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Susan Launius

Susan Launius (1951-) was the girlfriend of Ron Launius and an associate of the Wonderland Gang. She narrowly survived the Wonderland murders, being beaten so badly that she could not remember anything about the incident.

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Susan A. Murphy married Ron Launius in Carson City, Nevada on 16 April 1971, and the two of them were heavy drug users. She was an associate of the Wonderland Gang, hanging around the Wonderland apartment, where she was savagely beaten by criminals with lead pipes on the night of 1 July 1981. She was the only survivor of the Wonderland murders, although she suffered severe head injuries, amnesia, and a severed finger following the attack.

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