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“Four P” cult, were “offshoot, fringe-type” movements spawned by Scientology. Both groups were also linked to the Charles MANSON FAMILY in California—as was convicted killer William Mentzer, named by Berkowitz in prison interviews as the triggerman in the January 1977
shooting of John Diel and Christine Freund. Investigation of the alleged cult continues, supported by testimony from convicted cannibal-killer Stanley Dean Baker, but no further indictments have been filed to date.
See also CULTS
BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
Born in May 1951 to a prostitute mother in Rochester, New York, Ken Bianchi was given up for adoption as an infant. By age 11, he was falling behind in his schoolwork and was given to furious tantrums in class and at home. He married briefly at 18. Two years later he wrote to a girlfriend, claiming he had killed a local man. She laughed it off, dismissing the claim as part of Ken’s incessant macho posturing, but homicide was clearly preying on Bianchi’s mind. By 1973, he was cer-Kenneth Bianchi (Wide World API)
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BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
Two of Buono’s favorite hookers managed to escape his clutches during 1977, and Bianchi later marked their departure as the starting point for L.A.’s reign of terror at the hands of Bianchi and Buono. In precisely two months’ time, the so-called Hillside Stranglers would abduct and slay 10 women, frequently abandon-ing their victims’ naked bodies in a grim display, as if to taunt authorities.
Rejected for employment by the Glendale and Los Angeles police departments, longing for a chance to throw his weight around and show some “real authority,” Bianchi fell in line with Buono’s suggestion that they should impersonate policemen, stopping female motorists or nabbing prostitutes according to their whim. Along the way, they would subject their captives to an ordeal of torture, sexual assault, and brutality, inevitably ending with a twist of the garrote.
Yolanda Washington, a 19-year-old hooker, was the first to die, murdered on October 17, her nude body discovered the next day, near Universal City. Two weeks later, on Halloween, police retrieved the corpse of 15-year-old Judith Miller from a flower bed in La Crescenta. Elissa Kastin, a 21-year-old Hollywood waitress, was abducted and slain November 5, her body discovered the next morning on a highway embank-ment in Glendale. On November 8, Jane King, aspiring actress and model, was kidnapped, raped, and suffo-Angelo Buono led from court in handcuffs (Wide World API) cated, her body dumped on an off-ramp of the Golden State Freeway, undiscovered until November 22.
By that time, female residents of Los Angeles were Karen Mandic were raped and murdered in Bellingham, living a nightmare. No less than three victims had been last seen alive when they went to check out a potential discovered on November 20, including 20-year-old house-sitting job. Bianchi had been their contact, and honor student Kristina Wechler, dumped in Highland inconsistent statements led police to hold him for further Park, and two classmates from junior high school, investigation. A search of his home turned up items Sonja Johnson and Dolores Cepeda, discovered in stolen from sites he was paid to guard, and further evi-Elysian Park a week after their disappearance from a dence finally linked him to the Bellingham murders. Col-local bus stop. Retrieval of Jane King’s body increased laboration with L.A. authorities led to Bianchi’s the anxiety, and Thanksgiving week climaxed with the indictment in five of the Hillside murders in June 1979.
death of Lauren Wagner, an 18-year-old student, found In custody, Bianchi first denied everything, then in the Glendale hills on November 29.
feigned submission to hypnosis, manufacturing multiple By that time, police knew they were looking for dual personalities in his bid to support an insanity defense.
suspects, based on the testimony
shooting of John Diel and Christine Freund. Investigation of the alleged cult continues, supported by testimony from convicted cannibal-killer Stanley Dean Baker, but no further indictments have been filed to date.
See also CULTS
BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
Born in May 1951 to a prostitute mother in Rochester, New York, Ken Bianchi was given up for adoption as an infant. By age 11, he was falling behind in his schoolwork and was given to furious tantrums in class and at home. He married briefly at 18. Two years later he wrote to a girlfriend, claiming he had killed a local man. She laughed it off, dismissing the claim as part of Ken’s incessant macho posturing, but homicide was clearly preying on Bianchi’s mind. By 1973, he was cer-Kenneth Bianchi (Wide World API)
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BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
Two of Buono’s favorite hookers managed to escape his clutches during 1977, and Bianchi later marked their departure as the starting point for L.A.’s reign of terror at the hands of Bianchi and Buono. In precisely two months’ time, the so-called Hillside Stranglers would abduct and slay 10 women, frequently abandon-ing their victims’ naked bodies in a grim display, as if to taunt authorities.
Rejected for employment by the Glendale and Los Angeles police departments, longing for a chance to throw his weight around and show some “real authority,” Bianchi fell in line with Buono’s suggestion that they should impersonate policemen, stopping female motorists or nabbing prostitutes according to their whim. Along the way, they would subject their captives to an ordeal of torture, sexual assault, and brutality, inevitably ending with a twist of the garrote.
Yolanda Washington, a 19-year-old hooker, was the first to die, murdered on October 17, her nude body discovered the next day, near Universal City. Two weeks later, on Halloween, police retrieved the corpse of 15-year-old Judith Miller from a flower bed in La Crescenta. Elissa Kastin, a 21-year-old Hollywood waitress, was abducted and slain November 5, her body discovered the next morning on a highway embank-ment in Glendale. On November 8, Jane King, aspiring actress and model, was kidnapped, raped, and suffo-Angelo Buono led from court in handcuffs (Wide World API) cated, her body dumped on an off-ramp of the Golden State Freeway, undiscovered until November 22.
By that time, female residents of Los Angeles were Karen Mandic were raped and murdered in Bellingham, living a nightmare. No less than three victims had been last seen alive when they went to check out a potential discovered on November 20, including 20-year-old house-sitting job. Bianchi had been their contact, and honor student Kristina Wechler, dumped in Highland inconsistent statements led police to hold him for further Park, and two classmates from junior high school, investigation. A search of his home turned up items Sonja Johnson and Dolores Cepeda, discovered in stolen from sites he was paid to guard, and further evi-Elysian Park a week after their disappearance from a dence finally linked him to the Bellingham murders. Col-local bus stop. Retrieval of Jane King’s body increased laboration with L.A. authorities led to Bianchi’s the anxiety, and Thanksgiving week climaxed with the indictment in five of the Hillside murders in June 1979.
death of Lauren Wagner, an 18-year-old student, found In custody, Bianchi first denied everything, then in the Glendale hills on November 29.
feigned submission to hypnosis, manufacturing multiple By that time, police knew they were looking for dual personalities in his bid to support an insanity defense.
suspects, based on the testimony
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