31 Facts About Kenneth Bianchi

Kenneth Alessio Bianchi was born on May 22,1951 and is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist.

Kenneth Bianchi is known for the Hillside Strangler murders committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr.

Kenneth Bianchi was at one time a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester, New York, from 1971 to 1973.

Kenneth Bianchi was born on May 22,1951, in Rochester, New York, to a 17-year-old alcoholic prostitute who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born.

Kenneth Bianchi was adopted in August 1951 by Nicholas Bianchi and his wife Frances Scioliono-Bianchi, and was their only child.

Kenneth Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, with his adoptive mother describing him as "a compulsive liar" from the time he could talk.

Kenneth Bianchi was frequently given physical examinations by doctors because of an involuntary urination problem, causing him a great deal of humiliation.

Kenneth Bianchi had many behavioural problems and was prone to fits of anger as well as bouts of insomnia and habitually urinating in his own bed constantly when he was young.

On January 2,1957, Kenneth Bianchi accidentally fell off of a jungle gym and landed on his face.

Kenneth Bianchi's intelligence quotient was measured at 116 at the age of eleven, but, despite having above-average intelligence, he was an underachiever and was removed twice from schools because he failed to get along with teachers.

Kenneth Bianchi pulled down a 6-year-old girl's underwear sometime in July 1963 after deciding that he liked doing it.

Nonetheless, Kenneth Bianchi dated frequently and even joined a motorcycle club.

Shortly after he graduated from Gates-Chili High School in 1970, Kenneth Bianchi married his high school sweetheart, Brenda Beck.

Kenneth Bianchi dropped out of college after just one semester and drifted through a series of menial jobs, finally ending up as a security guard at a jewelery store.

Kenneth Bianchi applied for a position at the sheriff's department but was rejected.

Kenneth Bianchi moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1976 and started spending time with his older cousin and Frances' nephew, Angelo Buono, who impressed Kenneth Bianchi with his fancy clothes, jewelry, and talent for getting any woman he wanted and "putting them in their place".

Shortly after Kenneth Bianchi committed the eleventh and twelfth murders, he revealed to Buono that he had gone on LAPD police ride-alongs and that he was currently being questioned about the Strangler case.

At his trial, Kenneth Bianchi pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that another personality, one "Steve Walker", had committed the crimes.

Kenneth Bianchi convinced a few expert psychiatrists that he indeed suffered from multiple personality disorder, but investigators brought in their own psychiatrists, mainly Martin Orne.

Orne then brought in his real lawyer, flustering Kenneth Bianchi, who claimed that the imaginary lawyer had vanished.

Kenneth Bianchi eventually pleaded guilty in order to avoid the death penalty in Washington State.

Once his claims were subjected to scrutiny, Kenneth Bianchi eventually admitted that he had been faking the disorder.

Kenneth Bianchi himself was ultimately sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.

In 1980, Kenneth Bianchi began a relationship with Veronica Compton, a woman he had met while in prison.

Kenneth Bianchi admitted to wanting to buy a mortuary with another convicted murderer for the purpose of necrophilia.

Kenneth Bianchi was later convicted and imprisoned for attempting to strangle a woman she had lured to a motel in an attempt to convince authorities that the Hillside Strangler was still on the loose.

In 1992, Kenneth Bianchi sued Catherine Yronwode for $8.5 million for having an image of his face depicted on a trading card; he claimed his face was trademarked.

The judge dismissed the case after ruling that, if Kenneth Bianchi had been using his face as a trademark when he was killing women, he would not have tried to hide it from the police.

Kenneth Bianchi is serving his sentence at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.

Kenneth Bianchi was denied parole on August 18,2010, by a state board in Sacramento.

Kenneth Bianchi will be eligible to apply for parole again in 2025.