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Among the losers that year was Yolanda Washington – a street walker and single mother, raped by two men and strangled in the back of a car. Later she was dumped on the slopes of Forest Lawn Cemetery ... Nine more women were strangled within a single month – November 1977. Great Crimes & Trials: The Hillside Strangler, BBC 1993
Each body had been carefully washed to destroy evidence. ibid.
Suddenly the murders stopped ... In Bellingham, Washington ... two students were missing ... Jewellery from the bodies of some of the victims had been found in Kenneth Bianchi’s house. ibid.
Then came the assertion that ‘Steve’ had taken over Kenneth’s personality to kill the girls in Bellingham. ibid.
Bianchi was found sane. ibid.
The jury decided that Buono should not receive the death sentence. ibid.
It was a killing spree that horrified the citizens of Los Angeles. Over four months at the end of 1977 and the beginning of 1978 ten young women were murdered. Deranged Killers: Hillside Strangler, Discovery 2009
The cause of death was ligature strangulation. ibid.
The press named the killer the Hillside Strangler. ibid.
In the autumn of 1979 Ken Bianchi was in custody, the prime suspect in the Hillside Strangler cases in Los Angeles as well as two killings in Washington State. LA police had concluded that two people had worked together to commit ten murders in four months. And they had reason to believe that Bianchi’s cousin Angelo Buono was the accomplice. ibid.
Buono ... was also a sexual sadist. ibid.
The police even investigated Bianchi as a suspect in a string of unsolved cases in Rochester – they were called the Alphabet murders. ibid.
On October 19th the police arrested Angelo Buono; he was charged with ten counts of first degree murder. His trial began on November 16th 1981 and lasted two years and two days. It was one of the longest murder trials in American history. ibid.
A killing spree that broke all the rules. And baffled the experts. Not all Hollywood stories have a fairy-tale ending. In 1977 Hollywood’s dark underbelly would be exposed to the world. Born to Kill? Hollywood Hillside Strangler, 2012
On 17th October 1977 Yolanda Washington’s whereabouts were discovered. At the side of the road near Hollywood’s famous cemetery to the stars Yolanda lay naked and dead. And her murder would be just the first of many. ibid.
Bianchi, May 22nd 1951: born in Rochester New York to a prostitute who immediately gave him up for adoption. ibid.
The media dubbed the mystery killer the Hillside Strangler. ibid.
The killer was not acting alone. ibid.
Ten women were dead and they still had no clear leads. ibid.
But the next bodies would appear not in the hills of Los Angeles but 1,200 miles north in the quiet bayside community of Bellingham, Washington. ibid.
Several doctors became convinced that Kenneth Bianchi was a multiple personality. ibid.
Bianchi not only admitted rape and murder but also torture. ibid.
Both cousins would escape the death penalty. ibid.
Angelo Buono died in prison in 2002. Kenneth Bianchi remains imprisoned at Walla Walla State Penitentiary. ibid.
We got nothing to go on. Nobody knows anything. The press is making us look like fools. And the public is afraid to walk out at night. That’s why we’re forming this task force. Five bodies have been found in a nine day period right in Thanksgiving ... We think it might be two guys. The Hillside Stranglers; viz novel Darcy O’Brien, Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers, chief rozzer
The mutilation of the victims tells us something about their contempt for women, or society. Sergeant Grogan’s briefing
You keep your mouth shut about what you saw last night. ibid. first kidnapper
She was sure there were two of them. ibid. investigating rozzer
This is a city in a state of terror. ibid. television news
I don’t need you, Angelo. I don’t need you any more. ibid. younger kidnapper discarding two bodies
Gentlemen, he’s a fake. ibid. hypnotist
You are evil, Kenny. You are as evil as they come. ibid. rozzer interrogator
May 26 1981: I reported this two years ago but nobody listened to me. ibid. female witness
You’re never going to get out of there. Never. ibid. rozzer investigator to Kenny
13th November 1977 Los Angeles, USA: Schoolgirls Delores and Sonia were on their way home from a day’s shopping when two police officers stopped them for questioning, but the so-called policemen were in fact killers. 14-year-old Sonia and 12-year-old Delores were abducted, held captive for five days, repeatedly raped then strangled. Their killers were two cousins. World’s Most Evil Killers: Hillside Stranglers, Sky Crime 2020
The partners in crime went on a killing spree murdering ten young women in just four months. Many were dumped on hillsides across LA. ibid.
In 1979 Kenneth Bianchi became the prime suspect in a double murder in Washington State. Investigators also linked him to a string of unsolved killings in Los Angeles known as the Hillside Stranglings. The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise I, Sky Crime 2023
During interviews with psychiatrists, Bianchi’s sanity came into question as he alternately confessed to and denied the crimes in both Washington and California. ibid.
In 1979 Kenneth Bianchi became the prime suspect in a double murder in Washington State. Investigators also linked him to a string of unsolved killings in Los Angeles known as the Hillside Stranglings. The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise I, Sky Crime 2023
During interviews with psychiatrists, Bianchi’s sanity came into question as he alternately confessed to and denied the crimes in both Washington and California. ibid.
We didn’t discount the fact that there may have been more than one person involved because it’s tough to kill two people at the same time. The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise II, rozzer
He wasn’t crazy. He was just one sick individual. ibid. journalist
He was just an easy guy to get with the program, you know. The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise III, Kenneth, re Angelo
And then he connected his cousin, Angelo Buono, to the murders. ibid. rozzer
Bianchi and Buono were trying to set up an escort service. ibid.
‘They would trust each other to keep their mouths shut to kill women together.’ Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise IV
BIBLE JOHN murders [viz Tobin, Peter]: David Hayman: The Bible John Mystery TV - Peter Tobin TV - The Hunt for Bible John TV -
Four decades ago while the rest of the world celebrated the swinging sixties, flower power and free love, fear gripped Glasgow. It seemed that one man, one monster, had made this place – the Barrowland Ballroom – his hunting ground. David Hayman, The Bible John Mystery ***** CI 2011
The newspapers soon gave this killer a name – Bible John. ibid.
Then the murders stopped and no-one knows why. ibid.
We investigate new information which links Bible John’s crimes to Scotland’s most vicious serial killer – Peter Tobin. ibid.
Was there more than one killer at large? ibid.
Peter Tobin was convicted of Angelika’s murder in 2007 and sentenced to twenty-one years. But monsters like Tobin don’t usually start killing at the age of sixty. ibid.
One such case was the disappearance of 14-year-old Vicky Hamilton in 1991. ibid.
The police discovered Tobin had moved from Bathgate to the seaside town of Margate just before Dinah went missing. ibid.
Forensic tests revealed that Tobin had drugged, raped and strangled Vicky in his Bathgate home. Later he cut her body in two, transported her remains to his new house in Margate and buried her. But Tobin’s horrors didn’t end with Vicky. ibid.
Is Peter Tobin Bible John? ibid.
A woman recently told police she had met Tobin at the Barrowland in 1968 and he raped her shortly after they left. ibid.
There are other victims of his out there. ibid.