Officer Romano mentions a "Bianchi-Buono type profile." He is referring to Kenneth Bianchi (b.1951) and his cousin Angelo Buono (1934-2002), known as the Hillside Stranglers, who terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978. Posing as undercover police officers, they kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10 women between the ages of 12 and 28; although the first three women were sex workers, most of them were not. One almost-victim was the 24-year-old daughter of Peter Lorre