Word: bianchi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time his lawyer began plea-bargaining last October, the hard evidence was there. Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a Bellingham, Wash., security guard was in deed the Hillside Strangler, responsible for the murder of ten young women in Los Angeles from September 1977 to February 1978 - as well as two later killings in Washington that resulted in his arrest...
...Bianchi act cold-bloodedly? Or was he the victim of a Jekyll-and-Hyde dual personality? Psychologist John Watkins, recommended by the defense, put Bian chi under hypnosis and elicited a confession from a sneering Mr. Hyde character who called himself "Steve Walker." But the mystery of Bianchi's supposed multiple personality became irrelevant when he avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty and agreeing to testify against his cousin and alleged accomplice, Angelo Buono. That plea rendered Bianchi competent in the eyes of the law. It also earned him six concurrent and two consecutive life sentences...
...Angeles TV station has aired excerpts of video-taped sessions with Bianchi, involving Watkins and five psychiatrists (the judge picked all the experts, including two nominated by the defense, two by the prosecution). What the tapes made clear was that the shrinks were, as usual, divided. Two believed that Bianchi did indeed have a multiple personality, two were certain that he was lying, and two could not be sure. That raised further questions not only about Bianchi but about the role that psychiatrists should play in the courtroom...