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The Hillside Strangler (later the Hillside Stranglers) is the media epithet for an American serial killer—later discovered to be a duo, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono—who terrorized the women of Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, during a time when Southern California was plagued by several active serial killers.
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist.He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in Los Angeles, California, as well as for murdering two more women in Washington by himself.
Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, were known as the Hillside Stranglers. Buono and Bianchi were convicted of killing ten young women in Los Angeles, California, between October 1977 and February 1978.
Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono are the exception to that rule, at least according to the American criminal justice system and The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise, which details the case ...
In 1977, Alcala worked briefly at the Los Angeles Times as a typesetter, and was interviewed by members of the Hillside Strangler task force as part of their investigation of known sex offenders. Although Alcala was ruled out as the Strangler, he was arrested and served a brief sentence for marijuana possession . [ 14 ]
Kenneth Bianchi, a Rochester native and one-half of the notorious Hillside Strangler pair, is no longer. Since last month Bianchi is Anthony D'Amato, having legally changed his name in November.
Inside, a key aspect of the crime scene was also inconsistent with the burglary theory. At the top of the stairs was a stack of stereo equipment atop a VCR. If, as the evidence suggested, the struggle between Rasmussen and her attacker had begun upstairs and then continued downstairs, that stack would likely have been knocked downstairs and ...
The film was reissued in 1978 in an alternate 76-minute cut under the title The Hollywood Hillside Strangler. [1] Other alternate titles include Insanity and Twisted Throats. [1] [7] A cut version, with a running time of 73 minute 50 seconds, and bearing the title Insanity, was released in the UK on VHS and Betamax by Go Video in November 1982. [8]