29 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 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 due to a problem with involuntary urination, causing him a great deal of humiliation.

Kenneth Bianchi was prone to fits of anger as well as bouts of insomnia and habitual bedwetting when he was young.

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 after failing to get along with teachers.

In July 1963, Kenneth Bianchi pulled down a six-year-old girl's underwear 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 finding employment as a security guard at a jewelry store.

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

Shortly after the eleventh and twelfth murders, Kenneth Bianchi revealed to Buono that he had gone on the 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.

Investigators eventually discovered that the name "Steven Walker" came from a student whose identity Kenneth Bianchi had previously attempted to steal for the purpose of fraudulently practicing psychology.

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.

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 currently 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.