Adult film ‘king’ famed for large penis gained notoriety over Wonderland Murders
One of the world’s most famous porn stars, who was famed for having a 13inch penis, was implicated in the horrific murders of four people who were bludgeoned to death.
John Holmes, who was known in the 1970s as the “Elvis of Porn”, found himself under a harsh spotlight after his handprints were found at the scene of the grisly Wonderland Murders, just west of the glittering Hollywood Hills, in July 1981.
Holmes was one of the most prolific American porn stars of his age, starring in at least 573 films across his career.
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Supposedly, he began his porn career after standing next to a photographer at a urinal in a gentlemen’s club in the late 1960s, who handed him his card after seeing his member.
Holmes went by several stage named during his porn career, including The Human Tripod, Wizard of Wadd, The Sultan of Smut, The Reverse Birth, The Sheriff of Grottingham and Eve's Burden.
Despite his huge success as a performer, his drug habit at the time was growing almost as quickly as his career.
His ex-girlfriend Dawn Schiller, only 15 when they met, said: "Slowly cocaine started coming into the picture.
"He would dish out a few lines and we would stay up all night."
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Holmes would eventually start taking booze and cannabis and cocaine that was readily available on sets, as well as heroin.
Eventually his addiction meant he could no longer use his appendage like he used to, pushing him out of the murky porn industry and into the even murkier world of crime and prostitution.
His addiction led to him joining several other drug-addicted dealers and forming the Wonderland Gang, who all worked out of 8763 Wonderland Avenue in LA.
Holmes told them that he knew how to get into the home of Eddie Nash, a club owner who was nicknamed “The Godfather of Hollywood.”
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After robbing his home, Holmes found himself being frog marched into the Wonderland Avenue flat by three of Nash’s henchmen.
There, Holmes was forced to watch the four other residents of the flat be brutally beaten to death.
Holmes was charged with the murders of Ron Launius, Billy DeVerell, Joy Miller and Barbara Richardson, all of whom were brutally beaten to death with a combination of hammers, metal pipes and baseball bats in their glitzy LA flat.
While he was initially arrested and let go, police hunted for Porn’s Elvis after they found a handprint on the headboard of one of the victims.
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They chased him across the country, eventually finding him in Florida in December 1981.
His three week long trial in 1982 was the first time video footage was ever used in an American trial.
Reporter Patt Morrison said at the time: "What that videotape showed was this blood-strewn, upscale house in which four people had been beaten to death by steel pipes and baseball bats."
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He was acquitted of all crimes related to the murder after prosecutors failed to prove a link between Holmes and the killings.
After the trial, Holmes returned to work in porn and tried to sort out his drug problem, sadly passing away at just 44 due to AIDS-related complications, six years after his trial.
While no one has, to this day, been convicted of the massacre, Eddie Nash admitted later in his life that he sent “associates” to Wonderland Avenue to forcibly retrieve the stolen goods, but denied ordering the murders.
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