Angelo Buono “The Hillside Strangler” Alex Reading
As a kid Parents divorced Delinquent attitude Stole cars for joyrides Raped girls and laughed about it to his friends Saw sex as an act of dominance Verbally abused his own mother calling her harsh words Lacked good looks, intelligence, and maners
Actions of a Serial Killer Angelo and his cousin, Kenneth, wanted to get young girls to work for them as prostitutes Deborah Noble and Yolanda Washington give the guys a false list of men names for the job Strangle Yolanda in the back of Ken’s car; also raped her Her body was found in a cemetery with the fabric that was used to strangle her around her neck
Actions Cont. Second Victim- Judith Miller (15) was a runaway and prostitute Found with marks on ankles, wrists, and neck Raped Victim 3- Elissa Kastin (21) waitress Found naked on a highway embankment Found with similar marks as Miller’s Raped and sodomized
Actions Cont. Victim 4- Jane King (28) aspiring actress Found near Los Feliz off ramp on the Golden State Freeway Strangled and sodomized Victim 5 and 6- Sonja Johnson (14) and Dolly Cepeda (12) A 9 year old boy found both girls naked in Highland Park Both nude with marks and was raped
Actions Cont. Victim 7- Kristina Weckler (20) college student Victim 8- Lauren Wagner (18) Found nude, strangled, electrical burns on her palms Raped and marks Victim 9- Kimberly Martin (18) Found same day in a vacant lot on a hillside Victim 10- Cindy Hudspeth (20) college student Found in the trunk of her car that was pushed off of a cliff Found nude, raped, and with marks
Media Attention Kenneth told police what they did to the girls Went to court and Kenneth said he doesn’t know if he was telling the truth so everything was dropped Later found guilty and charged with 10 counts of murder
Adolescence Dropped out of 10 th grade and never went back He had his first kid at a young age with Geralaine Vinal and leaves them and pays no child support Marries Mary Castillo and has 5 kids with her He goes to jail twice for theft Abuses wife in 1964 and she leaves him May 1964 she tries to go back to him and he holds a gun to her stomach
Adolescence Cont. 1965 he moves in with Nanette Campina and he beats her too, she is too scared to leave him 1967 arrested for Grand Theft Auto and is in jail for a year but suspended so he can work for his family Had another kid with Nanette in 1967 2 years later had another kid In 1971 he rapes and abuses Nanette’s 14 year old daughter and says “she needs breaking in” and he brags about it Nanette leaves the state with the kids
Adolescence Cont. A year later he gets married to Deborah Taylor but they never lived together and never got divorced Angelo’s roommate watched him masturbate while using binocular’s to watch school children Admits he forced his sons to rape his daughter and sodomized one of his sons
Adolescence Cont. 1975 owns his own apartment, opens a shop and forces women to perform oral sex on him and has sex with his son’s girlfriends Dates a teenager at 41 years olds and gets her pregnant twice Aborts the first child and the second was a miscarriage
Abnormal He wasn’t a good kid Didn’t have manners He had intense hatred and total disrespect for women Would brag about raping and sodomizing women Stealing cars for joyrides Diagnosed with sexual sadism, pedophile, anti-social personality disorder
Evil Evil Rape Sodomizing women before he kills them Torturing them before killing them Do they think it is evil? No, he thinks that they deserve it He thinks it is normal
Angelo Mostly White and African- American women from the ages of that are mostly prostitutes, waitresses, students, and low scale models He is considered as an Organized lust as a serial killer Sentenced to life in prison at Calipatria State Prison in California
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