Word: strangler
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...Hillside Strangler a Jekyll and Hyde...
...women, whose bodies were found that month stuffed into the rear of a car in Bellingham. Last week Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates announced that he had enough "hard physical evidence" to seek murder charges against Bianchi for ten of the 13 murders ascribed to the notorious "Hillside Strangler...
...brutal murders took place between September 1977 and February 1978 and brought a reign of terror to Los Angeles. Women were afraid to walk alone at night, even in residential areas. The strangler's victims included a prostitute and a runaway, whose nude bodies were found tossed into wooded areas. His eighth and ninth victims, however, were twelve-year-old girls, school chums at a Catholic elementary school who disappeared while out shopping. The killer dumped their bodies near Dodger Stadium...
...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...
...offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest and West...