The body is at its most interesting when it is falling.

All of the killings/torture, except for Hudspeth, took place at 703 E Colorado Street in Glendale. All victims were found naked, thoroughly cleaned, having been raped and strangled to death with a ligature.

Yolanda Washington, 19, prostitute
- discovered around what is now 6510 Forest Lawn Drive on October 18, 1977
- went missing October 16
- viciously raped, corpse cleaned, ligature marks visible around neck, wrists, ankles

Judith Lynn Miller, 16, prostitute
- discovered at 2844 Alta Terrace (La Crescenta) on November 1, 1977
- raped, strangled, etc. like Washington
- laid out on La Crescenta resident's flower bed. Body was covered with tarp as to hide it from children going to school in the morning. Miller had been posed with her legs forming a diamond.
- Buono + Bianchi recorded the audio from the torture of Miller for eventual sale on the black market

Lissa Teresa Kastin, 21, dance student (ballet)
- discovered in ravine 30 ft south of the 3000 block of E. Chevy Chase Drive (3067 E. Chevy Chase Drive? Googlemaps shows this address as being in the Chevy Chase Country Club. A lot of these "exact" addresses are different; of course, the Los Angeles landscape has changed a bit in 32 years.) on November 6, 1977
- ligature used to strangle her still around her neck
- first body not "dropped" at an obvious, accessible site

Dolores Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, students
- discovered by two boys (who thought the bodies were mannequins) in a trash heap at Stadium Way & Landa Street on November 20, 1977
- believed to have been dumped from the 5 fwy overpass
- abducted November 13, 1977 from Eagle Rock Plaza on their way home from school (seen approaching a car after getting off a bus)

Kristina Weckler, 20, Art Center student
- discovered on 4100 block of N Ranons Way in Eagle Rock on November 20, 1977
- body fairly fresh; found with oozing injection marks - first sign that the hillside stranglers were torturing their victims in addition to strangling them, tying them up, and raping them
- Buono + Bianchi attempted to kill her via suffocation by reworking natural gas pipes for her to breathe in. This was ineffective, so they strangled her to death after enduring likely prolonged attempted asphyxiation.

Jane King, 28, actress
- discovered a few feet from the westbound Los Feliz 5-South offramp on November 23, 1977
- King went missing November 9, so her body was badly decomposed when found.

Lauren Wagner, 18, student
- discovered at 1217 Cliff Drive on November 29, 1977
- Buono + Bianchi attempted to kill her via electrocution by duct taping raw electical wires to her palms. You cannot electrocute someone like that, so they just continually burnt the same area of her hands. She was eventually strangled and found with burn marks, later explained by Bianchi's testimony.

Kimberly Martin, 17, prostitute
- discovered around what is now 2006 N Alvarado Street, "15 ft down the slope of a freshly tilled hillside adjacent to a house," on December 13, 1977

Cindy Hudspeth, 20, clerk (raising money for college)
- orange datsun discovered at around the 4.3 mile point of Angeles Crest Highway by helicopter on February 16, 1978
- Hudspeth had been stuffed in her trunk, then the car was rolled into Angeles National Forest