A well-liked college student studying art in Los Angeles was found dead with ligature marks on her wrist and both ankles. Two girls, ages 12 and 14, were last seen waiting at a bus stop to go to the mall. A year-old girl was discovered naked at a residential curb. A new six-part documentary series tells the incredible true-crime story of a fascinating era when more than 20 serial killersβincluding the "Skid Row Stabber"βterrorized LA.
These were some of the cases L. As the slayings terrorized residents, detectives banded together to track down some of the most notorious murderers of that era, from the Freeway Killer to the Hillside Stranglers to the Skid Row Stabber.
This harrowing time in L. Her nude body was found in the hills near Griffith Park. Weeks later, the nude body of year-old Judy Miller was found in the hills overlooking Glendale, left by the curb in a residential neighborhood. That November, the nude body of year-old Lissa Kastin, who moved to L.
She was just six miles from where Judy Miller's body was discovered -- with Miller's same ligature marks. But there wasn't anything substantial to say we got a serial murder going on. Unlikely, but it could be," he added. Authorities were eventually able to connect both Miller and Kastin's murders to the Hillside Stranglers. The Hillside Stranglers, accused of killing 10 women and girls, were later identified as Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, after Bianchi was arrested in two killings in Washington state.
Bianchi pleaded guilty to five killings, while Buono was convicted of nine killings and sentenced to life in prison. Buono died in In Nov. She had been bludgeoned to death and sexually assaulted. Murphy said Barcomb was "found on a hill up above Hollywood, in the same general area. The difference is the women that were in the Hillside Strangler case were dumped and Jill Barcomb had been posed," Murphy continued.
