Clear & Convincing - Ep. 7 - California v. Angelo Buono, Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi

In October, 1977, Buono and Bianchi assaulted and strangled 19-year old Yolanda Washington in the backseat of Bianchi’s 1972 Cadillac and then dumped her body on a hillside near Forest Lawn Cemetary in Los Angeles, California.  Their next victim, 15-year old Judy Miller, was taken to Buono’s home, where she was raped and strangled.  Her body was dumped on a neighborhood street, in full view of children heading to school on Halloween morning.  Between October, 1977 and February, 1978, Buono and Bianchi claimed the lives of 10 women and girls ranging in age from 12 to 28.  During the late spring, or early summer of 1978, Bianchi moved from Los Angeles to Bellingham, Washington, where on January 12, 1979, he murdered two women that he lured to a vacant house using his position as a security company supervisor.  Join Lisa O’Brien and Michael Carnahan on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. Central for State of California v. Angelo Buono, Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi.   We’ll talk about the backgrounds of Buono and Bianchi and their victims, the “Hillside Strangler” investigation in Los Angeles and the murder investigation in Washington state that broke the case.  We’ll also talk about Buono’s trial, one of the longest and most expensive in Los Angeles County history, and the games Bianchi played with investigators and psychologists and the circumstances that led to his return to Washington state to serve his sentence.