The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: April 2003
- 448pp
- Sales Rank: 101,641
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2003
- Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
- Format: Paperback, 448pp
- Sales Rank: 101,641
- ISBN-13: 9780786711581
- ISBN: 0786711582
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated, the Los Angeles newspapers headlined the increasingly alarming deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. But it would take more than another year and the mysterious disappearance of two young women in Seattle before the police would arrest one man—the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi—and discover that the strangler was actually two men. Like Truman Capote in In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer in The Executioner’s Song, Darcy O’Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to bring the story of Bianchi and his animally magnetic cousin Angelo Buono vividly to the page. First exploring the symbiotic relationship between these two men who shared a lust as insatiable as their hate for women, O’Brien goes on to examine the crimes themselves and the lives of the victims.
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August 29, 2009: This is an extremely well written account of the awful crimes committed by two cousins, known as the Hilllside Stranglers, between 1977 and 1979, in the Los Angeles area as well as in Washington state.
It's a scary book and kept me up at night thinking about what I had read. I also liked the portrayal of detective Grogan, one of the principal investigators of the case. This book may not be for everyone because the crimes described are really disgusting and one wonders how twisted someone's mind must be to commit such criminal acts. However, it's an excellent account of these events.The one drawback is that the book does not contain any illustrations at all.
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