Publisher's Synopsis
The Hillside Strangler, later the Hillside Stranglers, is the media epithet for one, later two, American serial killers who terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, with the nicknames originating from the fact that many of the victims' bodies were discovered in the hills surrounding greater Los Angeles. It was initially believed that only one person was responsible for the killings. The police, however, knew from the positions of the bodies that two criminals were working together, but withheld this information from the press. These two were eventually discovered to be the cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., who was later convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering 10 women and girls ranging in age from 12 to 28 years old. This book documents the shocking story of an abusive childhood that created a monster, and the suspect's possible involvement in a separate string of killings of teenagers in Rochester, New York. Did these men truly have multiple personalities, or was he a cunning sociopath enacting a daring hoax against the criminal justice system? By the end, you make up your own mind.
