#HILLSIDE STRANGLER BROOMSTICK SERIAL#
When dealing with a serial killer, police are essentially playing cat and mouse. Other than Ronald’s sighting of two plain clothes officers flashing badges, the police didn’t really have a lot of information to go on, there was no forensic information at the site because her body had been cleaned and then dumped. He later testified that he’d seen two men flash police badges before handcuffing Yolanda and forcing her into the back of an unmarked car. The last person to see Yolanda alive, other than Bianchi and Buono, was a music store owner named Ronald LeMieux. There were faint marks around her neck, wrists and ankles where she had been tied with rope, her cause of death was strangulation. Detectives determined that her body had been cleaned before she was dumped at the site. On October 17 1977, 19 year old Yolanda’s body was found on the hillside of the Forest Lawn Cemetery near the Ventura Highway. They were furious that they had paid for it and weren’t going to make any money off of it, but rather than get over it and find jobs that didn’t involve exploiting vulnerable women, they decided to take their frustrations out on Yolanda. Now, we’re not entirely sure how but Bianchi and Buono discovered that this trick list was false, it was just something Deborah had made up to sell to the cousins.
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The list was delivered by Deborah’s friend Yolanda Washington. In autumn 1977, they also met a sex worker named Deborah Noble, and she sold them a ‘trick list’ which was a list of men they knew who met with them and other sex workers. The cousins weren’t very happy with losing the two girls and the income they made from them, so they impersonated police officers and quickly kidnapped another girl to take her place, but again we don’t really know much about this girl or what became of her. Sabra Hannan managed to escape soon after. There isn’t too much more information about the two victims Sabra Hannan and Becky Spears, what we do know is that the two were forced into sex work, but Becky Spears eventually managed to escape and met a lawyer named David Wood, who was suitably appalled by her situation and helped her to escape. Let us be clear, they did not find some girls to pimp out, they kidnapped two vulnerable teenage runaways, held them captive and forced them into sex work.
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Now, most of the sources we read about this case say that the cousins got some girls to pimp out, they go on to describe these girls as teenage prostitutes. Once Bianchi moved to LA the cousins wasted no time in furthering their criminal exploits. We don’t know as much about him as we do about Bianchi, but by the time the cousins were united in LA Buono had long rap sheet including rape, assault, failure to pay child support, and grand theft auto.
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From a young age he had an interest in sex and frequently boasted to his classmates about raping their female classmates. His parents divorced when he was young and he moved to California with his mother Jenny. Bianchi attended college to study psychology but dropped out after just one semester.īianchi then found work as a security guard, but spent more time robbing the properties he was hired to protect than actually protecting them, which led to him frequently being on the move, until 1975 when 24 year old Bianchi made the move to Los Angeles, and teamed up with his cousin Angelo, who at the time was 41.Īngelo Anthony Buono Jnr was born in Rochester in October 1934, the son of Italian migrants. Upon graduating from high school Bianchi married his childhood sweetheart but the union only lasted eight months before his wife left him. He was described as having above average intelligence but also as being an underachiever, he moved schools twice due to behavioural problems and was described as being lazy by his mother and teachers. He was adopted by Nicholas Bianchi and Frances Scioliono-Bianchi in August 1951, and was their only child.įrances described him as being a compulsive liar as soon as he learned to speak, he also suffered seizures as a child.īianchi was also prone to fits of rage from a young age and at the age of 10 he was diagnosed with a passive-aggressive personality disorder. Kenneth Bianchi was born in Rochester, New York in May 1951, his mother was a sex worker with addiction problems and he was quickly given up for adoption. This week we’re looking at the case of murdering cousin duo Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.