The reminiscences of former friends, police, and an ex-wife, alongside a detailed taped confession, paint the portrait of a man whose murderous bid for fame labeled him "The Gay Slayer".
In the late 1970s, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. gained singular notoriety as The Hillside Strangler, killing ten young girls and women then dumping their naked bodies along embankments.
In early '70s California, paranoid schizophrenic Herbert William Mullin would kill thirteen people, sacrifices that he claimed prevented cataclysmic earthquakes.