LOS ANGELES -- A police officer testified porno film star John Holmes told him nightclub owner Adel 'Eddie Nash' Nasrallah ordered the massacre of four people and the actor feared for his own life for talking to police.
'He stated to me: 'Nash did it,'' Detective Tom Lange told the Superior Court jury Wednesday at Holmes' murder trial.
'He was in fear of Eddie Nash and that Eddie Nash would kill him if he knew he was talking to us about the Wonderland killings.'
But Lange noted after Holmes talked to police at a downtown hotel, his car was spotted parked at Nasrallah's house, raising doubts as to the extent of Holmes' fear of Nasrallah.
Holmes is on trial for the bloody bludgeon slayings of four people and the attempted murder of a fifth at a rented house on Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon.
The defense claims Holmes was forced at gunpoint to go to the house and did not participate in the killings. The prosecution maintains Holmes helped set up the slayings after having planned a jewelry and dope robbery of Nasrallah's house with two of the victims.
The motive for the slayings allegedly was retaliation for a robbery that had infuriated Nasrallah and made him seek revenge.
Lange testified Holmes, 37, was '... very confused about what to do about his dilemma.'
Nasrallah and his 300-pound bodyguard, Gregory Diles, each facing drug charges in connection with three raids on Nasrallah's house, have been named as suspects in the killings but have not been charged.
Lange said police are still investigating their possible involvement in the slayings.
Earlier this week the jury saw a 30-minute police videotape of the crime scene that showed the four battered bodies scattered through the blood-spattered house, which is only a few blocks from the home of Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. in the Hollywood hills.
