Rotten Mango - #111: The Hillside Stranglers (Case of Angelo Buono Jr & Kenneth Bianchi)

Episode Date: November 3, 2021

Kenny was ecstatic - he was finally moving to LA where he would chase his dreams. To make things better his older cousin was letting him stay at his house. He would also teach him a few lessons on how to be successful. “Lesson #1: You gotta hit the bullseye. Make it your target. Right between the legs. Always use a wet towel. It doesn’t leave bruise marks. Oh, and Kenny? Don’t chicken out when you strangle them.” The two cousins would be known as the “Hillside Stranglers” and they would leave behind a trail of bodies all over the hills of LA. Rec: “The Hillside Stranglers” - by Darcy O’Brien (best deep dive on this case out there but it is really intense.) Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Peloton app available through free tier or pay to description starting at 12.99 per month. Butta being betta-boot. Welcome to this week's main episode of Rotten Mango. I'm your host Stephanie Sue, and let's just jump right in. Kenny's mom had good news. Kenny sweetie, where are you? So guess what?

I talked to your cousin from Los Angeles, and he's willing to take you in. You're lying! No! I'm serious Kenny, it's gonna be great! He's older than you, he's even got his own house out in a lake. Maybe you can learn a thing or two from him. I mean, he's successful! Kenny was so excited, he was ready to leave his life in New York and start fresh in the city of dreams, the city of stars, and when he lands in LA with his gene jacket in a dream, and he meets his

older cousin, Angelo, he felt that this guy was going to teach him everything he needed to know to be successful. And he was right. Angelo told him, less than number one, you got to hit the bull's eye. That's right between the legs. Lesson number two, Kenny. Always use a wet towel, because that doesn't leave bruise marks. And lesson three, do you remember? What did I tell you about women? They're like dogs. And you have to put them in

their place. The two cousins would go on to terrorize an entire city, leave a trail of dead bodies in the sunny, beautiful, dream-filled hills of Los Angeles. This is the story of the hillside stragglers. As always, full source notes are available at rottinglepodcast.com, but yes, you guessed it, there's a really good book on this case called The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien. Now, this book is... It's honestly so detailed. Like, I don't know what else to say other than there will be parts if you read it that you're gonna want to throw the book across the room. You're gonna want to gag. It's really gruesome. It's graphic. It's dark.

But truly, this is the best deep dive that you can find on this case. In my humble opinion, go pick up your self a copy, but don't come running at me, okay, don't come emailing me, this was too dark, I almost gagged. I warned you, this is my warning, but I will say that this story, I mean it's impossible to tell you the story without getting into these gruesome details because they're so pertinent to the whole case. If you've never heard of the Hellside Stranglers, they were a serial killer cousin duo that terrorized the city of angels, the city of dreams, they terrorized Los Angeles for months, leaving dead bodies all over the hills. I'm talking the hills that we usually equate with the Hollywood hills, the beautiful hills of dreams, if you live

on the hill tops of LA, you're the rich and famous, you've made it! They were leaving dead bodies all over that place. So it's just like this weird juxtaposition of this beautiful place where dreams are made and bodies left all over. So let's start with the first cousin. The older cousin. His name is Angelo... I'm gonna butcher it. Buono? He's he's Italian, okay? So he was born in Rochester, New York of Italian heritage.

He's like the ring leader of this duo. He is the one in charge. And his childhood is all sorts of crazy. I mean, this guy's just generally crazy. He's out of this world. So his parents divorced when he's only five years old. So his mom, Jenny, is thinking, let's just move to LA. I mean, I don't need to stay in New York.

I don't really have a life here. I'm gonna pack my bags. I'm gonna pack my kids, and I'm gonna move and try to chase that dream. So when they get there, she immediately takes a job at a shoe factory. But I mean, they're not paying her well. She can barely put food on the table, and it was just really rough for her. So she eventually starts engaging in sex work on the side. Now, she's trying to pay the bills. She doesn't really have money to afford a babysitter, so what does she do? Yeah, you guessed it. She brings Angela on these dates.

She would bring him, drag him, sit him down. Okay, mommy's gonna go inside now. You just wait outside the motel. Okay, don't go anywhere. Don't talk to any strangers. Sometimes it would be a random house. She'd say, okay, okay, just stay on the lawn. Just stay on the front porch, okay? I'll be right back. And he knew that his mom was inside having sex. I mean, it was pretty apparent. He was old enough to know

what was going on. And he hated it. Like this guy hated it. He called his mom an absolute whore. And just believe from that moment forward, all women were just whores. They all are. They're all in motels. They're all in houses having crazy gnarly sex, okay? That's whoresh activities. So, Angelo right off the bat. I mean, he is this born contradiction. He is literally the opposite of an angel, so I don't know why they named him Angelo. Oddly enough, he was named after his dad, Angelo, senior, who also happened to be a horrible person. Just throwing that out there. Abandoned his family, started a new one, a new family, yeah.

Never tried to have a relationship with the kids. So Angelo grows up, never showing appreciation for a struggling single mom. Like was not even an Iota thankful that she was constantly working to put food on the table. He would only refer to her as, and I quote, that, GEEZE. Oh my god. Anytime they got into a fight, he would even taunt her. He knew that she was so sensitive about the sex work that she was doing on the side. She was embarrassed. She felt ashamed. She felt like, why am I bringing my kids to this? But she had no choice. So he would

call her a... She'd be like, clean your room! No! You're a wh... And she would just start bursting into tears And he loved it! Eventually he started calling every woman a- Oh f- So obviously this guy's got a relationship with his mom He spends a lot of time just trying to figure out how to piss her off

Like he would go out of his way to incite her So oddly, Jenny didn't want Angelo to date black woman. Yeah, okay, that's fine, Jenny. No one wants to date me either. Thank you very much. You can keep Angelo, but knowing this, Angelo would go out of his way just to lure a black woman to his house.

Like, hello, you wanna come over on a date? Not for love, just to piss off my mom. Let's do it. So he'd bring this woman home and he would lie to her. Oh yeah, we're gonna get engaged, we're to get married, she's definitely pregnant with my child. And she would just start getting anxious, Jenny would start getting anxious. And in reality they probably just met that day. And like I said again, I'm not siding with Jenny on this one, but this is just this type

of person that Angelo is. And unlike his mom, Angelo was not racist. He didn't care what race any woman was. You're like, oh, he's so woke. No, because he believed regardless of race, all women were horrors. Okay? They were all scum of the earth anyway. It didn't matter. He was just all inclusively a misogynist this one. That's what he was. As he gets older though, he doesn't get any smarter or nicer. So when he's just 14 years old, he starts trying to impress all of his friends.

He starts stealing these cars, driving them around LA, skirt-scarf. Well, at one point, they he sees random women just walking around. And he would tell his friends, oh yeah, I would love to kidnap that one. What? Or that one? Look at that one, H.I.K.ing. I want to kidnap them, take them into the woods, and f*** her in the ass. That was his favorite way of phrasing it.

I'm sorry, I don't know how to put it more bluntly. So that's how he would say these things to his 14 year old friends while he was stealing cars to impress them. He thought that this was like the gnarliest, coolest thing that he could be doing. So for the next two years, he does not follow through on any of this, but he does drop out of school. He starts picking fights with everyone, literally anyone. He would be walking around and he saw this kid, someone he had gone to high school with.

Hey, I like your jacket. That maroon color is nice. Wow, this all you? What does it say on the back? What's the risk to crats? Anyway, let me, why can't I try it on? So the kid is scared,elo is like twice his size. Sure, so he takes off his jacket, gives it to Angelo and he puts it on.

Not that. Not that. Hey, listen, why don't you let me keep it? You know, I think that's a good idea for you. So he bullies the kid to let him take it home. And when he gets home, he doesn't really like the letters on the back because he doesn't know what the word means. So he starts scraping it off and he only manages to get out the a and the r

So it just says is so cruts on the back now Yeah, okay this guy is not that smart so that day after scraping off these two letters Angelo goes to the gas station and he almost gets jumped by the kids older friends the kid that he stole the jacket from at the gas station So he gives back the jacket. He's like, okay, okay, we don't need any nonsense. No funny business here. I'll just take it off. But this really just messes with his ego, right? Because later when the kid comes back to Angelos place and says, hey, I got my jacket back thanks to my friends, but you took off two letters. I want money. I want money because I'm going to fix my jacket. Give me my money. Angelos whips out a knife and says, if you want money, I'm gonna cut your face.

So they all run off and they call the cops, but that doesn't stop Angelo because he starts joining these local gangs in the area. Eventually, he was sent to a California youth facility where he did not facilitate any rehabilitation. Okay, he did not go. His facilities was all still messed up, where he freaking escaped by the way. He like didn't even finish his time, he escaped, prison broke out of there. But his ultimate hero in life was Cheryl Chessman. His nickname was the red light bandit. Now you're probably thinking, who is that?

I mean that doesn't make sense. Most kids, I mean they're obsessed with Iron Man. Maybe Drake, I don't know Travis Scott, who are you guys obsessed with? But this guy,, I don't know, Travis Scott. Who are you guys obsessed with? But this guy, he was obsessed with Cheryl Chessman. Who even is that person? So his nickname came from the fact that he used to put a little red light siren on top of his car, like a police officer would.

And he would blare these police sirens to his speakers. He would use this to lure women into his car, drive them to a secluded area, and force them to perform oral sex on him. So this guy was pretending to be a police officer. This is just a criminal. Not even like a crazy bank-hised criminal, but just like a regular run of the male criminal, and this was his ultimate hero in life.

I mean, the other kids were lame. Who the hell likes Batman? All these fictional, you know, B.S. heroes? No. Cheryl was real, and he did real things. He was arrested for kidnapping, sexual assault, B.S. heroes. No, Cheryl was real and he did real things. He was arrested for kidnapping, sexual assault, and that wasn't all. Cheryl was an admirable man. Oh, so admirable, because not only did he teach the wh- what they deserved by forcing them to perform the ratio, but he also represented himself in his own trial. He acted as his own attorney, and he was facing the death penalty, but he managed to get

a 12-year sentence. That, that right there, is exponentially more heroic than anything Batman could have ever done. Cheryl, it's just an average joke. Just your everyday relatable, you know, standing up to the system, standing up to the system that was created to suppress the piss, and he beat it. Wow.

It's just that, that takes dedication. And if only Cheryl had killed the girls, that would have been perfect. But hey, even our biggest idols, even our biggest heroes, they all have flaws, you know, they're human, just like you and me. So inspired by Cheryl, Angelo gives himself a nickname. How many times have we heard this nickname by criminals? The Italian stallion. He said, call me the Italian stallion. That's how you would introduce himself

while he's picking up girls. Not even by Angelo, just hi, I'm the Italian stallion. You hear this at a bar, you run, okay? That's my little tidbit of advice for the day. I don't know what his visual idea of an Italian stallion is, but this is how he's described in the book. Just a super odd description, I'm gonna give you a heads up, but he was described to have great roots of hands. Thumbs, the size of zucchini. what hanging from his long arms.

Okay, I googled pictures. His thumbs are big, but they're not zucchinis. He has a tattoo, a capital B in the old English lettering, like a fairy tale lettering, a black panther on his upper arm, on his right forearm, a banner that says, mother. Mother? Yeah. But he hates Mother? Yeah. But he hates it.

He hates it. Yeah, it's just so weird. So he was born in Rochester, raised in LA, but a lot of people swore that he had, what sounded more like a Brooklyn accent. So they're like, when did that come from? We're so confused, is he making this up? Is this his environment?

I mean, it was just weird, right? Some sources say that it was a speech impediment because it just didn't sound like any of the cadence that was used in the areas that he was born in. Now, another interesting thing is that he hated drinking. He would tell people that alcohol eats your brain cells and you were fused to drink. So back to the Italian stallion picking up girls.

He would take them, he would always pick them up in his car and he would take them to a parking spot in a secluded road up the hills. Super romantic, right? It's like a it's almost the picture of the beginning of a horror movie. Do you know what I'm talking about where you just see the outside of the car and the windows get all steamy and then you see the car like shake and then all of a sudden blood splatters everywhere? And he liked going up to the hills with these women not because it was romantic But because and I quote you could get away with anything there So he'd go he would have sex with these women and then he would bring them back again right now It just sounds like he's a shitty person. It's not necessarily illegal, right?

Yeah, this guy scum, but is he really that horrible? Is he a criminal? Well, let me give you this tip bit everyone's gonna get so upset by this I was upset. He is so rude to waitresses. This is not a grime, but he's so rude. He loved to insult them. On their looks.

So he'd be served. I don't know. A plate of eggs and steak and he would look at them and say, Hey, honey. You should get your teeth fixed. Because then I might take a second look at you. And then he would give them a little grin. Now, here's the crazy thing. Some of the woman would fall head over heels for this like it worked

Because at 19 years old he gets a 17 year old girlfriend I believe she was a waitress at the time her name is Geraldine vinyl and she gets pregnant with his very first child So Angela's like okay, I got to do the right thing. I got gotta put on my big boy pants at 19 and I gotta marry her. But within one week, he's over it and just walks out, never comes back. He did later try to stay in his son's life, but he refused to let his first child call him dad, even though it was known that he was the dad. He would just get so mad, don't call me that. So with his great track record, he becomes a dad again. The next year, with a different woman, another underage girl.

She was 17-year-old's old two. Her name was Mary Castillo, and they called her candy, and he had another son with her by the name of Anthony Buono the third. I'm saying that wrong. So he marries Mary, but before he could even leave, he gets her pregnant with another child by the name of Peter. Just kind of non-stop after that. Within two years Mary and Angela have three more kids together and they stay together for eight long years before they divorce. So Candi said it was quote-unquote difficult. From the get-go.

I mean, he couldn't hold down a job. He didn't seem to be stressed about it. If his family needed something, he's like, I could just steal it. What's the big deal? You need food? Just tell me what you need. I'll go steal it right now. Most of the time, he was away from the house, hiding from the police, and he practically refused to call his wife anything, but cut.

That's it. That was literally how he referred to her in front of her as well. But that was nothing compared to the brutality of what he did in the bedroom. So within a year of being married, he comes into their room with a surprise. Hey honey, look at this long rope I got. So he uses it to tie her spread eagle on the bed and he viciously assaults her.

It was so violent she was terrified for her life. She soon realized, okay the more pain that I'm in, the more he likes it Like it's so weird. He would just slap her around for giggles and laughs when she stopped reacting to that He would punch her beat her kick her until she had a reaction But not only that he did this in front of the kids. It's almost like he wanted them to watch So if he believed that she did something so unforgivable, like God forbid, she didn't have his dinner ready on time. He would drag her out into the living room on the floor

in front of the children who were playing or watching TV, and he would sawdimize their own mother in front of them. So eventually, after eight years, she divorced him. And the last straw was that he had accused her of having an affair with one of his family members. So she's like, okay, I gotta go. In the divorce paper, she cited an I quote, extreme cruelty. So the court awards her in her five children with $150 a month in child support.

Not per child, but total. But you think Angelou's gonna let that slide? No, no, no, he's not. So instead of going by his real name, he starts going by Angelou Bono. He changes it, okay? So that he doesn't have to pay child support. It just seems like he just vanished. They couldn't even track him down to get that money.

And Candy, I mean, she's been married to him for like, what, eight years? So she finally, she knows his pattern pattern she knows where he hangs out. She tracks him down and instead of asking for child support she asks if they can get back together. Nailie for the kids. I mean I think that she didn't believe that she could raise the kids by herself and for eight years she had been groomed she had been manipulated. She had been deceived. I mean maybe she genuinely thought this was the only way of life. Maybe she thought every man was like that. And he said, you want to, you want to get back together? Okay, Candy. Well, why don't we go talk about it in our spot? That he takes all the girls too,

but I digress. I guess that's their spot now, right? So he drives her all the way up to the hills, to the secluded spot, handcuffs her, shoves her up against a tree, and puts a pistol on her stomach. And tells her, if you ever come looking for me, or if you ever utter child support, I will kill you. So she gave up all thoughts of reconciling and getting back together, and about a year later, Angelo meets another woman by the name of Nanette Campina. Now, they never officially get married, but they are together for another 8 years. So he just moves on with his life. Now, you're thinking, oh my god, how does he get all these women to stay with him for

so long? Well, he had threatened a net. If she ever thought of leaving, he would hunt her down with his friends, like Hunger Games style, and kill her. So, at this point, she's a mom of two already from a previous marriage, so she's got two kids. One of them is a daughter. Keep this in mind. Then she has two more kids with Angelo and now he's 35 years old with eight children

And so for eight years they just kind of live this blended family. It's not happy. It's abusive. It's violent It's horrendous. It's just as bad as it was before but the last strong their relationship is when all of a sudden And that realized that Angelo was getting too close to her daughter from her previous marriage. A net. Now, too close is just a lightweight to put it, okay? Fourteen-year-old net had told her mom that Angela would fondle her intensely and make obscene suggestions to her. So the net is like, oh my gosh, Angela is assaulting my daughter.

That's definitely what's happening, so she tries to confront him. Did you do something to my kid? And this is so heartbreaking and an incredibly creepy response. He tells her, and I quote, she needs breaking in, and I was just trying to break her in. So without telling anyone, Nanette takes her kids, gets on a plane to Florida, and just never looks back. So suddenly, Angelo's getting older realizes that he has nobody else. Nobody wants to spend time with him, nobody wants to marry him anymore, what a shocker!

I mean, a catch, like the Italian stallion? What are these women thinking? They're out of their minds! So he ends up getting a roommate named Ralph Harper who at the time went by Arty Ford He was an aspiring actor really just trying to live that LA life trying to make it not the greatest department But at least he's in the city of stars, right? So Arty said that Angela was just a bizarre roommate Probably one of the most bizarre and that's saying a lot bit when you live in LA It really gross habit of staring at the window because their apartment looked over the local high school and he would do this butt naked, masturbating,

while peering through binoculars, just like in the living room. It wasn't even in his bedroom. And if that wasn't terrifying, Angelo would brag to Arty, oh yeah, I forged my stepdaughter. And he said, and I quote, younger girls, well, I'm not going to quote it actually, younger

girls down there smell real good like cheese. And he also claimed that he gave a net, his 14 year old stepdaughter to his sons so that they could break her in as well. So this, I mean, he's bragging about this. This is like how scum of the earth he really is. Not only did he do this horrible deed, but now he's bragging about it as if people are going to give him a pat on the back. So when already finally meet some of Angelo's sons, I mean he was kind of intrigued like,

what kind of kids are they? Are they just disgusting? Are they just mini-meas of Angelo? But one of them was completely broken. One of them even confided in him, just a random roommate of his dad's that his own dad was molesting him. The sons too. Yeah, so already felt like he couldn't really do anything because I mean Angelo's terrifying.

All day, his favorite story to tell was about how he would turn on the gas pipes in his ex-wife's house while she was gone. And his dream, his goal, was that she would come home, get on the couch, light a cigarette, and the whole house would blow. But she didn't, and he was really disappointed by it. Swardy, arti's thinking, oh my god, weren't your kids home?

I mean, her kids, but also your kids, your own flesh and blood, what they home, what about the kids? Yeah, well, the kids. If that's what he would do to his own kids, imagine what he would do to his roommates, so already never called the police, never turned him in, never really sent anything. And finally, he was free, because Angelo had saved up enough money to put a down payment on a house in Glendale. Glendale of Los Angeles, and he was stoked. He hated having roommates. They were all so weird. That's what Angela thought. Yeah. Angela, you're

weird. And he loved his little house. He was such a neat freak. Surprisingly, he did his own painting, plumbing, carpentry. He decorated his house. I don't know what's the word to use, honestly. Just very interestingly, he had a frame picture of his son who was a US Marine on the wall. Then right next to it, you're like, okay, that's cute. He has one of his dead dad. Okay, still cute. Then he has one of his daughter. Now it's getting creepy because of who Angela is.

And then nearby was a picture of a woman named Peaches. He was hooking up with Peaches. So it's just like a picture of someone who was having a sex with, I don't know, he was even dating peaches, right? Then he had an Italian flag. And then Renaissance Madonna gazing into the room with her eternally serene eyes. And a sign that says, candy is dandy, but sex won't rot your teeth. Listen, you're not going to find that one at home good. That one's weird, okay? Now, Angela spends a lot of time making sure that everything is in place Everything is dusted. He made sure that his playboy magazines were alphabetically organized

No, I'm kidding, but he did really organize them that meticulously that frequently You also had a water bed. I just don't really trust people with water beds But if it's just a pleasure reason, I don't know. What if it pops? Isn't there mildew? It just seems like a lot more work than it's actually worth. It's just a little weird.

So he keeps his gun on a display in a case. Oh, and his fish. He loved fish. He loved angel fish because his name is Angelo. So he had this giant tank with a castle, and anytime the fish knocked over the little castle, he would roll up his sleeves and spend a lot of time carefully So, yet this giant tank with a castle and anytime the fish knocked over the little castle, he would roll up his sleeves and spend a lot of time carefully putting that castle back

up. He would later be gifted a dog named Sparky and a ton of rabbits, and once his main house was complete, he decorated his garage into a car repair shop. So with all of this architectural digest work that he's doing, he would eat out a lot. And that's where he would literally insult waytraces and then date them afterwards. Okay, so he met a waytrace by the name of Tanya. She's actually the one that gifted him Sparky and the rabbits, which by the way, he had a strange way of raising Sparky. He believed that dogs were like women, that you just have to use them for what they're worth. So he made sure that Sparky was never allowed inside the house because that's only one

step away from Licking Angelo's feet and then that's only one step away from Licking Angelo's leg. Then that's one step away from jumping onto the couch and dogs are like women. They're only good for what they're good for. And Sparky's job was to make sure burglars were scared for house. So it was not to lay on the couch. So while he met her, Tanya, she was way tristing, she was a teenager, and Angelo liked them quote, the younger the better.

So they start dating, and Tanya was just super vulnerable from the time that they met, because of her age, first of all. But secondly, she was in a really abusive relationship, and she found a bit of refuge at Angelo's place. She would go and complain about her boyfriend to him and Angela would not take her side would instead tell her and I quote, stopping a kind. She'd be like, my boyfriend beat me again.

And he'd be like, well, you were probably being a kind. So, Tonya, being this vulnerable and being this young, she felt this advice was because he cared, you know, because he would say, I wouldn't tell you this unless I didn't care about you. I'm just keeping it real. So she would go over often, they would do it, and eventually it started getting more and more violent. Angela would force her into performing Felatio, and he would choke her at the same time.

So she would try to fight back because she didn't consent, and it was incredibly painful, and he would tell her at the same time, so she would try to fight back because she didn't consent and it was incredibly painful and he would tell her, go ahead, go ahead and fight back because it makes my blank hard. It's so graphic, I'm sorry. But she really didn't have any decent person in her life and she found herself coming back to Angelo's frequently just time after time. One time, they were in a three-some situation. We're tawnia, at last minute! I can't do this. This is too much.

What am I getting myself into? I'm literally only 17 years old. Like I just feel nervous. I don't want to do this. That's fine, that's fine, right? But this had taken place after she had taken off her clothes. And instead of being a decent human about it, Angelos tells her, oh it's too late.

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I'm not a big guy man, but I love being that dirty motherfucker. If he couldn't find any other girls to sleep with, he would just sleep with his son's girlfriends who were typically 16 years old. I know, I'm laughing not because it's funny, but because your face was kind of funny right now. He's really shocked. That's disgusting. So they were typically 16 years old and he loved it because again, younger, the better, right?

Now, here's the weird habit that he had he would ask these girls for these small school pictures you know the ones that you got at school for your wallets like you would give to you I don't know your dad like people who love you your book picture yeah you can get the the small pages right and he would say can I get one and he would stuff his wallet full of them he had so many of them and his wallet. I mean, it was literally busting. He had a right next to his fake police ID badge. Next to that, he had other things like little love notes that he requested that these 16 year old girls write. They would say things like, to the stud of the year, it was really

fun knowing you, see around town, or Tony, that's his nickname. Some day when I get mad, I walk out on you and you'll have this picture of me, but that day will probably never come because we've already come this far. Let's go all the way. This one was alarming as well, it's a dear Tony slash dad. Here's a small picture for your wallet. To keep Jesse and Casey can't picture me and you can remember this and what I looked like. So I mean, this guy is heavily grooming these poor girls. Right, this is not just happening out of thin air.

Like, he is truly manipulating them, brainwashing them, grooming them. Another victim was 16-year-old Antoinette, and he made her think that she was just this mature, confident girl, unlike her immature friends, unlike the immature boys at her high school. No, you're different. That's why I, a 40-year-old like you. And she felt better about this. She had low self-esteem, so she thought,

oh my gosh, like this guy really values me, like he sees me for what I possibly am. So she would ride her bike to his house after school, and he would shower her with gifts, like a new tennis racket. And he really took his time with her, with grooming her. He kept telling her, right when you graduate. Oh, right after graduation, I'll propose. We get married. He made her think that they were in love. Meanwhile, he was assaulting her. I mean, essentially, he was raping her. And grooming her to think that all sex like this is normal. You've just never had sex before, so of course this is new to you. He would mention about how fun it would be if she were to pass out while quote deep throating.

It would be the most fun that they ever have. One day, Antonette had actually caught Angelou in his house having sex with Tanya. And she ran away crying because she thought, oh my god, I thought we were in love. Like I thought we were getting married. But eventually she came back and Angelo convinced her. It's not cheating. You have to understand a man is just filled with enormous passion. We're not, what do men say, or what do some men say? Men are not made to be monogamous. They're not monogamous creatures. Like he gave her that whole shbiel, okay? Listen, you ever hear that run 25 miles per hour, the opposite direction that is so alarming, okay? And besides, Antoinette, I'm not gonna be doing this when we get married.

You know, when we get married, obviously, I'm gonna be lovingly faithful to you. I just have a lot of passion right now. And she took him back. And just the list of horrible things that he would do to this poor girl, he convinced her to loan him $300. But he actually used the money to fly out his ex-wife's daughter, a net, the one that he had assaulted.

Yeah, flew her out using Antoinette's money. Later, Antoinette gets pregnant, he convinces her to get an abortion, but that's okay. That's okay because they're gonna get married, right? The next time she gets pregnant again, she ends up miscarried. And he's like, that's okay. Because we're gonna get married, right? So around this time, a guy comes into the picture.

His name is Kenneth Bianchi. Now he's known as quote unquote, Angelo's crazy cousin. So they're cousins, right? He comes and moves to Los Angeles. Originally, he was also born in Rochester, New York, just like Angelo. Now his mom was, his biological mom was a sex worker.

He never really met her, never really knew her, kind of knew about her later vaguely, but never had a relationship with her. That was about it. She had given them up for adoption when he was only three months old. She was adopted by Jenny Blono's sister. So this is, you know, Angelo's aunt,

who had adopted him. Her name is Francis. So they're not blood related. They're not blood related, which I think is more alarming, or less alarming. I don't know. Maybe more? Because what are the odds?

Maybe you could just say the environment of that family. Yeah. I don't know. So since the day that Kenneth could talk, I mean, he was an absolute compulsive liar. And it would just be the most off the wall bizarre lies. Like Francis was starting to get worried about him, because not only is he lying all the time, but he would go into these little trances, where he would just stare off into space,

and his eyes would just roll back into his head. Uh, hello? What's going on? So Francis is freaking out. Well, I gotta take him to the doctor or something to get to the bottom of it. But when she does, they thought, well, it's probably some small seizures. He's gonna grow out of it. He's just a kid. Let him have these seizures in peace, Francis. You got nothing to worry about. This later made a lot of people speculate that possibly he was faking his seizures.

He actually wasn't having any, but regardless, eventually Francis didn't understand why Kenneth just wasn't like the other boys she takes him to a psychiatrist turns out she's part of the problem the psychiatrist told her Kenneth is a hostile child I'm talking hostile lady okay he's got this intense dependent attachment on you and both of you guys should be in therapy together I don't know if they didn't do it, but it didn't work So off to high school can it goes and he starts dating a lot He starts getting these tattoos on his right arm. He gets a motorcycle with the words Satan's own MC I don't know if that means Satan's own motorcycle or Or like a DJ, like a host at a wedding, but I'm see.

I don't know, but a few days later, he said he was embarrassed of it and he didn't know why he got it. So that was maybe a drunk mistake. Just at 18 years old, he gets married to Brenda Beck, and it only lasts a few months. He hated the fact that Brenda was way too independent. She had a job. Disgusting. She was a nurse. And she wasn't a virgin when they got married. Like, how does she even have the audacity that's disgusting? So the latter was probably the last straw, because strangely, Kenneth had a warped view of

female purity. And it was really extreme. He hated women wearing tight jeans, v-neck sweaters, believe that they should dress more monocly and that they should be pure till marriage. Of course, he shouldn't live by those standards because men are different, you know, they're not wired to be monogamous. So once he leaves high school, his main dream in life is to be a police officer. He wants to quote, help people. Unfortunately for him, fortunately for the rest of the world, he

was denied and he was just so hard-broken. So it gets a job as a security at a little like a little clothing place anyway and he's like, you know what, this is better than the police force because at least I can steal things from the store that I'm guarding. At least I can like steal these things and then give them to all of my girlfriends because he had a lot of girlfriends but not a lot of money. So this is perfect. it worked out great. Later he said the urge to steal is as bad as the urge to pee and he never grew out of his lying face.

So he's 21 and he sits down to write a letter to his girlfriend. He mainly would lie to get sympathy and you'll be a little confused once I read you the letter because you're like how is that going to get anyone's sympathy but he genuinely just wanted sympathy. So it's confusing. He tells her about how he had killed a man. But don't worry about me, baby. I'm good. I'm not gonna get caught. I made the death look like a heart attack. Now here's the problem though. I'm suspected in three other murders. The murders of three little girls. Pour me. Will is me. What am I gonna do? Are you gonna visit me in jail?

I'm on the run. But he didn't do it. No. Okay. Yeah. And he wrote it for sympathy. Yeah. Which is bizarre.

Because what girl is gonna look at that and be like, oh my god, he needs my support right now. There's gonna be one person out there, huh? There's gotta be, yeah. There's people who get married to serial killers. So, what am I saying? Maybe he lied more as he got older because his life was getting boring. Early as that's what he thought, he wanted a fresh start. Let's move to LA. Let's make something of ourselves. Come on Kenneth, you got this. So he asked his mom, who told him that maybe you can

ask your cousin, maybe you can ask my nephew, Angelo. He lives in Los Angeles. Why don't you stay with him while you try to get your life together and get a job? It'll be great. So they call up their buddy Angelo and he says, yeah, yeah, come on over. It'll be great, okay? Sounds good. Real quick, let me just give you a more visual look at this guy.

So Kenneth is 26 years old and he was obsessed with wearing leather coats, jeans, and suits when he didn't need to wear suits. He had permed his hair so that it would constantly be curly. He had this nice little mustache. Well at least for a while, he left switching up his look all the time. Sometimes he was freshly shaved in Ken. Sometimes he had a full-on beard and a perm. A lot of people say that he was inspired by Angelo's naturally curly hair. Honestly, rude, but the other describes him to be just like any other person in LA trying to make it. Like he's the type of guy the way that he acts and like his demeanor, his cadence.

It almost seems like he's, he looks like he's being photographed. Do you not mean the way that he walks, the way that he stops and look out, the street? Yeah, just doing too much. You're not in a movie, sir. There's no paparazzi anywhere. Nobody knows you, Kenneth. What's going on? So when he gets to California, he stays with Angela. How old was Angela? Oh, I think like late 30s, Kenneth is 26. Okay. So like a decade difference. But both adorable for people. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe, listen listen I can't even pick a more horrible one. It's just so bad. And Kenneth was impressed by Angelou. Just so impressed. How are you so good with the ladies? Teach me your ways. He starts picking up on his little tricks here in their

A.K.A. just being an absolute douche and the two of them would just get so excited when Angelou's sons would come over because yes you guessed it, both of them wanted to sleep with the girlfriends. Sometimes if it didn't work out, Angela would sit his sons down with his girlfriends. Kenneth is there too, so this is like their uncle. They would sit all on the couch and they would turn on porn and just watch it together as a group. I mean, this is the epitome of family-friendly bonding. Don't you think? How else do you get to know your son's girlfriends?

This is the only way. Eventually, Angela would decide, okay, well, let me try to kind of try my way with my own daughter, Grace. He would convince her to only come over after cheerleading practice and he wanted her to sleep on his water bed with him. As a high schooler. I mean, this is so bizarre. So one night, Angelo and Kenny and Angelo the third, we're just going to call him by

his middle name Anthony. They were all sitting around with nothing better to do and Angelo was thinking, I got a great idea. Let's get a girl over here. Like a sex worker? Like we can call one to the house? I mean that sounds good. Yeah, dad, didn't you have like a magazine link around with the sex workers on there?

Let's call the number. Yeah, yeah, sounds good. So they stayed it. They call that number. And they stated they wanted a sex worker, right? And that could handle three guys. And when she got to the house, all three guys took turns with her in the bedroom Meanwhile when Kenny was in the room with the woman

Angela starts digging through her purse in front of his son like this is what he's teaching his son Taking through the woman's purse looking for money and goes, oh look nice five bucks Stuff's it in his pocket and he starts giving his son valuable life lessons at that moment. I tell you what son This one is a dumb. She didn't even take any money out from can you believe that? That's the first rule they teach you. She's so dumb, she's not even worth paying. She's not even that good right? Wait dad we're just not gonna pay her. That's what I just said isn't it? Just just watch. When Kenny gets back with the girl, Angelo straight up tells her, hey, you

ain't where she's here, take your purse and get out of here. No, but you owe me for my services, what's fair is fair. Oh yeah? You'd be lucky giving away your services for free. Tell you what, he reaches inside his pocket, grabs his wallet, pulls out his fake police badge. Why don't you get out of here real fast or else I'm gonna arrest you. So what's it gonna be? She quickly grabs her things and skadattles out of there. Now they're all sitting around the living room, Angelo's on his high horse teaching his son. You see what I just taught you? You can't let a get the upper hand. You gotta put them in their place. She wasn't worth shit. As they're sitting there, they're high

fiving, giving these horrible life lessons and the phone starts ringing. Hey son, go pick it up. Hello? The person on the other line just says, You got a real nice house. Real nice. Tell you what, I'm gonna mess up your house real good. I'm gonna blow up that nice house of yours.

You're gonna be flying high. I'm gonna send you into the sky. You're gonna die. You mother You don't pay for your play. You're gonna not gonna see another day. Tell you what? Recreation can be real expensive and they hung up There we go. Angela's like who is it? Jesus some insert racial slur here says he's gonna blow up the house insert racial slur here says he's gonna blow up the house Must be her pimp get he's bluffing. Where is he even gonna find dynamite at this time of night?

He's just joking around. No, I don't know where you find dynamite at the time of day Okay, that guy that pimp is just joking around Kenny was the only one that seemed to worry. Are you sure? Yeah, calm down. Besides, it adds a little excitement and helps pass the time, am I right? But as he said that, bright headlights shine through the window. And when they look outside, someone is parked in the driveway, honking their horn.

Who's that? I don't know. The driver gets out. Did you guys call for a taxi? No, we didn't call for a taxi. It's a mistake. Then the phone rang. Angela picked it up this time. If you don't pay by midnight, I'm going to blow the place.

And they hung up. It was 11.45. They had 15 minutes. So Kenny starts freaking out. Are you sure he's not serious? Should we get out of here? What do we do? Angela rushes into his room, grabs three rifles, gives one to each guy,

and says, if this insert racial slur gets in here with 10 yards of this house, we shoot. He's gonna be a dead and word. Watch the side door, Kenny. Anthony, you're in the front. There's no way anyone can come in from the back. We've got all sides covered, so they all crouched down below the windows with their rifles ready and a white van Pulls up into the house, but it's a giant ambulance We didn't call you get out of here. It's a mistake. Ain't nobody sick here So this pissed off at Angelo someone was messing with them calling cars to their place. Who's he gonna call next? Kenny says well, he might call a hearse

That's where they transport dead bodies. Shut up, Kenny. A few minutes before midnight, another call comes in. Your house is gonna blow up by midnight. You have a few minutes left. So this really throws off Angelo. He's finally scared. So just like any other guy who's not tough,

who's not bad, he runs to the phone. 911, hello? Can you come over to my house, please? They rush to the scene and they're like, everyone stay calm, put down your guns, what's going on in here. Listen, officer, I'm just a businessman. My name's Angelo and I don't want any trouble.

I'm a victim of a bomb threat. Okay, sir, calm down. We'll keep an eye on on the house tonight and for the next few days. And that's what they do, but nothing happens. But Kenny, Kenny loved this experience. He loved it so much he wanted to join the police force again. God, why do I want to be a police officer?

Well, let me think, I want to help people. Look, people need our help, it's trouble times out there. I get to work outside. I don't really like an office job. I want to go around the city. I want to make America safe again, you know, a place of law and order. So he applies to be in the Glendale Police Department and the LAPD, and he was rejected from both. So he gives up and he starts looking for other possibilities. Maybe he can go to college

and study psychology. He wanted to coach people on how they should live their lives. Yes, because he doesn't rob and threaten sex workers in his free time. That's not what he does. He opens up a place called LaBrea Counseling Services. He bought a diploma online with money that his mom was still sending him every single month because he was a mom's boy. I mean, this guy is in his late 20s. He opens up a shop with the goal to quote unquote, advise people on whether or not to have an abortion, what to do when you're faced with a terminal illness diagnosis, and how to deal with impotence caused by unemployment. It's when you can't get a bonbon because you're unemployed. So Angela wasn't really impressed by any of this. She was starting to get annoyed with Kenny. I mean, you're overstaying

your visit. Okay, I thought you were just gonna stay here a couple of months. Sure, sure, Angelo likes having someone around to admire him, praise him, and obviously respects him, given the love and admiration that only Angelo deserves. But, like a woman in a dog, Kenny needs to be put in his place now in that. Hey Kenny, come over here. I need you to find a real job.

Get your own place and do it fast, because I'm kicking your ass out. Okay. So Kenny has to give up La Brea counseling. It's not bringing in money, so he gets a job at the California Land Title Company, and he hated working there. He told his boss that he has cancer, and he needs to call out, because he has to go to chemo all the time. This was a lie.

His boss was not impressed by his work, or his pretty obvious cancer lie, but for some reason they kept him around. Even though the huge problem was that Kenny would go into the systems, get access to the names and addresses of a ton of celebrities, write it down, share it with his friends. This is like before the internet, so this is back before doxing was really a thing, and this truly was incredibly difficult information to get. Anyway, tell his friends, if I wanted I could just drive up to the celebrity's houses just to say hi. Listen listen if I weren't such an honest and good man I would use this

information to rob these rich people but I won't because I'm a good person. But his mom on the other hand is thinking oh my god, my baby Kenneth! How grown you are now, and she was so happy that she sent him money to buy a new car. A hot 1972 Cadillac four doors sedan, a chick magnet, as they call it. And with his job and his mom, Kenny gets his own place just six blocks away from Angelo. With his newfound independence, he calls up Susan. Who's Susan, huh? It was a girlfriend that he had in Rochester, in New York. He had proposed her multiple times and she kept denying him because he was immature, always cheating. What's wrong with you? But he called her and said, listen, Susan.

I've established myself now. I have a job. I have my own place. I left the place I was comfortable to try to make it in LA. And now I realize, I appreciate you. I left the place I was comfortable to try to make it an L.A. and now I realize I appreciate you. I should have treated you better. The girls out here, these California girls, these hot sexy California girls, just aren't for me. They're too loose. They think having sex is the same as eating a hamburger. Even their clothes are sl- they're not modest. I need you. I want you to come and like marry me, please. They're not modest. I need you. I want you to come and marry me, please. So Susan is, um, she's honestly swept up by this.

She surprisingly gives him a chance. So she's impressed. She flies to California. He picks her up in his brand new catalac, but the minute that she sees his apartment, her happiness is short-lived. The entire place is decorated with very obviously fake college diplomas from places like Columbia University, where you know Dan well Kenneth did not go. Okay, so she tried anyway.

That is until Kenny found out that she had been on a couple of dates since he had moved. He told her no, you're no better than the California Slats. You've got to go. So the very first night together they were just fighting, arguing about how she was in the slot. And the very next day, less than 24 hours in LA, Susan wants to go home. He drives her to the airport, thinking, maybe she'll change her mind. Be impressed by me, and want to go back to my apartment.

So he tries to woo her in the span of an hour by sobbing in her face. You don't even know how much I love you. Like, it's immeasurable in this world. I'm lost without you. You're the only one for me. We're perfect together. But she's still got on that plane. But he was. Just mattered her for being a slut. It's very confusing. This guy went through so many emotional stages in 24 hours and then he leaves and almost immediately he stops crying and just calls up his other girlfriends. That he was also lied to by the way, so Susan really had dodged a bullet because dating Kenny is really something else.

He was insanely jealous, super possessive over his multiple girlfriends. He had been hooking up with a woman that lived in his apartment building named Angie. Now they were just hooking up. Okay. When they stop seeing each other, she finds someone new. They start dating and eventually, I mean, he moves into the unid. They're really in love. Kenny!

Kenny's mad. He thought, how could she betray him? Oh, this is the best sex she's probably ever had, right? Girls are so dumb. How could you do that? So he'd pound on her door late at night. He would confront her in the laundry room. She told him, grow up, get a life, it was just sex!

So he broke into her apartment and found her diaphragm, which is like an inverted condom, essentially. You put it into the vagina before you have sex. He punched a hole through it, threw it on the ground, and then urinated all over it, stole the boyfriend's new TV for good measure, and then he placed a seamen filled condom over the door knob Yeah Yeah Then there was another woman named Kelly that he meant that he actually had a child with Anyway, she was upset that he was always coming home late

He just wasn't the same as before they had this kid He would essentially love bomb her in the beginning with these letters, sweet little gifts, like just all these sweet words of affirmation, but now he barely cared about her, kept telling her he needed his freedom. But she wasn't allowed to have hers. Anytime his jealousy would spike, he would try to get sympathy from her and would lie that he had cancer. And to really sell it, he would drive to the hospital with her, asked her to wait in the

catalach while he went in to get his treatment. Eventually, he starts a new business called Dr. Bianchi will answer any five questions for $10. That was like the sign, okay. Why would you ask him questions you wonder? Well, he's a Columbia University graduate and a quote-unquote certified sex therapist. That's why.

It didn't work. The questions, nobody had questions for him nobody really wanted to ask him questions so Angelo decides well why don't we do a joint business venture together you and me the family business cousin to cousin okay what do you have in mind Kenny think about this you and me pimps that's good I've been thinking about it for weeks. It's a good business model. So one of us is going to be the Pimps.

The other one is going to go find the clients. Oh, it'll be good. It'll be perfect. Okay, well how do we start? We just need to find a girl. That's it. Just Pimped out a girl. Okay, okay.

So Kenny goes to a party and finds a 16 year old girl named Sabra Hanan. Now she was an aspiring model and she was beautiful. And you kept saying, what you should be making a ton of money modeling. You just haven't found the right people yet. I'm telling you, I have a ton of contacts in Hollywood, matter of fact, I can guarantee that you're gonna make $500 a week easy.

Minimum. Here, take my card. Yeah, no problem. Okay, well, I'll think about it, right? So they part ways and she said she would call if she couldn't find any more work in about a month later. She called them. Hey Kenny, I'm in Phoenix, but I'm,

you said that I can make $500 a week. If you can just buy me a ticket back to LA, I'll work for a week and then I can pay you back for the, the plane fare. Yeah, no problem, Sabra. I'll have my secretary arrange for a plane ticket He said just pick it up at the airport by the way. Do you need a place to stay? Yeah, probably no big deal. I'll have my secretary arrange everything on me throughout the airport man I have I have a good feeling about this, okay?

Sabra I really think that you're gonna go places So we rush it to Angelo. Angelo, guess what? I just got a girl and just wait till you see her. Oh, she's first class tall, blonde, skinny, great boobs. They stand right up and wink at you. That's what he said, okay, these are not my descriptions. And she's broke.

Wait, but I didn't tell her it was sex work, Angelo. She thinks we're doing a modeling gig. Wait, what do I do, Angelo? She looks too clean cut to be down for sex work. What do I do? I didn't even tell her it was nude modeling. Can't eat relax. Don't worry. You paid her plane fare. You already own her. She owes us. Leave it to me. We'll be getting gold out of her ass in no time. I'm telling you the book once makes you gag, okay? This whole, their conversations make you gag. The way that they think makes you gag. So Kenny picks her up at the airport, had straight for Angelo's place. He gave her some orange juice that he had spikes so she'd be knocked out by the time they pull up into Angelo's driveway and they get her a place to stay at the motel across the street from Angelo's place. And when Ken is signed for

the room, I mean this is just weird, it's not really pertinent to the story. He signed it, Kenis A.Bianchi, PhD. I don't know why he felt the need to do that, but he did, okay? He needed the motel staff to know that he had a fake Ph.D. So finally, when Sabra wakes up, she gets taken into the motel where Kenny takes out a box of diamonds and shows it to her. Listen, if you work for me in Angelo for six months, you can get one of these diamonds as a bonus on top of your salary. Oh my god, I can't believe it.

Like yesterday I was broken now, now I'm staring at these beautiful diamonds. as a bonus on top of your salary. Oh my god, I can't believe it. Like yesterday I was broken now. No, I'm staring at these beautiful diamonds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't worry about it. Sabot, we take good care of our employees. I mean, we really, it's great for morale. Here, try this on. And he would pass her these two nightgowns.

And she changed. But when she came out of the bathroom, she said, can you do you mind if we talk tomorrow? I don't know why, but I just feel so tired. And she went to lay down and he jumps into bed with her. She did not even have the strength to fight back. She was so tired for some reason. Yeah, she was spiked.

And all she could say was, no, I don't even really know you. Like, not now. Come on, Sabra, you're acting like a virgin. You can't fool me. And Kenny's thinking to himself, I'm so dumb, I should have given her something stronger. I've been waiting to rip her for the past two days. And she kept begging, no, please, can you let me sleep?

And surprisingly, he did. Because he wanted to groom her. So the next day, Angelo meets Sabra, and he looks her up and down and smiles. That was his way of saying hi. Get's up from his chair, pulls out a lot of cash. Like he always carries, yeah, the Italian stallion, pulls out a hundred dollar bill, gives it her. Here, this will get you some new clothes.

You're working for us right now. Thank you, uh, yeah, I guess I'm working for you guys. Okay, well that means your word is your bond to us for one year. Got it? Sure. No really. Your word is your bond to us for one year. Got it? Sure No really your word is your bond. Remember that. Don't forget that, okay? Okay And they move Sabra into this bear bedroom and Angela's place and they really groom her first

They isolate her then they told her that anywhere she goes she has to tell them she can't take jobs without them She can't go anywhere without them. she can't even take a walk without them. But when do I get to start working? Well hold on it's July you don't know about July? Oh you're really not from here are you? You know everyone in LA is on vacation in July. Hollywood stops during the summer. You don't get jobs in the summer are you kidding? Yeah because vacations. So you're just gonna have to wait around for a while. So they tried to ease her, manipulate her into sex work. At first they asked if she wanna do a high class nude photo shoot, but the client wanted some test shots.

So they get her on Angela's water bed, take nude pictures of her, and she agreed. She said it was really uncomfortable, but she did it. Oh, that's so sad though, Sabra. The deal fell through last minute. I'm so sorry, but at least we have these test shots to send other people now. Hey, have you ever thought about doing sex work, though?

Oh, no, no, no way. I'm really not into that. We'll just think about it. Meanwhile, don't go anywhere without me. Got it? Now, she thought that they were just joking when they kept saying this. So one day, she does decide to go out to cheer herself up.

She had that $100 bill. Maybe, you know, she was a little bit depressed from not being able to get a job that deal falling through, so she decides to go shopping. But the problem was, she just left. She genuinely just left, got up out of the house, hitched a ride to the mall, and did some shopping, and came home. Now, when she gets there, the cousins are waiting outside for her. You left without me Yeah, I just wanted to get some new clothes. Look. Do you like the skirt? You walk down Colorado and got a ride with some guy

Do you know that guy? No, I just thought he was nice when you were at the mall you talked to someone. Did you know that person? No, they just asked me a question and I answered it. You're a lying kind of whore. Kenny, get the towel. Take off your clothes and do what I say. So they drag her back into a room and they start beating her with a wet towel.

Now this was Kenny's first time beating a woman. This was not Angelo's. And Angelo taught him the benefits of a wet towel. It doesn't leave bruising marks. And Kenny loved it, the whole experience he loved Angelo egging him on, Angelo kept telling him, hit the bullseye right between the legs, do it. So that night they assaulted her, made her perform folatio on them, and threatened her. They told her, you work for us now as a sex worker, you don't have a choice, you always

for the plane ride and the clothes that you just bought, and you're gonna have to pay it back one way or the other Remember your word is your bond for your even if you do try to run away. You're dead. Do you understand that? You can't escape. We have friends in the mafia You know what they do to girls who try to run. I'll tell you what they do. They cut off their arms They cut off their legs and they chop them up and ship them out into the desert. Do you want to do that? Do you want to be that? So thus their business, their LLC, was formed. When a man came in to Angela's car repair shop in his garage, he would show that person nude pictures of Sabra, and he would say and I quote, you want a piece of that? And if they did, they would pay up front.

They would be escorted into a room where she would have sex with them. Worst is that he had more customers come by because they got word of sabra. They also didn't give sabra a dime. Nothing. Even when they went out to eat, they refused to let her order anything. Angela would just sit there, order his favorite soup, grin and eat it in front of sabra and say, I bet you're real hungry aren't you? Remember what will happen if you run away, okay? And they would also proceed to rip her at least once a day. And they only referred to her by her nickname, which was Tits. So it

said that Angelo had an obsession with anal sex, but when he tried to sort of my Sabra, it didn't work. And he was so upset that he invested in this large dildo, and he told her to quote unquote, practice with it or else, and she cried, but she still tried because she was terrified. Which by the way, every time she was crying and, you know, trying, I guess, the cousins would watch her and yell at her

while they were both masturbating, like in the same room. And if it didn't work, she was beat with a wet towel. While all of this is taking place, Sabre was trapped in the same room. And if it didn't work, she was beat with a wet towel while all of this is taking place. Sabra was trapped in the house, Angela had other girls come over, they either didn't know or maybe didn't try to help save Sabra, maybe they were terrified. Remember Antoinette, the young girl, that he was gonna marry right after high school, in reality, he was getting in a way to her. She was boring now.

And potentially getting too old. So he told her, listen. How would you know that you're not gonna fall in love with someone else? You've only ever been with me. How do you know? You're in high school. How do you know you're not gonna fall in love with some other guy after we get married? What if you're just like the other girls that broke my heart? She's like, no, Angela, I've never...

Listen, the way to prove it is you have to screw someone else. And tell me if you like it. If you don't like it, we're gonna get married. Okay? She's thinking but I don't really like anyone else. How would I even do that? That's okay. I'll arrange something. This was perfect because Angelo being a pimp now was in charge of supplying girls for an orgy for one of his clients. There would be at least seven men present, and they wanted at least two girls. So now there's Sabra and there's Antoinette. And Antelo decided that the two girls would split up. Since Sabra was more experienced,

she would get five men, meanwhile Antoinette would get two since she wasn't that experienced yet. And Sabra was even compensated of whopping $60 for this orgy. And Antoinette afterwards, what was she given? What she was broken up with, because she showed quote unquote signs of enjoyment, so she would not be a good wife.

So now his sex work business is booming. I mean, it was time like any other growing business to focus on expansion. So he pulls Sabra to the side and tells her, unless you wanna be here, you know, here, for another 10 months, maybe a year, you need to find another girl. We need to contract her. Okay, I know someone, I know someone, but they're in Phoenix. Okay, well, you can go back for one week to bring her back, but don't try anything funny, because I have friends in law enforcement in Phoenix, and they owe me favors. I'm the real deal. You don't want to mess with me."

Susabba comes back with 15-year-old Becky. Becky had been wanting to leave home, she had a rough family life. She wanted to start a new life in a big city like LA. This is where her dreams would come true. And Angela liked Becky from the get-go. His favorite thing about her was that she, quote-unquote, let him satimize her. When he threatened to end her life.

So with this, he managed to move Sabra out of the house, get her own place nearby, but she was so terrified she couldn't run. And Becky would stay in this spare room. Becky was satimized so often and so violently by Angelo that at just 15 years old, he had torn her fentermessels, so she had to wear a tampon in her rectum to control her bowel movements. She was beat so often and so violently. Meanwhile, Becky was super passive and she was shocked

at only 15 years old. Anytime Angelo yelled at her, she would just shut down. And he would get so upset trying to shake her, trying to get her riled up like, what's the matter with you? Aren't you alive? Fight me. Even tits is better than you. Now with the two girls, he really felt like he could start advertising, marketing for his business.

So he booked ads on a place called Foxy Ladies, and he offered to send Sabran and Tunette to these clients' houses, which is super dangerous. In addition to that, they were raised by the cousins and all the other car repair clients, and they were never paid. They were barely given enough food to survive. And one day, a client calls into the Foxy Lady services. His name is David Wood, and he's a Los Angeles attorney. Now, typically, he's not a client for these types of services,

but he was feeling extra lonely that night, and he thought, might as well, try it out. So Becky gets sent over to his house and he was surprised. He was disgusted. He just felt grossed out by her. He was like, oh my god, you don't even look showered. Am I really gonna let you this nasty person into, I'm saying this because he's not a great person. Okay, so please don't praise him. Am I really gonna let you into my clean, expensive attorney owning house with your darniness? I don't know. But he felt pity for her because her pit might get mad. Her pit might beat her, so fine, you can come into my office.

But don't lay on my bed. Don't even sit on my couch, you know? So he let her into the office and he asks the usual, how did a nice young girl like you get into sex work? And the floodgates just opened and poor you literally poured her soul out to David. I mean everything, she's being held captive. They were raking her, she felt like they were going to kill her soon. These two cousins, their friends at the mafia.

Now David, being an attorney and a pretty smart dude, he was like, yeah, they're probably not connected to the mafia, like they're taking advantage of this young girl. He doesn't even have connections to the police because he's taking advantage of this young girl who will believe anything He's got this he's just a low-time pimp. It's disgusting. So he buys her a ticket to Phoenix Where she didn't have family but at least friends to be with and he takes her to the airport sends off So it very nice just like that just like that But doesn't call the police probably because he had hired a sex worker, which is illegal, right?

So that night Angel and Kenny didn't try to get Becky back from David because they honestly didn't suspect a thing. They felt like David Woods was the type of guy to ask a girl out to dinner before going to bed. You know, the suited up guy, one of those losers, that's how they called it. But he probably wouldn't be done with her till the morning. It's a really bad way to phrase it, but that's kind of how they made it sound. So when morning came, Becky's still not home. What the hell? They call David. Listen,

I will kill. They get hung up on. They call it get. You don't know who you're dealing with. I have connect. They got hung up on. And they realize Becky wouldn't be coming back. And they start worrying. Listen, if Sabra sees this, she's going to see the company failing because this is a business. Remember, then she's going to get an idea and she's going to run. So to prevent that, to scare her, they stuff Becky's clothes into a box with a dead cat and show it to her. This is a learning message, right? Do you get it? Dead putty. That's what that means, Sabra. So that's what Becky's going to be. And that's what you will be if you ever try to leave. To make good on that promise, Angelo keeps harassing David to get back his quote property.

David the attorney instead of calling the police calls up a client by the name of Tiny, a 300-pound bouncer at a club that he had represented once. Listen, I need a favor. I need you to go, bring your other friends, and tell this guy to leave me alone. So Tiny shows up at Angelos place with four of his other, not so tiny, friends. And they threaten him. And Angelos, oh, okay, okay, okay, I got the message. So thankfully, Sabra didn't lose hope.

She tries to escape, and finally a few months later, she leaves L.A. and she disappears. Now the cousins, they're out of their business and they were mad. This means that they can't afford the payments on their beautiful catalog. Are you kidding me? We can't let the girls get away with this. We need to kill them. We're kill someone. We need to kill some sex worker.

We need to get our revenge out in the world. We need to risk and kill a sex worker. And that shows everyone. We don't tolerate stuff like this. When I get my hands around some kind of throat some kind that doesn't deserve to live that's how he's phrasing it oh it'll be done for so one night in September angelo gets kidnapped hey let's go get a whore and get it over with so they drive around hollywood pick up two teenage girls

they get into the car and Angela drives them around, taking them up the hills. Flashes his police badge, the fake one. Girls, if you don't cooperate with me, you'll be busted, okay? I'm gonna send you to jail. Are you getting one I'm putting down? They assaulted the girls in the car. And afterwards, they pushed them out completely

and they get and let them go. So Angela would later blame Kenny for this. You chickened out! No, Angela, I swear I didn't know what I would have done at it. I thought you didn't want to because I thought, you know, with two of them maybe we were just trying to kill one person. Yeah? Well Kenny, I called Bullshit.

Okay? Let's see what you're made of tomorrow night. The next night they drove around and they stopped when they spotted two girls. Now, it's unclear if they were sex workers, but once they pulled up, one of the girls ran away and the other one stayed to talk. Angela pulls out his fake police badge. Vice squad, let's see some ID. Uh, my wallet was stolen, but I have my citizen papers.

And they take a look at it and she happened to be Catherine Lawre, a daughter of a Hungarian actor who played a rapist and Murder in a very big box movie What hey look what we got here. It's Peter Lord's daughter Where you going home from school? I have a right look over there So can he kept looking at Angelo like should we let it go do we kidnap her? What do we do? But Angelo told him no, we got to let this one go Okay, we'll take care of yourself, Catherine. You shouldn't be walking out this late at night,

and they just stopped. They stopped looking for girls. So the next few months, I mean, it was a bit rough. Angelo had a bit of a life crisis. His mom was sick with vaginal cancer, and it seemed like he was so torn. Between Does he love his mom, does he want her to live, or does he hate her because she's a whore?

So meanwhile, Kenny managed to find Jennifer to work for them. Another sex worker, and Deborah sells them a clientele book with a lot of men that were interested in sex work. Angela had been waiting for this for a long time. Most men were what they call in-call clients, meaning they want to come to you. You provide a motel, or it has to be an Angela's house which he didn't like but an out-call list is the most valuable less overhead because that means the sex workers go to the men. Debra sold him this valuable out-call list only it turns out it wasn't. Every client they called was an in-call client. So in the fit of his anger Kenny goes into the room to Sodomize Jennifer, the worker that was held hostage in their house. She tries to

fight him off and he storms off to Angela like a little kid complaining to a parent. She's not cooperating. We should kill her right now. And he's like, you dumb shit. We can't kill her. She can easily be traced back here. Do you not have a brain? You thought you were so smart, huh? Besides, if we're gonna kill someone, it's gonna be Debra. She just scammed me from the list. Listen, I can't find her right now, but we can find her friend. We kill the friend, and that's gonna send a message to her. Oh, I'm ready, Angela. I'm ready. I'm ready for it. Let's quote, kill the bitches. So, Angela looked Kenny in the eyes and said, me, noomi. Now, Kenny had no idea what this meant. He always believed it meant my friend

in Italian, but the translation is my gods. So before the pre-Christian time, the gods in literal translation essentially were, you are my fate, my destiny, you and I are bound together forever in blood and in death. So that's kind of what he was saying, which is very spooky. So they leave Panic Jennifer, who genuinely believed that they were gonna kill her, and the cousins get into the car, get their revenge. They pick up Yolanda, another fellow sex worker, and best friend of Debra's. They handcuff her, rip her in the car, and strangle her to death. When Kenny felt she was dead, he took a large turquoise ring from her left hand, slipped it in his pocket because it would make a great present for his girlfriend.

The first victim was dead. They would dump her body near the road next to the entrance of the graveyard across a Warner Bros. set, honestly. And soon after that, on Halloween, Judy Miller would be found, raped, sotomized, and strangled to death. Within months, eight more bodies would follow. And this is the beginning of the hillside stranglers. So this was part one, there's gonna be part two this weekend on Sunday

for you guys that's gonna be covering all of the murders. I mean, it took a full episode to just cover just the lives, the childhoods of these two, because I mean, it took a full episode to just cover just the lives, the childhoods of these two because I mean, it's wild. This is just the beginning. Let me know what you think. I hope you guys enjoyed this week's main episode and I will see you guys on Sunday for the mini-sode. Bye!