#Angelo Buono Jr

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Special 100th Post: Murder By Alphabet

I wanted to do something a little different for my 100th post, and decided to make a simple list of serial killers for every letter of the alphabet. Q and X have been left out due to the fact that nothing exists for those letters so, my apologies!

Atlanta Ripper: Is an unidentified serial killer who’s suspected of killing 15 women in Atlanta between 1909 and 1914. 6 different suspects were found, but no convictions have ever been found. It’s possible that the Atlanta Ripper could be responsible for as many as 21 murders, but there’s no hard evidence that can declare that these murders were committed by the same person. 

Bouncing Ball Killer: Is an unidentified serial killer who’s suspected of killing at least 6 women in Los Angeles between May 1959, and June 1960. 3 initial suspects have been cleared, and 5 others have been suspected, but no convictions have been made. 

Charlie Chop-off: Is an unidentified serial killer known to have killed 4 children in Manhattan between 1972 and 1973. Police heavily believe that a man named Erno Soto is the killer, as the murders stopped after his arrest, but were let go due to lack of evidence. 

Doodler: Is an unidentified serial killer suspected to have killed between 6 and 16 men, and an additional 3 assaults on other men in San Francisco, California. He was given his nickname the “Doodler” due to his signature of sketching his victims before stabbing them to death. 

Edward Edwards: Before becoming a serial killer, he was a former fugitive. He escaped from jail in Ohio and held up multiple gas stations before making a run for it to Georgia. He landed himself on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List by 1961. He was captured in Atlanta, Georgia, and convicted of 5 confirmed murders, but is suspected to have killed 9-15 additional people.

Freeway Phantom: Is an unidentified serial killer who is suspected of killing 5 young girls and one woman in Washington, D.C, between April 1971, and September 1972. There have been multiple suspects, but no convictions have happened. 

Grim Sleeper: Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was a serial killer who was responsible for at least 10 murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles, California, between 1984 and 2007. He gained his nickname as the Grim Sleeper due to appearing to have taken a 14 year break between his murders. He was also convicted of sexual violence and rape. 

Hillside Stranglers: Two serial killers named Kenneth Alessio Bianchi, and Angelo Buono Jr. They were convicted for kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing 10 women together in Los Angeles, California, between October 1977, and February 1978. The victims were between 12 and 28 years old. Bianchi killed two additional women by himself, and were both sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 

I-70 Strangler: Is an unidentified serial killer who’s suspected of killing at least twelve boys and men in Ohio and Indiana between June 1980, and October 1991. This case is officially unsolved, but it’s heavily suspected that the serial killer, Herb Baumeister, was the killer. Herb is now deceased, and was convicted for murdering over a dozen men in the early 1990s, some of them last being seen around gay bars. He killed himself after a warrant was out for his arrest. 

Willie Ben Jones: Is a serial killer who killed at least sex workers in Richmond, Virginia, between 1980 and 1991. When asked why he killed these women, he replied by stating that they “had to be punished for being sex workers.” He was given 3 consecutive 20 year sentences. 

Todd Kohlhepp: Is a serial killer and sex offender who was convicted of killing seven people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016. He also kidnapped at least one woman, sexually assaulted another, and claims that he’s killed many more. 

Leonard Lake: Was a serial killer during the mid 1980s, and was convicted of raping, torturing, and killing 11 women, and is suspected to have killed as many as 25. He also had an accomplice, Charles Ng. They killed their victims at a remote cabin in Wilseyville, California.

Cory Morris: Is a serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who murdered at least 5 sex workers in his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona, between September 2002, and April 2003. He was sentenced to death, but is currently still alive at age 45. 

Francis Nemechek: Is a serial killer who killed 4 women and a young boy in Kansas between December 1974, and August 1976. He admitted to the murders and also claimed to have sexually assaulted some of them, but plead not guilty for the reason of insanity, but was found guilty anyway and sentenced to life in prison. He has been denied parole 4 times. 

Juan David Ortiz: Is a serial killer and spree killer who killed 4 sex workers in September 2018. He was arrested after a potential victim escaped and contacted the police. 

Pleasant Pruitt: Is a serial killer who killed three subsequent wives. He was never charged with killing his first two wives, but ended up taking his own life after he killed his last wife to refrain from going to prison. 

Robert Ben Rhoads: Is a serial killer and rapist who was convicted in 1994 for murdering 3 women that he found at truck stops. He’s also suspected of killing as many as 50 women. 

Skid Row Stabber: Is an unidentified serial killer who murdered 11 women between 1978 and 1979 in a neighborhood that people liked to call “Skid Row” located in Los Angeles. This neighborhood is known to house a lot of homeless people, who are often subjected to victimization. Bobby Joe Maxwell was arrested, charged, and convicted of the murders, but his conviction was overturned in 2010. 

Brandon Tholmer: Is a serial killer and rapist responsible for at least 12 murders of elderly women between January 1981 and October 19823, in Los Angeles' West Side. He gained the nickname “The West Side Rapist.” It’s speculated that he possibly had an accomplice, and could’ve killed up to 34 women.

Andrew Uridales: He was a serial killer who was convicted of murder twice. He was convicted in 2002 for killing 3 women in Illinois, and then convicted in California in 2018 for killing 5 women. He was sentenced to death in California, but killed himself in prison a few months later. He also attacked another woman in 1992, but she thankfully escaped. 

Darren Deon Vann: Is a serial killer who was arrested in October 2018 for the murder of Afrikka Hardy (19), in Hammond, Indiana. He also confessed to killing 6 other women, and led the police to all of their bodies, which were found in 5 abandoned structures in Gary, Indiana. He is suspected of killing as many as 18 women.

West Mesa Murders: Is an unidentified serial killer who’s responsible for the murders of 11 women, whose remains were found buried in the desert of West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2009. There have been multiple suspects, but no one has been charged. The killings were believed to be the work of a serial killer, but they suspect that it’s possible that a sex trafficking ring could’ve been involved. 

Robert Lee Yates: Is a serial killer also known as the Grocery Bag Killer, who’s known to have killed at least 11 women Spokane, from 1975 to 1998. He also confessed to killing two additional women in Walla Walla in 1975, and another murder in Skagit County in 1988. In 2002, he was convicted of killing two women in Pierce County and was sentenced to death, but his sentence was later changed to life without parole, as the Washington Supreme Court ruled capital punishment as unconstitutional in 2018. 

Zebra Murders: Were a string of racially motivated murders and related attacks committed by a group of four black serial killers in San Francisco, California, between October 1973, and April 1974. They murdered at least 15 people and wounded 8 others. Police gave the case the name "Zebra" after the special police radio band they assigned to the investigation. Some authorities believe that the “Death Angel’s,” as the killers called themselves, may have killed as many as 73 or more victims since 1970.

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Born To Kill COMPLETE SERIES 2005-2016

“Going back to the age-old Nature vs Nurture debate, a good way to think about it is that genetics provide an individual with a spectrum and the individual’s environment, developmental and otherwise, determines where you lie on it. A predisposition may lie dormant for eternity, but feed it a stressful environment and increased risk factors such as malnourishment and trauma, and it will manifest. Clinical facts must be tempered with ethical concerns when applying science to society.” Source

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Season 1

S01E01 Fred West

S01E02 Harold Shipman

S01E03 Jeffrey Dahmer

S01E04 Myra Hindley

S01E05 The Washington Snipers

S01E06 Ivan Milat

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Season 2

S02E01 Ted Bundy

S02E02 Charles Starkweather

S02E03 John Wayne Gacy

S02E04 Aileen Wuornos

S02E05 Richard Chase

S02E06 Albert DeSalvo

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Season 3

S03E01 Gary Ridgway

S03E02 Edmund Kemper

S03E03 Richard Ramirez

S03E04 Donald Gaskins

S03E05 David Berkowitz

S03E06 Dennis Nilsen

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Season 4

S04E01 Charles Manson

S04E02 Dennis Rader

S04E03 Beverly Allitt

S04E04 Hillside Stranglers (Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono)

S04E05 Colin Ireland

S04E06 Herbert Mullin

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Season 5

S05E01 Peter Sutcliffe

S05E02 Donald Nielson

S05E03 Patrick Mackay

S05E04 John Linley Frazier

S05E05 Cary Stayner

S05E06 The Briley Brothers

S05E07 Hadden Clark

S05E08 Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

S05E09 Thor Christiansen

S05E10 Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman

S05E11 Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog

S05E12 Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy

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Season 6

SE06E01 Robert Napper

SE06E02 John Duffy and David Mulcahy

SE06E03 Gerald and Charlene Gallego

SE06E04 Levi Bellfield

SE06E05 Tony Costa

SE06E06 Richard Cottingham

SE06E07 Cleophus Prince Jr.

SE06E08 Sean Gillis

SE06E09 Timothy Wilson Spencer

SE06E10 David Alan Gore and Fred Waterfield

SE06E11 David Carpenter

SE06E12 Bobby Joe Long

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Season 7

SE07E01 Peter Moore

SE07E02 Trevor Hardy

SE07E03 William Suff

SE07E04 Charles Albright

SE07E05 Allan Legere

SE07E06 Robert Reldan

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Born to Kill/Class of Evil 2017

Season 1

SE01E01 Peter Tobin

SE01E02 Altemio Sanchez

SE01E03 Alton Coleman and Debra Brown

SE01E04 Stephen Griffiths

SE01E05 Graham Young

SE01E06 Joanna Dennehy

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Killing Spree 2014

Season 1

SE01E01 Suffolk Strangler

SE01E02 Terror in Paradise

SE01E03 Northumbria Rampage

SE01E04 The Miami Murders

SE01E05 Horror at the Mall

SE01E06 Columbine Massacre

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Season 2

SE01E01 The Hungerford Massacre

SE01E02 Soho Nail Bomber

SE01E03 New York Knifings

SE01E04 Revenge Cop Killer

SE01E05 The Family Slayer

SE01E06 Woman On The Rampage

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Criminal psychologists: Louis B Schlesinger, Helen Morrison, Katherine Ramsland, David Wilson and Robert Ressler.

Narrator: Christoper Slade

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Did You Know🤔

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, were known as the Hillside Stranglers. Buono and Bianchi were convicted of killing ten young women in Los Angeles, California, between October 1977 and February 1978.

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Bianchi, Kenneth Alessio, and Buono, Angelo, Jr.

Born in May 1951 to a prostitute mother in Rochester, New York, Ken Bianchi was given up for adoption as an infant. By age 11, he was falling behind in his schoolwork and was given to furious tantrums in class and at home. He married briefly at 18. Two years later he wrote to a girlfriend, claiming he had killed a local man. She laughed it off, dismissing the claim as part of Ken’s incessant macho posturing, but homicide was clearly preying on Bianchi’s mind. By 1973, he was certain that police suspected him of involvement in Rochester’s brutal “alphabet murders,” through in truth it took six more years before detective realized his car resembled one reported near the scene of one “alphabet” slaying.

Meanwhile in January 1976, Bianchi pulled up the stakes and moved to Los Angeles, there teaming up with his adoptive cousin,Angelo Buono, in an amateur white-slave racket. Born at Rochester in October 1934, Buono was a child of divorce, transported across country by his mother at age five. By 14, he was stealing cars and displaying a precocious obsession with sodomy. Sentenced for auto theft in  1950, he escaped from the California Youth Authority and was recaptured in December 1951. As a young man, Buono idolized condemned sex offender Caryl Chessman, and in later years he would emulate the so-called red-light rapist’s method of procuring victims. In the meantime, though, he fathered several children, viciously abusing various wifes and girlfriends in the process. Somehow, in defiance of his violent temperament and almost simian appearance, he attracted scores of women, dazzling cousin Kenneth with his “harem” and his method of recruiting prostitutes through rape and torture.

Two of Buono’s favourite hookers managed to escape his clutches during 1977, and Bianchi later marked their departure as starting point for LA.’s reign of terror at the hands of Bianchi and Buono. In precisely two month’s time, the so-called Hillside Stranglers would abduct and slay 10 women, frequently abandoning their victims’ naked bodies in a grim display, as if to taunt authorities. Rejected for employment by Glendale and Los Angeles police department, longing for a chance to throw his weight around and show some “real authority,” Bianchi fell in line with Buono’s suggestion that they should impersonate policemen, stopping female motorists or nabbing prostitutes according to their whim. Along the way, they would subject their captives to an ordeal of torture, sexual assault, and brutality, inevitably ending with a twist of the garrote. 

Yolanda Washington, a 19 year old hooker, was the first to die, murdered October 17th, her nude body discovered the next day, near Universal City. Two weeks later, on Halloween, police retrieved the corpse of 15 year old Judith Miller from a flower bed in La Crescenta. Elissa Kastin, a 21 year old Hollywood waitress, was abducted and slain November 5th, her body discovered the next morning on a highway embankment in Glendale. On November 8th, Jane King, aspiring actress and model, was kidnapped, raped and suffocated, her body dumped on an off-ramp of the Golden State Freeway, undiscovered until November 22nd. 

By that time, female residents of Los Angeles were living a nightmare. No less than three victims had been discovered on November 20th including 20 year old honor student Kristina Wechler,dumped in Highland Park, and two classmates from junior high school, Sonja Johnson and Dolores Cepeda, discovered in Elysian Park a week after their disappearance from a local bus stop. Retrieval of Jane King’s body increased the anxiety, and Thanksgiving week climaxed with the death of Lauren Wagner, an 18 year old student, found in the Glendale hills on November 29th. By that time police knew they were looking for dual suspects, based on the testimony of eyewitness including one prospective victim, the daughter of screen star Peter Lorre who had managed to avoid the stranglers’ clutches. On December 9th, prostitute Kimberly Martin answered her last out-call in Glendale, turning up nude and dead on an Echo Park hillside next morning. The last to die. at least in California, was Cindy Hudspeth, found in the trunk of her car after it was pushed over a cliff in the Angeles National Forest.

Bianchi sensed that it was time for a change of scene. Moving to Bellingham, Washington, he found work as a security guard, flirting once more with the police work he craved. On January 11, 1979, Diane Wilder and Karen Mandic were raped and murdered in Bellingham, last seen alive when they went to check out a potential house-sitting job. Bianchi had been their contact, and inconsistent statements led police to hold him for further investigation. A search of his home turned up items stolen from sites he was paid to guard, and further evidence finally linked him to the Bellingham murders. Collaboration with L.A authorities ;ed to Bianchi’s indictment in five of the Hillside murders in June 1979. In custody, Bianchi first denied everything, then feigned submission to hypnosis, manufacturing multiple personalities in his bid to support an insanity defence. Psychiatrists saw through the ruse, and after his indictment in Los Angeles, Ken agreed to testify against his cousin. His guilty plea to give five new counts of homicide was followed by Buono’s arrest in October 1979, and Angelo was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. A 10 month preliminary hearing climaxed in March 1981, with Angelo ordered to stand trial on all counts.

Bianchi, meanwhile, was desperately seeking some way to save himself. In june 1980, he received a letter from Veronica Lynn Compton, a 23 year old poet, playwright, and aspiring actress, who sought Ken’s opinion of her new play (dealing with a female serial killer). Correspondence and conversations revealed her obsession with murder, mutilation, and necrophilia, encouraging Bianchi to suggest a bizarre defence strategy. Without a second thought, Veronica agreed to visit Bellingham, strangle a woman there, and deposit specimens of Bianchi’s sperm at the scene, thus leading police to believe the “real killer” as still at large. On September 16th, 1980, Compton visited Bianchi in prison, receiving a book with part of a rubber glove inside, containing his semen. Flying north to Bellingham, she picked out a female victim at random but bungled the murder attempt. Arrested in California on October 3, Compton was convicted in Washington during 1981 and received a life sentence. She published a memoir (Eating the Ashes) from prison in 2002.

As Buono’s trial date approached, Bianchi issued a series of contradictory statements, leading prosecutors to seek dismissal of all chargers in July 1981. A courageous judge, Ronald George, refused to postpone the trial, which ultimately ran from November 1981 to November 1983. Convicted on nine counts of murder oddly excluding Yolanda Washington’s Buono was sentenced to nine terms of life imprisonment without parole. His cousin was returned to Washington state for completion of two corresponding life terms in the Bellingham case. Buono died at Calipatria State Prison, in California’s Imperial County, on September 21, 2002.

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Serial Killer Potential! According To Your Zodiac

The stars are not always 100% accurate in predicting our personalities. However, they can provide some pretty interesting and important insights to some aspects of our behaviours. We all can admit to having a dark side to us. Think about it! Even the bubbliest of individuals do tend to lean more on the morbid side of life at times. There seems to be something within us that finds comfort in morbidity. The question however remains, is the solace derived from the dark side of life enough to drive us into a murderous rage? Well, let’s see what the stars say shall we? 

Aries (March 21 - April 19): 

Aries are known for going for what they want no matter what. Is death a barrier they can simply overlook as a means to an end? Well, it turn out that it is for some. Serial killers such as Joseph Franklin, Donald Harvey, Paul Knowles, Keith Jespersen, Charles Sobhraj and Herbert Mullin are some of the headliners in the Aries serial killer hall of fame. Combined, their actions have been known to claim the lives of anywhere between thirty and slightly shy of sixty individuals.  Aries clearly are a blood lusty lot but are they lustier than the rest of the zodiacs?

Taurus (April 20 - May 20): 

Taurus seem to be giving the rest of the Zodiacs a run for their money as far as serial killer victims are concerned. While the number of notable killers may be on the lower end of the spectrum, the victims aren’t. Starting from the pioneer of the blood thirsty art of serial killing Mr. H. H. Holmes, fondly known as the Torture Doctor who has a record two hundred bodies under his belt to Martha Becks who has under twenty victims, Taurus serial killers have for sure carved their names into the walls of history. This zodiac also has a number of female contenders that are worth mentioning. We already talked about Martha Becks right? Well we can’t forget her sister in blood thirst, Amy Archer Gilligan. Other notable names worth dropping under this zodiac include The Moon Maniac (Albert Fish) and The Gorilla Killer (Earle Nelson).

Gemini (May 21 - June 20): 

Do not be fooled by the bubbly, every cheerful nature of Geminis. This happy adventurous bunch seem to have a liking for spilling blood. Notable serial killing Geminis make up about twelve name sin the killer hall of fame. A good number of these individuals have an interesting story to them. They were often found to have certain mental health challenges and were seemingly masters of double lives. Combined, their known victims account for a minimum of one hundred and twenty four souls.

Since we have established a culture of notable name dropping let us continue shall we. For Geminis, we have The Son Of Sam, Jeffery Dahmer, Kenneth Bianchi, The Hill side Strangler, Milwaukee Strangler, Richard Chase, The Vampire of Dusseldorf, John Collins, Author Shawcross, Leonard Lake, Wayne Williams, Danny Rolling, Peter Sutcliffe, and Robert Lee Yates.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22):

Do not be fooled by their calm exterior. Cancers can be a rather ruthless bunch if pushed to a corner. While they have a few mentionable names, only four are worth mentioning. Genene Jones, John Reginald, Carl Panzram and Gary Heidnik combined have a minimum of ninety two victims whose murders can be directly linked to them. The blood lust of Cancers can be attributed to their ability to love with every fibre of their being as well as their moody tendencies. So better not cross a Cancer on a particularly moody day.

Leo (July 23 - August 22): 

Leos are perhaps the least likely to be serial killers out of all the zodiacs. These gentle souls care more about enjoying life and all the mysterious and beautiful things it has to offer than getting irked by the little upsetting things that life throws at them. This, however, doesn’t mean that they are devoid of any mentionable names. Myra Hindley, Anthony Sowell and John Haigh together are responsible for the murders of at least twenty five victims.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22): 

When it comes to blood thirsty traits, Virgo are serious contenders. If we are name dropping, then allow us to mention just but a few. To start us off, we have Henry Lee Lucas who is responsible for more than one hundred and fifty seven victims. Others in this list include Rodney Alcala, Paul Bernardo, Richard Angelo, Albert DeSalvo, Richard Biegenwald, Harrison Graham, Ed Gein, Marybeth Tinning and Gerald Stano. The ten combined have claimed the lives of at least three hundred and ninety seven people. Not only are these Virgo headliners known for their numbers, they are also known for their grim methods.

Libra (September 23 - October 22): 

Libras have some of the most eclectic personalities in the zodiac yet have one of the least notable names in the serial killer hall of fame. Not to take away from their ‘glory’ but for the extremes that appear within this zodiac, four is an impressively low number. Patrick Kearney also referred to as The Freeway Killer is the star of this zodiac with a body count of up to forty three unfortunate souls. Fellow blood thirsty souls include Angelo Buono Jr., Bobby Joe Long and Gerald Gallego. Together, all four have a body count of at least seventy five people.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21): 

Scorpios are a unique bunch. This is the first zodiac to have a bloody duo; Alton Coleman and Debra brown. Another one of your mentionable killers is Carl Eugene. Other blood thirsty members of this camp include Charles Manson, Belle Gunness, Nannie Doss and William Heirens. These notable mentions are responsible for the loss of at least one hundred and sixty nine lives.  

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21): 

For a people whose zodiac sign is half beast and half man, the likelihood of serial killer tendencies is high. While this zodiac has not attracted a large crowd of killers, it does have some of the more famous ones. Ted Bundy for example is a member of this cosmic family. He is not only renowned for his killing sprees but his successes at escaping the arm of the law even after it had caught up with him severally. Other notable mentions include Richard Cottingham, Edmund Kemper, Carlton Gray, and Denis Neilsen. Together, this murderous bunch have claimed the lives of at least seventy four people.

Sagittarius are known for their great conversational skills as well as their wits. It is no wonder that some would speculate that the number of serial killers under this zodiac that are yet to be discovered could be shockingly high.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19): 

It is natural for Capricorns to distance themselves from people. They do not trust easily and it takes a lot to get into their inner circle. Their natural distrust can tend to make them rather cold individuals. It is no wonder that the total body count of Capricon serial killer victims rises to as high as one hundred and nineteen. Our notable mentions under this zodiac include Dean Corll, Joe Ball, Ian Brady, Charles Ng, William Bonin, and Vincent Johnson.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18): 

Aquarius are another happy zodiac that does not seem to be blood thirsty. There are only four notable mentions under this zodiac with a combined body count of forty nine victims.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20): 

Pisces are known to have two extremes. They can either be super relaxed individuals or super intense. It’s probably the latter that has seen them accrue at least twelve serial killers with a body count of at least two hundred and seventy nine victims.

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§ 2.339. Los Soprano (David Chase [Creador], 2009)

Estupenda, estupenda de verdad. Me ha encantado. La he visto de tirón, desde que llegué hace dos semanas de Madrid tras la convalecencia inicial después de la intervención para la retirada del cerclaje de silicona del ojo con la retina desprendida.Los directores han sido varios, todos estos: Timothy Van Patten, John Patterson, Allen Coulter, Alan Taylor, Henry Bronchtein, Jack Bender, Steve Buscemi, Daniel Attias, David Chase, Nick Gomez, Matthew Penn, Lorraine Senna, Andy Wolk, Martin Bruestle, Lee Tamahori, James Hayman, Peter Bogdanovich, Mike Figgis, Rodrigo García, Danny Leiner, David Nutter, Steve Shill, Phil Abraham, Terence Winter.Los actores son los siguientes: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico, Aida Turturro, Dominic Chianese, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Steve Van Zandt, Drea de Matteo, Steve Schirripa, Nancy Marchand, Dan Grimaldi, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Federico Castelluccio, Steve Buscemi, Joe Pantoliano, John Ventimiglia, Sharon Angela, Robert Iler, Frank Vincent, Vincent Pastore, Kathrine Narducci, David Proval, Peter Bogdanovich, Jerry Adler, Jason Cerbone, Vincent Curatola, Ray Abruzzo, Arthur J. Nascarella, Paul Schulze, Richard Portnow, David Margulies, Karen Young, Alla Kliouka Schaffer, Angelo Massagli, Annabella Sciorra, Danielle Di Vecchio, Denise Borino-Quinn, Frank Santorelli, Frankie Valli, George Loros, Greg Antonacci, John Fiore, John Heard, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Lillo Brancato, Lola Glaudini, Tony Lip, Louis Lombardi, Matt Servitto, Oksana Lada, Toni Kalem, Paul Herman, Robert Funaro, Max Casella, Peter Riegert, Tony Darrow, Ari Graynor, Cara Buono.

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The Little Things is Better Than a Seven Copycat

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This article contains spoilers for The Little Things and Seven.

Critics have not been kind to The Little Things, the new Warner Bros./HBO Max psychological thriller starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as two Los Angeles cops obsessed with catching a vicious serial killer. Although the film is apparently doing very decent business–especially on the streaming end–it sits at a mediocre 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with many comparing it to the 1995 classic Seven. In that juxtaposition, The Little Things is coming up short.

On the surface, there are a number of similarities between writer-director John Lee Hancock’s new police melodrama and David Fincher’s masterpiece from 25 years ago (with the exception of The Little Things’ opening scene, which seems closer to Fincher’s later Zodiac). Yet despite parallels in the two films’ plot structure, character relationships, settings, and themes, there are key differences that set them apart upon a closer look. These distinctions may also provide The Little Things with a more level critical playing field.

Both films, at their simplest level, are about a pair of mismatched cops on the hunt for a depraved murderer terrorizing a vast city. One of the cops is an older veteran–Denzel Washington in The Little Things, Morgan Freeman in Seven–who has all but mentally and physically checked out of the job; the other copper–Rami Malek in The Little Things, Brad Pitt in Seven–is younger, more energetic, and more eager to prove his mettle, perhaps ascending in the ranks of the police force.

By the close of both films, a suspect is confronted and manages to get the upper hand (at least psychologically) on the protagonists. As both films wind down, the cocky, ambitious, younger cop has been destroyed emotionally by the ordeal while the older, wiser vet deals with the aftermath of the experience in his own, perhaps more restrained way. (It’s interesting to note that both veterans are played by Black men in the films, perhaps indicating that they are much more aware than their white partners that injustice in the world often goes unpunished.)

Yet here, aside from certain visual cues and period details, is where The Little Things and Seven begin to diverge along separate paths. Keep in mind that Hancock wrote his first draft of the former movie in 1993, a full two years before Seven hit movie screens. While not influenced by a specific real-life killer, Hancock almost certainly dialed into the climate of fear in California following the locally sourced rampages of monsters like Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker), Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. (The Hillside Stranglers), and Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris (The Tool Box Killers).

Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, meanwhile, said in contemporary interviews that his story was not inspired by a real-life reign of terror but by a period of time he spent living in New York City while trying to make it in the film business. He told Cinefantastique magazine, “I didn’t like my time in New York, but it’s true that if I hadn’t lived there I probably wouldn’t have written Seven.”

Let’s take a look at the other ways in which Seven and The Little Things are not the mirror images that they may seem to be at first glance.

Is It Really the Same 1990s Setting?

Thanks to the dark visual palette of both films (and to be fair, The Little Things does recreate some of Seven’s visual motifs, like flashlight beams lasering through a blackened out room), it’s easy to think that the two movies are set in an almost identical time and place. But the truth is a little more nuanced. Both movies were shot in and around Los Angeles, but only The Little Things is specifically set in LA; the city in Seven is never named. It’s also raining or overcast almost constantly in Seven, which would throw off anyone who thinks that the movie is supposed to take place in sunny Southern California.

Both films stage many of their sequences in grittier sections of the city, but while you know it’s LA in The Little Things, Seven creates an overall, more surreal impression that the film’s nameless metropolis itself is falling apart at the seams, and that evil and darkness seem to be feeding at its very core.

Also while Seven was written and filmed in the early-to-mid-1990s, the exact year in which it takes place is never specified. That only enhances the timeless, allegorical quality that we suspect Fincher was going for from the start. The Little Things is set in 1990, and makes it obvious that things like cell phones, advanced methods of DNA profiling and other technological tools are not around yet. Both approaches are valid, but Seven has a somewhat more nightmarish quality to it as a result.

Denzel Washington vs. Morgan Freeman

As we mentioned earlier, both The Little Things and Seven (not to mention scores of other films and TV shows that have come out in the past 30 years) are centered on a pair of cops, each driven by different forces, who pool their efforts to catch the killer. Both sets of cops bicker, question each other’s methods, and end up grudgingly respecting each other, even if they never quite become friends. But there the resemblance ends.

In Seven, Morgan Freeman’s William Somerset is the older, more experienced detective. When we first meet him, he’s weary, burned out and ready for his impending retirement; you get the impression that he’s seen way more than his fill. You also get the sense that he’s a very decent human being and police officer–Commissioner Jim Gordon probably wouldn’t mind recruiting him for the Gotham police department. His kind of noble civil servant is clearly a dying breed in his decaying town.

Meanwhile Joe “Deke” Deacon (Washington) in The Little Things is a far more compromised character. He left a post as a top detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for a low-key gig as a deputy sheriff about 120 miles north. And we learn that he exited several years earlier after suffering both a heart attack and a nervous breakdown while pursuing a similar killer.

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The case also cost him his marriage and estranged him from his daughters. And, as we find out late in the movie, it also cost him his conscience after he accidentally shot a survivor who he thought was a suspect in some bushes near a murder scene.

Neither Somerset nor Deacon want anything to do initially with the case at the heart of their respective movies, but both are inexorably drawn in. For Deacon, it is perhaps a chance at redemption; Somerset’s motivation is less clear, except that he perhaps wants to do one last thing to make life a little better in the city before he leaves forever. Deacon is ultimately compromised again (we’ll get to that a little later) while Somerset ends the movie by enigmatically hinting that he’s going to stick around a while longer and do his part to clean up a world “worth fighting for.”

Rami Malek vs. Brad Pitt

The characters played by Rami Malek and Brad Pitt are somewhat closer in temperament and motivation. Malek’s Jim Baxter is a young hotshot detective who’s eager to make his mark on the force, with ambition, energy, and intelligence to spare. Pitt’s David Mills is just transferred from what we gather is a far less inhospitable city, and at one point Somerset expresses surprise that Mills asked for the job. But both Mills and Baxter have a cocky self-confidence that makes the eventual destruction of each man the turning point of their respective movies.

That destruction of course comes at the hands of the movies’ villains/suspects and involves an insidious taunting that results in an unconscionable act of violence. In both movies, the detectives are led out to remote desert locations to allegedly reclaim the body/bodies of the killer’s last victim(s). Once there, the suspects get under the skin of the young detectives, resulting in both Baxter and Mills killing their antagonists–the former with a shovel, the latter with a gun. But there’s a major difference between the two.

While Mills’ killing of the suspect is arguably understandable when it’s revealed that the latter’s last victim was Mills’ wife–confirmed by the delivery of her head in a box–Mills still faces punishment for executing an unarmed suspect. Baxter, meanwhile, slaughters his suspect without definitively knowing that the man committed a single murder. In fact, his suspect, Albert Sparma (Jared Leto), denies killing anyone while Seven’s John Doe (Kevin Spacey) freely admits to everything.

Baxter is rescued by Deacon, who covers up his partner’s crime and puts them both in a morally and ethically compromised position; Somerset is in no position to do the same, although we don’t imagine he would. While Baxter doesn’t lose any members of his own family (he has a wife and two little daughters), he is still traumatized by his obsession and its outcome–he’s killed a possibly innocent man, he hasn’t found the last victim, and the killer could still be out there. We’re not sure if he’ll snap out of it, even when Deacon takes further action (faking evidence) to ease Baxter’s conscience. Mills, meanwhile, may never recover from the loss of his wife and unborn baby and his own associated guilt.

As for Somerset and Deacon…as we mentioned earlier, Somerset seems likely to stay on the force a little longer and keep doing his best, if only to honor his partner, while Deacon–who’s probably guilty of manslaughter in his earlier case and is now also an accessory to murder–retreats back to his grubby little mobile home up north.

The Right Man Or Not?

The Little Things and Seven present us with two uniquely different antagonists. In The Little Things, Leto’s creepy, snarky Sparma is an appliance repairman linked by circumstantial evidence to the most recently confirmed murder by LA’s new serial killer. But even though Sparma seems to relish being in the spotlight as the chief suspect–and deliberately dangles the possibility that he is the killer, only to withdraw it often within the same conversation–there is no indisputable evidence that attaches him to the murders.

Sparma does have a shady background and a couple of minor convictions on his record. He also admits to being a devotee of true crime, and even falsely claimed responsibility for a murder some years back. Yet he denies being the killer that Baxter and Deacon are looking for–even though his taunting about the crimes is eventually enough to cause Baxter to snap and kill him.

We may never know Sparma’s real motivation, but we know that of John Doe (Kevin Spacey), the nameless villain in Seven. His staging of macabre, agonizing deaths, each representing the seven deadly sins, is nothing less than a judgment upon humanity itself, a tapestry of depravity woven together to paint a picture of a lost, unsalvageable society. Unlike Sparma, Doe takes full responsibility for his actions and even works his own death at the hands of Mills into the plan. And while Sparma is a genuinely unsettling person, he is meant to be “real,” with a background, a job, and a semblance of a life. John Doe, in keeping with Seven’s more surreal aspects, has no past, no history, no identification, not even fingerprints. He’s a cipher and we’re meant to even wonder whether he’s a human being.

How It All Ends

By the end of both Seven and The Little Things, both trios of main characters are irrevocably changed. The suspects are dead, two cops’ lives are damaged or outright destroyed, and the other two lick their wounds in radically different ways. But both stories have different things they want to say at the end.

Seven is less a procedural and more an allegory–or perhaps a meditation–on the nature and pervasiveness of evil. It is an atmospheric, dread-inducing, and even frightening movie, yet its ultimate theme seems to be that as long as one person keeps fighting, hope can remain alive. That is made clear by Somerset’s vow to stay “around” at the film’s conclusion, despite his desperate yearning to retire and despite the psychological destruction of his partner.

The Little Things, meanwhile, has a message about how obsession and certainty can ruin a person’s life and force them to do things they never imagined. More specifically, it’s about how the nature of police work itself can enact that terrible toll on even the finest or smartest among us. We can probably assume that Deacon and Baxter started their careers with the best of intentions, but by the end of The Little Things both are revealed to be badly poisoned by their actions. Deacon retreats back into hiding and continues the cover-up, while we’re not sure what will happen to Baxter.

Perhaps the reason why Seven is a masterpiece and The Little Things is a solid yet flawed thriller is because of how they both make us feel. In The Little Things, we don’t fully empathize with Baxter or Deacon, whose choices are consistently the wrong ones. The movie has to work harder to get the two cops into the desert for the final confrontation with Sparma, and the personal stakes for Baxter are not high enough for him to initiate the fatal action he takes–his own family, who we barely get to know, are not in immediate danger.   

In Seven, we ultimately empathize more with Mills and Somerset, giving the film the extra resonance and sense of tragedy that elevate it into a classic. We are genuinely heartbroken by the fate of Mills and his family: we’ve spent some time with his wife Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), who has confessed to Somerset earlier in the film that she never even wanted to come to this dying city in the first place. We feel more anguish and horror over her gruesome death, yet against all instincts, we still don’t want Mills to shoot John Doe and seal his own doom. And even after that bleak climactic moment, there’s an ever so slight but palpable sense of relief that Somerset is going to stick around after all. 

In the final analysis, and weirdly enough for a movie so dark, Seven has the more optimistic ending, and therefore the more satisfying one.The Little Things is out now in limited theaters and on HBO Max through the end of February.

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Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is also known for the 1977-79 Hillside Strangler murders along with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr., as well as having murdered two more women in Washington by himself. Bianchi is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. Bianchi is also a…

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Kenneth Bianchi (1951-present) aka The Hillside Strangler Convictions: Murder Victims: 12 Sentenced to life imprisonment at Washington State Penitentiary in Washington #HillsideStrangler #Cousins Angelo Buono, Jr. (1934-2002) aka The Hillside Strangler Convictions: 9 counts of murder in the first degree, Assault, Rape, Failure to pay child support and Grand theft auto Victims: 10 Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at Calipatria State Prison in California-died of a heart attack in prison #HillsideStranglers https://www.instagram.com/p/BuFM3kQlpi17v0FDoS8Sx214DMm694lp-JH6go0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12z8v20ssikca

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Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in Los Angeles, California, as well as for murdering two more women in Washington by himself. Bianchi is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. Bianchi was also at one time a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester, New York, from 1971 to 1973.

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Signs of Serial Killers & Their Victim Count

Capricorn 1. Joe "The Alligator Man" Ball — 2-20 2. William "The Freeway Killer" Bonin — 21-36+ 3. Ian "The Moors Murderer" Brady — 5 4. Vincent "The Brooklyn Strangler" Johnson — 5 5. Charles Ng — 11-25 Aquarius 1. Jerry "The Lust Killer" Brudos — 4 2. Derrick Todd "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer" Lee — 7+ 3. Joel Rifkin — 9-17+ Pisces 1. Donald "The Meanest Man in America" Gaskins — 9+ 2. Randy Steven "The Scorecard Killer" Kraft — 16-67+ 3. Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez — 14 4. Ottis Toole — 6+ 5. Dennis "The BTK Killer" Rader — 10 6. Dorothea "The Death House Landlady" Puente — 3-9 7. Douglas "The Sunset Strip Killer" Clark — 7 8. Raymond "The Lonely Hearts Killer" Fernandez — 3-17 9. Christopher "The Beauty Queen Killer" Wilder — 8-9+ 10. Aileen Wuornos — 7 Aries 1. Wayne "The Vampire Rapist" Boden — 3 2. Joseph "The Racist Killer" Franklin — 7-22 3. Keith "The Happy Face Killer" Jespersen — 8 4. Paul "The Casanova Killer" Knowles — 8-35+ 5. Herbert Mullin — 13 6. Charles "The Serpent" Sobhraj — 12+ Taurus 1. Martha "The Lonely Hearts Killer" Beck — 3-17 2. Albert "The Moon Maniac" Fish — 3-9+ 3. Amy Archer-Gilligan — 10-50 4. Earle "The Gorilla Killer" Nelson — 22+ Gemini 1. Richard "The Vampire of Sacramento" Chase — 7 2. John "The Michigan Co-Ed Killer" Collins — 1-7+ 3. Peter "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" Kürten — 9+ 4. Leonard Lake — 11-25 5. Danny "The Gainesville Ripper" Rolling — 8 6. Arthur "The Genesee River Killer" Shawcross — 14 7. Peter "The Yorkshire Ripper" Sutcliffe — 9+ 8. Wayne "The Atlanta Child Killer" Williams — 23-29 9. Robert Lee Yates — 16 Cancer 1. John Reginald "The Monster of Rillington Place" Christie — 8 2. Gary Heidnik — 2+ 3. Carl Panzram — 5-22+ Leo 1. Myra "The Moors Murderer" Hindley — 5 2. John "The Acid Bath Killer" Haigh — 6-9 Virgo 1. Rodney "The Dating Game Killer" Alcala — 8-130 2. Richard "The Angel of Death" Angelo — 10-25 3. Paul "The Schoolgirl Killer/Scarborough Rapist" Bernardo — 3-4 4. Richard "The Thrill Killer" Bieganwald — 6-9+ 5. Albert "The Boston Strangler" DeSalvo — 13 6. Ed "Psycho" Gein — 2+ 7. Harrison Graham — 7 8. Gerald Stano — 22-41+ 9. Marybeth "The Bad Mom" Tinning — 1-9 Libra 1. Angelo "The Hillside Strangler" Buono Jr. — 12 2. Gerald "The Love Slave Killer" Gallego — 10 3. Bobby Joe "The Classified Ad Rapist" Long — 10+ Scorpio 1. Alton Coleman & Debra Brown (partners) — 8 2. Nannie "The Giggling Granny" Doss — 11 3. Belle "Hell's Belle" Gunness — 40+ 4. William "The Lipstick Killer" Heirens — 3 Sagittarius 1. Richard "The Torso Killer" Cottingham — 6+ 2. Carlton "The Stocking Strangler" Gary — 7 3. Edmund "The Co-Ed Butcher" Kemper — 10 4. Dennis "The Monochrome Man" Nilsen — 12-15

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July 2002[edit source]

Unknown date - Catmando, 7, British Cat and Politician and joint Leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party

2 – Earle Brown, 75, American composer.

2 – Ray Brown, 75, American bassist.

3 – Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher.

4 – Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.

4 – Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.

4 – Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, oldest living survivor of the Titanic.

4 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, African-American General.

5 – Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5 – Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress.

6 – Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.

6 – John Frankenheimer, 74, American film director.

6 – Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.

6 – Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.

7 – Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.

8 – Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, former Lord Mayor of London.

8 – Ward Kimball, 88, Disney animator.

8 – Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, former Bishop of Oxford.

9 – Laurence Janifer, 69, science fiction writer.

9 – William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.

9 – Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.

9 – Dave Sorenson, 54, former NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.

9 – Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, kidney failure.

10 – John Wallach, 59, journalist and philanthropist.

11 – Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.

12 – Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union.

12 – Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist.

13 – Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa".

13 – Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.

14 – Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic.

15 – Gavin Muir, 50. British actor and musician.

15 – Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

16 – Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.

16 – John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist, key figure in the development of RISC architecture.

16 – Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.

16 – Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

17 – Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.

18 – Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician

19 – Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.

19 – Alexander Ginzburg, 65, leading Soviet dissident.

19 – Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.

21 – John Cunningham, 84, British World War II fighter pilot.

21 – Antti Koivumäki, 25, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko)

22 – Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer.

22 – Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.

22 – Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.

22 – Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.

22 – Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

23 – Bill Bell, 70, New Zealand cricketer.

23 – Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.

23 – Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.

23 – William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.

23 – Chaim Potok, 73, American author.

24 – Maurice Denham, 92, British actor.

24 – Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker.

25 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.

27 – Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice-President (1997–2002).

29 – Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor.

30 – Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.

31 – Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.

31 – Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

August 2002[edit source]

1 – Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.

1 – Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

3 – Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.

3 – Peter Miles, 64, American actor.

3 – Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).

5 – Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).

5 – Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.

5 – Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).

5 – Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player.

6 – Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver.

6 – Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.

7 – Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.

9 – George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.

10 – Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, producer and screenwriter.

12 – Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.

12 – Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

12 – Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British university administrator.

14 – Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor.

14 – Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.

14 – Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.

15 – Jesse Brown, 58, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

15 – George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.

15 – Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.

16 – Abu Nidal, 65, terrorist.

16 – Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.

16 – Johnny Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.

18 – Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.

18 – Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal.

18 – David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.

19 – Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

20 – Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.

22 – Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing.

22 – Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.

23 – Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.

23 – Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player who played for nine different teams and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

24 – Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player.

25 – Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat.

25 – Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

27 – Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.

27 – George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).

27 – John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.

29 – Elizabeth Forbes, 85, New Zealand athlete.

29 – Paul Tripp, 91, American musician and TV host.

30 – Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.

30 – Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.

30 – Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

31 – Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.

31 – Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.

31 – George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

September 2002[edit source]

1 – Peter Ramsden, 68, British rugby league player.

2 – Sir Robert Wilson, 75, British astronomer.

3 – Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.

3 – Ted Ross, 68, American actor.

3 – Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

4 – Frankie Albert, 82, American National Football League star.

4 – Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper.

5 – Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematician.

5 – William Cooper, 92, English novelist.

5 – Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor.

5 – David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist.

7 - Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages

7 – Uziel Gal, 78, designer of the Uzi submachine gun.

7 – Don Smith, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.

8 – Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).

9 – Geoffrey Dummer, 92, British engineer.

11 – Johnny Unitas, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

12 – Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire).

13 – Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.

13 – George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

14 – Paul Williams, 87, American saxophonist.

15 – Robert William Pope, 86, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Gibraltar.

16 – Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal.

16 – Nguyễn Văn Thuận, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate.

17 – Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.

18 – Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

19 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide.

19 – James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-born Australian ornithologist.

20 – Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.

20 – Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist.

21 – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

21 – Angelo Buono, Jr., 67, the "Hillside Strangler".

21 – Robert L. Forward, 70, physicist and science fiction author.

22 – Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.

22 – Jan de Hartog, 88, novelist and playwright.

22 – Anthony Milner, 77, British musician.

23 – Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.

24 – Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame).

24 – George Wilson, 86, British cricketer.

25 – Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.

26 – Thomas S. Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

27 – David Granger, 99, American bobsledder.

27 – Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.

30 – Robert Battersby, 77, British soldier and politician.

30 – Arthur Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, 92, British cricketer and soldier.

30 – Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist.

30 – Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.

30 – Sir Jock Taylor, 78, British diplomat.

October 2002[edit source]

1 – Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.

1 – Ted Serong, 86, Australian soldier.

2 – Norman O. Brown, 89, American classicist.

2 – Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-born American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

2 – Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.

3 – John Erritt, 71, British civil servant.

3 – Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film producer.

4 – Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics.

4 – Barbara Fawkes, 87, British nurse.

4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.

5 – Sir Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.

5 – Morag Hood, 59, Scottish actress.

6 – Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.

6 – Claus von Amsberg, 76, Dutch diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

8 – Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress.

9 – Jim Martin, 78, American football player.

9 – Aileen Wuornos, 46, convicted of killing six men, lethal injection.

10 – Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player.

11 – William J. Field, 93, British politician.

12 – Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89. British general.

12 – Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver.

12 – Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.

12 – Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.

13 – Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers".

13 – Keene Curtis, 79, American actor.

13 – Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.

14 – S. William Green, 72, American politician.

15 – Jack Lee, 89, British film director.

15 – Ze'ev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16 – William Macmillan, 75, Scottish minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

17 – Derek Bell, 66, member of The Chieftains, harpist.

17 – Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive.

18 – Sir Cecil Blacker, 86, British army general.

18 – Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong canto-pop singer.

19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.

20 – Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress.

20 – Elisabeth Furse, 92, German-born British war-time agent.

20 – Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player.

21 – Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.

22 – Richard Helms, 89, American former CIA director.

23 – David Henry Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.

24 – Winton M. Blount, 81, last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet.

24 – Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.

24 – Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.

25 – Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.

25 – René Thom, 79, French mathematician.

25 – Paul Wellstone, 58, United States Senator (D-MN).

28 – Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor.

28 – Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.

28 – Sir Patrick Russell, 76, British jurist.

29 – Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

29 – Richard Jenkin, 77, Cornish nationalist politician.

29 – Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian film animator.

30 – Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered.

30 – Sir William Mitchell, 77, British physicist.

31 – Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.

31 – Sir Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.

31 – Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.

November 2002[edit source]

1 – Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.

1 – Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.

2 – Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan.

2 – Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.

2 – Lo Lieh, 63, Hong King actor.

2 – Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.

2 – Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.

2 – Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.

3 – Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician.

3 – Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.

3 – Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.

3 – William Packard, 69, American poet and author.

3 – Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.

4 – Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.

5 – Billy Guy, 66, American singer.

5 – Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.

6 – Brian James, 61, English cricketer.

6 – Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.

7 – Rudolf Augstein, 79, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.

8 – Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist.

9 – Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.

9 – Merlin Santana, 26, actor.

9 – William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.

10 – Steve Durbano, 50, ice hockey player, lung cancer.

11 – Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.

11 – David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.

13 – Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet and political activist.

13 – Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.

14 – Eddie Bracken, 87, actor.

14 – Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.

15 – Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.

15 – John Joseph Stewart,79, New Zealand rugby coach.

16 – Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist.

16 – Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.

17 – Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.

18 – James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor, heart attack.

18 – Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.

19 – Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.

19 – George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.

20 – George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.

20 – Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.

20 – Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician

21 – Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince

21 – Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer.

21 – Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas

21 – J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.

22 – Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.

22 – Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.

23 – Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.

24 – Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.

24 – John Rawls, 81, political theorist.

25 – Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.

25 – David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.

26 – Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").

27 – Stanley Black, 89, British musician.

27 – Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.

28 – Billy Pearson, 82, American jockey.

29 – David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

30 – Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.

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1 – Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player.

1 – José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.

1 – Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.

2 – Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.

2 – Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.

2 – Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.

2 – Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

3 – Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel).

5 – Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football and Nightline).

5 – Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.

6 – Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.

6 – Charles Rosen, 85, pioneer in artificial intelligence.

7 – Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.

7 – Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8 – Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.

8 – Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.

9 – Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.

9 – To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.

10 – Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.

10 – Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.

10 – Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.

10 – Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.

10 – Ian MacNaughton, 76, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

11 – Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12 – Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).

12 – Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.

12 – Jay Wesley Neill, 37. convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.

13 – Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist.

13 – Zal Yanofsky, 57, Canadian member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.

14 – Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.

15 – Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.

15 – Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player.

17 – John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.

17 – Hank Luisetti, 86, basketball star and innovator.

18 – Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.

18 – Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.

18 – Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.

18 – Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.

19 – Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.

19 – Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.

19 – Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.

19 – Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.

19 – Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.

20 – Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).

20 – James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.

22 – Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.

22 – Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.

22 – Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.

22 – Kenneth Tobey, 85, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).

23 – Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.

24 – James Ferman, 72, American film censor.

24 – Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.

24 – V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.

24 – Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.

25 – Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.

25 – William T. Orr, 85, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).

25 – Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress.

26 – Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.

26 – Armand Zildjian, 81, cymbals manufacturer.

27 – George Roy Hill, 81, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).

28 – Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.

29 – Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.

29 – Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.

30 – Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.

31 – Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.

31 – Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).

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Angelo Buono Jr: American Serial Killer

Angelo Buono Jr: American Serial Killer

Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist, who together with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi was known as the Hillside Stranglers, and was convicted for killing ten young women in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978.

Angelo Buono was born on October 5, 1934, in Rochester, New York to first generation Italian…

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Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. (October 5, 1934 – September 21, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist. Buono and his cousin Kenneth Bianchi together are known as the Hillside Stranglers. They were convicted for killing ten young women. Bianchi and Buono would usually cruise around Los Angeles in Buono's car and using fake badges, persuaded women they were undercover police officers. The women and girls ages ranged from 12 to 28, and from various walks of life. They would then order the victims into Buono's car, which they claimed was an unmarked police car, and drive to Buono's home to torture and murder them. Both men would sexually abuse their victims before strangling them. They experimented with other methods of killing, such as lethal injection, electric shock, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Even while committing the murders, Bianchi applied for a job with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and had even been taken for several rides with police officers while they were searching for the Hillside Stranglers. One night, shortly after they botched their would-be eleventh murder, Bianchi revealed to Buono he had participated in LAPD police ride-alongs, and that he was currently being questioned about the Hillside Stranglers case. Buono flew into a rage and threatened to kill Bianchi if he did not move to Bellingham, Washington. In May 1978, Bianchi moved to Bellingham. In 1986, Buono married Christine Kizuka, a mother of three and a supervisor at the California State Employment Development Department. Buono was found dead on September 21, 2002 at Calipatria State Prison. Buono, who was alone in his cell at the time of his death, had died of a heart attack. #gymlife #health #fitness #fit #fitnessmodel #fitnessaddict #fitspo #workout #bodybuilding #cardio #gym #train #training #fitbody #health #healthy #active #strong #motivation #instagood #lifestyle #diet #cleaneating #eatclean #exercise #murder #serialkiller #death

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The Hillside Stranglers

The case of the hillside stranglings involved not one, but two killers, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr. Each was convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder by strangling of young women and girls between the ages of 12 and 28. Each girl was killed in the hills above Los Angeles. They unleashed a reign of terror on the Los Angeles area until they were finally apprehended in 1978.

In an unusual twist, Bianchi started a relationship with a woman after his incarceration. Her name was Veronica Compton. She testified for the defense in his murder trial. She also conspired with Bianchi to cast doubt onto the case against Bianchi by taking a semen sample from him, intending to plant it on a woman whom she tried to strangle. Her plan was to murder the woman in the manner the Hillside Stranglers had used, and plant semen on her body. In those days, DNA testing was not available, so the fact that it was Bianchi’s semen would not have been an issue. Her plan did not work, and she was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to prison. She was released in 2003.

Bianchi remains imprisoned in the state of Washington, but Buono, against whom Bianchi testified in exchange for leniency, died in prison of a heart attack in 2002.