Bianchi had some contact with the police, which made him want to enter the force. However, the departments of Glendale and Los Angeles refused.
Bianchi, then, made plans to become a psychotherapist. He started reading books about it but after a while decided to end that track. He placed a fake advertisement in a newspaper in Los Angeles offering work to registered nurses in psychiatry and forged one of the diplomas he had, taking the title and identity of a licensed psychiatrist.
After Buono asked Bianchi to seek a proper place to live, Bianchi found work in a real estate company and rented an apartment. One of his neighbors was Kristina Weckler, who became one of his victims.
Kenneth Bianchi on his wedding day
He married at eighteen but divorced soon after the discovery that his wife had slept with other men before marrying him. A possibly second marriage to a mother of two children came about, but she vanished when she found him in bed with another woman.
Buono was born in Rochester, New York to first generation Italian-American emigrants from San Buono, Italy. In the time leading up to the kills, Buono had already developed a long criminal history, ranging from failure to pay child support and grand theft auto to assault and rape. In 1975, when Buono was 41, he met Kenneth Bianchi.
A self-described “ladies’ man”, Buono persuaded his younger cousin to join him in prostituting two women, holding them as virtual prisoners. In late 1977, the pair began killing other women as well, claiming ten documented victims by the time they were arrested in early 1979. Angelo Buono was also said to have made women refer to him as
The Italian Stallion", this has been reported on several television shows, including the Investigation Discovery show “Deranged” and A&E Television Network’s “Biography”, and on truTv’s Crime Library website.
Bianchi was born in Rochester, New York, to a prostitute who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born. He was adopted at three months by Frances Scioliono and her husband Nicholas Bianchi in Rochester.
Bianchi was deeply trouble from a young age, and his adoptive mother described him as being “a compulsive liar who had risen from the cradle dissembling”. He often worried her with his penchant for trance-like daydreams. Despite having above-average intelligence, he was an underachiever who was quick to lose his temper. He was diagnosed with petit mal seizures when he was five years old and passive aggressive disorder when he was 10. After Nicholas’ death from pneumonia in 1964, Frances had to work while her son attended high school.
Shortly after Bianchi graduated from Gates-Chili High School in 1971, he married his high school sweetheart; the union ended after eight months. Supposedly, she left him without explanation. As an adult, he dropped out of college after one semester, and drifted through a series of menial jobs, finally ending up as a security guard at a jewelry store. This gave him a great opportunity to steal valuables, which he often gave to girlfriends or prostitutes to buy their loyalty. Because of many petty thefts, Bianchi was constantly on the move.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1977 and started spending time with his older cousin Angelo Buono, who impressed Bianchi with his fancy clothes, jewelry, and talent for getting any woman he wanted and “putting them in their place”. Before long, they worked together as pimps, and, by late 1977, had escalated to murder. They had raped and murdered 10 women by the time they were arrested in early 1979