Gay Porn Star Billy London's Murderer Finally Revealed 32 Years Later Thanks To True Crime Podcast!
08.02.2023 - 06:07
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In 1990, well-known gay porn star Billy London was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. His dismembered head and feet were found in a dumpster in West Hollywood, but the rest of his body was never recovered.
For more than thirty years, his murder had gone unsolved. And for most of that time, it looked like it would remain unsolved forever. His family prayed for justice, but none was to be had. That is, until an unlikely team involving a documentary filmmaker, a detective, a stay-at-home dad, and two true crime podcast hosts began sharing notes.
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The Los Angeles Times detailed London’s case in a jaw-dropping new feature published on Tuesday morning. The piece tells the tale of LAPD detective John Lamberti, documentarian Rachel Mason, and Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, who co-host The Dinner Party Show podcast.
That unlikely group solved London’s murder after several years of painstaking research. It all started when Rice received a tip from someone who claimed to have seen London — whose real name was Billy Newton — leave a Los Angeles club on the October 1990 night of his murder with “someone who looked like Jeffrey Dahmer.” Rice and Quinn began to look into the case and report about it on their podcast.
For a while, they were stumped about who could have killed London, and wondered whether Dahmer actually was involved. Dahmer himself had previously denied killing London. As it turned out, the infamous serial killer had nothing to do with this death — and the real story would eventually come to light.
Simultaneously, Lamberti was looking into the cold case from his perch within the