The Hillside Strangler: The Three Faces of America's Most Savage Rapist and Murderer and the Shocking Revelations from the Sensational Los Angeles Trial! [Paperback]

Ted Schwarz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with killer Ken Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case.

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About the Author

A New York Times best-selling author, Ted Schwarz has written more than 100 books including The Peter Lawford Story; Rose Kennedy and Her Family, and De Lorean.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Linden Publishing; New updated edition edition (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884956378
• ISBN-13: 978-1884956379
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,250,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Schwarz was duped, October 26, 1999

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J. Alexander Harman (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hillside Strangler: A Murderer's Mind (Hardcover)

This book was written before the police psychologists realizedthat Ken Bianchi was faking multiple personality disorder. For the real story of the Hillside Stranglers (there were two of them, Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono), read Darcy O'Brian's "Two of a Kind: the Hillside Stranglers" instead.

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother...., October 22, 2011

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Pamela L. Pitrone (Valley Village, CA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Hillside Strangler: The Three Faces of America's Most Savage Rapist and Murderer and the Shocking Revelations from the Sensational Los Angeles Trial! (Paperback)

This book is just a pro-Bianchi book. DON'T BOTHER WITH IT!!! It just pissed me off and I didn't believe a word of it!!! Buy the other one.....

1.0 out of 5 stars Bianchi faked multiple personalities AND hypnosis, February 23, 2011

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W. K. Gray "cretinous layabout" (South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hillside Strangler: The Three Faces of America's Most Savage Rapist and Murderer and the Shocking Revelations from the Sensational Los Angeles Trial! (Kindle Edition)

Dr. Martin Orne demonstrated to my satisfaction and, more significantly, to the judge and jury's that Ken Bianchi was faking both multiple personality disorder and hypnosis. Dr. Ellison, who initially thought Bianchi a bona fide multiple, came around and saw through Bianchi eventually as well. Dr. Watson was the only one of the three principal pyschologists involved in the case who clung to his original opinion that Bianchi was the genuine article. His criticism of Orne's observations was (and I'm paraphrasing), "all he did was reported that this body Ken Bianchi exhibited such and such behavior on such and such occasions." Well gosh a-mighty, isn't that the stock-in-trade of psychology? Or do we just take at face value the words of a murderer, who has some pretty compelling reasons to lie? The naivete of anyone who swallows the line Bianchi was selling is nothing less than astonishing to me, and can best be summarized thusly: Sure, Bianchi committed murder, multiple times, but lying would have been beyong the pale for him.