Former Police Officer Charged As The Golden State Serial Killer
From 1978 to 1986, the Golden State Killer (aka The East Area Rapist) took the lives of 12 people and raped 46 women in California. He often tied up men and forced them to watch their companions being raped before he killed them. The Golden State Killer’s murders and rapes were not linked until 2000. He remained nameless and free until Wednesday when a task force of local law enforcement and federal investigators announced that they had finally arrested a suspect. Tuesday afternoon Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was taken into custody at his Sacramento home and charged with eight counts of murder. All of Wednesday and today authorities have continued to search home and property for clues. Scott Jones, the Sacramento County Sheriff, stated that the task force had been keeping surveillance of the 72-year-old man and retrieved his DNA from a discarded item. The DNA matched samples left at crime scenes. One of the disturbing aspects of the case
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