Bianchi claimed that he suffered from multiple personality disorder but later admitted that he faked the condition. Buono owned an auto upholstery shop and was not a suspect until Bianchi was caught, confessed and identified his cousin as his accomplice.Īrrest, conviction and sentence: Bianchi was arrested on JanuBuono was arrested on October 19, 1979. Bianchi was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, as a suspect in the murders of two college students at Western Washington University. He pleaded guilty to the slayings in Washington and confessed to five of the Los Angeles murders. He was sentenced to five life terms for murder and one additional life sentence for conspiracy. Bianchi is incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Buono was arrested at his home in Glendale, California, the same day Bianchi admitted he participated in five of the Hillside killings. Buono was convicted of nine murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Year and location: 1971, Yuba City, CaliforniaĬharacteristics: A farm labor contractor, Corona was convicted in the stabbing deaths of 24 workers. During a 2011 parole hearing, he confessed to killing the men. Corona, who was 77 and suffering from dementia at the time of the hearing, described his victims as alcoholics who had trespassed in the orchards.Īrrest, conviction and sentence: Arrested on May 26, 1971. Corona was arrested after a neighbor reported suspicious activity in a peach orchard. Police found 25 bodies buried in shallow graves in orchards surrounding the Feather River and traced the bodies to Corona.
The partial DNA belonged to Borjas' father, and detectives looking for an exact match zeroed in on Borjas, following him until they captured a sample when he spat on a sidewalk, police said.After being convicted in 1973, Corona was sentenced to 25 life terms in prison but an appeal led to a new trial in 1982. The first was when investigators zeroed in on serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., known as the Grim Sleeper, in 2010.Ī search of familial DNA turned up a near-match for evidence collected from the Eastside victims' bodies, Beck said in 2017. It was the second time in the Los Angeles Police Department history that familial DNA helped detectives zero in on a high-profile killer, then-Chief Charlie Beck said in announcing Borjas' arrest in 2017. He also pleaded no contest to kidnapping Guzman. Geovanni Borjas, 37, pleaded no contest to murder and rape in the cases of Michelle Lozano, 17, who disappeared on April 24, 2011, and Bree’Anna Guzman, 22, who disappeared in late December that year. With the defendant's no contest plea, Los Angeles authorities closed the case on the 2011 murders of a teenage girl and a young woman that once sparked fears of an Eastside serial killer.
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