Without Remorse: The Story
of the Woman Who Kept Los
Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Psychologist Vonda L. Pelto's
Most Notorious Patients
Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi
Responsible with cousin Angelo Buono for rape,
torture and murder of 10 women.  He is serving
the sentence at Washington State Penitentary.
Freeway Killer William Bonin
Responsible with accomplishes for
the rape and murder of upwards of
21 young men and boys, 12 for which he
was convicted and eventually executed.
Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive by Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Porn Star Johnny "Wadd" Holmes
His accomplices stole money and drugs form
Eddie Nash, who subsequently committed
the Wonderland Murders in Laurel Canyon
section of Hollywood.  Holmes, arrested, tried
and acquitted of the murders, he refused to
testify against Nash.  Pelto met with him
based on Holmes high-profile in jail.  
Vonda L. Pelto gets inteviewed by Channel 2
CBS News Los Angeles Correspondent Stacy
Butler about the Serial Killers she counseled
in L.A.  Men's Central Jail from 1979 to 1982
Douglas Clark, Sunset Strip Slayings
Douglas, with accomplice Carol Bundy, were
responsible for the murders of upwards of 50
women.  His particular peccadillo was to cut off
the heads of the victims, put them in the fridge
to save for sexual purposes.  She would
apply makeup to the heads before a session.
Arthur Jackson Stabs Theresa Saldana
Jackson, the most psychotic of Vonda's
patients, stabbed actress Theresa Saldana,
pictured above.  Arthur told Vonda, "I didn't
want to hurt her, I just wanted to kill her."  
He recently passed away in a British prison.  
In response to the suicide of a serial killer at
Los Angeles Men's Central Jail, officials
brought in Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D. to prevent
further suicides amongst their notorious
inmates like Hillside Strangler Kenneth
Bianchi, Freeway Killer Willam Bonin and
others.  

"Without Remorse" gives the reader a view
into a world known to very few people.  A
twisted maze of bizarre motivations that make
no sense but serves the sick ends
of men with no regard for human life.  For 20
years, every time Vonda Pelto sat down to
write this book, the nightmares returned.  
Finally they subsided enough.  
"Dr. Vonda Pelto's brutally honest book, Without Remorse,
takes the reader on a forbidden tour behind the gates of the
men's jail, a haunted house where Serial Killers live.  But
most powerful is the juxtaposition of Pelto's  personal and
professional life, with its conflicts between men and women,
sex and violence, and intimidation and vulnerability."
Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Forensic Psychiatrist/Expert Witness
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A Letter from Kenneth Bianchi to Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Click to enlarge the image of a two page letter from
Hillside Strangler Keneth Bianchi to his jailhouse counselor.
A Letter from Freeway Killer William Bonin
Click to enlarge the image of a 3-page letter from Freeway
Killer William Bonin.  Also included is a pic of  his house.
A Part of William Bonin's Confession
Click to enlarge the confession page
from William Bonin, one of 110 pages.
The staff Halloween was a successful attempt to relieve
the grinding stress of everyday life in L.A. Men's Central
Jail with some of the most notorious criminals in history.  
Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D., author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers, sits on the bed once occupied by mass murdere Charlie Manson
Vonda relaxes on the bed previously occupied by
Charles Manson, the cult leader who ordered the
murders of Sharon Tate and other innocent victims.
The scariest Halloween of Vonda Pelto's life took place at Los Angeles Men's Central Jail. Pelto is author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Arthur Jackson stabbed Theresa Saldana, he was one of Vonda L. Pelton's patients at Los Angeles Men's Central Jail., she is author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Freeway Killer William Bonin, patient of Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.D., author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Hillside Strangle Kenneth Bianchi, Patient of Vonda L. Pelto, author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Vonda L. Pelto's Los Angeles Men's Central Jail Photo Gallery
Murderers Row at Los Angeles Men's Central Jail where Vonda L. Pelto worked with such men as Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi, Freeway Killer William Bonin and Johnny
Here is the module which houses the serial killers
and other high-profile inmates who Vonda Pelto
dealt with during her three years at Los Angeles
Men's Central Jail.   Her office was a small converted
cell on the second door on the left in  this hallway.
Vonda Pelto's office, a converted cell, at Los Angeles Men's Central Jail when she was working with a number of serial killers, she is the author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeles' Serial Killers Alive
Vonda L. Pelto gets her Ph.D. in Psychology, she is the author of Without Remorse: The Story of the Woman Who Kept Los Angeeles' Serial Killers Alive
Vonda Pelto has just received her Ph.D. in Psychology.
 Since then she has worked with psychotics for over
20 years, this after her three year from 1979 to 1982
stint in Los Angeles Men's Central Jail rubbing
shoulders with some of the worst serial killers in ever.
Vonda L. Pelto's office was just down the
hall from this visitor's center at the Los
Angeles Men's Central Jail during her
three years of working with serial killers
like Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi,
Freeway Killer William Bonin, Sunset
Slayer Douglas Clark and porn star
Johnny "Wadd" Holmes and many others.
Vonda L. Pelto, Ph.d. Receives 2008 IRWIN
Award for Best Non-Fiction Campaign for
the Book Publicists of Southern California.
The Accpetance Speech is a Real Classic.
The Irwin Award from Book Publicists of Southern California
The IRWIN Award from the Book
Publicists of Southern California
stands for Industry Recognition of
Writers In the News.  BPSC was
started over 30 years ago by Irwin
Zucker and he provided the inspiration
for organization President Ernie
Weckbaugh to conceive of this honor.
 It has been awarded to over 160 well
deserving authors from all kinds of
backgrounds.  
Vonda needed multiple ID
cards to traverse through the
strange subterranean world
of the Central Jail.  Card on
left got her into every part of
the jail, the one below was
her mental health ID Card.