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This is True Crime Island.

Another True Crime Podcast, bringing you True Crime from around the world. Hi Island as well last week I left hanging with Kenny Bianchi being picked up for the murders of two women in Bellingham, Washington.

Now if you haven't listened to the previous episode, you should before this one.

Now references tonight are pretty much the same as last week. The book The

Hillside Stranglers, the inside story of the killing spree that terrorized

Los Angeles by Darcy O'Brien. Now there is a bit of a trigger warning on this. It goes into

extreme detail on each of the murders. Now if you can handle that that's okay but just a bit of a warning

The Sacramento B the morning news the Herald News Indianapolis Star

Beacon Journal and the LA Times plus there's a little bit of court records I was able to find.

Okay, so let's get stuck into it. All right, so in the latter half of 1977, Angelo Buano and Kenny Bianchi go on a murder fest in LA, raping and strangling

multiple women. Now there were nine between October 17 and December 14 of 77 with one more on the

17th of February 1978. Now the bodies aren't hidden in fact most have found

relatively quickly and they seem staged.

A task force was set up to try and catch the killers and at the time the investigators were

pretty sure it was two perpetrators and not one.

But the massive media attention about the so-called hillside stranglers

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