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Jul 2024
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Murder At Wonderland (The Story Of Laure...

CODY BECK AND TROY TAYLOR
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It was around 4:00 AM on the morning of July 1, 1981, when several shadowy figures slipped into a multi-level home on Wonderland Avenue in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. Once inside, they surprised the five sleeping occupants and attacked them with metal pipes, beating them viciously...

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