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There was no real discussion of killing.
It just seems like it was an automatic thing that would happen.
There was always a spirit of the moment thing. There was never any planning
beforehand.
Welcome to Very Scary People. I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Los Angeles, California in the 1970s was a place where dreams were made, in the
movie studios and on the beaches.
But in the fall of 1977, over a period of four months, the city was terrorized
by a predator, hunting young women and displaying their dead bodies in public.
Despite a massive police effort to find the killer, the body count kept rising.
The terrifying murder spree would go down as one of the most notorious in U
history. This is The Hillside Stranglers.
Christina Weckler was a 20 -year -old art student, talented girl.
Everyone described her as studious and quiet, a real sweetheart.
She lived on her own, and she and a friend, another student at the Art
Institute, both single women in L .A., they kind of made like a pinky swear,
let's keep each other safe.
So they made a promise to each other to be there just in case.
On a Monday morning, when Christina didn't show up for her class as she
would, her friend became very, very alarmed. This is not like Christina at
This is out of character.
So the friend drove over to Christina's apartment and found Christina's
Volkswagen was parked in its usual spot. So she thought, well, maybe she's just
sick.
She went up to Christina's apartment door and knocked, and there wasn't any
answer.
Now she's starting to get really worried.
So she went and cornered the apartment manager.
He opens the apartment.
They go in, and everything looks normal.
Her art supplies are out. Her bed is turned down.
There's no evidence of any kind of... or any kind of violence in the apartment.
The really eerie thing is that Christina is not there.
The body of Christina Weckler was found.
And things got even thicker.
There were marks of sexual assault. She'd been violently sexually assaulted.
And just dumped.
There were marks on her arms, like maybe an IV drug
user. But that didn't fit Christina's personality at all.
It was my understanding that she was not a drug addict or involved in drug
activity.
There was a knock at her door.
It was a former neighbor of hers.
And he said, Something's happened to your car, and I think you better come
and take a look at it.
So she did.
She was driven to a house where she was dragged around and tied up.
She was injected with a substance usually used to clean windows.
Which caused her to go into violent convulsions.
But she didn't die.
She was dragged into the kitchen and a plastic bag put over her head and a gas
pipe put into the bag.
She's gasping for air. The bag is going in and out as the gas is being
pumped into it.
So in the course of however long she was in captivity there, she was injected.
with a cleaning substance, and she was gassed before she was finally killed.
And it was by means of a cord wrapped around the neck.
Death must have seemed a mercy for her.
Christina was just one of the many victims of the Hillside Stranglers.
Some people had puncture marks.
Some had burns on their hands.
They were tortured.
People were being taken off the streets and turning out murdered in some very
horrendous ways.
Everyone is going crazy.
Police knew they were dealing with a real sicko out there. Are we dealing
someone with a medical background because the bodies were all cleaned?
No one knew. It was getting stranger by the week.
It was extremely alarming.
And no solution to the series of murders appears to be in sight.
We were defenseless. Who will be the next victim?
Where will they be found?
Will it be someone I know?
It was a crazy, crazy time.
The 1970s in Los Angeles was pretty much wide open.
So there were a lot of people on the street, especially in Hollywood, because
there were a lot of nightclubs there.
A lot of social activities, a lot of concerts, rock and roll, very lazy fare.
It was also a much more trusting era.
A lot of people were hitchhiking.
Now parents don't even let their children walk down one block to school
an escort.
I think it was just a different time.
And there was still that element of sexual revolution.
And so women were behaving in ways that they hadn't done in earlier years.
I think women felt a lot more comfortable walking down the street. And
free time. It was a little post the hippie era.
It was going to the beach. It was a party atmosphere in Los Angeles.
It was a have no fear period of time.
But it was about to be overshadowed by tragedy.
In late 1977, bodies of young women start turning up around Los Angeles.
19 -year -old Yolanda Washington's body was found on the slopes of Forest Lawn
Cemetery. A prostitute had been murdered and dropped off naked on a hillside.
There were ligature marks on her, and her body was clean.
But in a rather sad commentary, maybe on our society, it didn't receive that
much news coverage because she was a prostitute, another day, another murder
L .A.
I became involved in researching prostitution as a graduate student at
that's how I met Yolanda Washington.
Yolanda Washington was a beautiful, young, African -American woman who was
slim and very sweet and very endearing.
She had a three -year -old child at home. She was trying hard to get off the
streets, also working as a waitress and did a little bit of prostitution work.
She did a number of things in order to support her baby.
Her friends called me and said, we know who killed her.
And I said, well, what happened? And they said she'd stolen a car from her
who was a dope dealer and had a lot of drugs in the trunk, and they're sure
he had killed her, which turned out not to be the case.
Not too long after that, there was a homicide. It was the morning after
Halloween, November 1st, 1977.
A young girl, her body was found posed naked on a front lawn of a house in an
area that doesn't have any crime, and it's very remote.
It's just a few blocks from the junior high school that I had attended.
This wasn't something that happened in our neighborhood, absolutely positively
unheard of.
Judith Miller, that's the one that...
That alarmed and unhinged everybody.
Judy Miller went to Hollywood High School.
She was considered a runaway street child.
Body was face up and actually a neighbor put a tarp over the body before the
police even arrived to hide it from neighborhood school kids going to
Police later find a witness who says that he saw Judy Miller.
Getting into a car with a man outside Carney's restaurant in West Hollywood.
But that was all the guy knew, and it didn't give investigators much to work
with.
Then several days after that, we had a murder in the city of Glendale.
Elisa Katzen was a member of a dance troupe called the L .A. Knockers.
The L .A. Knockers.
fit in with the disco scene of dancing on roller skates and the happy period
during that time in Southern California.
Her body was found on an embankment near the Glendale Country Club.
Once again, raped, tortured, rope marks on her, body had been cleaned.
That's when it hit us.
There's a strangler out there.
Many of the young women are scared out of their minds.
We're young people. We've not experienced something like this anywhere
life's history.
This series of murders was completely foreign to us.
There was all this talk about we all need to stick together.
Lisa Kafton wasn't a prostitute.
She looked at it as this middle -class tragedy, whereas the other victims were
portrayed as having this inappropriate lifestyle and therefore...
I think were easier to dismiss in terms of any patterns of possible serial
murder. And in some ways, you could probably argue that this is where the
turning point happens, where the police begin to get pressure to form a task
force. We're starting to pay attention a lot more to what is going on. And then
shortly thereafter, other bodies started popping up. And then more and more and
more bodies, all women, all showed up on hillsides.
in fairly close proximity to one another.
There turned out, though, to be certain traits that the body had been moved.
Number one, usually a body is found near where they were killed.
Number two, the ligature marks.
Number three, the cleaning of the bodies, which was extremely unusual.
Of course, news being news and profit being profit, news people came up with a
scary moniker, the Hillside Strangler.
and it got the residents, particularly the women, in a state of panic because
nothing seems to tie these victims together.
They haven't got a lead on a killer. They have no idea what's going on.
Fear permeated the air of Southern California like an invisible poisonous
Women were scared for their lives.
Men were scared for their wives and their daughters. It was a very
time.
I had been married a year. My wife was a deputy sheriff. She carried a gun, and
I still worried for her.
Every police officer I know was working, was fearful for their families.
I graduated from high school in 1977.
I went to work in retail in the Glendale Galleria. It was a very large shopping
mall.
By and large, the feeling was terror.
All the employees were required to park in a specific section at the mall.
That both made things easier and a little more difficult.
So somebody studying the women working at the mall, they knew where they would
be transitioning to at the start of work and at the finish of work.
Our store mandated that the male employees escort the women to and from
cars. You look at what's going on in the U .S. in terms of serial murder.
It was a very active time.
Theodore Bundy was a suspect in the sex -related murders or disappearance.
of more than 30 other women in four states between 1974 and 1978.
Gacy was convicted of the sex slangs of 33 young men. His seven -year killing
spree ended with the discovery of dozens of bodies buried under his home in
suburban Chicago.
It was just a scenario where serial killing, for whatever reason, whether
because people were doing these copycat type of aspects or whether it was
just... the frustration of what was going on in society, and you have a lot
men kind of going down this path of serial killing during that time.
Dolores Cepeda and Sonya Johnson.
12 - and 14 -year -old girls took a bus from their home out to the Eagle Rock
Plaza to go shopping.
Sonia, you can see that she looks just like on the cusp of womanhood, just kind
of getting there, but you can still see that gangly kid.
And Dolores, she's just flat -out a kid.
They spent the better part of the day out there like teenage girls will do.
They caught the bus to come back.
And what they didn't know is that they were being watched
and they were being hunted.
There was another passenger on the bus, and he's watching them get off the bus
in the Eagle Rock area.
He notices the girls go over to a two -tone car, and they sort
of lean in on the passenger side, and they're talking to someone.
And then the bus pulls away, and he loses sight of them.
Dolores and Sonia weren't in the habit of not returning home when they said
were going to be home.
And so when they didn't show up after their shopping excursion, their families
are really concerned, and they're on it right away.
They report them missing.
They put their school pictures on flyers that they put up around the
neighborhood.
A week later, a nine -year -old boy was rummaging through a trash dump near
Dodger Stadium.
He's going through a trash heap, and he comes on what he thinks may be
mannequins. As he got closer, he said that there were flies all over them, and
that's when he realized that something was wrong.
It's Dolores and Sonia in garbage.
What really made this one hurt, they were just 12 - and 14 -year -old girls.
They were so small and so helpless.
I mean, there's no way that any rational, reasonable person can
that level of depravity. I don't see how any one of us could do it.
Once the girls were found, police spoke to the boy.
who saw them exit the bus.
He saw Dolores and Sonia go up to a car to the passenger side, which led them to
believe that there were two people in the car.
And you feel it would have had to have been two people to handle the two girls?
Well, certainly, because Sonia was brought up that she didn't get into a
with anybody except me.
So she must have been forced into the car. Certainly.
Regardless of whether or not the two girls were forced...
Detectives realized they were likely looking for two perpetrators.
One thing that threw all of us off is a pair of serial killers is almost unheard
of. Serial killers are almost always one figure.
Serial killers do not operate in pairs.
It is unique because when you study serial killers, we refer to those as
killers.
According to what data we have, I would say it's uncommon.
There was statements, badges had been flashed. Had a lot of concern.
We weren't sure what we're looking at. Were they impersonating cops or were
cops?
A lot of my girlfriends would say, I saw a guy in a car. A guy tried to stop me
in a car.
Women were so scared in Los Angeles and the police were so worried that it could
be one of their own that they issued a statement that if a single woman was
driving in a car and a police officer tried to pull them over, that they
have to pull over.
They were free to drive to a lighted area where they felt safe.
That I don't think has ever been done.
As a theory circulated that the killers might be in law enforcement, the
daughter of a well -known celebrity was stopped by two men with badges.
Actor Peter Lorre was famous primarily in the 30s and 40s.
Catherine Lorre was a student.
And she and a friend of hers were out in Hollywood.
We got to about the middle of the street, and this car came around the
and just cut us off, at which point two men got out of the car. Both of them
were just kind of flashing badges.
They asked Catherine for her ID.
The first leaf of the wallet was pictures of my father and me.
So he started reading down the paper, and he got to the point at which he saw
the name Peter Lorre.
At that point, they kind of were just hesitant, and they said, well, okay, you
know, I guess that's all right.
I've done thousands of news stories in the 30 years that I worked in
The one that stuck with me most was Catherine Lorre, just because how close
came to death.
She just happened to pull that card out and say that she was Peter Lorre's
daughter and that it apparently froze them into inaction.
They didn't want to get involved with that and let her go. And now two men had
been spotted by witnesses.
Police officers and detectives were holding constant news conferences and
to put up with reporters shouting questions to them. Why can't you solve
case? Well.
Solving a crime is hard, and no one was more frustrated than Clayton.
We were clueless trying to solve this at this point.
Even though detectives had no leads, they started to notice a pattern.
One of the things that came up in the case is you started looking at the way
bodies were being dumped, and it was actually painting what I will call a
semicircle or crescent around the city of Glendale.
most of them found within a seven -mile radius of Griffith Park and the Golden
State Freeway.
My personal impression, that it was somebody from the city of Glendale that
trying to dump the bodies outside the city of Glendale so that it wouldn't
back to them.
The murders are mounting, the public is terrified, and police are facing
tremendous pressure to solve this case.
The stranglers became bolder and bolder as time went on.
It was like there was a statement being made here.
This is what we think about women, and this is what we think about the city of
Los Angeles.
Welcome back to Very Scary People.
By late November 1977.
The bodies of seven young women have been found, dumped on the hillsides of
Angeles.
Investigators have few, if any, leads, but the media has given the killer a
name, the Hillside Strangler.
Some witnesses report that the crime seemed to be the work of more than one
and a terrifying theory begins circulating that the killer, or killers,
posing as members of law enforcement.
The next body was found at a freeway off -ramp that I went on five days a week.
I admit, it was getting a little close to home.
Her body was left face up.
Jane King was the oldest victim.
She dabbled in Scientology.
She was apparently abducted from a bus stop outside the Scientology Center.
The murders are mounting.
The public is terrified.
And police are facing tremendous pressure to solve this case.
What was kind of unique about this particular serial killing versus other
killings I've seen is the rapid rate of committing the murders.
It was a tremendous amount.
The LAPD is getting a lot of heat from the public. Everyone is going crazy. So
they formed what was called the Hillside Strangler Task Force.
That was the LAPD.
The Glendale Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
So they could coordinate and look at all clues from one source.
You've got to realize the county of Los Angeles is made up of 88 separate cities
and plus unincorporated areas.
And when these occurred, you know, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department, the Glendale Police Department all became
extremely cooperative in forming this task force to come together.
and all the other agencies in the county would provide as much information and
support as they could to it.
In the big cities, sadly, murders happen all the time.
Often bodies are found, and maybe it wasn't the hillside strangler.
The police had to be extremely careful, as did we in the media, to not
misidentify it.
We had a lot of clues coming in, a lot of different tips coming in from all
kinds of people.
You have to realize that time period, we didn't have computers to do analysis or
maintain logs.
Everything had to be handwritten and hand logged.
Every clue, every tip that would come in.
We didn't have access to DNA. We couldn't just run fingerprints to an
system. They were getting so many calls, they probably could not keep up with
them. Making it even more difficult were that the victims were often completely
different kinds of people.
One could be a prostitute, one could be a straight -A student.
They were different races, different ethnic groups, lived in different areas
town.
The task force couldn't work fast enough.
Lauren Wagner was followed by the killers to in front of her own parents'
A neighbor saw her arguing with two men and then heard her say, you won't get
away with this.
Unfortunately, the neighbor didn't immediately report that. Like the other
victims, Lauren Wagner had been tortured by whoever had abducted her.
They decide to use a bit of electrical wire, which leaves marks on her hands.
They'd shock her.
It doesn't kill her. It's just painful.
They're sadists, and that's what they want to do.
And finally, not to put her out of her misery, they just strangle her to death.
Kimberly Martin was a lovely, young, 17 -year -old girl. Pretty, blue -eyed,
blonde hair.
She was a call girl.
And she had taken herself off the street because the strangler was out there, so
she was using an agency instead.
It wasn't enough to save her life.
When the police investigated the murder, they learned about an altercation she
had at a Hollywood building the night she died.
They questioned all the neighbors in the building. That included a guy named
Kenneth Bianchi, who recently moved from Rochester, New York, to spend time with
his cousin.
When the police came to look for the escort that never came home, Bianchi
to them, jokes around and so on.
And the police fill out the report and we're done.
Bianchi continued to follow every aspect of the Hillside Strangler case,
including stories about different suspects questioned by police.
After intensive investigation.
The Los Angeles Police Department finally has booked a suspect in the
Strangler case.
We have arrested a man by the name of Ned T. York, male Caucasian.
Assistant Chief Daryl Gates met with newsmen shortly after the suspect was
booked today and said York had made certain statements implicating himself.
If police had the right guy, the entire city of Los Angeles could take a
collective buy -up release.
The question is...
It's Ned York, the Hillside Strangler.
In a story so typical of Hollywood, a small -time actor named Ned York
said he might be the Hillside Strangler. And he just comes out of nowhere. And
the task force is hoping they can finally put people's fears to rest.
But those hopes started to fade pretty quickly.
When they first started questioning him, he was rambling incoherently. They
weren't sure whether it was drugs or what.
Finally, during the questioning, he fell asleep.
Last we heard, he was still asleep.
It turns out Ned York said he was on angel dust when he approached police.
In fact, he had nothing to do with the Hillside Stranglers.
Police had no choice but to release him from custody.
Sometimes there are false confessors.
That's another feature of crimes like this.
The police in Los Angeles seem to be back where they started in the Hillside
Strangler case.
There are 55 officers that work full -time on the series of murders, and they
would welcome a break.
We'll always accept a lucky break and be very appreciative of it.
Lucky breaks help you crack them sooner.
We'll keep at it until it is cracked.
Suddenly, the killings appeared to stop.
We went through Christmas, Valentine's Day.
Those of us in the media thought that maybe two things happened. Either the
monster discovered a conscience, or maybe he met the same fate as his
Then, right after Valentine's Day, A helicopter spotted an orange Datsun off
Angeles Crest Highway, north of Los Angeles.
The victim was found in the trunk of her new car, 50 feet down a steep hillside.
When they went down to pull it up, they found the body of Cindy Hudspeth in the
trunk. In Los Angeles, another young woman strangled in the hills, a 20 -year
-old bank clerk who taught Bible classes and wanted to be an actress.
Police were particularly curious as to how Cindy's body ended up in such a
remote location.
Their car was up on Angeles Crest Highway, which goes up in the Angeles
Forest. And to drive a car up there, you're going to need a second vehicle to
drive away from there. So somebody would have to follow you up and pick you up
and take you away.
Kent, Hudspeth's car was pushed over a cliff that indicated once again that
than one strangler was involved.
Now, investigators were more certain than ever that they were looking for two
killers. They also noticed a strange connection between Cindy Hudspeth and
another victim.
Investigators are greatly interested in the fact that this victim lived just
across the street from victim number seven, 20 -year -old Christina Wexler.
Cindy Hudspeth was actually related to one of my officers.
And that, you know, also becomes a thing is that we've not solved it. We haven't
got closure even for him.
I mean, we went through ten murders and had no leads that we could really go
back and say we got probable cause to arrest somebody.
Los Angeles Sheriff's investigators have found a witness who saw Cindy Hudspeth
driving north on Glendale Boulevard in Glendale.
Cindy Hudspeth was last seen on Colorado and Glendale Avenue at that
intersection. We were handing out flyers.
Passing a motorist trying to get clues.
About the time of night she went through there, seeing if anybody recognized
anything.
Not knowing that a block and a half away from where we were standing was where
all these murders were occurring.
It became like, what are we looking for? We really don't know.
You and your team follow up on this clue or follow up on that clue.
Most of which were just tips that would amount to nothing in the end.
I had the only video camera in the department, so they would say, hey, go
and video this crime scene.
Probably the one that was the premier one was Richard Reynolds.
Richard Reynolds was known to the Glendale Police Department, the Los
Police Department, and the L .A. County Sheriff's Department as a registered sex
offender. Baker said that Reynolds was in a nearby bar just 20 minutes before
and 29 -year -old Roxanne Barnwell were found shot to death in her car behind
Glendale Community Hospital.
Baker says there's evidence that Reynolds was waiting for his victim and
his way into her car.
Attacker and victim then shooting each other to death.
Geographically, the location of this very unusual incident raised a lot of
suspicions. The Hillside Strangler Task Force was called in after Glendale
police found a pattern.
Reynolds and the Barnwell woman were killed just a block and a half from
two victims of the Hillside Strangler had lived.
Christine Weckler and Cindy Lee Hudspeth lived across Garfield Avenue from one
another, and Barnwell lived a block away from them.
Then police noted that Reynolds' home in La Crescenta, just two blocks away from
the spot where Judith Ann Miller's body was found October 31st.
That made police particularly suspicious.
We thought, this must be the Hillside Strangler. Why else would a man shoot a
woman and a woman shoot a man in that particular area?
The house is being checked as part of a routine investigation to determine
whether he is or is not a suspect.
At the conclusion of what I can call a very thorough search of the residence,
officers were unable, I emphasize, unable to readily identify.
Anything to connect Mr. Reynolds to the Hillside Strangler murders.
Turned out he was not related to the case at all.
How long does a case like this remain open?
Ed Henderson says... Forever.
How about yourself? How long will you be on it? Well, I won't be here forever, I
know that. But I'll be on the case until it's solved or I retire.
One of the interesting things that occurred after Cindy Hudspeth was found
the murders stopped.
They completely stopped.
People don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or be even more wary.
Is the killer taking a break? What is going on? It makes everybody uneasy.
From a law enforcement standpoint, we look at why did they stop?
It's a person in custody and we're not aware of it.
Did they die?
We don't have closure.
Bellingham is a beautiful spot, right on Puget Sound.
Very nice community.
Definitely a safe place to live.
But in January 1979, that would all change.
Bellingham was very concerned about these two young women, Karen Maddox and
Diane Wilder, who were missing.
The two women were roommates.
Both attended Western Washington University.
The first hint of their disappearance came late Thursday when Karen Mandick
failed to return to the local Fred Meyer from her dinner break.
The one girl, Karen Mandick, was working at Fred Meyer's store, which is the
large department food store in Bellingham.
Karen asked her manager if she could take a long dinner break because she had
job opportunity that came up.
She told her manager she was going to take from 7 to 9.
She had a security job.
and was going to be making quite a bit of money, and she was going to come back
in two hours.
Karen found out about the security job from a former Fred Myers employee.
He said, hey, you know, I'm in the private security business now, and I've
this great gig for you.
He indicated they were putting a security alarm in this house, and the
some very valuable things, and they needed to have security for two hours.
If you want to just house it for a little bit, you can pick $100.
And she asked if her roommate could be involved, Diane Wilder.
It's 9 o 'clock.
Karen doesn't come back to the store from her dinner break.
This is not like her at all. She is very, very responsible.
So the police get called when she doesn't turn up.
What the hell happened to her? The police put out the vehicle description,
is a Mercury Bobcat.
and asked people in the community to be aware of this vehicle, and if they saw
it, to call the Bellingham Police immediately.
They really, at this point, need to get over to her apartment, check it out, see
if there's anything going on that explains why she didn't go back to work.
There was a note there that indicated, can be called, wants a call back,
and there was a phone number.
It's in Diane's handwriting.
Investigators had called a security company and found out a man by the name
Kenneth Bianchi worked there.
He had also previously worked at Fred Meyer.
Did he by any chance have a job tonight?
No, no, he wasn't supposed to be working at all.
So that's when they decide, uh -oh, that's when they start looking into Ken
Bianchi.
Ken had recently moved to the area and was living with his girlfriend Kelly
and their infant son.
So they met him at about 2 .30 that morning. He tried to present himself as
very likable, affable person.
He at first denied knowing Karen Mandick. Then he said, well, he did
meeting her at one point.
So they were concerned about him and whether he was being honest to them.
Then at about 4 .30 that afternoon, a car had been sighted.
Police responded.
and the officer could look into the vehicle and can see that there were two
bodies, and he could tell that both of the young women looked deceased.
The bodies of Karen Mandick and Diane Wilder were found stuffed in the back
of Ms. Mandick's car.
The bodies were very carefully removed, and the evidence was preserved, and the
bodies were then taken to a funeral home where autopsies were conducted that
morning.
There were large ligature marks on the necks of both of the girls.
And this looked like it was a rope. It wasn't a wire. It was something wider,
which would indicate they were strangled.
The women were killed only hours after the disappearance.
This just was a very alarming case because the Bellinghams are very safe
These are two young college girls.
really concerned everyone in the community.
It is something that we just did not have a great deal of background with.
I started getting search warrants, and in Bianchi's apartment, we found a piece
of paper with Karen Mandic's name on it, which really contradicted what he said,
that he just knew her in passing. That just wasn't the case.
We also found a number of items that had been stolen from Fred Meyer.
And so I have only 72 hours to charge someone with a crime when we're holding
them. So I charge him with possession of stolen property.
Charging the suspect with possession of stolen property this afternoon buys
authorities some time to complete their investigation.
Police have not charged Bianchi with the murders, but they say they believe they
have evidence linking him to the killings.
At the crime scene, it looked like the entire home had been wiped down.
There were not fingerprints on areas that you would expect to find
from people living in a home.
They also found a pubic hair when they lifted Diane Wilder's body out of the
that was on her clothing that matched microscopically the characteristics of
pubic hair from Mr. Bianchi. Hair isn't a positive identification. It's not like
fingerprints. We didn't have DNA in those days. But it certainly is enough
get you closer and closer.
The evidence was sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D .C. The
investigation is proceeding rapidly. The FBI is proceeding very rapidly with our
examination. Once the FBI gave us the further facts, tying Bianchi with the
girls, we were starting to really get the full picture of exactly what was
on here.
And I subsequently amended the information that I charged with
stolen property to two counts of first -degree murder.
To say that Kenneth Bianchi had a troubled childhood is putting it mildly.
He is an individual who wants to be dominant and in control, and he wants to
other people as submissive to him.
On the surface, though, Bianchi could appear normal.
He keeps saying, I killed those girls.
I didn't.
He has said a number of times that the real killer is still there.
I'm the one who's getting the blame.
The defense attorney claimed that Mr. Bianchi was a multiple personality.
What's your name?
Steve.
The name Stephen Walker was a name that interested us.
Here in Bellingham, what did Steve do up here?
Right from the jump. It was a bad performance.
While he was supposedly under hypnosis, Steve mentioned his cousin.
Killed anybody?
And we all are thinking this is probably the second strangler.
The arrest of Kenneth Bianchi for the murders of two young women in
Washington, at first appears to be an isolated incident.
But very quickly, detectives realized the case is much bigger than it seems.
Could Bianchi and the Washington killings be tied to something more
A shocking confession in part two of The Hillside Stranglers.
I'm Donnie Wahlberg. Thanks for watching.
Good night.
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