Where are Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi now?
In 1986, Buono married Christine Kizuka, a mother of three he met when her previous husband spent five months in a cell next to his while serving a term for assault with a deadly weapon. A spokesman for the California Department of Corrections told the Associated Press that Buono was Not He never allowed conjugal visits and he was not likely to allow them “due the nature of his crime against women.”
Buono, who had heart trouble, died in his cell at Calpatria State Prison of natural causes on Sept. 21, 2002. Buono was 67 years old.
Jan 2007, Christopher Buono, one of the killer’s grandchildren, shot his grandmother Mary CastilloAttacked his head with the pistol, he then turned it on himself. Castillo survived.
A neighbor who knew of her past told the Orange County Register, “People should leave her alone, or care about her because she’s Mary, not because she used to be married to that man.”
Meanwhile, Bianchi married Shirlee Joyce Book, who started off as a pen pal, in 1989, meeting her in person for the first time the day before their wedding. Now 71, he remains locked up in Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. His first parole attempt was in 2010 and he failed to get it. He will be allowed to try again in 2025.