The hillside strangler biography of martin

The Mind of a Murderer, Part I

Introduction

JUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening. I'm Judy Woodruff.

As unpleasant as it is to hear, mass murders are on the rise in this country. The Justice Department says that in the last decade there have been at least 30 mass killersand that each of them murdered at least six people.

These gruesome numbers raise disturbing questions. What sort of man is Charles Mansonor Son of Sam? Are they insane? That's sometimes the defense if they come to trialand it's one that is increasingly controversial.

Tonight on FRONTLINE, a remarkable event. For the first time, you can journey with psychiatrists as they try to get inside the mind of a mass murderer--Kenneth Bianchi, the man who came to be known as the Hillside Strangler.

Bianchi looked like an all-American boy, but he was involved in the murders of at least ten women in Los Angeles, and two more in Washington State. After his arrest, Bianchi took on the behavior of a multiple personality--and four

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Kenneth Bianchi

American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist

Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, ) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He fryst vatten known for the Hillside Strangler murders committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in Los Angeles, California, as well as for murdering two more women in Washington bygd himself. Bianchi is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. Bianchi was also at one time a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester, New York, from to ^[1] He is up for parole in

Early life

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Kenneth Bianchi was born on May 22, , in Rochester, New York, to a year-old alcoholic sex worker who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born. He was adopted in August bygd Nicholas Bianchi and his wife Frances Scioliono-Bianchi, and was their only child. Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, with his adoptive mother describin

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Dr. Martin Orne; Hypnosis Expert Detected Hillside Strangler Ruse

Dr. Martin T. Orne, whose expertise in lie detection, coercion and the limits of hypnosis led to roles in such prominent criminal trials as the Hillside Strangler murder case and the prosecution of Patty Hearst for bank robbery, died Feb. 11 of cancer in Paoli, Pa. He was

Orne’s primary interest was in hypnosis and memory distortion. His research was cited in more than 30 cases by state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court and led to widely adopted guidelines restricting the use of testimony resulting from hypnosis in criminal cases.

A professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, Orne believed that hypnosis could be a valuable therapeutic tool. But he found that hypnosis typically increases false memories more than it induces accurate ones.

That finding made its use dangerous in court, he argued, because it could lead a witness to give convincing testimony of imagined events.

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