Television
When Dave Diles was hired at $52.50 a week as a reporter for the Associated Press in Louisville in 1951, he was thrilled.
Nov. 1, 1985
California
A convicted narcotics dealer and his former bodyguard went on trial Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court for the 1981 murders of four people in a Laurel Canyon home who were allegedly killed in retaliation for an earlier drug-related robbery.
March 13, 1990
A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that he heard convicted cocaine trafficker Adel (Eddie Nash) Nasrallah vow to “have the people on their knees” for having robbed him of $1 million in drugs, money and jewelry in 1981.
Jan. 11, 1989
Nearly nine years after four bludgeoned bodies were found in a Laurel Canyon drug den, the trial of a convicted narcotics dealer and his bodyguard who are charged with the murders finally began last week--with 36 jurors, six attorneys, and a courtroom rearranged to accommodate them all.
March 21, 1990
After a jury favoring acquittal failed to reach a unanimous verdict, a judge declared a mistrial Wednesday for Gregory Diles, a former bodyguard accused of participating in the 1981 Laurel Canyon murders.
May 31, 1990
Seven years after the bludgeoned bodies were found in a Laurel Canyon drug den, a convicted cocaine trafficker and his former bodyguard were charged Thursday with committing four grisly murders for which authorities once unsuccessfully prosecuted the late pornographic film star John C.
Sept. 9, 1988
One-time nightclub owner Adel (Eddie Nash) Nasrallah and his former bodyguard were charged today with the notorious 1981 Laurel Canyon murders in which four people were bludgeoned to death.
Sept. 8, 1988
Convicted drug dealer Eddie Nash and his former bodyguard were ordered Thursday to stand trial in the 1981 killings of four people in Laurel Canyon for which the late porn star John C.
Jan. 20, 1989
A convicted narcotics dealer and his former bodyguard went on trial Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court for the 1981 murders of four people in a Laurel Canyon home, allegedly in retaliation for an earlier drug-related robbery.
A former lover of the late pianist Liberace testified Monday that a defendant in the Laurel Canyon murder trial vowed to track down those who had burglarized his home and “teach them a lesson,” but later lamented that “things (had) gone too far.”
March 27, 1990