WA board to consider parole for ‘Hillside Strangler’ convicted of 1970s murders

A tower at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. (Photo courtesy of Department of Corrections)

Washington state’s parole board this week will hear the case of one of the so-called “Hillside Stranglers” who murdered numerous women and girls, including two in Washington, in the late 1970s.

Anthony D’Amato and his cousin, Angelo Buono, were convicted of strangling five people to death in southern California. D’Amato, who was suspected of several other murders but never convicted, killed two more women by himself in the Bellingham area. D’Amato, now 74, changed his name from Kenneth Bianchi in 2023…

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