Kenneth Bianchi (A Starnowsky)

1. Kenneth Bianchi The Hillside Strangler

2. Bianchi’s Childhood Born in Rochester, New York Mother was a prostitute Went up for adoption after two weeks Adoption mother described him as “a compulsive liar” Intelligent but an under achiever who was quick to loose his temper.

3. Childhood cont. Diagnosed with passive-aggressive disorder Father died of pneumonia when he was 12

4. Early Adult Life Graduated from Gates-Chili High School Soon after married his girlfriend who divorced him in 8 months with no explanation Dropped out of college after one semester Ended up as a security guard at a jewelry store Stole many pieces of jewelry to give to girlfriends and prostitutes Moved around a lot due to many small crimes

5. Adult life cont. Moved to Los Angeles in 1977 were he met his cousin Angelo Buono Bianchi was impressed by Buono’s success and worked with him as a pimp Soon after meeting up the two began a spree of raping and murdering ten women before their arrest in 1979

6. The Killings The two killers were both violent men with a history of aggression towards women A logical reason for committing the murders were for the sexual pleasure and possibly for the thrill of killing someone The victims would usually be lured using face police badges to abduct them then would rape and strangulate the victim before dumping the body. The two did experiment with electrocution, lethal injection, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

7. The Victims All of the victims were between 12 and 28 years of age The first few were prostitutes but they began to be middle class girls There was very little similarity between the victims except that they were all female It is believed they killed at random

8. Capture After the two partners in crime failed an eleventh murder Bianchi told Buono that he had been riding in police cruisers looking for the Hillside Stranger. Buono became enraged and forced Bianchi out on the threat of killing him Bianchi moved to Bellingham, Washington were he murdered a pair of girls in a house he was gaurding but left many clues and was captured the next day.

9. Trial Bianchi origionally pleaded not guilty on the basis of insanity, and even created a fake personality to convince the court. Unfortunately for him the court hired a psychologist who pointed out many flaws in his “disorder” and soon after many psychology books on multiple personality disorder were discovered. With this new evidence brought to light he changed his stance and admitted to his and Buono’s murders.

10. Trial cont. Both Bianchi and Buono were sentenced to life imprisonment Bianchi is currently serving his time in Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washingon . While imprisoned he had a relationship with Veronica Compton who testified in his defense and even ended up in prison herself for trying to strangle someone to make it seem as if the strangler was still at large.

11. How can serial killers hide? No serial killers are easy to spot, they act normal and don’t openly show their murderous side Many serial killers have horrible childhoods, but they hide it and create a personality of normalcy to hide their true identity

12. Crime Scenes Organized Crime scene Disorganized crime scene Planned offense Transports body Body hidden Controlled conversation Demands submissive victim Missing weapon or evidence Victim is a targeted stranger Personalizes victim Crime scene reflects control Restraints used Aggressive acts done before death Body left at death scene Spontaneous offense Evidence or weapon present at scene Victim of location known Body left in view Depersonalizes victim Sexual acts after death Minimal conversation Minimal use of restraints Crime scene sloppy Sudden violence to victim

13. Crime Scenes cont. Mixed crime scene Atypical crime scene Shows characteristics from both the organized and disorganized crime scenes. Could indicate the presence of two offenders, or that the offender planned the crime and was interrupted during the act. Also, the offender may have staged the scene. Crime scene that can't be classified by the data available. Decomposed remains fall under this type. The police or profilers may have to take other things into consideration when faced with this crime scene. They may look into crime databases to see if anything at the scene matches other previous crime scenes.

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