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WA Board to Consider Parole for ‘Hillside Strangler’ Convicted of 1970s Murders
- Washington state’s parole board will consider Anthony D’Amato’s parole request this week at a closed hearing in Walla Walla.
- D’Amato, formerly Kenneth Bianchi, pleaded guilty to murders in Washington and California, and his parole has been denied multiple times previously.
- In 1979, D’Amato strangled two Western Washington University students in Bellingham and was linked to about 10 similar murders in California involving his cousin Angelo Buono.
- The parole board is expected to make the hearing outcome available online by July 23, and even if D’Amato is granted parole, he would remain incarcerated due to life sentences he must serve in California; his projected release date is 2065, when he would be 114 years old.
- The hearing’s outcome could extend D’Amato’s sentence as he continues to challenge his convictions and maintain his innocence, claiming his confession resulted from hypnosis.
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