How a filmmaker, a stay-at-home dad and a podcast cracked the coldest murder in West Hollywood. Documaker Rachel Mason unlocks the case of Billy London, an L.A. gay porn star whose killing was set against a backdrop of homophobia. There is a videotape. It dates from the early 1990s, a...
How a filmmaker, a stay-at-home dad and a podcast cracked the coldest murder in West Hollywood. Documaker Rachel Mason unlocks the case of Billy London, an L.A. gay porn star whose killing was set against a backdrop of homophobia. There is a videotape. It dates from the early 1990s, a memorial award show staged by the gay adult film industry in Los Angeles: the...
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