The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood

Overview

Michael Connelly takes viewers on a wild journey into the twisted story of the massacre at Wonderland Avenue on July 1, 1981 – one of Hollywood's most famous murder cases that has fascinated people for more than 40 years.

Episodes

The Heat of a Cold Case

S01E01 The Heat of a Cold Case

September 8, 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...
The Man Who Knew Too Much

S01E02 The Man Who Knew Too Much

September 15, 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...

S01E03 Up in Smoke

September 22, 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...

S01E04 The Last Man Standing

September 29, 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...

Cast

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly
Self

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