In August 1976, a wealthy lawyer phoned Hollywood prostitutes agency asking them to bring a gril home in Bel-Air. Becky Spears, 15, had looked so pitiful that the lawyer asked why she worked in prostitution if it was something that she obviously hated. She answered that a girl, Sabra, had convinced her by a ruse to leave her home in Phoenix, Arizona, to work for a man named Angelo Buono. Bianchi and Bunono had terrorized the girl.
She was told that she would be killed if he tried to escape. Buono forced her to perform degrading sexual acts. Horrified by this story, the attorney bought Beck Spears a plane ticket to Phoenix. Buono then began threatening on the phone until the lawyer sent her home to a muscular thug in charge of maintaining order in nightclubs.
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Jane King
A discouraged Salerno noted that a third body in three weeks had been discovered and thought that this might be the beginning of a string of serial killings. The killings resumed four days later, on November 9. Bianchi noticed an attractive girl who waited for a bus and began to chat with her.
She said she was a student of Scientology. During the talk Buono had not been seen for months. He offered to take him wherever he pleased. Jane King made the mistake of accepting the ride home.
Ligature Marks
The identification was very quick. Shortly after the radio the news, a man telephoned the police saying his daughter was missing from home for two days. It was Lissa Kastin, who had recently worked as a waitress.
An hour later, the father of Lissa Kastin identified it after seeing her image on television. Gendale fell outside the jurisdiction of Salerno, but it was to see the body after all. The ligature marks around the nexk and the lines were visible around the wrists and ankles seemed to indicate that the strangler had struck again.
Lissa Kastin
The next victim was the dancer Lissa Kastin. Bianchi and Buono told her she was arrested and got her into his car by showing a badge. He said he was taking her to the police station to be interrogated. Once at home, Buono handcuffed and strangled her. Buono rabidly hated women. Bianchi had tasted intensely the feeling of being the master of life and death. They got rid of the body, leaving her lying near circuit Chevy Chase Golf Club in Glendale.
In the days that Salerno managed to locate the parents of Judy, another murder had occurred in the same pattern as the previous two. On November 6, a man jogging discovered the body of a woman near the golf course of the Chevy Chase Country Club. She had been strangled with a ligature mark and sexually assaulted.
The officer in charge of the investigation Sergeant Frank Salerno, did not have any clear starting point. A hunch led him to start asking questions on Hollywood Boulevard. He showed police a picture of the dead girl at the motley population of drug addicts and prostitutes in the area.
Someone said it looked like a girl named Judy Miller. It cost Salerno a week to find her parents. They lived in a cheap motel room. In the morgue, they identified their daughter by post-mortem photographs. Judy had run away from home a month earlier. Salerno knew she had made prostitution her livelihoos. An hour before they saw her alive for the last time, she had been offered free sex to a friend passenger.
Judy Miller
Two weeks after the discovery of Yolanda Washington’s dead body, another victim, Judy Miller–15, part-time prostitute–was found. Posing as police and saying that she was under arrest, Buono and Bianchi took Miller to Buono’s home, where she was raped, choked, and strangled. The media was not interested in either of the victims found the morning of November 1, 1977.
The body was lying near the curb in Upper Terrace Drive, La Crescenta, a village near Glendale. Again it seemed as if the victim had been thrown to the asphalt from a vehicle. As in the case of Yoland Washington, the body was naked. The death was strangulation with a ligature.
The autopsy established a possible connection with the murder of Yolanda Washington. The woman had been subjected to sex by two men, one of them was a “non-segregated.” Body position also suggested that the crime was carried out by two men. One grabbed her by the armpits and the other at the knees.
Police were now certain: there were two murderers acting together. The fingerprints of the victim were not registered.