The Hillside Stranglers

<p>The small town of Bellingham, in Washington State,looks out on one of the prettiest views in the American Northwest: the pine-covered slopes of San Juan and Vancouver Island, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.<br/> With population of only 40,000, violent crime there is pretty rare. So, when the town's Chief of police,. Terry Mmanagan, was told one Friday morning that two girls were missing, his first thought was that they left for a long weekend. Their names were Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder, students at Western Washington University. Karen's boyfriend always insisted that she would not go away without telling him and when the police discovered that Karen had left her cat unfed, he began to fear the worst.</p>