Introducing Mind of a Monster: The Hillside Strangler and The Nightstalker

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Mind of a Monster Season 2 takes us back to 70s and 80s Los Angeles when two of the most notorious, vicious, and devastating serial killers in US history spread fear across the city: The Hillside Strangler and The Nightstalker. Between them, 25 murders, 5 attempted murders, and an unknown number of sexual assaults occurred, putting an entire city in a state of terror. Dr. Michelle Ward – who grew up in LA – speaks candidly with detectives, experts, friends, family and witnesses involved in each case to unravel exactly what happened and explore the shocking details to try and find out why such monsters came to be.

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Michelle Ward and this is Mind of a Monster season 2, the Hillside Strangler and the Nightstalker.
0:08.0	Los Angeles police have been searching for a killer who has strangled young women and left their bodies along
0:14.2	grassy hillsides.
0:15.2	We've had yet another set of remains identified and this is the second one that's taken
0:21.0	place in the last several weeks.
0:23.0	That's exactly how Bianchi and Bono started using a badge to get free sex.
0:28.0	The homicide detective said, what do you think?
0:30.0	The horrors are going to solve this murder?
0:32.0	It's the stuff of nightmares.
0:34.8	Women and girls disappearing, then showing up murdered, naked and brutalized.
0:41.0	A shadowy intruder breaking into homes, leaving satanic signs and murdering and raping everyone inside.
0:49.0	From 1977 to 1985, Los Angeles was a living hell,
0:55.0	as it became the center of two of the most vicious serial killing sprees in U.S. history,
1:01.0	those committed by Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Bono, and then by Richard Ramirez.
1:07.5	There would be 25 murders, five attempted murders, and an unknown number of sexual assaults and an entire
1:15.2	county in a state of terror. For me the cases are personal. My own family knew
1:21.2	people attacked or murdered during both serial killing sprees.
1:25.0	I need to understand how such devastation was allowed to happen,
1:29.0	and if it could ever happen again.
1:32.0	Listen to Mind of a Monster wherever you get your podcasts.

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