Two charged in murder case
NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles
A convicted cocaine dealer and his former bodyguard have been charged with the brutal murders of four people for which the late pornographic film star, John Holmes, originally stood trial.
The surprise development in one of Los Angeles’s most lurid murder cases comes seven years after the victims were bludgeoned to death in a luxurious Laurel Canyon apartment. Eddie Nash, a former nightclub' owner who served a prison sentence for cocaine possession, and Gregory Diles will be arranged later on four counts of first-degree murder and one of attempted murder. The Laurel Canyon
murders, which the Deputy District Attorney, Dale Davidson, described as “some of the most brutal ... Los Angeles County has ever seen,” owe much of their notoriety to the involvement of Holmes.
The porn star of the 19705, who claimed to have made love to 14,000 women and who died of A.I.D.S. in March, was charged with the murders in 1982. He was acquitted in a trial in which he maintained he had been forced at gunpoint to lead the killers to the apartment where the victims were killed.
Holmes, who was interviewed by detectives earlier this year on his death bed, also claimed he never knew the identity of the killers.
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