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World's Most Evil Killers S04E09
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00:10November the 13th, 1977, Los Angeles, California.
00:17Schoolgirls Dolores and Sonia were on their way home from a day's shopping,
00:22when two police officers stopped them for questioning.
00:25But the so-called policemen were in fact killers.
00:30They fell victim to two men who knew no compassion, no remorse, no empathy.
00:38It is beyond depraved.
00:4014-year-old Sonia and 12-year-old Dolores were abducted,
00:45held captive for five days, repeatedly raped, then strangled.
00:50Their killers were two cousins, Angelo Bono and Kenneth Bianchi.
00:55You've got the smooth-talking, sharp, glib Bianchi,
01:01and then you've got the street-con-wise, smart predator in Bono.
01:07That's a pretty dangerous combination.
01:10The partners in crime went on a killing spree,
01:13murdering ten young women in just four months.
01:16Many were dumped on hillsides across L.A.,
01:20lending the killers their infamous name, the Hillside Stranglers.
01:25These two were not going to stop until they were caught.
01:28This had a really devastating effect on the lives of women in Los Angeles.
01:33The deadly duo terrorized the streets of L.A.
01:37whilst masquerading as police officers.
01:39They raped and tortured victims as young as 12
01:43during their sickening rampage,
01:46making Angelo Bono and Kenneth Bianchi
01:50two of the world's most evil killers.
02:14December 14th, 1977, Los Angeles, California.
02:20On a deserted hillside overlooking the city,
02:2417-year-old Kimberley Martin was found dead by two paperboys
02:29doing their morning rounds.
02:31Her killers had posed her body in a provocative manner.
02:36They dropped her naked body on the hills in Alessandro Drive,
02:40pointing at the city hall.
02:41I think that was a deliberate placement
02:44to kind of piss everybody off, you know.
02:46Now, the media kind of went crazy about this.
02:50That's where the name Hillside Strangler came from.
02:54Kimberley was the ninth victim of the killers in barely two months.
02:58It became one of the biggest news stories of the year,
03:02spreading panic throughout the city.
03:04It created a whole lot of fear,
03:07particularly amongst women
03:09who were actually afraid to go out at night.
03:12And there was some indication from some of the investigation
03:15that whoever was perpetrating these crimes
03:19may have been impersonating a police officer.
03:22Women were concerned that
03:25if they were approached by police officers,
03:29should they stop or should they just keep moving?
03:32It was really a terrorizing period of time.
03:35In response, firearms sales went through the roof
03:39and the women of L.A. made preparations to defend themselves.
03:44Women were taking physical defense lessons,
03:47buying guns, getting stuff to prevent themselves on the street
03:51to keep from being assaulted.
03:54They're reading about it every day.
03:55It's on television every day.
03:57That's a lot of panic out there in the street.
03:59And you could sense it in the street.
04:01You really could.
04:02I think that gave Bianchi and Bono pleasure.
04:06I think they took an absolute delight
04:09in the fact that they had taken a whole community
04:11by the throat, literally,
04:14and strangled the life out of it.
04:18The story of these two killers begins in Rochester, New York.
04:23Angelo Bono was the eldest of the adoptive cousins
04:27and was born on October 5th, 1934.
04:30He and his sister were born into an Italian-American family.
04:36At the age of five, his parents divorced,
04:39and in 1939, his mother took her two children west
04:43to Glendale in Los Angeles.
04:45You could say that Bono was a troubled child.
04:49He had a very strange relationship with his mother,
04:52whom he constantly accused of being a whore.
04:56Now, he doesn't speak very highly of his mother at all.
04:59His mother would go and visit men
05:01and he would have to wait outside.
05:03So here's an individual who's got very fixed ideas
05:06about who women are and how they should behave
05:08and what's acceptable for women and what isn't.
05:11And I think that feeds into the rationale
05:13behind the future offending.
05:15At the age of 16, Bono dropped out of high school
05:19and turned to crime.
05:21As a teenager, Bono was somebody who regularly broke the rules.
05:26He would steal things, he would joyride in cars,
05:29he would hang around with gangs.
05:32This is somebody who just did not think the rules applied to him.
05:35And when you look at who his role models are,
05:38they were criminals.
05:39So he's starting off on a very dangerous path.
05:43Whilst Bono was serving time in youth custody
05:46for stealing cars in 1951,
05:49his adoptive cousin, Kenneth Alessio Bianchi,
05:53was born on the 22nd of May.
05:55He too had a troubled start in life.
05:58Kenneth Bianchi, born, funnily enough,
06:01also in Rochester, New York, just like Bono.
06:04But Bianchi's mother was a sex worker
06:06and he was very swiftly put out for adoption
06:10as a three-month-old infant.
06:13And he was adopted by Bono's mother's sister.
06:18He's adopted by Francis and Nicholas.
06:21Now, Francis absolutely doted on him,
06:24but she took this to an absolute extreme
06:27and she had this paranoia
06:29that there was something wrong with Kenneth
06:31and she took him to see the doctor
06:33on multiple occasions
06:35when there turned out to be absolutely nothing wrong with him.
06:38And I think this kind of smothering
06:40can be just as damaging as neglect.
06:44There was something quite toxic going on here.
06:47Soon, the young Bianchi
06:49started showing worrying signs of behaviour.
06:52He was described by his adopted mother
06:55as a compulsive liar from a very, very early age.
06:58He was difficult to control.
07:00And then his father dies when he's a teenager.
07:04So the male role model is removed
07:06and he is, to some extent,
07:09left swinging in the breeze.
07:12Despite being just 14,
07:15Bianchi's mother had big plans
07:17for the son she'd sheltered.
07:18At the funeral,
07:20she made Bianchi wear his father's shoes.
07:22They were far too big and he walked clumsily.
07:25But they were a symbol of who he had become,
07:29the man of the house.
07:32They were an Italian Catholic family
07:34with some very rigid ideas about family
07:37and about the role of men and the role of women.
07:39So we're seeing some quite strong values coming through
07:43in his childhood
07:44and they're values that he draws on
07:47in an incredibly dysfunctional way.
07:49His mother recognised that he had
07:52a lot of psychiatric issues and problems
07:55and she wouldn't let him date girls.
07:57She watched over him very, very closely.
08:01Bianchi graduated high school
08:04and, aged 18,
08:06married his sweetheart, Brenda.
08:08But his insecurities about her
08:10forging her own career as a nurse
08:12caused tension in the marriage.
08:15Bianchi saw women
08:18as something to be possessed.
08:20They could be his and his alone.
08:24The marriage to Brenda
08:26fell apart very quickly.
08:27He was only 18.
08:29He accused her of being unfaithful.
08:32It played to his sense
08:33that any woman he had to possess,
08:36he had to control completely.
08:38After just a few months,
08:40the couple divorced.
08:41Bianchi then planned a respectable career
08:45in the police.
08:46In 1970, he enrolled in college
08:49to study police science and psychology.
08:53He was absolutely obsessed
08:55with becoming a police officer.
08:57He applied to join the police several times
09:00and failed at doing that.
09:01This was a fixation for him
09:03throughout his life.
09:05I think failing was one of the factors
09:07in the background of who he became.
09:09He wants that legitimate control.
09:12He wants that legitimate power.
09:14And if he can't get it legitimately,
09:16he's going to get it by some other means.
09:19After failing to get his dream job
09:21as a police officer,
09:23Bianchi found work as a security guard.
09:26Meanwhile, in Los Angeles,
09:28his cousin Bono was a career car thief.
09:31By this point in 1970,
09:34the 36-year-old had been married
09:36and divorced twice
09:37and fathered eight children
09:39by three different women.
09:42A lot of women said
09:43that he had a very sexual,
09:46strong feeling about him,
09:47but it was a scary, frightening kind of thing.
09:50It was kind of a predator kind of a thing.
09:52And he had been through a whole lot of women.
09:55He was very sexually active.
09:57And he was proud of that reputation.
10:01Bono's attitude to women
10:03and to the women he married
10:06was abusive.
10:07There can be no doubt about that.
10:09And each of them described
10:12his abusiveness,
10:13his drama,
10:14threatened with a gun,
10:16persistently kicked,
10:18brutalized.
10:19He was very aggressive sexually,
10:20even with young, young girls.
10:23There was something in Bono
10:24which saw women as objects.
10:27A man who saw women
10:28as something of his right.
10:31Before long,
10:32the two maternal cousins
10:34who barely knew each other
10:35would discover they shared
10:37the same intense loathing of women.
10:40Bono and Bianchi
10:41would move in together
10:42and become partners in crime.
10:45Soon, this dangerous team
10:47would be heading on a path
10:48towards murder.
10:53By 1975,
10:5541-year-old Angelo Bono
10:58had served three short prison terms
11:00for stealing cars.
11:02He also had a long, dark history
11:04of domestic abuse,
11:06raping and beating
11:08former wives and girlfriends.
11:11But now it seemed
11:12Bono wanted to settle
11:14on the straight and narrow.
11:17Although he wasn't
11:18particularly well-educated,
11:20he was quite
11:21smart.
11:22He was capable
11:24of running a business.
11:25Indeed, he started
11:25his own business,
11:26auto upholstery.
11:28It was very successful.
11:30Matter of fact,
11:31the rumour is
11:31he did want to
11:32Frank Sinatra's cars.
11:34He also considered himself
11:36a mafia kind of guy.
11:39At home and at work,
11:41Bono was meticulous
11:42to the extreme.
11:44Bono was obsessed
11:45with cleanliness.
11:46He would bleach his house
11:48several times a week.
11:49He was able to change
11:50the brakes on a car
11:51without getting dirty.
11:53When you see people
11:54who are obsessed
11:55with cleanliness,
11:55it's about feeling
11:56that everything is
11:57within your control.
11:59Meanwhile,
12:00over 2,500 miles away
12:03in Rochester, New York,
12:05Bono's cousin,
12:06Ken Bianchi,
12:07had been fired
12:08from his job
12:09as a security guard
12:10for stealing jewellery
12:12at the department store
12:13where he was working.
12:15In January 1976,
12:17Bianchi's family
12:18came up with a plan
12:19to temper
12:20the wayward 24-year-old.
12:23Their mothers
12:23are sisters
12:24and they think
12:26it's a good idea
12:27for these two
12:27to live together
12:28and I think it is
12:29part of those
12:30kind of Italian-Mediterranean
12:32family values,
12:33you know,
12:33that if you're
12:34part of a family,
12:35then you're always welcome.
12:37You should always
12:38look out for one another.
12:40Bono was doing
12:41the family a favour,
12:42taking him in.
12:43This is something
12:44he didn't really
12:45want to do.
12:46This is a guy
12:46who lives alone
12:47and to take in a porter
12:49was something
12:50that, you know,
12:51he wasn't happy with.
12:53Bianchi apparently
12:54looked up
12:55to Angelo Bono,
12:57his older cousin,
12:58kind of admired
12:59the tough guy
13:00image that he projected.
13:04Once again,
13:05Bianchi tried
13:06for a career
13:06in the police,
13:08this time
13:08with the LAPD,
13:10but once again,
13:11he failed his exams.
13:13In the end,
13:14Bianchi resorted
13:15to lies
13:16to get a respectable job.
13:18He had phony
13:20certificates made up
13:22showing that
13:23he was a graduate
13:24of Columbia University
13:25and had a degree
13:26in psychiatry
13:27and he was actually
13:28a psychologist.
13:30A psychologist
13:32in Los Angeles
13:33actually hired this guy
13:35and he was seeing
13:36his patients.
13:39He had a gift
13:41of really selling himself
13:43and he did.
13:44He was a sociopath
13:46and he was
13:47a pathological liar.
13:50In June 1976,
13:52Bianchi finally made it
13:54into the LAPD reserves
13:56as an unpaid volunteer.
13:58He also found himself
14:00a desk job
14:01to pay the bills
14:02and at work
14:03he met a new girlfriend
14:04whom he moved in with.
14:07By now,
14:08the cousins
14:08had a real rapport.
14:10Bianchi looked up
14:11to the older Bono
14:12and was only too quick
14:14to get involved
14:15when he suggested
14:16they establish themselves
14:18as pimps.
14:20He and Bono
14:21set up
14:22what only could be described
14:23as an agency
14:24for prostitutes.
14:25They target
14:26two young women
14:28whom they set up
14:30to work for them
14:31to make them money
14:33as sex workers.
14:35It was a marriage
14:36made in hell.
14:37I mean,
14:38here you've got
14:38a sexual predator
14:39and a sociopath.
14:43Bianchi wants to be
14:44like his cousin Angelo.
14:46Say he looks up to him
14:48that he's older.
14:49He was excited
14:50that it's a recipe
14:51for madness.
14:54But pimping prostitutes
14:56wasn't enough for them.
14:57To satisfy
14:58their own sexual cravings,
15:00they prowled the streets
15:02using a tactic
15:03inspired by an infamous criminal
15:05from the 1940s.
15:08When Bono
15:09was an adolescent,
15:10he very much looked up
15:12to career criminals
15:13and one particular criminal,
15:15a serial rapist
15:16called Chessman,
15:17who he became
15:18very interested in,
15:20had actually used
15:20a police ruse
15:21in order to target
15:23his victim.
15:24I think Bono
15:26saw something there
15:27that lodged in his mind
15:28and that would later
15:29come out in his funding.
15:31Angelo Bono
15:32had a security badge
15:34that belonged
15:34to his stepfather
15:36and they used that
15:37to portray themselves
15:38as undercover
15:39police officers.
15:41They started using
15:42the badge
15:43to get free sex
15:44from prostitutes.
15:45They liked the fact
15:47that they could get
15:47girls back to their house
15:49and have them
15:49have sex with them,
15:50then play a badge
15:52on them
15:52and tell them that,
15:53hey,
15:54don't tell anybody
15:55we did this
15:55or you'll be in trouble.
15:57But the excitement
15:58of duping women
15:59for free casual sex
16:01soon wore off.
16:04Bono and Bianchi
16:05wanted to up the stakes
16:07to indulge
16:08a depraved desire.
16:10They both agreed,
16:11why don't we try
16:13choking somebody
16:14to death
16:15while we're having
16:15an orgasm?
16:16That would be
16:17something I'd like to do.
16:19That was Bono's thing.
16:21Of course,
16:22whatever Bono said,
16:23Bianchi went along with.
16:25It's what
16:26the psychologists
16:27call folio d'or.
16:28One adds depth
16:30to the other.
16:31One eggs
16:32the other one on.
16:34One's the sorcerer
16:35and the other one's
16:36the apprentice
16:36and then suddenly
16:37they become
16:38partners in crime.
16:40At 11pm
16:41on the 17th
16:43of October 1977,
16:45Bono and Bianchi
16:46were cruising down
16:47one of Hollywood's
16:48most famous streets,
16:50Sunset Boulevard.
16:51They had their
16:52fake police badges
16:54at the ready.
16:55Bianchi had a
16:57four-door sedan
16:57that could resemble
16:59a police car at night.
17:01It had no siren
17:01or lights
17:02but it had
17:03the same colour,
17:04dark blue
17:05and a white top.
17:06They used that car
17:07in all the stops
17:08and pullovers
17:09that they made.
17:10Here they spotted
17:1119-year-old
17:13Yolanda Washington.
17:14She was a mum,
17:16she was struggling
17:16to make ends meet,
17:17she became involved
17:18in sex work
17:19and they picked her up
17:21claiming to be
17:23police officers.
17:24Got her in a car
17:25under the pretense
17:28of who they were
17:29and Bianchi strangled
17:31her in the backseat
17:33and that's where
17:34it started.
17:36They dumped
17:38Yolanda's body
17:39on Forest Lawn Drive
17:40not far from Glendale.
17:42She was discovered
17:43early the next morning.
17:46She had a three-year-old child
17:47and she's treated
17:49as a piece of garbage.
17:51From there
17:52it just kind of accelerated.
17:55They started discussing
17:56what they were going to do.
17:57Let's take them
17:58back to the house.
17:59If we take them
18:00back to the house
18:01then we can play games
18:02with them
18:03and that's exactly
18:04what they did.
18:07Barely two weeks later
18:08on the night
18:09of the 30th of October
18:11Bono and police
18:12reservist Bianchi
18:13were roaming the streets
18:15once again.
18:16As they stalked
18:17Sunset Boulevard
18:18a young girl
18:19caught their eye.
18:21Judy Miller
18:22was picked up
18:24on Sunset Boulevard
18:25near a hot dog stand.
18:27Judy was 15 years old
18:29so a few years younger
18:31than Yolanda Washington
18:33and she's been described
18:34as a runaway
18:35but she's a child.
18:37She's incredibly vulnerable
18:38and I think
18:39they recognize that
18:40and they prey upon
18:41that vulnerability again.
18:43The killers
18:45lured Judy
18:46into their car
18:47under the pretense
18:48of hiring her
18:49for sex.
18:50Once inside
18:51they pulled out
18:52their fake badges.
18:53She was trapped
18:55and this time
18:56Bono and Bianchi
18:57had even more
18:58sinister plans.
19:00They took her
19:01to Bono's
19:01auto-upholstery shop
19:03where
19:04she was
19:05systematically
19:07raped.
19:09This change
19:10in offending
19:11is really significant
19:12for me
19:13because when
19:14you're taking
19:14your victims
19:15to somewhere
19:15that's private
19:16an environment
19:17over which
19:17you have control
19:18this suggests
19:19that you want
19:20to escalate
19:20your offending
19:21you want to spend
19:22more time
19:22with your victims
19:23you want to
19:24harm them more.
19:26Using a ligature
19:27placed around her neck
19:29they strangled
19:3015 year old Judy.
19:32Then the killer
19:33cousins dumped
19:33her naked body
19:34in bushes
19:35off a quiet
19:36residential street
19:37in the neighbourhood
19:39of La Crescenta.
19:40When she was found
19:42the next day
19:42detectives noted
19:44the lack of drag marks
19:45on her body.
19:47That gave us
19:49a kind of
19:50an indication
19:50that there might
19:51have been two guys
19:52because
19:52if you have a dead body
19:54and you're lugging it around
19:56you want to put it
19:57placed here
19:58and placed there
19:58it's very difficult
20:00and if you do that
20:01you usually will have
20:02leave marks on the body
20:03if you're dragging
20:04the heels
20:05but she was placed
20:06in an area
20:06and that's where
20:07her body was found.
20:09There was a fibre
20:10on her eyelid
20:11that was visible
20:12and obviously
20:13she was blindfolded
20:15which left
20:16the fibre.
20:18But despite
20:19the police's hunch
20:20that there might
20:21be two killers
20:22working together
20:23there was little else
20:24left at the crime scene
20:25in the way of clues
20:26to help them identify
20:28the murderers.
20:31Bono and Bianchi
20:32felt unstoppable
20:33and on the 5th of November
20:36they decided to target
20:37a different type of victim.
20:40Now you have
20:41a complete change of pace.
20:42It wasn't only directed
20:44at sex workers.
20:46Lisa Kasdan
20:47was a perfectly
20:48ordinary
20:48upright girl
20:5021
20:50she was a dancer
20:52quite a good career
20:54with an extraordinary
20:55group called
20:56the L.A. Knockers.
20:57Lisa Kasdan
20:59was walking
21:00to her apartment
21:01and police ruse
21:03was used with her.
21:04She was brought back
21:05to Bono's shop
21:07you know
21:07raped and murdered
21:08and her body
21:09was found
21:09in the bushes
21:11off a street
21:12in Glendale.
21:15Now Bono
21:16and Bianchi
21:17had killed
21:17three young women.
21:19They were reveling
21:20in their success
21:21and growing
21:21in confidence.
21:23They were getting
21:23into their stride.
21:26They would discuss it
21:27according to
21:28Kenneth Bianchi
21:29they would sit down
21:30well what do you
21:30want to do tonight
21:31let's try Hollywood again
21:33let's pick up
21:33another whore
21:35in Hollywood.
21:37They took him
21:37to Bono's upholstery shop
21:39and sexually assaulted him
21:43strangled him
21:43took their nude body
21:45and threw him
21:46in the hillside
21:47around the city
21:47of Los Angeles.
21:49It was a game.
21:52The rampage
21:53continued
21:54just four days later
21:56on the 9th of November
21:5728 year old
21:58actress and model
22:00Jane King
22:00was stopped
22:01at a Hollywood bus bench.
22:03She was taken
22:04to Bono's workshop
22:05where she was raped
22:07strangled
22:08then dumped
22:09next to the freeway
22:10in Glendale.
22:11The killer cousins
22:13had claimed
22:14four victims
22:15in nearly as many weeks.
22:17It was
22:18the most
22:20extraordinary
22:21spree
22:22and I think
22:23one of the things
22:24that made them
22:25in the end
22:26terrify
22:26Los Angeles
22:27there was no
22:28pattern.
22:30They literally
22:30like lightning strikes
22:32they had
22:33an appetite
22:34and that appetite
22:36knew no bounds.
22:39But Bono
22:40and Bianchi's
22:41killing spree
22:41had barely
22:42just begun
22:43and soon
22:44they'd become
22:45the talk
22:45of Tinseltown.
22:48On Sunday
22:49the 13th
22:50of November
22:50they set
22:51their sights
22:52on two children.
22:53Sonia Johnson
22:54and Dolores
22:56Cepeda
22:56were spotted
22:57getting on a bus
22:58after a Sunday
22:59afternoon shopping.
23:01They get off
23:02the bus
23:02almost certainly.
23:05They're impressionable.
23:06They're 12 and 14.
23:07Two men
23:08stop them.
23:09They say
23:09they're police officers.
23:10They get them
23:11into the car.
23:12They take them
23:12back to Bono's.
23:14I mean
23:14it is unimaginable.
23:16This time
23:17the victims
23:18were imprisoned
23:19and held captive
23:20in Bono's home.
23:21The two schoolgirls
23:22were gagged
23:23and bound
23:24then repeatedly
23:25raped
23:25over five days.
23:28What they must
23:29have subjected
23:30them to
23:30and what those
23:31girls must have felt
23:33is literally
23:34horrifying.
23:36Depravity
23:36is too good
23:37a word for it.
23:38It is utter
23:39depravity.
23:40At the end
23:42of their torture
23:42the two children
23:44were strangled.
23:45The killers
23:45dumped their bodies
23:46four miles
23:47from Bono's home
23:49on a hillside
23:50near the famous
23:51L.A. Dodgers
23:52stadium.
23:53It's a street
23:54that Bono
23:55referred to
23:55since he had
23:57grown up in the area
23:58as the cow patch
24:00and apparently
24:00their bodies
24:01were just thrown
24:02down the hill.
24:05It is behaviour
24:07of the most
24:09disgraceful
24:10because
24:11it's inhuman.
24:12It is animalistic.
24:15Despite raping
24:16and killing
24:17six women
24:17and girls
24:18in barely a month
24:19Bianchi and Bono
24:21were left
24:21wanting for more.
24:23They're varying
24:24their offending
24:25at this point
24:26in time
24:27and offenders
24:28will do this
24:29because they will
24:29get bored.
24:30They will want
24:31to mix things up.
24:31They will want
24:32to make things
24:32interesting.
24:34Their victims
24:35were no longer
24:36just randomly
24:37picked off the streets.
24:38On the 20th of November
24:40two days
24:41after their last
24:42killing
24:42Bianchi called
24:44at the home
24:44of 20 year old
24:46art student
24:46Christina Weckler.
24:49Christina Weckler
24:50had met
24:51Kenny Bianchi.
24:52They lived
24:53near each other.
24:54He succeeded
24:55in getting her
24:55out of her apartment
24:56on a ruse
24:57that he was now
24:58L.A. police officer
24:59and her car
25:00was involved
25:01in an accident.
25:03Why the poor girl
25:04went I don't know
25:05but that was it.
25:06They abducted her
25:07and took her
25:08back to Bono's house.
25:10Once at Bono's home
25:11the killers
25:12had devised
25:13a new
25:13seconding act
25:15of torture
25:15for their
25:16seventh victim.
25:18They use
25:18a more elaborate
25:19method
25:20of killing her.
25:22Not simple
25:23manual strangulation
25:24but they
25:26put a plastic bag
25:27over her head
25:28and put a gas
25:29pipe into it
25:31and effectively
25:32suffocated her.
25:34The killers
25:35also injected
25:36Christina's arms
25:37and neck
25:38with air
25:38and cleaning
25:39solutions
25:40to try and induce
25:41a fatal
25:42embolism.
25:43There was a
25:44mark on her neck
25:46where they
25:47put cleaning
25:48fluid in her neck
25:49with the
25:50syringe.
25:50This is incredibly
25:52sadistic.
25:53It's incredibly
25:54drawn out.
25:55It's an escalation
25:56in their offending.
25:57They're enjoying
25:58the process
25:59of watching
25:59their victims
26:00die,
26:01of having
26:01that ultimate
26:01power and
26:02control
26:02over their
26:03life and
26:04death
26:04and this is
26:05something that's
26:06only going
26:06to get worse.
26:08Then they
26:09dumped Christina's
26:10body on another
26:11remote hillside
26:12in Highland Park
26:13several miles
26:15from Bono's
26:15Glendale home.
26:17It was a Sunday
26:18I was notified
26:19at home
26:21they said
26:22we got a
26:23dead girl
26:24out here
26:24and then
26:24it's definitely
26:25a murder
26:25victim.
26:26So I went
26:26out,
26:27did my usual
26:28crime scene
26:29investigation
26:29and I noted
26:31the ligature
26:32marks on the
26:33hands
26:33and on the
26:34ankles.
26:36Detectives
26:36also noticed
26:37that the bodies
26:38continued to be
26:39placed and not
26:41dragged to each
26:42location.
26:43They were still
26:44convinced that
26:45they had more
26:45than one killer
26:46on the loose.
26:48We had put a
26:50lot of
26:50uniformed
26:51policemen
26:52in the area
26:53of northeast
26:54Los Angeles
26:55looking for
26:57two suspects
26:58or one suspect
26:59as a serial
27:00murderer.
27:01So we were
27:02focusing in the
27:03area where the
27:04girls were
27:04originally abducted.
27:06I think that
27:06information got
27:07out somehow
27:08through the media.
27:09So what did
27:10Bianchi and Bono
27:11do?
27:12They drove all the
27:13way out to the
27:13valley to look
27:15for their next
27:15victim, 25
27:16miles away.
27:18On the 28th of
27:20November, eight
27:21days after their
27:22last killing,
27:23Bianchi and Bono
27:24were cruising the
27:25streets of the
27:26San Fernando
27:27Valley.
27:28They spotted
27:2918-year-old
27:30business student
27:30Lauren Wagner
27:32driving home.
27:33They followed
27:35her and she
27:36parked right
27:36across the street
27:37from where she
27:38lived.
27:38They stopped
27:39her, pretended
27:41they were police
27:41officers and said
27:43they would have
27:43to take her in a
27:44car and she
27:45resisted.
27:46She kind of
27:47vocally resisted
27:48and they got
27:50her in a car
27:50and took her
27:52to Bono's
27:53house.
27:54Lauren was
27:55bound to a
27:56chair and gagged
27:57in Bono's
27:58home.
27:59This time the
27:59cousins thought
28:00they'd experiment
28:01with a different
28:02type of torture.
28:04They took
28:05wires, plugged
28:06them into the
28:07wall, kind of
28:08pulled the
28:08wires apart
28:09and taped
28:10the wire to
28:12the girl's
28:13hand.
28:14and then
28:14plugged it
28:15in to
28:16electrocute
28:17her.
28:17There were
28:18burn marks
28:19in her
28:19hands from
28:20the wires.
28:22Lauren's
28:22body was
28:23dumped once
28:24again on
28:25one of the
28:25city's
28:26hillsides.
28:27Her
28:27parents had
28:28noticed their
28:29daughter's
28:29absence and
28:30were concerned
28:31when they
28:31found her
28:32abandoned car
28:33with the
28:34keys left
28:34in the
28:35ignition.
28:36And this
28:36was something
28:37that was out
28:37of the
28:38ordinary.
28:38She wouldn't
28:38normally do
28:39that.
28:39So immediately
28:40they knew
28:41that something
28:42was wrong,
28:42they knew
28:43something was
28:43amiss, so
28:44they contacted
28:45the local
28:45police department.
28:47She was
28:48discovered the
28:49next day on
28:50the 29th of
28:51November.
28:52Her body was
28:53found once
28:54again on the
28:55side of the
28:55hill on a
28:56little street in
28:57the Glendale,
28:58LA area.
28:58And she
29:00was lying
29:01there naked
29:02as the
29:02others with
29:03ants crawling
29:04all over
29:04her body.
29:05Upon seeing
29:06her, we
29:07knew right
29:07away that
29:09she and
29:10Christina
29:11Weckle were
29:12killed by
29:12the same
29:12people.
29:13Both had
29:14very similar
29:15ligature marks
29:17on the body,
29:18around the
29:18neck and
29:19one on each
29:20wrist and
29:21one on each
29:22ankle.
29:22We began
29:23referring to
29:24that as
29:25five-point
29:25ligatures.
29:27Forensic
29:28investigators
29:28also found
29:30a small
29:30fiber stuck
29:31to the
29:31adhesive left
29:33by the
29:33tape that
29:34had been
29:34used to
29:35attach the
29:35electrical
29:36wires to
29:37Lauren's
29:37hand.
29:38Detective
29:39Bob Grogan
29:40went to
29:40her parents
29:41home to
29:42break the
29:42devastating
29:43news about
29:44their daughter.
29:45But word
29:46of an
29:46eighth strangling
29:47victim had
29:48got out,
29:49which meant
29:49the LA
29:50press were
29:51already one
29:51step ahead.
29:53On the
29:53street where
29:54the Wagners
29:54lived was
29:55all the
29:56media in
29:56Los Angeles.
29:58Trying to
29:58interview
29:59Mr.
29:59and Mrs.
30:00Wegner.
30:00I hadn't
30:01even notified
30:02them.
30:02And they
30:03were running
30:03around with
30:03their microphones
30:04looking for
30:05an interview.
30:05And I
30:06ordered the
30:07uniformed
30:07police to
30:08move them
30:08off the
30:08street and
30:09get them
30:09out of
30:09there.
30:10If they
30:10turned this
30:10into a
30:11circus,
30:11then this
30:12was far
30:12from a
30:12circus.
30:14The press
30:15now had a
30:16name for
30:17the serial
30:18murderer,
30:18the
30:19hillside
30:20strangler.
30:20But a
30:21neighbor had
30:22some important
30:23information for
30:24police,
30:24which confirmed
30:25their earlier
30:27suspicions.
30:28She came out
30:29and saw two
30:29guys putting
30:31a girl in
30:31a car.
30:33That was the
30:34first time we
30:34actually had
30:35visible proof that
30:37there were two
30:37suspects.
30:38Couldn't identify
30:40them, but two
30:42were seen.
30:43With the
30:44killings making
30:45daily news in
30:46L.A., the
30:47police were now
30:48under pressure to
30:49step up their
30:50investigation.
30:51After the
30:52murder of
30:53Lorne Wagner,
30:54the detectives,
30:54we got together
30:55and said, we
30:56got a serial
30:57murder, we
30:58got a big
30:58problem, big
30:59problem.
31:00The chief
31:01wanted a
31:01task force, the
31:02media wanted a
31:03task force, so
31:05we got a
31:05task force, we
31:06got a hundred
31:07policemen.
31:08But Bono and
31:09Bianchi were
31:10already planning
31:11their next
31:12killing and
31:12another change
31:13of tactic.
31:15They enjoyed
31:15the feelings of
31:16power and
31:17control that
31:18killing gave
31:19them, but
31:20they didn't
31:20want to have
31:20to go to
31:21the effort
31:21of going
31:22out, they
31:22wanted to
31:22make it
31:23easier for
31:24themselves, and
31:25going out
31:26actually was
31:27quite a risky
31:27thing at this
31:28time, because
31:29this was a
31:29ruse that
31:29they'd used
31:30several times,
31:31so it was a
31:31combination of
31:32awareness of
31:33risk and
31:33laziness on
31:34their part.
31:36Bianchi has
31:36found a
31:37flat, another
31:38apartment, in
31:39the block he
31:40lives in, which
31:41is vacant.
31:43On
31:43December 13th,
31:45Bianchi called
31:46an escort service
31:47posing as a
31:49client, 17-year-old
31:50Kimberley Martin
31:51was sent to
31:52the empty
31:53apartment.
31:54As soon as
31:55the door was
31:55opened, she
31:56knew she had
31:57made a mistake.
31:58Bono and
31:59Bianchi were
31:59there and a
32:00struggle broke
32:01out.
32:01She had quite
32:02a severe head
32:03injury, almost
32:03as if she'd
32:04been bashed
32:04against a
32:05wall, so
32:05what I see
32:06in this case
32:07is an
32:07individual who
32:08knew that
32:08they were in
32:09danger and
32:10actually fought
32:11tooth and
32:11nail for their
32:12life, and I
32:13think that's
32:13testament to the
32:14strength of
32:15character of this
32:16individual.
32:17Bono and
32:18Bianchi took
32:19Kimberley back
32:20to Bono's
32:21workshop.
32:22After raping
32:23and strangling
32:23her, the
32:24killers planned
32:25a final act
32:26to taunt the
32:27city.
32:28Her body was
32:30deposited on
32:31the side of a
32:32hill, kind of
32:33overlooking the
32:34city of Los
32:35Angeles, and
32:36her body was
32:37kind of displayed
32:38like this, and
32:39she actually came
32:42to symbolize
32:43the hillside
32:44strangler, where
32:46she was thrown
32:47was kind of
32:48a way for
32:49these guys to
32:50thumb their
32:51nose at the
32:51world.
32:52And the media
32:53jumped on that,
32:54oh, the
32:54hillside strangler
32:55strikes again.
32:56So it was a
32:57panicked
32:58situation in the
32:59city of LA,
33:00no question
33:01about it.
33:02The hillside
33:03stranglers had
33:04now claimed
33:05nine innocent
33:06lives.
33:07Bono and
33:08Bianchi sat
33:08back and
33:09relished how
33:10their murders
33:11had become
33:12one of the
33:12biggest news
33:13stories ever
33:14in LA.
33:15The Los
33:16Angeles Police
33:17Department were
33:18now under
33:18pressure to
33:19catch the
33:20killers before
33:20they struck
33:21again.
33:24By December
33:261977, the
33:28hillside stranglers
33:29had claimed
33:29nine innocent
33:30lives.
33:32Bono and
33:32Bianchi sat
33:33back and
33:34relished how
33:35their murders
33:36had become one
33:37of the biggest
33:38news stories
33:38ever in LA.
33:40The Los
33:41Angeles Police
33:42Department were
33:42now under
33:43pressure to
33:44catch the
33:45killers before
33:46they struck
33:47again.
33:48It created
33:49an utter
33:50panic.
33:51If you were
33:52young, and a
33:53young woman in
33:54Los Angeles at
33:54that time, I
33:55think you would
33:56have been
33:56frightened.
33:57Anybody
33:57would have
33:58been.
33:59Bianchi was
34:00reveling with
34:01the headlines
34:01his murders
34:02were generating.
34:03Still a member
34:04of the LAPD
34:06reserves, he
34:07went on
34:07ride-alongs
34:08with the police
34:09and was on
34:10patrol with a
34:11local sergeant
34:12just two days
34:13after Kimberley
34:14Martin's killing.
34:16He was asking
34:17questions about
34:18this murder and
34:19he was wanting to
34:19see the dump
34:20site, so he was
34:22trying to find out
34:23what the police
34:24knew, essentially.
34:25He was trying to
34:26get some information.
34:27And the sergeant
34:29said, hey, I work
34:30uniform, I don't know
34:31anything about that.
34:32So he was brazen
34:33enough to come
34:34out and make
34:35that kind of
34:36a statement.
34:37He told many
34:38people, I could
34:39be the hillside
34:40strangler.
34:41It didn't bother
34:42him, but you
34:42got to remember
34:43you're dealing
34:43with a pathological
34:44liar, so he
34:45could say
34:45anything at any
34:46given moment.
34:47The two
34:48murderers decided
34:49to lay low for
34:51the next two
34:51months.
34:52But on the
34:5316th of February
34:541978, they
34:56couldn't resist
34:5720-year-old
34:58Cindy Lee
34:59Hudspeth.
35:00She walked
35:01into Bono's
35:02shop to get
35:03upholstery worker
35:04in her car.
35:05Big mistake.
35:07The predator
35:08of predators
35:08she's talking to
35:09and doesn't
35:10know this.
35:11Next thing you
35:12know, she's
35:12victim 10.
35:14They put her
35:15body in the
35:16trunk of her
35:17Datsun, her
35:18orange Datsun
35:19car, and they
35:20drive it to a
35:21higher area of
35:23Los Angeles.
35:24The car with
35:25her body in it
35:26was pushed off
35:27of Los Angeles
35:28Crest Highway
35:28where she was
35:30found.
35:31But soon
35:32cracks began to
35:33show between
35:34the deadly
35:35duo.
35:35The status that
35:37Bianchi was
35:37enjoying as a
35:38serial killer
35:39seemed to be
35:40going to the
35:41younger cousin's
35:42head.
35:43Kenny Bianchi
35:44has got to the
35:45point where he's
35:46kind of got
35:46Bono worried
35:47because he's
35:48bragging about
35:49these murders
35:50now.
35:50Hey, I went
35:51on a ride
35:52along with the
35:52police department.
35:54Bono couldn't
35:54believe that.
35:55So there was
35:57a falling
35:57out.
35:58Bono threw
35:59him out of
35:59the house.
35:59He's out and
36:00I want to see
36:00you ever again.
36:02The two
36:03killers finally
36:04went their
36:04separate ways.
36:06That same
36:07month, Bianchi
36:08settled down to
36:09become a father
36:10when his
36:11girlfriend gave
36:11birth to
36:12their son.
36:14Now you have
36:15one of those
36:15wonderful
36:15contradictions.
36:17You have a
36:18superficially doting
36:20father who has
36:21evil intent,
36:23who presents,
36:24to use the
36:25contemporary
36:26phrase, as an
36:27upright member of
36:28the community and
36:30yet is anything
36:31but.
36:32In May 1978,
36:35Bianchi's girlfriend
36:36left him and
36:37moved to
36:38Bellingham in
36:38Washington state.
36:40Desperate to stay
36:41with his son,
36:42Bianchi followed and
36:44found a job as a
36:45security guard.
36:46We've had this
36:47epidemic of
36:48killing and it
36:50stops.
36:51But the trouble
36:52is, Bianchi can't
36:54stop.
36:54It has become
36:55too addictive.
36:58On the 11th of
37:00January 1979,
37:02Bianchi offered to
37:03pay two university
37:05students, 22-year-old
37:07Karen Mandic and
37:0827-year-old Diane
37:09Wilder, $100 to
37:12house-sit one of the
37:13properties that he was
37:14guarding.
37:15It's unclear exactly
37:17how Bianchi forced
37:19these two down the
37:20stairs into the
37:21basement.
37:22But there's no doubt
37:23that he did.
37:24He also put the
37:26noose around their
37:27necks and then
37:29strangled them.
37:31Kills the two
37:31girls.
37:32And he does it on
37:33his own.
37:34He does it poorly.
37:36He masturbated on
37:38one of the victims.
37:39And he couldn't get
37:40it on.
37:41Couldn't function.
37:42He's now acting
37:43alone.
37:44He doesn't have
37:45the street smart
37:46con-wise Angelo Bono
37:48as a partner.
37:49Next day, on the
37:5112th of January,
37:52Karen's car was found
37:54nearby by the police
37:56with their bodies
37:57hidden in the trunk.
37:59Bianchi's employer
38:00revealed his whereabouts
38:02and he was arrested.
38:03He claims that the
38:05killing wasn't done by
38:06him, but done by his
38:08second personality,
38:09Steve Walker.
38:10So he's claiming that
38:12he has another
38:13individual in his head
38:14who's telling him to do
38:15particular things.
38:17When the police in
38:18Bellingham realized
38:19their suspect had a
38:20Californian driver's
38:22license, they
38:23contacted the LAPD.
38:26Detectives there
38:27noticed something
38:28interesting on
38:29Bianchi's driver's
38:30license.
38:31Whenever you moved
38:32in California, you
38:33had to write on the
38:34back of your driver's
38:35license, your new
38:36address.
38:37Bianchi diligently did
38:39that.
38:39He put his address
38:40when he moved, which
38:41was on the same street
38:43that Christina Weckler
38:45lived on.
38:45That's a pretty strong
38:47connection.
38:48You've got a guy who
38:49just killed two girls in
38:50Bellingham who used to
38:51live next door to a girl
38:52in Los Angeles who got
38:53killed.
38:54That in itself is a
38:56strong connection.
38:58Doesn't prove anything,
38:59but it makes it
39:00worthwhile to go talk to
39:01that guy.
39:03Now, there's a lot of
39:04things happening at that
39:06time.
39:06Bianchi is claiming to be a
39:08dual personality, and he's
39:11decided that this is going
39:12to be my defense.
39:13So one of America's
39:15leading criminal
39:16psychiatrists was sent to
39:18test Bianchi's alter ego,
39:20Steve, who allegedly
39:22appeared when he was
39:23under hypnosis.
39:25Dr. Martin Orm examined
39:28Kenneth Bianchi and had
39:29some techniques and tricks
39:31that he used and came to
39:33us and said, this guy's a
39:34complete fraud.
39:35Now Bianchi's lies had been
39:38exposed, he turned on his
39:40partner in crime.
39:41He says there's another
39:43person with him on the
39:44murders, and it's his cousin
39:46Angelo.
39:47And it's the first we heard
39:49of Angelo.
39:50This is incredibly revealing
39:51because there's no sense of
39:53loyalty whatsoever here.
39:55He's got what he wanted out of
39:56Bruno, so he just casts him
39:58aside and places the blame
40:00squarely on him.
40:02In order to get him to give
40:04us enough information so we
40:06can go down and arrest
40:07Mr. Bono, we have to make a
40:09deal.
40:09The deal is that he won't
40:11get the death penalty in the
40:12state of Washington, and that
40:15he will testify truthfully in
40:17Los Angeles in a trial, if and
40:19when we have a trial.
40:21With Bono now in the frame,
40:24forensic teams searched his
40:26home and workshop.
40:27Astonishingly, they could not
40:29find a single fingerprint
40:30because of his obsessive
40:32cleanliness.
40:34However, they did find some
40:36evidence.
40:37They discovered the white
40:38polyester fiber on Judy
40:40Miller's eyelid matched up
40:42holstery material in Bono's
40:44workshop.
40:45They also found forensic
40:47evidence which placed another
40:49victim at his home.
40:51In the chair in the living
40:53room where we've learned from
40:55Bianchi where the victims were
40:56originally placed, a fiber was
40:59found down inside the chair.
41:01And that fiber was connected
41:03to a fiber that was found in
41:06Lauren Wagner's fingers.
41:08That's pretty positive evidence
41:09that this girl was in Bono's
41:12house.
41:13And that fiber evidence was
41:15extremely important evidence in
41:18this case.
41:20As Bianchi had already pleaded
41:22guilty to seven counts of murder
41:24as part of his deal, he did not
41:27face trial.
41:28His cousin, Angelo Bono, appeared
41:30in court on November the 16th,
41:331981.
41:34At the time, it was the longest
41:35trial in U.S.
41:37criminal history, with Michael
41:39Nash, the deputy attorney general,
41:41prosecuting.
41:43The jury selection alone took
41:46almost four months.
41:47And then on top of that, Kenneth
41:49Bianchi was on the witness stand for
41:50about six months.
41:52The problem was that he changed his
41:55mind about everything.
41:57He did everything possible to
41:59sabotage that case against Angelo
42:02Bono.
42:03But the ploy failed.
42:06After a mammoth trial lasting more
42:08than two years, in November 1983,
42:12Angelo Bono was found guilty on nine
42:15counts of murder.
42:16He was acquitted on the 10th count,
42:20that of Yolanda Washington, as it was
42:22accepted that he had been driving the
42:25car whilst Bianchi strangled her in the
42:27back.
42:28Both cousins were later sentenced to
42:31life in prison.
42:33Someone said, so how come you're not
42:35celebrating?
42:37And I said, you have all these dead
42:40girls.
42:41They had family and friends who are
42:43forever scarred by all this.
42:46This is tragedy.
42:47But the brutal killers could no
42:50longer haunt the streets of L.A.
42:53In September 2002, Bono dies at the
42:56age of 67 in jail.
42:59And Bianchi remained in jail in
43:01Washington State.
43:03They're not the first serial killers
43:06and they're not the last.
43:07But they were two of the worst human
43:10beings who've ever walked the face of
43:13the earth.
43:14They are among the most horrifying
43:18killers you could encounter because
43:21the rape, torture and in the end
43:24killing of utterly innocent young
43:27women for nothing but their own
43:29pleasure and their own gratification is
43:31unimaginably evil.
43:34The two cousins reigned terror over the
43:37city of Los Angeles.
43:39They strangled and raped ten females in
43:41just four months, including four girls.
43:45They electrocuted and gassed some of
43:47their victims and relished watching their
43:50slow, painful deaths.
43:52That makes Angelo Bono and Kenneth Bianchi
43:56two of the world's most evil killers.
44:28We'll see you next time.
44:37You