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    Joseph James DeAngelo "Golden State Killer" Sentenced for 1978 to 1986 CA Multiple Murders


    Top from left: Dr. Debra Manning, Brian and Katie Maggiore, Manuela Witthuhn, Lyman and Charlene Smith; bottom from left: Keith and Patrice Harrington, Dr. Robert Offerman, Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez, and Janelle Cruz


    Victim, Claude Snelling


    Joseph James DeAngelo aka Golden State Killer


    March 4, 2018

    The sadistic Golden State Killer terrorized California 40 years ago. Is he still out there?

    By Katie Dowd
    SFGate News

    When he broke into the Goleta condo of Robert Offerman and his girlfriend Debra Alexandria Manning on Dec. 30, 1979, he’d already committed dozens of rapes in Northern California.

    He was pathologically meticulous. Law enforcement knew he stalked his victims, usually choosing single women who lived in one-story homes. In previous cases, he’d broken into the home when it was unoccupied to prep the scene, removing bullets from guns, disabling lights and learning the layout of the house.

    But something went wrong that night. Offerman, whose hands were bound, managed to break free. Police think he attacked the intruder. He shot both Offerman and Manning dead.

    When police searched the house the next morning, one detail stuck out to them: The couple’s Christmas turkey leftovers had been taken from the refrigerator and eaten.

    The killer stayed for a snack.

    The man who killed Offerman and Manning remains one of the state — and the nation’s — most frightening unidentified serial killers. Known alternately as the East Area Rapist, Golden State Killer and Original Night Stalker, his statistics are hard to fathom: at least 12 murders and 45 rapes spanning from 1976-86. There were victims in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Yolo, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties.

    Like most serial killers, his career was marked by rapid escalation. Police suspect him in more than 150 residential break-ins in the state. He probably started small, peeping in windows and breaking into empty homes. As he grew bolder, so did his crimes.

    He likely lived, at least initially, in the Sacramento area, which he terrorized from 1976-78. He’d sometimes go out night after night, targeting houses mere yards apart to maximize fear in the neighborhood.

    During that time, he developed one of his most sadistic signatures. If he chose a home with a couple living inside, he would sometimes incapacitate the man first, binding him with strips of towels or shoelaces and putting him face-down on the ground. He would get a stack of dishes from the kitchen, carefully balancing them on the man’s back. The killer would warn the couple that if he heard a plate drop — or even rattle — he’d kill them both.

    Then, he'd start raping the woman.

    Because the Golden State Killer left so many victims alive, there are a patchwork of clues, each more chilling than the next. One Santa Barbara victim in 1979 told police he left her in the living room and stomped around the house, looking through the kitchen and chanting, “I’ll kill ‘em, I’ll kill ‘em” to himself. One investigator said it was like “a guy pumping himself up for an athletic endeavor.”

    Sometimes victims said he left the room to cry in another part of the house. Occasionally he talked about his mother, once sobbing “mummy” over and over again. Trips to the kitchen were not uncommon; he paused during one rape to get himself a slice of apple pie.

    He fed off his victims’ terror in another horrifying way: Calling their house, sometimes years later. A number of victims reported receiving an unusual number of wrong-number or hang-up calls shortly before the attack. Others picked up the phone to hear heavy breathing on the other end. In one call, he whispered, “Gonna kill you” to a rape victim. Police think the Golden State Killer got their phone numbers from prior break-ins; rotary phones in the 1970s had the home phone number printed on them.

    And there's a letter. In 1977, the Sacramento Bee, city mayor's office, and KVIE 6 television station all received a poem called “Excitement’s Crave." Although it's never been conclusively determined to be the work of the killer, many believe it's authentic.

    Part of it read:

    Sacramento should make an offer.


    To make a movie of my life


    That will pay for my planned exile.


    Just now I' d like to add the wife


    Of a Mafia lord to my file.


    Your East Area Rapist


    And deserving pest.


    See you in the press or on T.V.


    The case, long overshadowed by more high-profile California killers like Zodiac or Richard Ramirez, has recently received a resurgence of attention, thanks largely to the work of true crime writer Michelle McNamara. McNamara dedicated years to researching the case and coined the moniker Golden State Killer; a book about the suspect, published posthumously after McNamara's sudden death in 2016, was recently released.

    Last year, the FBI and Sacramento law enforcement held a press conference marking the 40th anniversary of the first attack, hoping to drum up new leads.

    "Obviously, with the 40th anniversary, this is a time we want to take to acknowledge this serial offender who was probably one of the most prolific, certainly in California, possibly in the United States, but also to let the victims know that we'll never give up," said Sgt. Paul Belli, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department detective assigned to the case.

    This is what law enforcement believes they know about the Golden State Killer:

    He was white and, if he’s still alive, he’s probably around 70 years old. Victims reported he was approximately 5-foot-9, had light-colored hair and was in good physical shape, as he was able to flee scenes on foot or bike. There are a few composite sketches of the suspect, but because he wore masks during his crimes, they could simply be innocent bystanders who were in the area at the time.

    At at least one crime scene, he wore size 9 Adidas shoes, and he generally chose victims from upper-middle-class or affluent communities. He took souvenirs from his victims, like engraved wedding bands, identification cards and personalized cufflinks.

    Retired Sacramento County sheriff's detective Richard Shelby, an original investigator on the East Area Rapist cases, thought the killer might have married and had children.

    "He called one of the victims," Shelby said in 2001. "It was 1990 or 1991. She talked to him for a minute. She could hear kids in the background and a woman."

    From May 1976 until the summer of 1977, he operated primarily in Rancho Cordova, Citrus Heights, Sacramento, Carmichael and Orangevale. In September, he was sighted in Stockton, before returning to the Sacramento area through the middle of 1978. From June to July 1978, there were attacks in Davis and Modesto. He took a three-month break, and then returned, this time in the Bay Area.

    Concord, San Ramon, Danville, Walnut Creek, San Jose, Fremont and Rancho Cordova all reported attacks from 1978-79. Then, he moved further south, killing in the Goleta and Irvine areas before disappearing entirely in 1986.

    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...d-12717674.php
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    Joseph James DeAngelo Is Suspect in Golden State Killer Case, According to Co-Author of ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’


    A 72-year-old man arrested overnight could be the break in the case sought for decades, in the mystery that’s central to the late Michelle McNamara’s bestselling book

    By Olivia Messier
    Daily Beast

    Police in California say they believe they have found the notorious Golden State Killer—the man investigators say is responsible for 12 homicides, 45 rapes, and 120 home burglaries.

    Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested overnight on two murder charges and is thought to be linked to the case, said Billy Jensen, one of the writers responsible for researching and publishing I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. The case received renewed media attention this year after the book, written by late Michelle McNamara, was finally published after years of McNamara’s obsessive research on the killer, thanks to her husband Patton Oswalt, Jensen, and researcher Paul Haynes.

    Jail records show that DeAngelo, who was arrested by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, is ineligible for bail. The warrant was issued by Ventura County.

    Jensen told The Daily Beast that DeAngelo is not the “confirmed” man responsible, but that “it looks good.” Police will hold a press conference at noon Wednesday in Sacramento to announce the breakthrough in the case.

    The FBI has said the Golden State Killer, or the East Area Rapist, is suspected of carrying out crimes spanning a decade starting in the late 1970s in Sacramento County and ending in 1981. Jail records show that, like the killer’s FBI profile, DeAngelo is 5’11” and between the ages of 60 and 75 years old.

    Sources confirmed to a local Fox affiliate early Wednesday morning that there had been a “significant break” in the case, with some saying an arrest had been made.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/joseph...ne-in-the-dark
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    That'd be amazing if the cops finally had the Golden State killer. I had always thought this series of killings was more akin to the Black Dahlia murder: unsolved and unsolvable.

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    Former cop arrested in 'Golden State Killer' case, suspected in 12 California slayings

    By Reuters News Staff

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - An elderly former police officer was arrested and charged in four murders authorities attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal suspected of dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of California during the 1970s and 1980s.

    The suspect was identified by authorities at a news conference in Sacramento, the state capital, as Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, in a case that officials said was finally solved by DNA evidence.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has previously said that the man sought in the 40-year-old case was suspected of 12 slayings, 45 rapes and numerous burglaries in and around Sacramento, the eastern San Francisco Bay area and at least two counties of Southern California.

    The suspect, who was also dubbed by investigators as the “East Area Rapist” and the “Original Night Stalker,” is considered to be one of the state’s most prolific serial killers, according to the FBI.

    Officials said he was living in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights when he was arrested on Tuesday.

    “Joseph James DeAngelo has been called a lot of things by law enforcement ... Today it’s our pleasure to call him defendant,” Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told reporters.

    “Finally, after all these years, the haunting question of who committed these terrible crimes has been put to rest.”

    Investigators said DeAngelo was a police officer in two different California departments during the 1970s - in the municipality of Exeter near the Sierra Nevada foothills of the San Joaquin Valley, and in the Gold Rush town of Auburn.

    The case was investigated intensively in “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” a book published earlier this year. Author Michelle McNamara died in 2016, and the book was finished by a writer hired by her husband, Patton Oswalt. Oswalt said in a video posted on social media on Wednesday, “I think you got him, Michelle.”

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1HW2RA
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    Quote Originally Posted by mostlyclassics View Post
    That'd be amazing if the cops finally had the Golden State killer. I had always thought this series of killings was more akin to the Black Dahlia murder: unsolved and unsolvable.
    Wow he was a cop MC.
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    Helen, I guess the best place to hide is where they'd never look for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mostlyclassics View Post
    That'd be amazing if the cops finally had the Golden State killer. I had always thought this series of killings was more akin to the Black Dahlia murder: unsolved and unsolvable.
    There's good reason to believe that the Black Dahlia may have been committed by a man named George Hodel. I saw a crime documentary on this. Hodel's own son believes he is the killer of Elizabeth Short. Also potentially the Zodiac Killer and Lipstick Killer (even though William Heirens was convicted)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hill_Hodel
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    The Black Dahlia is one of those cases people will be talking about 100 years from now, just like Jack the Ripper.
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    Accused serial rapist and killer undetected working as cop

    By Don Thompson and Brian Melley
    Associated Press

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Joseph DeAngelo's six-year career as a cop came swiftly to an end after being busted for shoplifting a can of dog repellant and a hammer from a Pay N' Save store in a Sacramento suburb in 1979.

    Authorities are now wondering if the items he snatched were intended as tools for the sinister rash of crimes he's suspected of carrying out.

    DeAngelo, 72, was accused Wednesday of being the Golden State Killer who terrorized suburban neighborhoods in a spate of brutal rapes and slayings in the 1970s and '80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for decades.

    He was charged with eight counts of murder in three counties after being linked to the crimes through his DNA. Authorities said he was responsible for a dozen slayings and some 50 rapes and that other charges could be filed.

    Most of the crimes, predominantly sex assaults but also two slayings, occurred in the three years he was an Auburn police officer in the Sierra foothills outside Sacramento.

    The attacks on sleeping women — and sometimes their partners — in middle and upper-middle-class subdivisions east of the state Capitol shattered an innocence where people didn't lock their doors and children rode bicycles to school and played outside until dark.

    Sales of locks surged. Lights burned all night. There was even talk of vigilantes with CB radios patrolling streets to nab the masked, armed man who became known as the East Area Rapist.

    "It all changed," said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who was 12 at the time of the crimes. "The memories are very vivid. You can ask anyone who grew up here. Everyone has a story."

    Schubert and law enforcement officers refocused their attention on the case two years ago on the 40th anniversary of the first known attack.

    But until a week ago, DeAngelo , who lived in a neatly kept home in the Citrus Heights suburb where many of the attacks went down and where he was caught stealing, was not in their sights.

    A break in the case and the arrest came together in "light speed" during the past six days, Schubert said, though authorities refused to reveal what pointed to DeAngelo.

    Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones said detectives with "dogged determination" were able to get a sample of DNA from something DeAngelo discarded, though he wouldn't say what the item was. The genetic material was not a match, but there were enough similarities that investigators got a second sample, which proved conclusive.

    "We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also knew that needle was there," Schubert said.

    In May 1977, as the frequent attacks gained national attention, the rapist told a victim he would kill two people if he saw stories about her attack, according to an Associated Press article at the time.

    Some eight months later after another nine assaults, he made good on that promise, authorities said.

    Brian and Katie Maggiore were fatally shot in Rancho Cordova on Feb. 2, 1978 while walking their dog.

    The number of attacks recorded by police dropped precipitously after he was fired from the police department. But they intensified in violence and moved to Southern California.

    Nine killings occurred between October 1979 and August 1981. After a rape and killing in Orange County five years later, the culprit appeared to have quit.

    Although it's unusual for serial killers to stop, Jones said there's no evidence DeAngelo committed any crimes after 1986.

    "We have no indication of any crimes with a similar or at least a close enough link to his MO and other things that he's done in the past to link him to anything from '86 on," Jones said. "We just have nothing at this point."

    DeAngelo had one other minor brush with the law Jones wouldn't reveal in addition to the shoplifting incident.

    The graduate of nearby Folsom High School and U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam War seemed to settle into his own suburban existence in the modest three-bedroom home on Canyon Oak Drive.

    For 27 years, he worked in a cavernous Save Mart Supermarkets distribution warehouse in Roseville, a Sacramento suburb, before retiring last year, company spokeswoman Victoria Castro said.

    "None of his actions in the workplace would have led us to suspect any connection to crimes being attributed to him," she said in a statement.

    DeAngelo built remote-controlled model airplanes and took meticulous care of his house and manicured lawn, neighbors said.

    Natalia Bedes-Correnti said DeAngelo appeared to be a "nice old grandpa" who lived with an adult daughter and granddaughter. But he also had penchant for cussing loudly when he was frustrated.

    "He liked the F word a lot," Bedes-Correnti said.

    Deputies kept watch on the house and his comings and goings for several days and took him by surprise Tuesday afternoon as he walked outside.

    As he was being arrested, he told officers he had a roast in the oven. They said they would take care of it.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/26...ng-as-cop.html
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    Prosecutors mull DeAngelo’s trial site, whether to seek death penalty

    The suspect is expected to face 12 murder charges and possibly others for rape

    Tribune News Service

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — He was once a lawman, later a foul-tempered family man with a manicured lawn who for decades, authorities say, had hidden his horrors from the world.

    On Friday, Joseph James DeAngelo sat in a crowded Sacramento courtroom facing murder charges in an alleged horrific attack 40 years ago that prosecutors say was part of the notorious East Area Rapist spree that terrified California.

    DeAngelo, 72, faces two counts of murder in the 1978 slaying of a couple in Rancho Cordova, the first two murder charges of 12 he is expected to face.

    He arrived Friday afternoon in a wheelchair wearing the standard orange jail garb, appearing frail with his eyes barely open. He whispered “yes” when Judge Michael Sweet asked if he was DeAngelo.

    Minutes later, the hearing was over, with DeAngelo not entering a plea after charges were read. Sweet appointed public defender Diane Howard and scheduled a May 14 hearing.

    The hearing came more than four decades after the start of a terrifying run that involved the dozen homicides, more than 50 rapes and a string of other crimes between 1974 and 1986.

    DeAngelo was arrested outside his home Tuesday afternoon and booked into the county jail on two charges of murder in the February 1978 slayings of Katie and Brian Maggiore in Rancho Cordova.

    “For people who grew up here it changed who we were as a community,” said Renee Voelker, a lifelong Sacramento resident.

    “To have this man finally caught while I’m still alive – and while he’s still alive – it’s an exciting time. This brings closure to all those people who were affected at his hands and who directly and indirectly were affected as a community.”

    He faced arraignment in Sacramento Superior Court on Friday, but authorities still must determine where he ultimately will stand trial and whether he faces death penalty prosecutions.

    Some of the murders were committed at a time when the death penalty had been ruled unconstitutional, but others are eligible. Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said she wants to meet with prosecutors from the counties where DeAngelo is suspected of murders and plan a joint prosecution.

    “It makes sense to do it in one county,” she said. “The majority of the murders happened down in Southern California, so I’m comfortable with wherever it’s going to be as long as everybody gets to be a participant.”

    Prosecutors also must grapple with whether to file rape charges against DeAngelo because for many cases the statute of limitations has expired.

    https://www.pressherald.com/2018/04/...death-penalty/
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