Post by Admin Horan on Dec 28, 2020 10:05:15 GMT -6
This "serial killer" case turns out to have an awful lot of features in common with "Son of Sam," "Zodiac," "The Golden State Killer," and others we have focused on.
Here's the myth: A sociopath and Vietnam tailgunner named Kenneth Bianchi, and his adoptive uncle, Angelo Buono, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered random young women, then dumped, and sometimes "posed," their bodies on hillsides in the Los Angeles area as a "thrill kill" team.
Here is what the evidence says: Kenneth Bianchi abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered two young women in Bellingham, Washington. His name happened to be in the diary of one of the victims of a similar string of recent murders down in LA. Bianchi not only confessed to those murders, but also accused his uncle Angelo of being an active accomplice. Bianchi, like Henry Lee Lucas, David Berkowitz, Susan Atkins, etc, "confessed" so many times, in so many ways, to so many crimes, that it's very difficult to know what to believe. Like those other cases, there is no actual physical evidence that actually links Bianchi and Buono to ANY of the LA murders in question. Just a mention of meeting a "Kenneth Bianchi" in one victim's journal. But, Angelo Buono was convicted of most of those murders, anyway, exclusively on the "testimony" of Bianchi, no matter how un-credible much of that "testimony" was.
Then, it turns out that Bianchi was from Rochester, NY. That he was treated over the course of many months for a "brain injury" that he didn't remember. That he worked as a security guard (just like Berkowitz.) That his uncle Angelo told people he was mafia connected. That Uncle Angelo was a two-bit pimp (like Charles Manson.) That Angelo Buono owned a small but successful car upholstery business that MIGHT have been mafia connected, after all. Just like a lot of characters in the Son of Sam case. That Bianchi may have been the so-called "Alphabet Killer" back home in Rochester. Where he was adopted as a baby. Just like Berkowitz.
And so on...
Here's the myth: A sociopath and Vietnam tailgunner named Kenneth Bianchi, and his adoptive uncle, Angelo Buono, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered random young women, then dumped, and sometimes "posed," their bodies on hillsides in the Los Angeles area as a "thrill kill" team.
Here is what the evidence says: Kenneth Bianchi abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered two young women in Bellingham, Washington. His name happened to be in the diary of one of the victims of a similar string of recent murders down in LA. Bianchi not only confessed to those murders, but also accused his uncle Angelo of being an active accomplice. Bianchi, like Henry Lee Lucas, David Berkowitz, Susan Atkins, etc, "confessed" so many times, in so many ways, to so many crimes, that it's very difficult to know what to believe. Like those other cases, there is no actual physical evidence that actually links Bianchi and Buono to ANY of the LA murders in question. Just a mention of meeting a "Kenneth Bianchi" in one victim's journal. But, Angelo Buono was convicted of most of those murders, anyway, exclusively on the "testimony" of Bianchi, no matter how un-credible much of that "testimony" was.
Then, it turns out that Bianchi was from Rochester, NY. That he was treated over the course of many months for a "brain injury" that he didn't remember. That he worked as a security guard (just like Berkowitz.) That his uncle Angelo told people he was mafia connected. That Uncle Angelo was a two-bit pimp (like Charles Manson.) That Angelo Buono owned a small but successful car upholstery business that MIGHT have been mafia connected, after all. Just like a lot of characters in the Son of Sam case. That Bianchi may have been the so-called "Alphabet Killer" back home in Rochester. Where he was adopted as a baby. Just like Berkowitz.
And so on...