Fans of vintage gay porn may be familiar with this actor or his films.
The horrific 1990 murder of a gay porn star has finally been solved, more than 30 years after Billy London's head and feet were found in a dumpster in West Hollywood, California. The rest of his body were never recovered.
The Los Angeles Times detailed the crack in the case, which had long gone cold.
Per the report, a confession came this year, after years of painstaking research from a team of internet sleuths including a stay-at home dad, a documentary filmmaker, a pair of podcast hosts -- one of whom is author Christopher Rice -- and two LAPD detectives.
Det. John Lamberti began looking into the case again recently -- while filmmaker Rachel Mason was working on a doc about the unsolved crime and Rice and cohost Eric Shaw Quinn were covering it on their The Dinner Party Show podcast.
While doing research for the podcast, Rice received a tip from someone who claimed they saw London -- real name Bill Newton -- leave a club the night of his murder with someone who looked like Jeffrey Dahmer. As he launched into his own investigation, Lamberti came across the podcast, telling the Times the Dahmer tip "caused me to crack open the file and look at it a little more deeply." Lamberti then began coordinating with Rice, Quinn and Newton's family on the investigation, sharing information.
Integral to the investigation, however, was stay-at-home dad Clark Williams, who reached out to Mason to simply provide some background to the filmmaker about what it could have been like for Billy growing up in Wisconsin, as he was from the same area.
Williams told TooFab their conversations "nurtured a growing obsession to study and investigate every single aspect of this case -- literally, to leave no stone unturned" and, per the LA Times, he started doing a "deep dive" on porn produced around the time of Newton's murder. During his research, he came across actor Billy Houston -- formerly known as Darrell Lynn Madden -- and headlines about how Madden, a white supremacist, pleaded guilty to the murder of another gay man in the 2000s.
"It was a coincidence that I just could not ignore," Williams told the Times, adding that he then found an interview Madden did for a book called "American Honor Killings" in which Madden apparently confessed to committing another murder in L.A. While the Dahmer tip didn't pan out -- Dahmer himself denied killing Newton while he was still alive -- Williams briefed Lamberti on his findings. With that, the detective and partner Tamara Momayez started looking into Madden.
