Transgender killer confesses to 1990 homicide of homosexual porn star Billy London after tip from web sleuth

A transgender convicted killer has confessed to the 1990 homicide of homosexual porn star Billy London after a tip from an novice web sleuth — nevertheless Los Angeles County’s woke District Attorney George Gascón has refused to file bills throughout the case that has haunted Hollywood for 3 a few years.

The loss of life of 25-year-old London, whose precise title was Bill Newton, rocked the close-knit homosexual neighborhood of West Hollywood when gadgets of his dismembered physique have been current in a dumpster on October 29, 1990. 

The homicide case remained unsolved for better than 30 years until the LAPD confirmed on Monday that they secured a confession from Daralyn Madden, who’s already serving a life sentence in Oklahoma in 2007 for the homicide of two totally different males, the LA Times research.   

Madden, a former skinhead, now identifies as a Jewish lady, the publication well-known.

LAPD Det. John Lamberti talked about the break throughout the case acquired right here following a tip from stay-at-home dad and novice sleuth, Clark Williams. 

Williams discovered that Madden had beforehand claimed to have killed an individual in LA when she was a self-proclaimed white supremacist and skinhead who led a second-life as a male pornstar named Billy Houston. 

“It was a coincidence that I just could not ignore,” Williams talked about about his discovery.   

Williams suggested the Times he was drawn to the case due to the similarities he shared with Newton. Both are homosexual males who’ve been born on the an identical week in 1965 and grew up in northern Wisconsin sooner than transferring to larger cities. 

In December of 2021, Williams joined the Facebook group, “The History of Gay WIsconsin,” the place he found a submit about Newton’s homicide and have develop into fixated on the case. 

“Something was propelling me, moving me to just get involved in whatever capacity that I could,” Williams suggested the Times. “What I really wanted to do was to help tell Billy’s story, because I think he reflected the lives of so many young gay men and teenagers who came up in that time.” 

While learning further from the Facebook group, Williams lastly tracked down Rick Paskay, who appeared to be the first native sleuth who dug into the case after police acquired right here up empty. 

Paskay, who has since died, operated a skate retailer in West Hollywood, nevertheless Williams uncovered that he was moreover a homosexual porn producer who labored beneath the alias Richard Lawrence on the same time Newton was throughout the enterprise. 

In researching Paskay and Newton, Williams lastly found Houston’s title, and that led to the reference to Madden. 

Madden, within the meantime, pleaded accountable in 2008 to the brutal kidnapping and homicide of Steven Domer and her private accomplice throughout the crime, Bradley Qualls, in Oklahoma City.

Madden suggested police she and Qualls have been looking for to kill a homosexual man as an element of an initiation into the Chaos Squad Skinheads gang, luring Domer to a secluded area sooner than kidnapping him, beating him and strangling him alongside together with his private coat hanger. 

Police talked about Madden later shot and killed Qualls, fleeing the scene sooner than police arrested her.

After learning about Madden’s earlier and her involvement throughout the homosexual porn enterprise in Hollywood, Williams found excerpts from a prison offense e ebook, “American Honor Killings,” that contained an interview with Madden.

She suggested creator David McConnell that she not solely killed Domer in Oklahoma City, nevertheless alluded to killing one other particular person in Los Angeles. 

“I realized at that moment that I was in over my head,” Williams talked about, “and that I needed to get this information as soon as possible to Det. Lamberti.”  

Lamberti talked about he had put Newton’s case once more on the shelf merely two weeks sooner than Williams’ solutions, with the model new information reinvigorating his office after years of ineffective ends. 

Lamberti and his confederate, Det. Tamara Momayez, began digging into Madden and positioned the company she labored for was on Santa Monica Boulevard, with the developing positioned by the alley the place Newton’s physique had been found. 

The two detectives made a go to to Oklahoma on January 4 after they discovered the skinhead they’ve been looking for now identifies as an Orthodox Jewish lady. 

“We’re talking to a person who has swastikas tattooed and is also wearing a knitted pink yarmulke,” Lamberti talked about. “The person we’re talking to is a gay porn actor, transgender skinhead, Nazi orthodox Jew. You write that down in a sentence, and it’s like, ‘What?’”

When discussing Newton’s case, Madden talked about she and her skinhead mates targeted the youthful porn actor for a theft and to “beat the crap out of him.”

Instead, Madden talked about the theft ended alongside together with her strangling Newton to loss of life, which matched the coroner’s findings. 

Madden added that she believed Newton was extreme on the time, which moreover matches information that Newton had methamphetamine in his system after witnesses observed him leaving the Rage nightclub that day. 

Lamberti talked about the circumstances and confession was enough for him to present the case to Gascón — nevertheless the DA’s office refused to file bills, citing a shortage of proof. 

Gascón’s office didn’t immediately reply to the New York Post’s request for comment, and a guide for Madden couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Despite the DA’s selection, Lamberti talked about his office is formally closing the investigation and consulting Newton’s family. 

Michele Oliver, Newton’s youthful half sister, talked about she was pleased with the work of the detectives and sleuths who investigated her brother’s loss of life.  

“Having some kind of closure helps,” she talked about, noting that Madden will die behind bars. 

The grieving sister, nonetheless, nonetheless wished options as to why her brother was targeted and the place the rest of his physique is, which has certainly not been recovered.  

Lamberti suggested the Times that Madden refused to say what her group had achieved with Newton’s physique, telling officers “I’m not a snitch.”