The Wonderland Murders – Newspaper Clippings


You may now read all Wonderland newspaper clippings from one place:

wine-beer

Is that photo even Holmes? Ha.
Source: LA Coroner Reports
You can’t make this stuff up. News articles back then had attention to detail.
UPI Article. 1988.
“If you could read my mind…”
AP Article. October 1971.
More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed I Love Lucy. Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of the twentieth century, this very public figure nonetheless kept more than a few secrets.
Holmes Trial
I wish that the folks who run the Wonderland Wikipedia page would clean up their erroneous phony baloney!
UPI Article. Nov. 23, 1982.
April, 1983.
University of Chicago Press, June, 2000. A month before the movie aired, there was another edition of this book printed. I bet that it sells like hot cakes!
Oh well, ya gotta go sometime.
Lots of typos in this article. Someone hire a proofreader!!
The Victoria Advocate. July 19, 1996.
AP Article. July 2, 1981.
UPI Article. Dec. 5, 1982.
Liberace: “You Monster!”
Diles and Nash sit in the holding pen at court
Click to enlarge image. The Courier, July 29, 1981.
Star News. April 29, 1962.
Source: Press-Courier, July 3, 1981
The Vindicator. Sept. 9, 1988.
July 2, 1981.
The Palm Beach Post. April 28, 1982.
Page from the Johnny Wadd comic book. Warning: Nudity.
To all of the Wonderland fans, have a Happy Easter!
July 3, 1981. Boca Raton News.
The Spokesman-Review. March 16, 1977.
They can’t pin this one on Squeaky! She was in prison at the time.
L.A. Herald-Examiner. July 3, 1981.
“Live in lover…”
L.A. Herald-Examiner. July 4, 1981.
The Press-Courier. Jan. 3, 1974.
June, 1983
Best part of researching old newspapers are the classic advertisements! I like that price!
The Glasgow Herald. Oct 15, 1982.
Milwaukee Journal. February 20, 1990.
The Union Democrat. March 14, 1988.
AP Article. July 2, 1981.
L.A. Herald-Examiner. July 3, 1981
From the book, What Wild Ecstacy by John Heidenry.
Marysville-Yuba Appeal Democrat. March 17, 1982.
Contempt of court.
The Press-Courier. December 2, 1981.
I don’t know if that is John Holmes or some villain from the Old West. Is it even a photo? LOL
The Press-Courier. June 13, 1974
Beder Clifton, the cop who knew and busted Ron Launius in the 1970s.
The Press-Courier. July 3, 1981.
Lodi News-Sentinenl. July 3, 1981.
What Wild Ecstasy by John Heidenry.
A page from the Coroner Report
Sarasota Herald-Tribune. June 4, 1982.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 8, 1981
Lodi News-Sentinel. June 9, 1982.