The Hillside Stranglers

About this book

For weeks in the fall of 1977 as the body count of sexually violated brutally murdered young women escalated the Los Angeles newspapers headlined the increasingly alarming deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. But it would take more than another year and the mysterious disappearance of two young women in Seattle before the police would arrest one manthe handsome charming fast-talking Kenny Bianchiand discover that the strangler was actually two men. Like Truman Capote in In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer in The Executioners Song Darcy OBrien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to bring the story of Bianchi and his animally magnetic cousin Angelo Buono vividly to the page. First exploring the symbiotic relationship between these two men who shared a lust as insatiable as their hate for women OBrien goes on to examine the crimes themselves and the lives of the victims.