Ron launius biography

The Wonderland Gang was a group of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their home base was located.
Ronald Lee "Ron" Launius (18 May 1944-1 July 1981) was the leader of the Wonderland Gang of Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles.
The Wonderland murders, also known as the Four on the Floor Murders or the Laurel Canyon Murders, are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on.

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Dawn Schiller

Dawn Schiller was the daughter of an American career soldier and a young immigrant from Germany. During the 1960s, her father served two tours in Vietnam and was seriously injured. After he returned to his family, they moved to Florida. However, her parents' marriage fell apart when she turned 15 and her father won custody. To start a new life, he moved to Glendale into an apartment managed by Sharon Holmes, wife of notorious adult film star John Holmes. Her father was traumatized by his experiences and distraught over his divorce. To make some extra money, she helped the Holmes' around the place, doing gardening and other odd jobs. John would often provide her with a drive to and from school and they became friends.

She initially wasn't taken with him, but he gradually won her over and they became lovers. At the same time, he started becoming possessive of her. At this time, Holmes was at the peak of his popularity among adult film fans, but he kept that life separate from his home life and young Dawn was never involved or knowledgeable about his

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Wonderland Gang

Drug gang in Los Angeles (1970s & 1980s)

Not to be confused with the Wonderland Club, an online child pornography ring busted by Operation Cathedral.

Criminal organization

The Wonderland Gang was a group of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their home base was located on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.^[1] On July 1, 1981, three members and one associate of the gang died in the Wonderland murders (also known as the "Four on the Floor murders" or the "Laurel Canyon murders").^[2]

Overview

The Wonderland Gang mainly trafficked in the burgeoning cocaine trade of the era, but despite its role as the most influential and feared cocaine distributorship of its time in Los Angeles, some of its members were heroin addicts. Drugs were regularly dealt from the residence at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

The two bedroom split-level house was leased in Joy Miller's name

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Ronald Lee "Ron" Launius (18 May 1944-1 July 1981) was the leader of the Wonderland Gang of Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. He was one of the victims of the 1981 Wonderland murders, during which he was murdered by John C. Holmes; his wife Susan Launius survived with grave head injuries.

Biography[]

Ron Launius was born in Sacramento, California in 1944, and he served in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. Launius became involved with drug trafficking in Vietnam, smuggling heroin back into the United States by hiding the drugs in the corpses of American soldiers. Launius was dishonorably discharged after being convicted for heroin smuggling, and he was involved in around 27 homicides in the Sacramento area during the early 1970s. In May 1974, he was arrested for the 1973 murder of a police drug informant, but the charges were dropped when the key witness was killed in a police shootout. Launius later served three years in prison for smuggling heroin and cocaine across the USA/Mexico border.

Launius would become the leader of the "Wonderland Gang" in Laurel