The Hillside Stranglers

The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles

By: Darcy O'Brien

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle lead police to the arrest of a security guard - the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi - and the discovery that the strangler was not one man, but two.

Compellingly, O'Brien explores the symbiotic relationship between Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono and their lust for women as insatiable as their hate, before examining the crimes they remorselessly perpetrated and the lives of the unsuspecting victims they claimed. Equally riveting is O'Brien's account of the trial - one of the longest and most controversial criminal court cases in American history - with the defense team parading, one after another, expert witnesses who had been effectively duped by Bianchi's impersonation of a man suffering multiple personality disorder. It's one way a man might contrive to get away with murder.

Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story.

©1985 Darcy O'Brien (P)2021 Tantor

Somewhat annoying narration.

Good book If you can get by the narrator's annoying way of saying "Angelo SAID" !

Gripping Book

This is an extremely well written book. It is hard to take some of the details that these brutal murders did.

I can't keep away from this genre.

Audible, this is ridiculous!!! I just wanted to rate this book and not write a review. Having to write reviews in order to rate has prevented me from rating at all. I just want to give props to enjoyable reads . I will just copy and paste this "review" going forward.

Awsome

I can easy put this in one of my top 5 favorite books ever i recomend it

Compelling story for me

I lived in Eagle Rock and was on swing shift when the murders were happening. As a young woman in my twenties, coming home from work at midnight was very frightening during this period of time. We moved to northern CA before the trial happened so I never really heard about what had happened with the killers. I was glad to hear the whole story after all these years.