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Crimes of the Times
L.A. Times Studios
How A Hillside Strangler Nearly Went Free
JUN 30, 2026
33 MIN
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The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.