Further Reading For The Hillside Stranglers
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Between 1977 and 1978, two serial killers (similar to Leonard Lake and Charles “Cheetah” Ng), at first thought to be one, terrorized Los Angeles under the name The Hillside Stranger, later revised to The Hillside Stranglers due to the vast majority of their victims’ bodies being found in the hills around LA. The killers were cousins and walking Italian stereotypes Kenneth “Kennifer” Bianchi and Angelo Buono. In that short amount of time, they kidnapped, raped, tortured, and finally murdered ten women as old as 28 and girls as young as 12.
Kennifer and Buono began as most of these scumbags do, abducting women they judged to be less than likely to be missed or explained away as casualties of the sex trade around Los Angeles. Their first three victims were sex workers but the pair upped their game shortly after and began abducted women from middle class neighborhoods. Police chasing the pair knew, from evidence found at crime scenes, and from the positioning of the bodies that a pair of killers were at work but withheld this detail from the press in order to keep better control of the investigation. The pair broke up in later 1978 and Kennifer, the true psychopath of the pairc took his show on the road to Washington Stat where he murdered two more women and was finally arrested for the murders.
Ultimately, Kennifer turned on Buono when he realized that his weak-ass attempt to launch a ridiculous insanity plea wasn’t going to work. Both received life for their crimes.
Episodes: 225-227
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