The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles

“A deeply disturbing book—cool, ironical, and ferocious.” —Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French

For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler.

More than a year later, the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle led to the arrest of a secu...