SERIAL KILLER: The Hillside Strangler from Los Angeles

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11/07/24

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Between October of 1977 and February of 1978, a serial killer terrorized women in Southern California, known as the Hillside Strangler. Originally preying upon sex workers in Los Angeles, this offender began to target young women regardless of race or background, before simply vanishing for good. It wasn’t until a year later that police were able to link a separate crime to this spree, and from there, began to track down the culprit or, in this case, culprits...

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MURDERED: Malvina Krutz

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When a young woman is found brutally murdered in her Indianapolis home in 1958, police start pointing fingers at everyone that’s been in and out of the house. But for every twist and turn and decade that has passed, there’s still so many questions around who killed Malvina.

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