The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood

Miniseries

2024 · 4 episodes · 3h 27m in all

Episodes

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   1. The Heat of a Cold Case

   8 Sept 2024 · 51 min

   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.

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   2. The Man Who Knew Too Much

   15 Sept 2024 · 50 min

   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 extraordinary life with Liberace, Hollywood elite and the drug underworld of 1980s Los Angeles.

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   3. Up in Smoke

   22 Sept 2024 · 51 min

   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.

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   4. The Last Man Standing

   29 Sept 2024 · 55 min

   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.