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Monday, June 6, 2011

Driving Forest Lawn Glendale

Sunday, June 5, 2011

George Washington at Forest Lawn Glendale

Saturday, June 4, 2011

The Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale

Friday, June 3, 2011

Easter at Forest Lawn Glendale

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Statue of David at Forest Lawn Glendale

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale

Thursday, August 13, 2009

A&E Biography - The Hillside Stranglers - You Tube

Thanks to BastisWifey for the video.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi's Glendale Bachelor Pad

Kenny (Kenneth Bianchi) left Rochester in late 1975 when he was 26 and went to live in Los Angeles. He started out living with his older cousin, Angelo Buono. At first he was seduced by the uninhibited California culture where sex and drugs were freely available. Eventually, he got tired of that and started to settle down.

His first love was police work, but there were no openings available in the Los Angles Police Department and the Glendale Police Department turned him down. Eventually, he got a job working for a title company and used his first paycheck to get an apartment at 809 East Garfield Avenue in Glendale and a 1972 Cadillac sedan, overextending himself financially in the process. Kenny was never strong on financial responsibility.
There were a number of young women who lived in his apartment building. One of them, Kristina Weckler, tried to ignore his advances, but others were more receptive. He moved in with Kelli Boyd, a woman he had met at work. In May of 1977, she told him she was expecting his child.
-- Crime Library on truTV.com

The next day, the first girl that (LAPD Homicide Detective Sergeant) Bob Grogan investigated was identified as Kristina Weckler, a quiet 20-year-old honors student at the Pasadena Art Center of Design. As he searched her apartment at 809 East Garfield Avenue in Glendale, Grogan was overcome by sadness followed by rage. Her effects and her diary showed her to be a loving and serious young woman who should have had a bright future ahead of her.

-- Crime Library on truTV.com

He moved to Los Angeles in 1977, and started spending time with his older cousin Angelo Buono, who was impressed with Bianchi's fancy clothes, jewelry, and stories of getting any women 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.

-- wiki

Infamous Murders - Pleasure Killers - The Hillside Strangler - You Tube

Thanks to InfamousCrimes for the video.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Hillside Strangler Angelo Buono's Auto Upholstery Shop

In the spring of 1977, Angelo Buono, Jr. and his younger cousin Kenneth Bianchi began their murder spree, killing women and dumping their bodies on the hillsides northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the Glendale-Highland Park-Eagle Rock-Mt. Washington area. The media dubbed the murderers, “The Hillside Stranglers.”

By 1975, Angelo had built himself a reasonable reputation as an auto upholsterer. He bought a place at 703 East Colorado Street for his residence and his upholstery shop. He had no use for employees, so the new place gave him the privacy to do any horrible thing he wanted.
-- Crime Library on truTV.com

An important moment in these interviews came when Salerno asked Kenny what type of material was used to blindfold Judy Miller. Kenny thought it was foam that Angelo used in his auto upholstery business. The little piece of fluff that Salerno had found on the dead girl's eyelids could be just the kind of corroborating evidence they needed to nail Angelo.

-- Crime Library on truTV.com

In 1986, while in prison, Buono married Christine Kizuka, a mother of three and a supervisor at the California State Department of Employee Development.

On September 21, 2002, Buono died of a heart attack in his cell at Calipatria State Prison.

Curious note: In 2007 Buono’s grandson, Christopher Buono, shot his grandmother, Mary Castillo, the mother of five Angelo Buono children, in the head. He committed suicide shortly thereafter.