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we continue the tale of the hillside

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stranglers Kenneth Bianchi

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and Angelo Bono. We

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The so-called Strip began

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just past Fairfax Avenue

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at Schwab's Pharmacy,

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where actress Lana Turner was

4:13

supposed to have been discovered in her sweater.

4:16

The old Garden of Allah

4:18

Hotel,

4:19

once home to Eastern literary

4:22

refugees like Scott Fitzgerald,

4:24

used to be here. Its Moorish

4:27

bungalows by the time Bianchi

4:29

and Biono rolled by were replaced

4:33

by a white monolith building called

4:35

Great Western Savings. Almost

4:38

five decades later, today,

4:41

the building still stands,

4:43

but no longer houses a bank.

4:46

Beyond this point, Sunset

4:48

Boulevard curved in and out

4:51

among giant billboards announcing

4:53

a new album or a Las Vegas

4:55

act, motels with adult

4:58

movies, the body shop

5:00

offering burlesque amateur

5:03

contests Mondays and Wednesdays,

5:06

and various bars and restaurants

5:09

until the boulevard straightened out and entered

5:11

the heavily policed Hush of

5:14

Beverly Hills. About

5:16

halfway along the Strip, Biono

5:19

and Bianchi noticed a petite

5:21

girl standing alone on

5:24

the sidewalk. She stood

5:26

in a driveway

5:27

next to Carney's Express

5:30

Limited,

5:31

a diner converted from an old

5:33

Union Pacific railroad car.

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Biono drove well past

5:38

her and pulled over. Bianchi

5:41

got out as planned and crossed

5:43

the road. Later

5:46

he sat down on a bus bench to wait.

5:49

He was at the corner of Sunset and Sweetser,

5:52

just down from the Golden Crest Hotel,

5:55

its marquee proclaiming, and

5:57

I quote, Retirement Living

6:00

at its finest, most luxurious

6:03

residence in L.A.

6:06

He could see the girl across the street

6:08

still standing in the driveway of the railroad

6:11

diner, obviously offering

6:13

her body for sex in exchange

6:16

for money. A minute

6:18

later he caught sight of the Cadillac

6:20

coming up sunset again. Below

6:23

no drove slowly past the girl

6:26

and turned left, heading around the

6:28

block once more. He was making

6:30

it look, Bianchi figured, as

6:32

though he had just spotted her. He

6:35

would have made eye contact with her, continuing

6:38

on as if he had not yet decided

6:41

if he wanted to use her services.

6:44

Then he would return.

6:47

This time, Bono pulled into

6:49

Carney's driveway. The girl

6:51

came up to his window and they talked. Then

6:54

the girl went around to the passenger's side

6:56

and got in next to Bono. They

6:59

sat chatting for a bit until the traffic tinned.

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The Cadillac then backed out onto sunset,

7:05

made a U-turn, past the bench where

7:07

Bianchi waited, and turned right

7:10

on Sweitzer, rolling slowly down

7:12

the side street. Bianchi,

7:15

sensing that Bono did not want to

7:17

work the scam where there was so much

7:20

traffic, followed on foot.

7:23

Sweitzer ran down a steep hill, the

7:25

lights of the city glimmering to the south.

7:28

At the next corner, Bono turned right

7:31

and pulled over. Seconds,

7:33

Bianchi was there. He

7:35

opened the front door on the girl's side,

7:38

leaned in and said, showing his

7:40

badge,

7:41

that he was the police

7:44

and that she was under arrest.

7:47

The girl did not seem surprised,

7:50

only disappointed. Bianchi

7:52

told the girl to get into the back seat,

7:54

which she willingly did, and

7:57

he followed in beside her. Bianchi

8:01

closed the rear door, and Bono

8:03

pushed a button that locked all the doors.

8:06

Bianchi, attempting his best to imitate

8:09

a police officer, told the girl

8:12

he needed to put her in handcuffs. He

8:14

handcuffed her, palms outward. As

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Bono drove off, he said,

8:20

and I quote, There was

8:22

a guy standing in that parking

8:24

lot. You got a pimp? The

8:28

girl denied this, but Bono

8:31

was not convinced. He

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headed back up sunset and glanced into

8:35

the parking lot of the railroad

8:37

diner.

8:38

It was empty.

8:40

He headed east, not rushing, obeying

8:43

the traffic laws. The girl,

8:45

still under the impression she

8:48

was under arrest by real law

8:50

enforcement, asked if they were

8:52

heading for the Hollywood division. Bono

8:55

told her they were not. Instead,

8:58

they were taking her to a special

9:01

unit. The girl

9:03

was silent as they drove

9:05

through Hollywood, turning east

9:08

on Franklin to western, north

9:10

on western to Los Feliz,

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east on their way to Glendale. Finally,

9:17

she asked why she was being arrested.

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Bianchi told her she was being arrested for

9:22

solicitation. Then

9:24

asked her if she had been arrested before.

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She had not. Bianchi

9:29

studied her. She was tiny.

9:32

She was wearing a light blouse and slacks

9:35

and a dirty suede jacket. Her

9:38

small leather purse sat in her lap.

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The handcuffs made her lean forward,

9:44

her straight brown hair obscuring

9:46

her face. She looked fourteen,

9:49

sixteen at the outside. By

9:52

his estimation, she wouldn't

9:54

give them much trouble. The

9:56

young girl said nothing more

9:59

until blown. know, pulled all the way

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into his driveway, under the metal

10:03

awning that joined the house and the shop.

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The orange grove apartments overlooked

10:09

the shop and the house from the rear, but

10:12

peering down from a second or third

10:14

floor apartment, all anyone

10:16

could see was the roof. The

10:21

two men was confident that

10:23

they enjoyed complete privacy.

10:27

There were no risks of prying

10:29

eyes and since the house was located

10:32

where it was, no outsiders

10:34

could hear anyone scream. Bono

10:38

got out and walked over to the laundry

10:40

room door at the side of

10:42

the house,

10:43

unlocking it.

10:45

Sparky, the dog, was waiting

10:47

on the steps but knew not to

10:49

enter the house. When

10:51

the girl asked

10:52

what kind of place they had brought her to,

10:55

they replied that the house was in fact a satellite

10:58

police station.

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Quite unique.

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The men guided the girl into the house.

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She did not resist. She was still

11:07

under the impression that the men were police

11:09

officers, that all she had in

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store was a night in jail and

11:14

perhaps a fine, worst case scenario,

11:16

a few months behind bars.

11:19

As Bono secured the deadbolt,

11:23

Bianchi guided the girl into the living

11:25

room and sat down in the

11:27

brown vinyl easy chair.

11:30

He put her purse on the dining room table. Bono

11:34

switched on some lights and approached the

11:36

girl, telling the girl to

11:38

sit tight. The men went into

11:40

the kitchen to agree to a game

11:43

plan, decide how they

11:45

would go from there. Bono

11:47

reached under the sink and brought out a roll

11:50

of masking tape about three inches

11:52

wide. By blindfolding

11:55

the girl, she would not be able to run away,

11:58

even if she somehow managed

11:59

break free from her restraints.

12:02

Then Buuno lit up with a smile,

12:05

told Bianchi to keep the girl busy,

12:07

talking, while he fetched

12:10

some items from his garage. Bianchi

12:13

went into the living room and stood over the girl.

12:16

She stared at the fish tank, avoiding

12:19

his eyes. When

12:21

he asked the girl her age, she

12:24

replied that she was fifteen years

12:26

old. To this, the

12:28

much older man sneered, and

12:31

commented that she was a bit young to

12:33

be, and I quote,

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out whoring.

12:37

The girl wasn't much faced

12:39

by this. She had been insulted, and

12:42

stepped on all her life. But

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she knew then that she was not

12:47

in any kind of police station,

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and told Bianchi as much.

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He simply told her to shut.

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into the kitchen again. From his shop

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Bono had retrieved an orange

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polyester material he used

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in stuffing car seats. He

15:35

cut the foamy stuff in half with

15:37

a pair of scissors and explained

15:39

that they would put the material over each

15:41

eye, secure it with tape, stuff

15:44

the rag into her mouth and

15:46

secure that with the tape as well.

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It would be a good idea to

15:52

make sure the masking tape went all

15:54

the way around her head. Bianchi

15:58

was offered to do the task. He

16:00

gagged the girl, but he asked if Buono

16:02

could do it instead. He was

16:04

getting a bit nervous. Buono

16:07

shrugged and said, okay, he would

16:09

do it. But he needed Bianchi to

16:11

stand behind the girl and hold

16:13

her fast, so that she did not squirm

16:16

and thrash about too much. The

16:19

two men returned to the living room, Buono

16:22

holding the materials behind his back. They

16:25

walked slowly up to her, and

16:28

Bianchi moved behind her, resting

16:30

his hands on her shoulders. Knowing

16:34

that something was very wrong,

16:36

the now very concerned girl

16:39

asked what the hell was going on and started

16:41

to get up. Bianchi pressed

16:44

down. She started to scream.

16:47

Being a very petite girl, she

16:49

was no match for the athletic Bianchi

16:52

to hold down. Buono produced

16:54

the orange rag, rolled it

16:56

into a ball, stuffed it into her

16:59

mouth, and reeled a length

17:01

of tape, sealed it over her mouth,

17:03

and wrapped the tape around her head three

17:06

times, snipping it off with

17:08

scissors and rubbing it flat

17:10

on the side of her face. Then

17:13

he brought out the two pieces of foamy

17:15

stuff and approached her eyes.

17:19

She lowered her head, trying to avoid

17:21

him. Bianchi shoved

17:23

her down as she squirmed and tried

17:25

to rise again. Bianchi

17:28

pulled back on her forehead with one

17:30

hand and yanked back on her hair

17:32

with the other. Smiling, Buono

17:35

pressed the foam into her eyes

17:37

and wrapped it with tape around

17:39

her head three times.

17:42

The girl slumped, defeated.

17:44

Buono took the tape back into

17:47

the kitchen, replaced it under the sink,

17:49

and put the scissors away in the drawer. Again,

17:53

the two men retreated to the kitchen while the girl

17:55

sat in the living room, trembling

17:58

after terror.

17:59

Bono and Bianchi could not

18:02

care less about the well-being

18:04

of their captive. Their

18:06

main concern was how they

18:08

most effectively could get the girl

18:11

naked, which was what they discussed

18:13

in the kitchen. They returned to

18:15

the girl when commanded to stand

18:17

up. The girl tried to obey

18:20

but lost her balance and fell back into the

18:22

chair. They each took an elbow

18:25

and helped her up and away from the chair.

18:28

Bono found

18:29

the handcuffs key

18:31

on his keyring and removed

18:33

them. He pulled off her jacket, walked

18:36

with it over to the dining area and dropped

18:38

it to the floor. A gold smoked

18:41

mirrored wall behind the dining

18:43

room table reflected the scene. Bono

18:46

stared into the mirrored wall and

18:48

liked what he saw. Everything

18:51

was working.

18:52

It was going to be great.

18:56

In the smoky mirror, he watched Bianchi

18:58

remove her blouse. Bono

19:01

unhooked her bra as Bianchi

19:03

placed her blouse on her jacket. Bono

19:06

commented on how small the girl's

19:09

breasts were. He rolled

19:11

up the bra and tossed it to Bianchi. Then

19:13

he put the handcuffs back on her so

19:15

that she was forced to push out

19:18

her chest. He liked that.

19:21

Bianchi stood behind her again, holding

19:23

her upper arms to steady her while

19:25

Bono unzipped her pants. They

19:30

eased her back into the chair. Bono

19:33

removed her shoes and socks, told

19:35

her to stand up again and slid

19:37

off her pants, telling her to lift one

19:40

leg at a time.

19:41

The girl complied.

19:43

He let her stand there for a moment, nude

19:46

except for her underpants.

19:48

Then he pulled off her underpants, smiled

19:51

up at Bianchi and gave the okay

19:53

sign. He put her pants

19:56

and underpants with the rest of her clothes, returned

19:59

and grabbed an arm.

19:59

arm. While he led her into

20:02

the spare bedroom,

20:03

he kept reassuring the girl that

20:05

she did not need to worry about anything.

20:08

They were just going to have sex,

20:10

and it wasn't as if she was a virgin

20:12

now, was it?

20:13

The idea was to try and keep the girl

20:16

as calm as possible, until

20:18

she again was properly restrained.

20:22

The spare bedroom,

20:23

on the east side of the house between

20:26

the master bedroom and the bathroom,

20:28

had nothing in it except a

20:30

single bed. No other furniture,

20:33

nothing on the walls.

20:35

The spare bedroom had a simple

20:37

function. He

20:39

sat the girl on the bed and told

20:41

her to lie down on her back,

20:43

helping her get her legs up.

20:46

She lay there, nude, gagged,

20:49

blindfolded, handcuffed.

20:51

Bono passed through the beading that

20:54

hung down in place of a door between

20:56

the spare bedroom and his bedroom. He

20:59

turned on the lights in his room and checked

21:01

to see if it shone enough into the spare

21:03

bedroom.

21:04

Satisfied, he

21:06

returned to Bianchi. The

21:08

men discussed who should rape the

21:10

girl first.

21:12

In the end, they decided to flip a

21:14

coin over it. Bono

21:16

dug into his pocket and pulled out a quarter.

21:19

Bono won.

21:21

Grinning, he looked at the girl's nude

21:23

body as he spoke to Bianchi.

21:26

He told his cousin to rifle through the girl's

21:28

possessions while he had his fun.

21:31

She might have some money or valuables,

21:34

which would be a nice bonus.

21:38

Bianchi followed Bono's instructions

21:40

to the letter. In her purse,

21:42

he found two dollars and some change

21:45

in a wallet with nothing else in it except

21:48

a snapshot of two little boys, one

21:50

about eight, the other maybe four. He

21:53

went through her jacket pockets but found

21:56

nothing. He heard noises.

21:59

boys in distinct but

22:01

harsh, commanding,

22:03

and female squeals.

22:06

He must have taken the gag off. Bianchi

22:09

had a pretty good idea what his cousin

22:11

was doing to the girl, and he liked

22:14

it.

22:14

The squeals turned him on.

22:17

He wanted to see what Buono was doing.

22:19

Imagined Buono's big

22:21

penis, thrusting in and out of

22:24

the petite girl. He

22:26

waited until it was quiet, then entered

22:28

the spare bedroom through Buono's room,

22:31

parting the hanging beads.

22:33

His cousin had left his socks on.

22:36

He was lying atop the girl, who was

22:38

on her back now, unmoving, knees

22:40

up. The tape across

22:43

her mouth had been partly ripped off,

22:45

and the orange rag lay on the

22:47

bed next to the wall. Bianchi

22:50

figured Buono had gotten one

22:53

or both of the things he liked best.

22:56

As he suspected, Buono did not mind

22:58

Bianchi entering the room. He smiled

23:01

and told the younger man to bring

23:03

his Polaroid camera. He wanted

23:05

a document to see. Bianchi

23:08

fetched the camera from the bedroom closet.

23:10

It had film in it, and a flash

23:12

attached.

23:13

Bianchi took the picture and tore

23:16

off the film. Buono got

23:18

off the girl and told her to put

23:20

her legs down. He took the

23:22

camera and film from Bianchi and

23:24

told him it was his turn. Bianchi

23:27

said he wanted to see how the photo came out first.

23:32

They waited a minute in the dim light. Buono

23:35

peeled back the photograph. They were

23:37

happy with the result, and Bianchi

23:39

took off his clothes and climbed onto

23:41

the girl. After

23:43

a few strokes, he breathed

23:45

at her and said, and here I quote, Did

23:48

he fuck you in the ass? Did he?

23:51

Did he? Well,

23:52

turn over, bitch. Turn over.

23:55

Get ready for it. End

23:58

quote.

23:59

Bianchi emerged from the spare bedroom.

24:02

Buono had arranged her clothes in

24:04

a neat pile on the dining room table.

24:06

The two dollars

24:09

and chains were gone and the purse

24:11

sat atop the pile. The

24:13

men smiled at each other.

24:15

Then Buono told Bianchi to gag

24:17

the girl again.

24:19

He found a rag on the bed, told the

24:21

girl to open her mouth, stuffed the

24:23

rag back in, and sealed her

24:25

mouth with a few strips of tape. She

24:28

turned to Buono and watched him put

24:30

the clothes and purse into

24:32

a large green garbage bag. Buono

24:36

ripped up the photograph and the negative

24:38

and dropped them into the bag as well.

24:41

Then in a matter of fact voice

24:43

Buono said, and again I quote,

24:46

Well,

24:47

how are we gonna do this? How

24:49

are we gonna strangle her? We

24:51

gotta strangle her. It's the only

24:53

way to do this, unless you got some

24:55

other ideas. Bianchi

25:00

was slightly taken aback by this, that

25:02

they actually would go through with

25:04

murder, but eagerly agreed.

25:08

They had already agreed on strangulation.

25:10

Buono had been eloquent on the

25:12

subject.

25:14

He always liked talking about the best ways

25:16

to kill. Shooting

25:18

was too dangerous, he said. Gunshot

25:21

wounds told too much of a story. They

25:23

were messy and bullets could be

25:25

traced. Other methods,

25:28

bludgeoning to death, chopping her up, poisoning,

25:31

introduced too many complications.

25:34

They had never worked out the details,

25:36

but strangulation was definitely

25:39

the way to go. Besides,

25:42

the thought of watching a girl gasping

25:44

for breath was appealing in

25:46

itself, they agreed.

25:50

When they returned to the bedroom,

25:52

Buono approached the bed. In a soothing

25:55

voice,

25:56

he told the girl to sit up

25:58

and explained that they would put her

25:59

clothes back on.

26:02

He

26:02

eased on her underpants and

26:04

slacks. He zipped up the slacks.

26:06

Then he motioned to

26:08

Bianchi that he was going to put her on

26:11

the floor. Bianchi prepared

26:13

to catch her.

26:14

Ohno lowered her to the floor.

26:17

There Bianchi bound her ankles

26:19

as tightly as he could. Ohno

26:21

came back, holding a plastic vegetable

26:24

bag, the kind dispensed free

26:26

as supermarkets. He seemed

26:29

delighted with his ingenuity

26:32

as he took a long cord from Bianchi

26:34

and slung it around his neck.

26:37

Ohno was ready.

26:40

He flexed his fingers

26:41

and stood there, looking as efficient

26:44

as a professional hangman.

26:47

The girl lay on her back on the floor.

26:49

Ohno knelt behind her head.

26:52

He looked up as Bianchi nodded vigorously

26:55

at him and Bianchi lowered himself

26:58

quickly onto the girl's legs, facing

27:00

her, sitting on her knees.

27:03

She started fighting back then,

27:05

as she more than suspected that the

27:08

man was planning on doing something

27:10

terrible

27:11

and she fought for her

27:13

life.

27:14

She screamed behind her gag,

27:17

tried to roll to the side, tried

27:19

to rise up at the waist. Ohno

27:22

pressed his knees down onto her shoulders.

27:25

He opened the plastic bag with both hands,

27:28

jammed it over her head,

27:30

pulled the cord from around his neck and wrapped

27:32

it quickly once around her neck,

27:34

sealing the bag. Bianchi

27:36

raised his legs, letting his full

27:39

weight press down through his butt on

27:41

her knees. Ohno

27:43

started to pull on the two ends of

27:45

the cord, then shifted around

27:47

and put one of the ends under his right

27:50

foot, catching the knot against

27:52

the side of the sole of his shoe, putting

27:55

all his weight on that foot. Then

27:57

he pulled on the other end of the cord

27:59

with both hands, and rose up,

28:02

pulling, yanking. She

28:04

was trying to buck and flex now. Her

28:07

bagged, roped head hit Bono's

28:09

foot, and he lost his balance, falling

28:11

over backward, cursing. He

28:14

regained his position, one foot on

28:16

the end of the cord, both hands on the other

28:18

end. He yanked with all

28:21

his strength, pulling upward and backward,

28:23

letting out grunts of effort, which

28:26

mingled with the gargling death-rattles

28:28

of the girl, who arched her back,

28:31

fighting for her life. The

28:33

pain and fear the girl must

28:35

have felt is almost unimaginable.

28:39

As I so often tell you, dear Lisona, strangulation

28:43

is not a kindly murder

28:45

method. It is one of the most

28:48

sadistic ones. The

28:50

vegetable bag puffed frantically

28:52

in and out with her breathing,

28:55

and less frantically than barely,

28:58

and then it stopped puffing. She

29:00

stopped flexing. She stopped

29:02

breathing.

29:04

It was over.

29:06

Bono and Bianchi had

29:08

murdered their first victim together.

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