SERIAL KILLER: The Hillside Strangler

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Between October of 1977 and February of 1978, a serial killer terrorized women in Southern California. Originally preying upon sex workers in Los Angeles, this offender began to target young women irregardless of race or background, before simply vanishing for good. It wasn't until a year later that police were able to link a separate crime to this spree, and from there, began to track down the culprit... or, in this case, culprits...

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
0:03.0	And I'm Britt.
0:04.0	And you guys know that on our show, we are big into personal safety,
0:08.0	and we've given you several rules to follow to help keep yourself safe.
0:11.0	One of those rules is to remain skeptical of everyone all the time.
0:17.0	Your co-workers, your neighbors, even figures of authority,
0:21.0	because you never really know anyone ever.
0:25.0	This rule has come into focus throughout several of our episodes,
0:29.0	but this rule is perhaps best exemplified in today's story,
0:33.0	which is one of the scariest crime sprees that maybe you've never heard of.
0:37.0	This is the story of the Hillside Strangler.
1:07.0	Our story begins on October 18, 1977,
1:18.0	when a detective is called out to a crime scene just outside of Los Angeles, California,
1:23.0	along the Ventura Freeway.
1:25.0	The body of a young woman had been abandoned just off the freeway,
1:29.0	and she appeared to have been brutally murdered.
1:32.0	As the detective examined her body, he quickly spotted the marks around her neck,
1:37.0	her wrists, and her angles.
1:39.0	It was clear that she had been bound with a rope before being strangled,
1:44.0	and this was later confirmed by a coroner to be her cause of death.
1:48.0	The coroner also determined that the victim had been raped before her death.
1:52.0	More than the ligature marks or cause of death, there was something that stuck out.
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