Jan. 11, 2026
"THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS: THE BELLINGHAM BETRAYAL, THE FAKE INSANITY & THE COPYCAT KILLER - PART 2"
Reid Carter concludes the Hillside Stranglers saga on the 47th anniversary of the murders that finally exposed Kenneth Bianchi. January 11th, 1979: Bianchi lured Western Washington University students Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder to a house he was guarding, raped and strangled them both. Arrested within days. Faked multiple personality disorder claiming "Steve" committed the murders - psychiatrists destroyed the ruse. Girlfriend Veronica Compton smuggled his semen from prison in a rubber glove tied with rosary beads, attempted copycat murder to prove Bianchi innocent. Failed. Angelo Buono convicted after longest trial in California history. Bianchi - now calling himself Anthony D'Amato - denied parole July 2025.
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Calaruga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter, Sunday, January eleventh,
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twenty twenty six, forty seven years ago Today January eleventh,
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nineteen seventy nine. Bellingham, Washington, a college town near the
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Canadian border. Population forty five thousand, crime rate minimal, serial
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killers zero until Kenneth Bianki moved there. Karen Mandick was
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twenty two years old Western Washington University student, working her
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way through college. She had a part time job house
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sitting for wealthy homeowners when they traveled. Easy money, safe work,
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or so she thought. Diane Wilder was twenty seven, Karen's
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friend and fellow student. They did everything together, studied together,
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worked together. On January eleventh, nineteen seventy nine, they died together.
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That afternoon, Karen received a phone call a man she knew,
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a security guard named Ken, had a house sitting job
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for her family was out of town. Just needed someone
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to watch the place for a few hours. One hundred
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dollars cash easy. Karen agreed, asked if Diane could come along.
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The man said sure, the more the merrier. Around seven pm,
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Karen and Diane drove to the address in Karen's green Mercury.
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Bobcat walked up to the house knocked on the door.
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Kenneth Bianki answered, charming, smiling, baby faced. The same man
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who had helped murder ten women in Los Angeles, the
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same man who had posed as a police officer to
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abduct victims. The same man who had injected Christina Weckler
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with windex and watched her die. He invited them inside.
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By nine pm, both women were dead, raped, strangled, Their
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bodies left in the back seat of Karen's call, which
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Bianki drove to a remote area near Watcombe Falls Park
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and abandoned. That evening. When Karen and Diane didn't return,
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friends and family started calling, filed missing persons reports. Police
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began Searching. January twelfth, a woman named Shirley Schlemmer noticed
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a green car with fogged windows parked near the park.
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Something felt wrong, she called police. Officers responded, found the bodies.
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Within forty eight hours, Kenneth Bianchi was under arrest. Within
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a week, he was linked to the Hillside strangler murders
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in Los Angeles. Within a month, he'd implicated his cousin
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Angelo Buono. The four month reign of terror that paralyzed
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Los Angeles, the eleven months of silence, the move to Washington,
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the two more murders, and finally finally an arrest. I'm reed, Carter,
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this is celebrity trials today. The Bellingham betrayal, the fake
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insanity defense that fooled psychiatrists, the girlfriend who tried to
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commit copycat murder with smuggled seamen, and Kenneth Bianki now
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calling himself Anthony Demotto, still in prison forty six years later,
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Part two of two. Let's rewind to May nineteen seventy eight.
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Kenneth Bianki had just fled Los Angeles after his cousin
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Angelo Buono threatened to kill him. The partnership was over.
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The Hillside strangler murders had stopped. Biyanki moved to Bellingham,
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Washington to start over. He brought his girlfriend, Kelly Boyd,
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and their newborn son, got an apartment, applied to the
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Bellingham Police Department, rejected again his fourth rejection from law enforcement.
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So he settled for a job as a security guard
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with a company that monitored vacant homes. For eight months,
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Bianki tried to be normal, played the role of devoted
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father and boyfriend, went to work, came home. But the
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compulsion never left, the fantasies never stopped, the need to control,
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to dominate, to kill. It was always there waiting. January
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nineteen seventy nine, Biyankei was assigned to guard a house
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in the Edgemoor neighborhood while the owners traveled nice house,
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quiet street, nobody around. He saw an opportunity. Biyankeie knew
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Karen Mandick from around town, knew she did house sitting work,
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called her on January eleventh with an offer, come watch
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this house for a few hours, one hundred bucks, bring
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a friend if you want. Karen agreed. She trusted him.
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He was a security guard, after all, practically law enforcement safe.
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Around seven pm, Karen and Diane arrived at the house
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on Bayside Road. Biyanki let them in, showed them around,
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Then he pulled out a gun. No cousin to help
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this time, no partner, just Biyankey alone with two women
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who had walked willingly into his trap. He forced them
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into a back room, made Karen eye up Diane. Then
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he tied up Karen, raped them both, strangled them with
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a ligature, the same method he'd used in Los Angeles
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five point binding neck wrists, ankles. When it was over,
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he put their bodies in the back seat of Karen's
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Mercury Bobcat, drove to a secluded area near Watcom Falls Park,
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left the car with the windows up, knowing the bodies
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would be found eventually. Then he went home to Kelly
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Boyd and their baby son, had dinner, went to bed
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like nothing happened. But Bianchi had made mistakes, fatal mistakes. First,
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he used his real name when calling Karen to set
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up the meeting. Multiple people knew she was going to
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meet Ken that evening. Second, his car with California plates
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was spotted near the crime scene, witnesses remembered. Third, Karen
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and Diane's bodies showed the same ligature marks as the
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Hillside strangler victims, deep furrows on necks, wrists and ankles,
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identical method. Bellingham police weren't stupid. They started connecting dots.
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A security guard named Ken with California plates, a car
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seen near the dump site, two women last seen going
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to meet this Ken. Within days, they had Biankey in custody,
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and then the real investigation began. Bellingham detectives contacted Los
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Angeles mentioned their suspect California plates security guard named Kenneth Bianki.
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Los Angeles detective Frank Salerno pulled up the name. Found
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something interesting Biyanke's old address eight zero nine East Garfield Avenue,
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Apartment D. Christina Weckler, Hillside strangler victim number six had
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lived at eight o nine East Garfield Avenue, Apartment E,
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right next door. Cindy Lee Hudspeth, victim number ten had
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also lived in that building. Coincidence or the break they've
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been waiting for. Detectives flew to Bellingham interviewed Bianki. Found
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his California dr iver's license cross reference to dresses victim
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after victim had connections to places Biyanki frequented. The pieces
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were falling into place. Then Biyanki started talking and the
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story got even more twisted. Kenneth Biyanki was facing the
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death penalty in Washington state two murders aggravated circumstances. If convicted,
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he'd be executed. His attorney suggested a psychiatric evaluation. Maybe
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there was something wrong with Biyanki, maybe he wasn't responsible
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for his actions, maybe he could plead insanity. The evaluation began,
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and Biyanki saw an opportunity. He'd recently watched the movie Sybil,
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the nineteen seventy six film about a woman with multiple
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personality disorder, sixteen different personalities in one body, triggered by childhood.
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The movie had been a sensation. Everyone was talking about
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multiple personalities. Bianki decided to have one. During hypnosis sessions
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with psychiatrist doctor John Watkins, a new personality emerged. He
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called himself Steve. Steve was everything Kenny wasn't. Aggressive, crude, violent.
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Steve admitted to the murders. Steve hated that Turkey Kenny.
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Steve had committed all the crimes while Kenny was unaware.
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Doctor Watkins was convinced here was a genuine case of
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multiple personality disorder. Kenny wasn't responsible for Steve's actions. Kenny
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didn't even know Steve existed. Other psychiatrists agreed. Doctor Ralph
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Allison diagnosed Bianki with multiple personality disorder, so did several
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other experts. The insanity defense was looking strong, but prosecutors
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weren't buying it. They brought in their own expert, doctor
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Martin Orn, a specialist in hypnosis and dissociative disorders. Doctor
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Orn was skept from the start. During his examination, he
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casually mentioned to Biyanki that genuine cases of multiple personality
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disorder usually involved three or more personalities, not just two.
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Guess what happened next. Within minutes, Biyanki produced a third personality, Billy,
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right on cue, as if he'd been waiting for permission
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to create another character. Doctor Orn knew then this wasn't
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dissociative identity disorder. This was performance Bianki was faking. Orn
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set more traps, asked Bianki, under hypnosis to describe the
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location of his lawyer in the room. Bianki pointed to
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an empty chair. Real hypnotic subjects don't hallucinate things that
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aren't there. When asked direct questions, they say, I don't
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see anyone. The facade crumbled. Orn concluded that Biyanki was malingering,
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faking mental illness to avoid prosecution. Other prosecution experts greed
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the man who'd fooled four psychiatrists couldn't fool doctor Martin Orn.
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But here's where it gets even more twisted. While Bianki
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was playing insane in Washington, a woman was falling in
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love with him. Veronica Compton, aspiring actress and playwright working
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on a screenplay called The Mutilated Cutter about a female
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serial killer. She wrote to Bianki in jail, asking to
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interview him for research. Bianki wrote back, they corresponded. She
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visited him in prison within weeks. Veronica was obsessed. She
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later described it, I wanted to be him. I wanted
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to vicariously live out my own fantasies through this incredibly
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powerful person. I was more interested in being his partner
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in crime than his victim, and Byanki saw another opportunity.
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He convinced Veronica that if she committed a copycat murder
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strangling a woman in the same style as the Hillside strangler,
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police would realize they had the wrong man. The real
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killer was still out there. Biyanki would be freed, but
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for the murder to look authentic, Veronica would need to
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leave seamen at the scene make it look like a
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rape murder by the strangler. So Biyanki smuggled his seamen
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to her in a rubber glove hidden in the spine
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of a book, tied with the string of a rosary.
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Let me repeat that a serial killer smuggled his seamen
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out of prison in a rubber glove tied with rosary
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beads to his girlfriend who planned to commit copycat murder
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Make it make sense. In September nineteen eighty, Veronica Compton
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flew to Bellingham, checked into the Shangri Law motel, hit
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the bars looking for a victim. Found twenty six year
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old Kim Breed. Veronica spent hours with Kim, drinking, dancing,
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building trust. Then she invited Kim back to her motel
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room for a final drink. Once inside, Veronica attacked, wrapped
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a cord around Kim's neck, started strangling her, but Kim
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was stronger, fought back, threw Veronica off, escaped, called police.
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Veronica fled to San Francisco, where she had a hysterical
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breakdown at the airport. Police connected the dots arrested her
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within days, found letters linking her to Bianki, charged her
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with attempted murder. The copycat's scheme had failed, Bianki's insanity
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defense had failed. The jig was up. Facing overwhelming evidence
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and the prospect of the death penalty, Bianki made a deal,
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plead guilty to five of the Los Angeles murders and
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both Bellingham murders. Testify against Angelo Buono in exchange life
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in prison instead of execution. Kenneth Bianchi took the deal,
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and then he tried to sabotage his own testimony. We'll
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be right back with the longest trial in California history,
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the cousin who died in prison, and the serial killer
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who changed his name to Anthony Dematto. Welcome back to
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celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter. October nineteen seventy nine, Angelo
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Buono was arrested at his upholstery shop in Glendale, charged
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with ten counts of murder. The prosecution star witness his cousin, Kenny,
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but Kenny had no intention of actually helping convict Angelo.
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During testimony, Bianki was deliberately uncooperative, contradicted himself, constantly changed details,
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made his testimony as useless as possible. He'd made a
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deal to testify, nobody said he had to testify well.
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The prosecution was in crisis. Their case relied heavily on
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Bianki's testimony, and Bianki was torpedoing it from within. At
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one point, prosecutors actually moved to dismiss charges against Buono
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because their case was falling apart. Judge Donald George refused,
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said the case should go to trial regardless let the
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jury decide. What followed was the longest criminal trial in
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American history at that time, two years, over four hundred witnesses,
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mountains of evidence, all while Bianchi tried to be as
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unhelpful as possible and Buono maintained complete innocence. Buono never
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admitted anything, never showed remorse, sat through the entire trial
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insisting he was innocent. Pointed to the lack of physical evidence.
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His house was so clean that investigators couldn't even find
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his own fingerprints inside, But the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming,
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witness testimony, fiber evidence, the pattern of victims connected to
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locations Bianchi and Buono frequented, the timing of murders that
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corresponded to when both men were available. November nineteen eighty three,
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after months of deliberation, the jury returned verdicts Angelo Buono
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guilty of nine of the ten Hillside strangler murders. The tenth,
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Yolanda Washington, wasn't charged due to insufficient evidence linking Buono
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specifically to that killing. Judge Ronald George sentenced Buono to
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life in prison without parole. During sentencing, the judge made
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a statement that still resonates Ironically, although these two defendants
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utilized almost every form of legalized execution against their victims,
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the defendants have escaped any form of capital punishment. Angelo
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Buono was sent to Calipatria State Prison. He never expressed remorse,
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never admitted guilt, maintained his innocence until September twenty first,
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two thousand and two, when he died of a heart
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attack in his cell. He was sixty seven years old.
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Veronica Compton convicted of attempted first degree murder, sentenced to
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life in prison. While incarcerated, she moved on from Bianci
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to another serial killer, Douglas Clark, the Sunset Strip Killer.
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He sent her a Valentine's card with a photo of
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a headl female corpse true love. Compton eventually married a
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college professor, gave birth to a daughter in prison, and
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was paroled in two thousand and three. She's been out
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ever since, living quietly. Last known to be going by
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Veronica Compton, Wallace and Kenneth Bianki. He's been in prison
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for forty six years, currently housed at Washington State Penitentiary
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in Walla, Walla, serving life with the possibility of parole.
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That's right, possibility of parole. Bianki became eligible in two
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thousand and five, has been denied every time two thousand
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and five, twenty ten, and most recently July twenty twenty five,
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just six months ago. But here's the detail that caught
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my attention when researching this case. In twenty twenty three,
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Kenneth Bianki legally changed his name. He's no longer Kenneth Bianki.
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He's now Anthony Dematto, seventy four years old, convicted of
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twelve murders, possibly respond consible for more, and he wants
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a new identity. Wants to shed the Hillside strangler label,
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start fresh, your tax dollars at work. The July twenty
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twenty five parole hearing lasted hours. Victim family members testified
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in opposition, delivered impact statements about the enduring trauma, loss
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and lack of closure. Emphasized that Bianki sorry Demato, has
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