The Hillside Stranglers

The Life and Crimes of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono

De: Mark Stokes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Los Angeles, 1977–78: a city mesmerized by beauty, promise — and a growing dread. The Hillside Stranglers: The Life and Crimes of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono plunges you into a nightmare that stalked quiet neighborhoods and flashy boulevards alike. Young women were abducted under the pretense of law enforcement; some were forced into Buono’s upholstery shop, others taken under false authority. The terror was neither distant nor abstract — it lived in the shadows of your street, in the stranger flashing a badge. As bodies piled up, the city held its breath, waiting for salvation.

What made these murders so chilling was not only the brutality, but the twisted duality of Bianchi and Buono themselves — cousins bound by blood, power, and perversion. Through painstaking research using a range of sources, this book peels back the mask. Who was the charismatic Bianchi, who claimed dissociative identity disorder? How did Angelo Buono, older and smoother, become both mentor and predator? The relationship between them, their methods, and the nasty pragmatism with which they carried out unspeakable acts — these are dissected with precision and care.

But no true crime story is complete without the pursuit of justice. From the first missing woman to the dawn of forensic advances, this book follows the twists and turns of one of America’s most complex investigations. The trial that followed was sprawling and controversial — defense and prosecution, expert witnesses, media frenzy — all played out in courtrooms and pressrooms. This is more than a chronicle of horror; it is a portrait of evil confronted, of victims remembered, and of a society forced to reckon with the darkness lurking in its midst.