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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...
...remarked to a coworker, "What would you think if I told you I'm the Hillside Strangler?" Someone passed the comment along to the police, but it was one of thousands of tips, and was ignored. After Bianchi's arrest in Bellingham, Los Angeles police took another look and discovered some remarkable coincidences. For six months he had lived in the same Glendale apartment building as Kristina Weckler, the Hill side Strangler's seventh victim. He lived across the street from Cindy Hudspeth, victim No. 13, and once lived in the Hollywood apartment building where Kimberly Martin...
...only the psychiatrists charged with defending Bianchi have spoken. Los Angeles police have not commented on the defense claim of a dual personality. In the meantime, the judge in Bellingham has appointed six experts to examine Bianchi and make their own diagnosis...
When they are done, Bianchi will be tried in Washington, in late summer at the earliest. If he is convicted, the prosecutor will ask for the death penalty...