TWISTED 2s: Crescent Hotel & Hillside Strangler

SCARY MYSTERIES - TWISTED TWO's: “The Cresent Hotel & The Hillside Strangler”Tales of hauntings, murder and scary mysteries, Every week Twisted Two's dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in depth look. This week we focus on a very creepy hotel as well as the tale of two cousins with a taste for murder. Get ready for Scary Mysteries, Twisted Two’s -#1 The Crescent HotelBest known as the 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa, this iconic structure has been standing proud on the West Mountain, overlooking the Victorian village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Designed by Isaac L. Taylor, the 78-room hotel was once a getaway for the rich and famous. Eureka Springs had become a boomtown thanks to the natural "healing waters" found in the area. So People from far and wide flocked into the town and the resort was a great place to accommodate them. But, over time, the guests realized the healing waters of the spring didn't work and so the numbers slowly began to dwindle until they eventually stopped altogether. In 1937, Norman Baker, a millionaire and radio celebrity came in and bought the hotel. He transformed the aged hotel into a "hospital" where he sold various "miracle cures" to his guests and patients. He promised to cure various ailments including cancer and was later arrested but subsequently released for mail fraud. It's estimated Baker managed to pilfer close to $4,000,000 from his sick patients while hastening their death by not giving them proper treatment. #2 The Hillside Strangler: Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo BuonoFamily members are united by blood but in the case of Kenneth and Angelo, they were united by a strong passion for rape and murder. Known as The Hillside Strangler because they would dump their victims bodies on the hillsides of California, the police knew there were two possible suspects but withdrew the information from the media – hoping it could be used later on in their investigation. One part of the duo was, Kenneth Bianchi. Since he was little, he had always been a troubled child who was described by his adopted mother as a "compulsive liar" and "lazy." After finishing high school he got married to his sweetheart at 17 but left her after just 18 months. By 1977, he ended up moving to Los Angeles, to live with his cousin, Angelo Buono. To give you a little history on Angleo, he was the son of Italian immigrants who at a young age exhibited a perverse preoccupation with sex and by the time he was a teen, he told his classmates he had raped several girls. He was a petty theif theft who later married and impregnated his first wife only to leave her after just one week. He married his second wife, had five children but she left him because he was physically and sexually abusive. It's also believed that during this time he raped his 2-year old daughter. For the third time, he married and had two other children. But this wife also left him citing physical abuse and for raping their childSo there were a pair of some of the most haunted and sinister true stories around. The world can be a crazy place and Twisted Two’s is sure to show you why.Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices