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01:00It was a county fire department helicopter that first spotted the victim's car
01:21over a cliff on Angeles Crest Highway above La Cunada.
01:25Twenty-year-old Cindy Lee Hutspeth died by strangulation.
01:31Ms. Hutspeth's nude body was found stuffed in the car's trunk.
01:35There were marks on her neck and chest.
01:36That's the word from the coroner's office,
01:38lending just a little more credence to the contention
01:41that the tall, attractive girl was the hillside strangler's victim.
01:44We are seeing that she is a strangler victim, yes.
01:49Somebody, one killer, or a team, has been murdering young girls.
01:53Lots of them.
01:54The other victims were found nude on hillsides,
01:57also in the northern part of Los Angeles County.
02:00They ranged in age from 12 to 28.
02:06Darkness manifests however it can, in whatever way it can.
02:12Big fucking deal, so I killed a couple of kinds.
02:14It's no fucking big deal.
02:16I killed four.
02:17I got one in a couple.
02:20How's it going?
02:22Strangling them all.
02:23It's the easiest way to go.
02:27What's the attitude of this community today?
02:30It's very tense.
02:32It's very nervous.
02:33It just scares me.
02:36I can't, I'm afraid to go anywhere alone.
02:39The places where they found the bodies were our backyard.
02:42What were her last moments like?
02:43What were her last moments like?
02:44They brutally killed these women.
02:482,081 clues have been reported to the task force.
02:52All of them are investigated as quickly as they possibly can be.
02:57We don't think that enough is being done, and fast enough.
03:01We want them!
03:03It was a collective trauma broadcast into people's living rooms.
03:09No matter what the situation is, you fight, you fight for your life.
03:14The city of Los Angeles, our first stop, Hollywood.
03:18Suddenly, the film studios that had always seemed bigger than life were right there.
03:24The city of Los Angeles, our first stop, Hollywood.
03:29The city of Los Angeles, our first stop, Hollywood.
03:44Suddenly, the film studios that had always seemed bigger than life were right there.
03:52Star-studded, isn't it?
03:53It's incredible, isn't it?
03:54It was in the music, it was on television, and people believed it.
03:59So beautiful out.
04:02This could only happen in L.A.
04:04They're hearing all this stuff, they're seeing these things.
04:07It'll be great, my life will be just like paradise.
04:11Come to L.A.
04:13L.A. will surprise you.
04:15Well, with the dreamers, come the predators.
04:27Sharks go where the food is.
04:29Nobody's worth it out there.
04:35It's just a fucked up world.
04:37I want to kill those broads.
04:39This was the highlight of, you know, the discos and the private nightclubs.
04:49After nightclubs would close, men would drive down Sunset Boulevard.
04:54There was 50, 60 girls working on one corner.
05:01The girls on the street came in contact with everything and all the lowlifes, that's for sure.
05:06So I went out on the streets and interviewed many of them.
05:10Lois Lee, a sociologist who works with prostitutes in the Hollywood area.
05:14Because of the adversity, people who didn't care about prostitutes, the way law enforcement treated them, I met girls on the street and ended up meeting Yolanda Washington.
05:28Yolanda was a very pretty little black girl who was working to support her daughter.
05:35Yolanda came to L.A. to be a model.
05:41And this is what happens so often.
05:45People come to a place like Los Angeles and they try to make it and they find themselves just scraping to survive.
05:53And she basically was forced into survival type sex work in Hollywood.
06:01Friends called me up one day and said, remember that girl you met on the streets with us?
06:05And I'm going, well, which one was that?
06:06And she says, the black girl.
06:08And it was Yolanda.
06:08And I said, yeah.
06:13And she said, she's dead.
06:19Getting killed was an occupational hazard.
06:25She was 19 years old.
06:27She was a sex worker.
06:28She was found posed.
06:30She was naked.
06:31She'd been strangled to death.
06:33And she was found on Forest Lawn right near Warner Brothers Studio.
06:38I talked to the police and I took them out to introduce them to the girls because the girls on the street had information.
06:47And LAPD homicide just snubbed them.
06:50They said to me, what do you think?
06:51The whores are going to solve this murder investigation?
06:53It's the belief that Yolanda was working under the control of a pimp.
07:10In the 70s, there were sex workers being murdered all over Los Angeles.
07:18Everybody kind of turned a blind eye.
07:21Prostitutes were seen as they're only hurting themselves, so who cares?
07:25That was the attitude.
07:26Predators can single you out from the herd, separate you, and you're gone before anyone even misses you.
07:36I'd only been in homicide a year and a half.
07:55I can't tell you the exact numbers per year, but we worked a number of the homicides in Los Angeles County.
08:05Nothing really surprises you after a while.
08:08Picker three!
08:09I got a call at home, said that they had a case, a dead young female, nude, laying in the front yard.
08:24The witness who lived there knew that there were a number of kids that walk out going to school, so he covered the body with a tarp.
08:33The way the crime scene was laid out, she was laying in a bed of, like, ice plant.
08:41Whoever placed her there picked out that spot.
08:46For whatever reason, which I couldn't understand, we processed the scene.
08:52She'd been strangled.
08:54You could see ligatures on her ankles.
08:58We canvassed the neighborhood.
09:00No evidence, no witnesses.
09:02Homicides were common.
09:08We had 400 or 500 a year, which is more than one a day.
09:15It was just another young lady that was murdered and dumped.
09:20But before we get our victim identified, Glendale Police Department calls us and says, they've got a case where a young female was dumped nude about seven, eight miles away from ours.
09:41The victim was Lisa Caston.
09:46She was a 21-year-old waitress and dancer working with a troupe called LA Knockers.
09:52She was last seen leaving her place of work on Hollywood Boulevard.
09:57Lisa was found nude with very distinctive ligature marks at the side of the road by the Chevy Chase Country Club in Glendale.
10:09The first victim was still unidentified, and then the coroner's office.
10:16He went to the Lisa Caston autopsy.
10:19We had the coroner pull both bodies out, put them side by side.
10:24And as soon as you looked at them, there was no doubt they had the exact same ligature marks on the throat, on the wrists, and on the ankles.
10:37It looks like they came out of a Xerox machine.
10:41At that point, we knew we were looking for an individual responsible for both murders.
10:50Whoever killed Caston killed our Jane Doe.
10:53One of the first things we did is we looked for other body dumps that may be similar to ours.
11:01We found the Yolanda Washington case that was over off Forest Lawn Drive.
11:06She had been manually strangled, so we didn't connect that case to ours immediately.
11:22We didn't have a starting point, so our goal was try to identify our Jane Doe.
11:31She had been laid in this plant material.
11:36A number of ants and other insects had bitten her.
11:40So we had one of our staff artists come in and draw a picture of her in an attempt to get her identified.
11:47As a result, we started receiving numerous calls about our victim being possibly the name of Judy.
11:55No last name, Judy.
11:57That Judy hung out on Hollywood Boulevard, so we went down there trying to find somebody that knew her.
12:09Hollywood is not what most people think of it, or as it's portrayed in movies.
12:15We were talking to people with no names, prostitutes, male and female, street people.
12:24A lot of these girls came from such terrible families.
12:29Parents didn't care where they were.
12:32Some of them didn't even know that their child, you know, was prostituting.
12:36It was very, very sad.
12:43One of the kids we talked to said she lives with her mother and father in a small hotel off of Hollywood Boulevard.
12:50So we went down to that apartment, knocked on the door, is your daughter home, no, have you seen her recently?
12:58And she said no, because she runs away all the time.
13:02She said the last time she saw her, she was walking on the other side of Hollywood Boulevard, and we waved to each other.
13:10We positively ID'd our Jane Doe as Judy Miller.
13:23She was 15 years old.
13:26She was a runaway, and at 15 there's not a whole lot you can do for a living.
13:33She was engaged in sex work.
13:36She wasn't in the true sense of a prostitute.
13:38She would spend the night with somebody if they'd provide them a room and a meal.
13:43It was a survival instinct.
13:49When prostitutes were killed, there wasn't any coverage because the news responds to the appetite of the American people.
13:58I just don't think anybody cared.
14:03Once we got Jane Doe identified as Judy Miller,
14:07one of the things we were trying to do is to see if we could connect Judy with Lisa Kasten.
14:13One was a runaway, and one was working at a restaurant.
14:18No connection, other than the fact that both of them lived in the Hollywood area.
14:29During that time period, Hollywood Boulevard was overrun with young people who were runaways from all over the United States.
14:39The kids down there, they didn't know what day it was.
14:46The kids down there, they didn't know what day it was.
14:59I've been living in Los Angeles since 1975.
15:06I would cut school and take the bus up to Hollywood Boulevard.
15:17The reason all of the people in the punk scene
15:19were living there was because it was
15:21the only thing we could afford.
15:26We were all living within blocks of each other.
15:29Come on, come on, come on.
15:30Bend over.
15:31Yep.
15:32That microphone is .
15:34It just became like a punk rock neighborhood.
15:36We might be like, but we drink it up.
15:38Happy breakfast, eat the pub.
15:40On the door, eat the dog.
15:41Got to see if I'm sucking on fire.
15:43We might be like, but we drink it up.
15:45The punk scene was very close-knit.
15:48We might be like, every time they recommend how you need.
15:51Like a club or a cult of people together.
15:54We might be like, but we drink it up.
15:56We might be like, but we drink it up.
15:58We were wild, crazy young people that were out all night.
16:03When it goes to fire, I really want to say it.
16:05Normally, it wouldn't occur to anybody to walk home in a group.
16:09But our friend, Jane, had been missing, and everybody was terrified.
16:14When she was so angry, I thought it was so good, but she was so angry.
16:16But the crowd was so angry that she could have never seen in the world.
16:17Like, she was so angry this morning and she worked out all night for her.
16:18She had been scared.
16:20Normally it wouldn't occur to anybody to walk home in a group.
16:23But our friend, Jane ,
16:24Our friend, Jane, had been missing, and everybody was terrified.
16:49A highway worker discovered this body.
16:5228-year-old Jane King.
16:55Described by her mother as a free spirit.
16:58And anyone who would do a thing like that,
17:00it had to be something awfully terribly wrong with them.
17:10This photo is always on our mantle.
17:16I mean, look at those shoes.
17:17Very 70s.
17:18I love the platform.
17:20Very kind of.
17:21Stevie Nicks' long skirt.
17:27Yeah.
17:31From what I know from all the letters I've read,
17:35Jane was a free spirit.
17:37Very creative, taking voice lessons and acting classes.
17:46When you look at these pictures and you look at her smiling,
17:48I would like to think that I myself haven't lost the whimsy and the magic that I think Jane had.
18:00But these photos of Jane are all we have.
18:07During the time that we're investigating Caston and Miller,
18:18we started picking up on the series of cases from LAPD and from Glendale.
18:26Police had their first hard leads.
18:29A 28-year-old woman and then three girls.
18:32Series of crimes committed in the Los Angeles area.
18:34A baffled Los Angeles Police Department announced...
18:36They said they were beating up their investigative forces.
18:38These four young ladies went missing in a very short period of time.
18:45It's obvious that a series is in progress.
18:50The killer was still out there looking for victims.
18:55On November 9th, there was Jane King.
19:11On November 13th, there was Dolores Cepeda and Sonya Johnson.
19:16And then on the 19th, we've got Christina Weckler.
19:21We've got all these bodies showing up.
19:24The body of 28-year-old Jane King was found close to the Los Feliz off-ramp of the Interstate 5 freeway.
19:30The M.O. was so much alike.
19:34From Jane King to Christina Weckler.
19:41Nude, dump, ligature strangulation.
19:54And then we had Dolores Cepeda and Sonya Johnson.
20:02They're 12 and 14.
20:03We had no witnesses.
20:06We had no physical evidence.
20:08All we had was the nude, rape bodies of these two young girls on a hillside.
20:16We had school children lost something so insidious.
20:27They had been at Eagle Rock Plaza shopping, because that's what girls do.
20:31And they were last seen kind of leaning into a car, talking to someone in a car.
20:37I have no words to describe how disgusting it was.
20:44Those poor little girls.
20:46The adult victims, it was tragic and bad enough, but these are young children.
20:55And that, I think, upped the ante for everybody.
20:59There is murder, bloody and foul, in the otherwise peaceful area around Glendale, California.
21:06There's a killer loose in the Los Angeles area.
21:09There may be more than one raping and strangling young women.
21:14We've had six bodies.
21:17The media went crazy over it.
21:20The search for the Hillside Strangler continues.
21:25Okay.
21:27And that's when the name, the Hillside Strangler, was coined by the media.
21:33It became the most publicized case, at that point, I think, in Los Angeles history.
21:39Standby, here we go.
21:40Three, one, thirty.
21:42This was the era in which TV news was becoming a show format.
21:48So sex and death becomes a primary driver, because that was what sold the news.
21:55All were nude, and most had been sexually molested.
21:58That gives me the chills.
22:04I don't want, you know, it to happen to me or any of my friends or my mother, anybody, you know.
22:12At that point, the only connection between these cases was the M.O.
22:17Nude bodies, no trauma, ligature marks where they were, and dumped.
22:26But there was no connection between the victims whatsoever.
22:31So we had no way of knowing how these victims were selected.
22:36You know, it's frustrating.
22:38The victim's body was found in an isolated, hillside area of Los Angeles.
23:05The victim was in her early 20s with red hair.
23:16Her nude body was dumped on the roadside.
23:22But at this point, there are no suspects and not many clues to go on.
23:28Lauren Wagner's victim number eight.
23:30When her body was found, she had electrical burns.
23:40It was an escalation in the violence.
23:44This is literally now torture.
23:46That's a level of sadism you don't always see in crimes.
23:52When the Lauren Wagner murder occurred, the investigation led back to her home.
24:09Los Angeles Police Department detectives discovered a witness that had actually seen the kidnapping
24:16of Ms. Wagner as she was arriving home.
24:23One neighbor heard a commotion last night about 10 o'clock.
24:26She saw Lauren Wagner out here.
24:29Lauren apparently got out of her car and got into a car with at least two men in it and drove away.
24:35That sort of solidified in our mind that we were dealing with two individuals committing these murders.
24:41It sort of took my thought process back to the Miller case, where my impression was that two people were involved
24:50and how the body was placed and how she was found.
24:53As an investigator, you look at that as a break.
24:59Because if you have two, one's going to be the weak link.
25:04It's going to roll on as partner.
25:06Other than the fact that there were two suspects, this witness described how Wagner was abducted.
25:13It appeared like there were police officers talking to her, and it looked like a police stop.
25:19The press jumped on that.
25:24Officers from the Police Department's Major Crimes Investigation Section
25:28are currently going through the active personnel files of police officers in Los Angeles.
25:35I want to make that very, very clear.
25:37We don't suspicion any of our police officers, but again, we don't want to disregard anything.
25:44There was a term that was used.
25:46It was called blue clues.
25:47Those were clues that were pointed at a specific police officer as possibly being a suspect.
25:57It was not unusual to hear about guys pretending to be undercover police officers,
26:07arresting a prostitute, and then pretending they're taking them into the jail,
26:13but then say, you know, I hate to do this.
26:16Basically, they'd work on an arrangement where the girl would give them sex, and then they'd let them go.
26:22These killers probably utilize that in order to fool the women.
26:28So you're afraid?
26:36Yes, all of us are afraid.
26:41I'm, like, afraid to go outside, you know, and ride my bike, and, yeah, I'm afraid of it.
26:47Many women are enrolling in classes for self-defense.
26:50And then I turn my hips again, hitting here.
26:55Other women are purchasing guns.
26:57Officials say gun sales to women are going up.
27:00Women were quite traumatized.
27:02It's very frightening.
27:04I mean, you would go into a hardware store and there wouldn't be locks,
27:08because women had run down to buy all the locks to lock everything.
27:11The Strangler case makes a grim fact vividly clear.
27:18From the tree-lined streets of the suburbs all the way to the honky-tonk back alleys of the red light district,
27:24there's no way people can totally protect themselves from a madman
27:27who apparently chooses his victims at random.
27:30How has the Hillside Strangler affected your business and the way you do business?
27:37Dropped it 100%.
27:39He is right in this area, almost on this exact corner right now.
27:45I'm going to want to die.
27:47I was coming home one night, and a male and a female cop stopped me and said,
28:04you look like you're in a gang.
28:06The lady just started frisking me, and she found a pearl-handled switchblade.
28:12If you're not in a gang, why do you have a knife?
28:17They just said, the Hillside Strangler.
28:21Hillside Strangler.
28:24One, two.
28:26No rhyme or reason, just up in season, the cops can't find me.
28:32We don't have any indication what type of suspect we're dealing with
28:36or a description of a suspect or any physical evidence
28:39that would indicate anything to us in regards to a suspect.
28:43Hillside Strangler.
28:47Hillside Strangler.
28:50Shit, just catching.
28:51At that point, we have these six bodies, and we have no suspects whatsoever.
29:04It's mind-boggling.
29:05It's frustrating.
29:06But we try to concentrate on our case and develop as much information on it
29:14and still try to learn what was being developed on these other cases
29:20from LAPD and from Glendale.
29:23So it makes it much more difficult.
29:24Los Angeles, just by its very nature, is serial killer friendly.
29:33You're almost always close to a freeway.
29:36You can cross jurisdictions, multiple jurisdictions, in 15 or 20 minutes.
29:41And in the 70s, you have an amazingly mind-boggling patchwork quilt
29:52of law enforcement all over Los Angeles.
29:57That's perfect for someone who wants to commit a crime.
30:01You could kill someone on the west side and dump them on the east side.
30:06There might not be any crosstalk.
30:08They have no idea.
30:09The Los Angeles police don't know if they're looking for one killer or for several.
30:21But Frank Burgholzer reports a special task force has been formed to find out.
30:28Right from the get-go, we had about 24 people following up on what leads we were getting
30:35and trying to see where it would lead us.
30:39The police had a really tough time.
30:42They were working 20-hour days, and they just could not find the offenders,
30:46largely because they had not left any clues.
30:51They didn't have much forensically to go on.
30:53We're frustrated because we don't have enough evidence to give us enough to, nah, send it to the board.
31:08Despite hours of work by detectives from the Sheriff's Department, Glendale Police, and Los Angeles Police,
31:14the 52-Man Task Force has not been able to crack the Strangler case.
31:18The mayor of L.A. was putting pressure on the police.
31:22The governor was putting pressure on the police.
31:25You know, as long as there were killings going on, it caused the pressure to build even more.
31:30Even the head of the task force trying to catch the killer was forced to admit the Hillside Strangler
31:37has a knack for the deadly game he's playing.
31:40Officers say their efforts so far have produced very little.
31:43From the time the task force started and enlarged itself to over 100,
31:50there was no significant progress whatsoever as far as a viable suspect.
31:56It had been just over two weeks since the last body was found.
32:16Along this period, the Strangler had gone between killings.
32:19Police were hopeful that publicity might have scared him off, but apparently not.
32:23Victim number nine was Kimberly Martin, and she's 17.
32:33As with the other victims, there was no attempt to hide the body.
32:37It seemed to be a brutal, open display of the Strangler's work.
32:45Not only are there photographs of her at ground level,
32:50there are aerial photographs of her.
32:52In full view.
33:00If you stood on the Hill and faced the direction her body was facing,
33:05you could see City Hall.
33:10It was almost like the perpetrator wanted to just give a giant middle finger
33:16to all of Los Angeles.
33:22They were playing to the media on this one.
33:26You've got to deal with this, and that's a tough thing to do.
33:32When Kimberly Martin got killed and it was front page news,
33:35I think the public thought that the police were not doing their job.
33:41Let's face it, there was just a lot of fumbling all the way around, because I knew what happened.
33:46And the night Kimberly was killed, a prostitute from an escort service called me.
33:54She said, you know, I've sent out a girl and I can't find her.
33:58And so I said to her, okay, do you have the phone number he called from?
34:03She said, yeah.
34:04She said, it's a pay phone.
34:07He claimed it was his home phone number, which was a lie.
34:13And so I called the police and I said, there's a prostitute has been sent out to meet a man.
34:17And here's the address where she was sent.
34:20We believe there's foul play.
34:21We believe there's no reason.
34:51When she failed to telephone the service that she had arrived,
34:57they became suspicious and called an organization
35:00known as California Association for Trollops.
35:03I kept calling LAPD, and they kept referring me
35:06to a different office, to a different office,
35:08to the strangulation task force, that they couldn't do anything.
35:11They said, she's just a whore.
35:13She just changed trick pads on you.
35:14We're not sending a police car there.
35:17Potentially could have checked that phone booth right then and there
35:19and to check the people where the phone call was made
35:22to see if anyone had seen this man.
35:24If they would have gone when I called,
35:26Kimberly Martin would have been alive.
35:30Kimberly and I were friends.
35:34Our relationship was like I was an older sister to her.
35:38We did everything together.
35:40I met her when she was 16.
35:43I heard on a radio that another body was found,
35:46and it had a cross with four dots on her arm,
35:50and that's her tattoo.
35:53So I started screaming.
35:56This was shocking to me.
36:01My whole life became the news then.
36:06Well, these murders, it's awful.
36:09Police say they don't know whether they're looking for one killer or many killers,
36:22and they have no suspects.
36:24There was a time there when,
36:25due to the pressure and attention in the community,
36:29that our brass,
36:30they wanted to hang this thing on somebody and make it go away.
36:33And the press had their own pet suspect.
36:38Police have questioned a man with long hair and a mustache
36:41who walked with a limp.
36:43He is no longer a suspect.
36:48Friends of Ned York say the actor is a soft-spoken religious man.
36:52They were stunned when he called the Los Angeles police,
36:54claiming he was the hillside strangler.
36:57York was unintelligible when he was questioned,
36:59but police booked him on suspicion.
37:00Now they say his babbling may have been caused by drugs,
37:04and they do not believe he has committed the crimes.
37:06They will likely let the bit part actor go this weekend.
37:19After Martin was the longest period of time between murders.
37:25We went through December, January.
37:27We started wondering what's happened.
37:33Where the killer of killers at.
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38:09it was a county fire department helicopter that first spotted the victim's car
38:31it was in an isolated spot three miles north of los angeles in the angeles national forest
38:39the victim was found in the trunk of her new car 50 feet down a steep hillside
38:44we moved the body we take a closer look
38:49then we saw the ligature marks real clear
38:54there are striking similarities between the other victims and this victim
38:58we are saying that she is a strangler victim yes
39:00she was cindy hudspeth pushed over a cliff
39:14so you can see that they escalated
39:16and now it's this dramatic display
39:23in los angeles another young woman strangled in the hills a 20-year-old bank clerk who taught bible
39:29classes and wanted to be an actress funeral services were held today it was somber and emotional two of
39:37those attending the services fainted and had to be brought outside miss husbeck lived with a roommate
39:43in this middle class section of glendale california the 800 block of garfield avenue in glendale is a
39:49quiet street michelle exner who first reported cindy missing thursday night was accompanied by two
39:55deputies to the 160 a month apartment they shared a 19 year old neighbor bob young dated cindy
40:01occasionally and attended class with her at glendale college she was pretty conservative
40:06she frequented discos quite a bit she was an excellent dancer
40:12when i got home from work my roommate had the tv on with the news
40:18and that's how i found out
40:23we were pretty close and she was like my little sister
40:26we would go dancing different clubs to partake in dance contest and she really wanted to become a good
40:33dancer and even professional we had fun together
40:41i was devastated you know it's like why
40:50she had goals and she worked hard to get what she wanted
40:55she ended up buying a dotson b210 and it was a brand new car and she was so proud of that she felt
41:01like she had accomplished in one of her dreams you know being able to own a brand new car
41:09she didn't deserve for this to happen to her
41:14when it comes that close to home you realize guess what
41:18it happens to all kinds of people
41:21not because they did anything because they were women they were like pieces of meat to them
41:25and it didn't matter how old or what they were all 10 victims of these murders were different but
41:34when you look at it superficially in the news what they talk about is who she was where she was that's
41:40the kind of judgment that was made a lot of times maybe she was in a place where she shouldn't have been
41:49didn't she know better
41:53i just it so bothers me the characterizations of the victims it's a it's a cruel thing to do to just
42:00to sell a newspaper the portrait of cindy lee hutspot that emerges is one of being a nice girl
42:06her lifestyle doesn't bear much resemblance to the other murdered girls
42:10the research of journalists was what did these women do to cause them to have this happen
42:16this doesn't say violence against women is ubiquitous in almost every form of media this says individual
42:27women have been victimized through some fault of their own
42:38and the media in la in particular had chosen to depict all these murders
42:45without any consciousness about how it would affect women when cindy's nude body was found
42:54the nude body was almost in the backyard dumped on the roadside we were pretty angry
43:15i am here for the rage of all women i am here for women fighting back
43:40warning and rage as we recognize our own collective strength through action
43:53for all of the women here now for all of the women who will see this we are here today
44:01in memory of the 10 women who were recently slain in los angeles
44:15even callous workers in downtown los angeles had never seen anything like this
44:20which was exactly the effect these women were trying to create
44:23we were critiquing the media coverage of the hillside strangler a memorial mixed with greek theater
44:33women expressing their personal grief and anger over the recent strangulation murders in the area
44:38in memory of our sisters but they pointed out that the killings were just part of what they called an
44:46ongoing condition of violence against women we are here in memory of all women
44:51women who have been and are being battered raped and killed throughout this country
45:01i think for us really sharing this kind of grief as well as this rage for
45:11what women were going through and what we were going through in la was critically important
45:16we went back
45:26after hudspeth nothing was occurring
45:34no more victims our leads were petering out
45:40you don't want to wish for one more but give us one more chance type of thing you know
45:46when's the next one gonna happen but then stopped
45:56and without having caught a killer everyone is just relieved but still uneasy because you
46:03just don't know what happened
46:05the big thing is why they were so active
46:20and all of a sudden now there's nothing the killers had done a good job they did not leave their
46:26fingerprints and dna analysis was not yet a thing the case really went cold
46:34in january 1979 the hillside strangler task force was gutted to a shadow of itself
46:42it was whittled down to just a dozen officers
46:45we went back into the rotation you know working other cases it's never an ideal situation
46:57you think god you can't let a string of 10 murders just die a natural death
47:12in january 1979 i got a call at home
47:35two young women were murdered in bellingham washington it was a double murder they were
47:40strangulation murders and they've got a guy in custody up there with a california driver's license
47:46so they asked me to do a background check went into the system and i started running them
47:52the investigator came to this machine entered kenneth bianchi's name and his birth date
48:04received this teletype from department of motor vehicles says kenneth
48:07alicio bianchi 809 east garfield department d christina weckler one of the victims lived in
48:12department c or e right next door at 809 east garfield also cindy hudspeth our last victim
48:19lived across the street at 800 east garfield not only had he lived in the same street as two victims
48:27he lived in the same apartment block so i went downtown pulled the suspect printouts
48:34looked down the line bianchi one two three four five times he's in there five times
48:42there was no doubt that the hillside strangler squad should have taken ken bianchi seriously as a suspect
48:52and they followed up they were on the next flight up there to bellingham
48:57to find out what they could about this suspect
49:01that was a rush we've got a good suspect here and it also explained why a year had gone by without any
49:08other murder in los angeles county because he'd moved to bellingham we're off and running now on
49:14this case he was arrested on january 12 and his first court appearance was january 26
49:23his bail was set at a huge figure of 150 000 which bianchi couldn't raise
49:29he was locked away and was kept in solitary confinement
49:38news spread fast
49:42and the interest in him was intense bianchi lived in the same apartment as one victim across the street
49:48from another a third woman who was believed killed in a hollywood apartment where he stayed
49:53and he worked at a real estate title firm with a fourth victim's sister he looked like the kind
49:58of guy you'd bump into at the local disco if i had been at a nightclub and that man asked me to dance
50:04with him i would have and that's scary he wasn't a drooling monster he was an average to a little bit
50:11better than average looking guy so well how could someone like that commit these crimes in the first
50:17place
50:23to accept this pre-call press one to refuse this pre-call press two
50:30i am innocent
50:36whoever committed these crimes
50:38and it's still out there
50:50my friends abuse me
50:52people excuse me
50:54thought i was no good
50:56thought i was a three
50:58now they don't realize
51:00i stopped the hillsides
51:01i found my victims
51:03nowhere to pick up
51:05i'm a hillsides
51:07ragnar
51:11once i got queasy
51:12now it's so easy
51:14no rhyme or reason
51:16just open season
51:17cows can't find me
51:20they're far behind me
51:21and when i strike next
51:23is it it was
51:25kids i'm a
51:25hillsides
51:27and ragnar
51:28never know
51:32what the night can bring
51:34express myself
51:36with a simple piece of string
51:38scum of a city
51:39you
51:40you
51:44you
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