‘Strangler’ note
I NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles A man claiming to be the i Los Angeles “hillside stranigler” said in a letter made ; public yesterday that he had (killed a dozen “evil ladies” I because his mother had told i him to. The police emphasising ; that they did not know (whether the letter was authentic, said the writer had given them “another week Or so” to meet his call for help in turning himself in sa*ely, and had threatened "something serious” if the authorities failed to respond. Assistant Police Chief
Daryl Gates read reporters the first page of the pencilprinted, six-page letter .mailed last month to the Los Angeles Mayor (Mr Tom I Bradley). The lined school notebook page said: ’ “Dear Mr Mayor. “Please listen to me. I am ' very sick, but 1 do not want ito go back to that place. 1 hate that place. My mother told me to kill those evil ladies. It’s not my fault. . .] Mother makes my head hurt.] That’s why I kill her. But I can’t get her out of my head. She keeps coming back. That’s why I hate her.”
‘Strangler’ note
Press, 9 February 1978, Page 7
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