![]() ![]() She escaped for a week and a half in 1988, and was released on parole in 1996 - a parole that was quickly revoked after she failed to comply with its terms. ![]() ![]() Compton was convicted of attempted murder and sent to prison. In 1980, when Compton was 24 and involved with Bianchi, she lured a Bellingham woman into a motel room and tried to strangle her to make it look as if the Hillside Strangler were still at large, and therefore couldn't be Bianchi, who was in jail at the time. On this day, she talks of a new outlook on life and her hope of convincing the state parole board that she is ready to be released. She displays the little girl's sketch of the Spice Girls and her pencil portrait of Mom and Dad - Compton and James Wallace, a retired professor Compton married in prison almost 10 years ago.Ĭompton beams a cover-girl smile. GIG HARBOR - Veronica Compton, who gained national notoriety as a copycat criminal and girlfriend of Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi, proudly spreads drawings by her 5-year-old daughter across a table at the women's prison here. ![]()
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