October 5, 1934 - Angelo Buono

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, raped and murdered ten young women and girls between October 1977 and February 1978 in Los Angeles, California in what became known as the Hillside Strangler murders, as the victims were usually strangled to death and dumped on a hillside.

Although Buono began killing in 1977, he previously had a lengthy rap sheet of convictions, ranging from failure to pay child support to car theft. He began committing crimes as a teenager, primarily petty theft which he committed alongside a group of youths, then it escalated into stealing a car in his mid-teens. Buono also had a history of violence, mostly sexual, towards women ever since he was young. As an adult, Buono frequently forced young women to perform oral sex on him and held them in captivity for days, forcing them to "turn tricks" for customers of his upholstery business.

Following his arrest for the Hillside Strangler murders, Buono maintained his innocence, even after being convicted. At one point, he accused the court of "violating his constitutional rights".

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