
The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case
The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case of Bianchi and Buono
Between October 1977 and February 1978, ten girls and young women, aged 12 to 28, were abducted in Los Angeles, strangled, and left on the hillsides above Glendale and Eagle Rock. The press named the killer the Hillside Strangler, one man. Police knew almost from the start that it was two: cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who lured victims with a fake police badge and killed nearly all of them inside Buono's Glendale upholstery shop. How did two men turn the uniform of safety into a weapon? Why did the…
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