Kenneth Alessio Bianchi born May 22, is an American serial killer , kidnapper , and rapist. Bianchi is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. Bianchi was also at one time a suspect in the Alphabet murders , three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester , New York , from to Kenneth Bianchi was born on May 22, , in Rochester , New York , to a year-old alcoholic sex worker who gave him up for adoption two weeks after he was born.
Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, with his adoptive mother describing him as "a compulsive liar " from the time he could talk. He would often fall into inattentive, trance-like daydreams where his eyes would roll back into his head. From these symptoms, a physician diagnosed the 5-year-old Bianchi with petit mal seizures. He was also frequently given physical examinations by doctors because of an involuntary urination problem, causing him a great deal of humiliation.
Bianchi had many behavioural problems and was prone to fits of anger as well as bouts of insomnia and habitually urinating in his own bed constantly when he was young. On January 2, , Bianchi accidentally fell off of a jungle gym and landed on his face. His mother, in an attempt to change his ways, sent him to a private Catholic elementary school and also responded by taking him to a psychiatrist multiple times, with Bianchi being diagnosed with a passive-aggressive personality disorder at the age of ten.
Bianchi's intelligence quotient was measured at at the age of eleven, but, despite having above-average intelligence, he was an underachiever and was removed twice from schools because he failed to get along with teachers. Frances described him as "lazy" and his teachers claimed that he was working below his potential. He pulled down a 6-year-old girl's underwear sometime in July after deciding that he liked doing it. After his adoptive father died suddenly from pneumonia in , the teenaged Bianchi refused to cry or show any other signs of grief.
After her husband's death, Frances had to work while her son attended a public high school and was known for keeping him home from school for long periods of time. Nonetheless, Bianchi dated frequently and even joined a motorcycle club.
