Two photographs of the Hillside Strangler have surfaced. Kenneth Bianchi, convicted of killing 12 women in the 1970s, has been denied parole for the eighth time by the California Board of Parole. He will continue to serve his sentence in a California prison, where he has been incarcerated since 1983. Bianchi, now 74, was involved in a series of kidnappings, rapes, and murders in Los Angeles during late 1977 and early 1978, resulting in the deaths of 10 young women. He was also connected to the deaths of two more women in Washington state. Working with his cousin, Angelo Buono, Jr., they were dubbed the “Hillside Stranglers” by the media as their victims, aged 12 to 28, were strangled and their bodies dumped along the hillsides of the city’s suburbs. Bianchi was arrested in January 1979, while Buono was apprehended in October of the same year. Bianchi testified against his cousin, and both were sentenced to life in prison for their crimes. Buono passed away in prison in 2002.
