
In loving memory of
Kristina Weckler
November 20, 1977
Victim of the Hillside Stranglers. Kristina was a 20 year old honors student at Pasadena Art Center of Design.
Remembering Kristina
A life held close in memory
Earlier that same day, November 20, 1977, hikers found the naked body of 20-year-old Kristina Weckler, a quiet, unassuming honors student at the Art Center College of Design, described by Detective Bob Grogan of the Los Angeles Police Department as a "…loving and serious young woman who should have had a bright future ahead of her". Weckler was discovered on a hillside between Glendale and Eagle Rock. When found by Detective Grogan, the typical ligature marks were on her wrists, ankles, and neck, and when he turned her over, bruises were observed on her breasts and blood oozed from her rectum. Unlike the first three victims, there were two puncture marks on her arm, but no signs of the needle tracks that indicated a drug addict; it was later determined that Weckler had been injected with Windex, a common ammonia-based window, glass and hard-surface cleaner.
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