In this documentary podcast, best-selling crime novelist Michael Connelly returns to his roots in journalism and examines the Wonderland Murders, an iconic and brutal mass murder in a city known for its murders. Named for the street in Laurel Canyon where the murders took place inside the house of a small-time drug gang, it’s a gruesome crime that reflected its time, disrupted a mythology and tells a broader story of Los Angeles, the American dream machine, and when justice does - and doesn’t - work. And for the first time, the podcast accesses never revealed records and exclusive interviews with investigators, prosecutors and a notorious, “missing” witness who puts all the pieces together.

The first two episodes of this podcast will release on July 1st, followed by a new episode added each week.

Thorson learns from the master, Eddie Nash, and becomes a player in the Hollywood underworld, dealing drugs to the high and mighty. But do his stories match the checkable facts? This player is an addict himself and eventually finds himself in a jail cell with one secret left to trade: He can pin the Wonderland murders on Eddie Nash. 

Thorson testifies against his mentor in the drug business, Eddie Nash, and then disappears into the witness protection program.  

Thorson is now Jess Marlow. He discovers that being a televangelist is more profitable and safer than being a drug dealer - until he opens the door of his room at the Howard Johnson’s in Jacksonville and is shot in the face. Meantime, a federal task force investigating the Armenian mob stumbles onto a connection to Eddie Nash and it leads to a final reckoning in the Wonderland case.