These photographs were made in the Hillside Strangler Task Force room at Parker Center.
Hillside Strangler Task Force investigator examines photographs of 8
of the women
believed victims of the strangler. Unit came to include 93 persons.
Jane Evelyn King, twenty-eight, was killed on
Nov. 23, 1977. She was the 9th victim of the Hillside
Strangler. Her body was found dumped at a southbound Los Feliz
off-ramp of the Golden State
Freeway. Sheet in background marks
where her nude body was found. Police investigators can be
seen in the foreground.
Police investigators inspect the car Lauren Wagner was seen driving
parked within 50 feet
of her house the night before her body was found in Glassell Park.
Los Angeles Police
Department, homicide detectives investigate the murder site of
Lauren Rae Wagner.
The body was found November 29, 1977 on the west side of Mount
Washington in Glassell Park
at 1217 Cliff Dr.
Close friends of the Wagner family carry the
casket containing the body of Lauren Rae Wagner,
10th victim of the Hillside Strangler. Services were held at Our
Lady of Peace Church, Sepulveda,
with more than 250 persons attending.
The apartment house, at 1950 Tamarind, is where
the hillside strangler apparently told
his victim, Kimberly Diane Martin, he would meet her the evening before her nude
body
was found dumped on a hillside.
2006 N. Alvarado,
Echo Park, the place where Kimberly Diane Martin's body was found.
Overview
of the area where the body was found. Many residents of the area
stopped to view the sight
where the body was dumped.
2006 N. Alvarado,
Echo Park, the place where Kimberly Diane Martin's body was found.
Body can be
seen in the center of the photo, with police personnel and residents
of the area in the background.
2006 N. Alvarado, Echo Park, the place where Kimberly Diane Martin's
body was found. General area
where the body was found. In the background, on the boom, the
coroner's photographer is seen as
he shoots down on the body.
2006 N. Alvarado, Echo Park, the place where
Kimberly Diane Martin's body was found.
Body is being removed
by the coronor's office.
At precisely 5:30 p.m. on February 16, 1978, Cindy Hudspeth was
driving her bright orange
1977 Datsun B-210 north on Glendale Boulevard in rush hour traffic,
approaching Colorado
Boulevard. She was due at her evening job, a right turn onto
Colorado and five blocks away
at 6 p.m. She never arrived. In this photo, sheriff's sergeant is
trying to recreate the route
that Cindy would have taken in hopes that someone may have seen
something.
Los Angeles, California: A member of the Los Angeles County
Coroner's office yells instruction
up a hillside
as members of the
Los Angeles Police Hillside Strangler task force investigate
the
body of a woman (her
leg can be seen) found in the truck of a car.
Cindy Lee Hudspeth, 20, is thought to be the 13th victim of
the
Hillside Strangler. The car,
spotted by a helicopter February 17th,
had been driven or pushed off the
highway (February 18, 1978)
Casket of Cindy Lee Hudspeth is taken from Utter
McKinley the morning following the
services presided over by Father Frank Kelley.
The calendar is called "The Nightmare Month of
November 1977". It shows the days that 8 of the
victims of the
Hillside Strangler were murdered. Victims were numbers 4 through 10.
This maps shows the location of the murders in
relation to Buono's shop on E. Colorado Blvd.
The location of the bodies makes a rough circle around this
location.
