The Italian Stallion: Angelo Buono and the Hillside Stranglers
In the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was gripped by terror. Bodies of young women and girls—some as young as 12—kept turning up naked and strangled on the city’s hillsides. The press named the killer the Hillside Strangler. What no one knew yet was that the murders were the work of two men: cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., a foul-mouthed auto upholsterer in Glendale who called himself the Italian Stallion.
In this episode, host Alexander Lawson unpacks the chilling partnership that turned Buono’s upholstery shop into a house of horrors. From their early days as small-time pimps to…
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