Similarities Between Angelo And Kenneth Brianchi

Angelo Buono and his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi had started working with one another (Angelo Buono Biography, n.d.). Both Angelo and Kenneth agreed that in order for them to make a sufficient income they should get young prostitutes to work for them in the sex trade; in turn, they would receive money from the young women (Jennifer Cable, Travis Hall, Brittney Hornsby & Amanda Howe, 2012). The cousins had acquired a list of prostitutes from Deborah Nobel and Yolanda Washington; however, this list was false and the girls had lied to them (Cable et al., 2012). Angelo and Kenneth had found out that his list was falsified; they became angry and wanted to seek vengeance for what Deborah Nobel had done (Cable et al., 2012). This had gotten the pair enraged, they had found Yolanda Washington; she was raped and strangled in Kenneth’s vehicle (Cable et al., 2012). This was the first of the ten murders the cousins had committed.

The ages for the victims ranged anywhere from 12 to 28 years old (Chaleff, 1988). Buono and Bianchi would would strangle the victims to death and many of the autopsies reported instances of aggressive torture (Chaleff, 1988). The killings were slow in procedure to ensure that the victim had felt every ounce of pain (Cable et al., 2012). Buono would kill frequently and the murders were random; this caused moral panic throughout Los Angeles (Chaleff, 1988). The cousins had also experimented with lethal injection (Cable et al., 2012). The first few victims were prostitutes that Angelo and Kenneth had pursued (Angelo Buono Bibliography, n.d.). They would seek prostitutes for the reason that they would not raise suspicion if they were to go missing; from there, he moved on to victims whom were middle-class (Cable et al., 2012). They did not have certain criteria for their victims; it was random and