Hillside Strangler
| The Hillside Stranglers | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kenneth Alessio Bianchi Angelo Buono Jr. |
| Born | Bianchi: May 22, 1951 Buono: October 5, 1934 |
| Died | Buono: September 21, 2002 (aged 67) |
| Cause of death | Heart attack (Buono) |
| Conviction | Murder |
| Sentence | Life imprisonment (without parole) (Buono) Life imprisonment (Bianchi) |
| Killings | |
| Number of victims | 10 killed as a duo, 2 by Bianchi alone |
| Span of killings | October 16, 1977– February 16, 1978 |
| Country | United States |
| Date apprehended | Bianchi: January 12, 1979 Buono: October 22, 1979 |
The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, were two American serial killers who killed ten young females in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978.
It was thought at first that only one person did the killings. The police, however, knew from the positions of the dead bodies that two individuals were working together. These two individuals were eventually discovered: they were cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr.. They were later convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing and murdering ten females, who were from 12 to 28 years old.[1][2]
A big investigation had been fruitless. Then the arrest of Bianchi in January 1979 for the murder of two more young women in Washington was linked to his past in the Strangler case.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "'Hillside Strangler' dies in prison". cnn.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2007.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ Vronsky, Peter (2004). Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. p. 187. ISBN 0-425-19640-2.