Wonderland Gang

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 section of Los Angeles, California. 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"). LAPD detectives were on record saying the crime scene was bloodier and more gruesome than that of the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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 Miller and Deverell's residence at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. The two bedroom split-level house was leased in Miller's name. Miller and her live-in boyfriend Deverell were the usual residents; Ron Launius and his wife, Susan, were house guests.

Lind, ordinarily a resident of the Sacramento area, came to Los Angeles in the summer of 1981 at Launius' behest, to aid in their growing drug-distribution business. Lind and Launius had become friends while in prison and promised to deal drugs together upon their release. Lind and his girlfriend Barbara "Butterfly" Richardson rode down to the Wonderland house on Lind's motorcycle and slept on the living-room sofa.

Adult-entertainment legend John Curtis "Johnny Wadd" Holmes (b. August 8, 1944; d. March 13, 1988), was a frequent visitor who would purchase or scrounge cocaine from the gang.

Members of the gang included:

Their associates included:

A United States Air Force veteran of the Vietnam era, Ronnie Lee "Ron" Launius (37) had been convicted of smuggling heroin from Vietnam back to the United States in the corpses of American soldiers.

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