar and featured on an episode of that goofy show “Oddities”. (I love that show!)
UPI Article. Dec. 5, 1982.
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Jill C.Nelson 11:59 am on July 17, 2013 Permalink |
“Always willing to help law enforcement.” Well, even though it’s never been substantiated, urban legend has it that Holmes provided Tom Blake with “information helping us to bust countless porn sets.” I suppose one could also throw in all the hours taking target practice together at the shooting range at the Los Angeles Police Academy, not to mention the many lunches that Holmes and Blake enjoyed together there — probably on Blake’s dime. Maybe in his own mind, Holmes believed that was helping. 😉 It was Frank Tomlinson who called it, “Holmes outfoxed the LAPD.”
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dreamweaverjenn 10:49 am on July 17, 2013 Permalink |
I agree. What an ass.
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localarts 10:45 am on July 17, 2013 Permalink |
“Always willing to help law enforcement” you gotta be kidding me!
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criticextraordinaire 3:27 pm on October 12, 2013 Permalink |
Well he did help Tom Blake’s various porno investigations in the 70’s. His portrayal of a no-nonsense detective also was appreciated by cops although many were reticent to admit it, for obvious reasons. Johnny Wadd… the detective’s detective.
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