The Wonderland Gang was an organization of drug dealers who dominated the
Los Angeles cocaine trade in the late 1970s and early 1980s. On July 1,
1981 the gang met its demise in one of the bloodiest mass murders in the
history of California, now known as the Wonderland murders.
Members Members of the gang included:
· Ronald Launius (b. May 18, 1944 d. 1981) (leader)
· Billy Deverell (b. February 14, 1937 d. 1981)
· David Clay Lind (b. October 24, 1938 d. 1995) (a former prison
acquaintance of Launius)
· Joy Audrey Gold Miller (b. May 14, 1935 d. 1981) (Deverell's
girlfriend)
· Tracy Raymond McCourt (b. February 20, 1949 d. 2006)
The Wonderland Gang mainly trafficked in the burgeoning cocaine trade of
the era, but most of its members were actually heroin addicts. Drugs were
regularly dealt from a residence at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel
Canyon area of Los Angele
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