Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien [1987 PAPERBACK]

Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1987] SIGNET BOOKS Solid reading copy with some read wear to spine and some shelf wear to cover.  Pages have tanning. The riveting true crime account of the Hillside Stranglers and the horrific serial killings they unleashed on 1970s Los Angeles. For weeks that fall, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle lead police to the arrest of a security guard—the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi—and the discovery that the strangler was not one man but two. Compellingly, O’Brien explores the symbiotic relationship between Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono, their lust for women as in