Angelo Buono
“The Hillside Strangler”
Alex Reading
As a kid
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Parents divorced
Delinquent attitude
Stole cars for joyrides
Raped girls and laughed about it to his friends
Saw sex as an act of dominance
Verbally abused his own mother calling her
harsh words
Lacked good looks, intelligence, and maners
Actions of a Serial Killer
Angelo and his cousin,
Kenneth, wanted to get
young girls to work for them
as prostitutes
 Deborah Noble and
Yolanda Washington give
the guys a false list of men
names for the job
 Strangle Yolanda in the back of Ken’s car; also raped
her
 Her body was found in a cemetery with the fabric
that was used to strangle her around her neck
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Actions Cont.
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Victim- Judith Miller (15) was a
runaway and prostitute
 Found with marks on ankles, wrists, and
neck
 Raped
 Victim 3- Elissa Kastin (21) waitress
 Found naked on a highway embankment
 Found with similar marks as Miller’s
 Raped and sodomized
Actions Cont.
 Victim
4- Jane King (28) aspiring actress
 Found near Los Feliz off ramp on the
Golden State Freeway
 Strangled and sodomized
 Victim 5 and 6- Sonja Johnson (14) and
Dolly Cepeda (12)
 A 9 year old boy found both girls naked in
Highland Park
 Both nude with marks and was raped
Actions Cont.
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Victim 7- Kristina Weckler (20) college student
Victim 8- Lauren Wagner (18)
Found nude, strangled, electrical burns on her
palms
Raped and marks
Victim 9- Kimberly Martin (18)
Found same day in a vacant lot on a hillside
Victim 10- Cindy Hudspeth (20) college student
Found in the trunk of her car that was pushed off
of a cliff
Found nude, raped, and with marks
Media Attention
 Kenneth
told police what they did to the
girls
 Went to court and Kenneth said he
doesn’t know if he was telling the truth so
everything was dropped
 Later found guilty and charged with 10
counts of murder
Adolescence
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Dropped out of 10th grade and never went
back
He had his first kid at a young age with
Geralaine Vinal and leaves them and pays no
child support
Marries Mary Castillo and has 5 kids with her
He goes to jail twice for theft
Abuses wife in 1964 and she leaves him
May 1964 she tries to go back to him and he
holds a gun to her stomach
Adolescence Cont.
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1965 he moves in with Nanette Campina and he
beats her too, she is too scared to leave him
1967 arrested for Grand Theft Auto and is in jail for
a year but suspended so he can work for his family
Had another kid with Nanette in 1967
2 years later had another kid
In 1971 he rapes and abuses Nanette’s 14 year old
daughter and says “she needs breaking in” and
he brags about it
Nanette leaves the state with the kids
Adolescence Cont.
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year later he gets married to Deborah
Taylor but they never lived together and
never got divorced
 Angelo’s roommate watched him
masturbate while using binocular’s to
watch school children
 Admits he forced his sons to rape his
daughter and sodomized one of his sons
Adolescence Cont.
 1975
owns his own apartment, opens a
shop and forces women to perform oral
sex on him and has sex with his son’s
girlfriends
 Dates a teenager at 41 years olds and
gets her pregnant twice
 Aborts the first child and the second was
a miscarriage
Abnormal
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wasn’t a good kid
 Didn’t have manners
 He had intense hatred and total
disrespect for women
 Would brag about raping and sodomizing
women
 Stealing cars for joyrides
 Diagnosed with sexual sadism, pedophile,
anti-social personality disorder
Evil
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Rape
Sodomizing women before he kills them
Torturing them before killing them
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they think it is evil?
No, he thinks that they deserve it
He thinks it is normal
Angelo
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White and African- American
women from the ages of 12-28 that are
mostly prostitutes, waitresses, students,
and low scale models
 He is considered as an Organized lust as a
serial killer
 Sentenced to life in prison at Calipatria
State Prison in California
Links
 http://www.hillside-
strangler.com/hillside_stranglerbuono_001.htm
 http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Buono,
%20Angelo.htm
 http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_
killers/predators/stranglers/rampage_1.ht
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