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Joseph James DeAngelo

January 01, 1970

"Earons" redirects here. For the band, see The Earons.
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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. (born November 8, 1945) is an American serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, peeping tom,[3][4] former police officer, and former mechanic who committed at least 13 murders, 51 rapes, and 120 burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986.[5][6][7] He is responsible for three known separate crime sprees throughout the state, each of which spawned a different nickname in the press, before it became evident that they were committed by the same person.

Joseph James DeAngelo
Mug shot of DeAngelo taken in 2018
Born
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.

(1945-11-08) November 8, 1945 (age 78)
Bath, New York, U.S.
Other names
  • Visalia Ransacker
  • East Area Rapist
  • East Side Rapist
  • East Bay Rapist
  • Creek Bed Killer
  • Diamond Knot Killer
  • Original Night Stalker
  • EARONS
  • Golden State Killer[1][2]
Occupations
  • Police officer
  • Mechanic
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Criminal statusIncarcerated at California State Prison, Corcoran
Spouse
Sharon Marie Huddle
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​
(m. 1973; div. 2019)​
Children3
Conviction(s)
Criminal penalty12 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 8 years
Details
Victims
  • 13+ murdered
  • 51+ raped
  • 120+ burgled
Span of crimes
1974–1986
CountryUnited States
State(s)California
WeaponVarious, including Miroku revolver
Date apprehended
April 24, 2018

In the San Joaquin Valley, DeAngelo was known as the Visalia Ransacker from 1974 to 1976, before moving to the Sacramento area, where he became known as the East Area Rapist from 1976 to 1979 and was linked by modus operandi to additional attacks in Stockton, Modesto and Contra Costa County.[8][9] DeAngelo committed serial murders in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Orange counties from 1979 to 1986, and was known as the Night Stalker and later the Original Night Stalker (in order to differentiate him from Richard Ramirez, a later serial killer who also became known as the "Night Stalker"). He is believed to have taunted and threatened both victims and police via obscene phone calls and possibly written communications.

During the decades-long investigation, several suspects were cleared through DNA evidence, alibis or other investigative methods.[10] In 2001, the combined acronym EARONS came into use after DNA testing indicated that the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were the same person.[6] The case was a factor in the establishment of California's DNA database, which collects DNA from all accused and convicted felons in California[11] and has been called second only to Virginia's in effectiveness in solving cold cases.[12] In an attempt to increase awareness, crime writer Michelle McNamara coined the name Golden State Killer in early 2013.[6]

On June 15, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local law enforcement agencies held a news conference to announce a renewed nationwide effort, offering a $50,000 reward for the Golden State Killer's capture.[13] On April 24, 2018, California authorities charged 72-year-old DeAngelo with eight counts of first-degree murder, based upon DNA evidence;[14][15][16] investigators had identified members of DeAngelo's family through forensic genetic genealogy.[17] This was also the first announcement connecting the Visalia Ransacker crimes to DeAngelo.[18]

Owing to California's statute of limitations on pre-2017 rape cases,[19] DeAngelo could not be charged with the rapes he had committed in the 1970s;[20] but he was charged in August 2018 with thirteen related kidnapping and abduction attempts.[21] On June 29, 2020, DeAngelo pled guilty to multiple counts of murder and kidnapping.[22] As part of a plea bargain that spared him the death penalty, DeAngelo also admitted to numerous crimes with which he had not been formally charged, including rapes.[23] On August 21, 2020, DeAngelo was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.[24][25][26]

Early life and career edit

 
A photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office showing DeAngelo, who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was born on November 8, 1945, in Bath, New York, to Kathleen "Kay" Louise DeGroat (June 30, 1923 – August 21, 2010) and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr. (January 19, 1920 – February 15, 1995), a sergeant in the United States Army.[27][28] He had two older sisters, Connie and Rebecca, and a younger brother, John. A relative reported that when DeAngelo was a young child, he witnessed the rape of Connie by two airmen in a warehouse in West Germany, where the family was stationed at the time.[29] Following DeAngelo's conviction, Rebecca claimed that he was abused by their father while he was growing up.[30]

Between 1959 and 1960, DeAngelo attended Mills Junior High School in Rancho Cordova, California. Beginning in 1961, he attended Folsom High School, from which he received a GED certificate in 1964. He played on the school's junior varsity baseball team.[31][32] Prosecutors reported that DeAngelo committed burglaries, mail theft, and tortured and killed animals during his teenage years.[30]

DeAngelo joined the United States Navy in September 1964[33] and served for 22 months during the Vietnam War as a damage controlman on the cruiser USS Canberra[34] and the destroyer tender USS Piedmont.[35] Beginning in August 1968, DeAngelo attended Sierra College in Rocklin, California; he graduated with an associate degree in police science, with honors.[36] He attended Sacramento State University in 1971, where he earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice.[32][33] DeAngelo later took post-graduate courses[33] and further police training at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, then completed a 32-week police internship at the police department in Roseville.[37]

Police officer edit

From May 1973 to August 1976, DeAngelo was a burglary unit police officer in Exeter, having relocated from Citrus Heights.[31] He then served in Auburn from August 1976 to July 1979, when he was arrested for shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent; he was sentenced to six months of probation and fired that October.[38][39] During the process of being fired, DeAngelo threatened to kill the chief of police and allegedly stalked the chief's house.[38]

Marriage and relationships edit

In May 1970, DeAngelo became engaged to nursing student Bonnie Jean Colwell, a classmate at Sierra College, but she ended the relationship in 1971 after he became manipulative and abusive,[40] culminating in his demand that she help him cheat on an abnormal psychology test.[41] After the break-up, he attempted to force her to marry him by threatening her with a gun.[38][42][43]

In November 1973, he married Sharon Marie Huddle of Citrus Heights. The wedding was held at Auburn First Congregational Church. In 1980, they purchased a house in Citrus Heights, where he was eventually arrested decades later.[35] Huddle became a divorce attorney in 1982, and they had three daughters: two were born in Sacramento and one was born in Los Angeles.

The couple separated in 1991.[44] In July 2018, several months after DeAngelo's arrest, Huddle filed for a divorce,[31][43][45][46] which was finalized the following year.[47] DeAngelo committed most of the offenses while he was married and raising a family. Neither his wife nor his children ever suspected he was committing serious crimes. His eldest daughter claimed he was a "perfect father",[48] while his wife believed his excuses for being away from home.[49]

Other employment edit

DeAngelo's employment history during the 1980s is unknown.[38] From 1990 until his retirement in 2017, he worked as a truck mechanic at a Save Mart Supermarkets distribution center in Roseville.[31][50] He was arrested in 1996 for failing to pay for gas, but the charge was dismissed.[51]

Loud outbursts edit

DeAngelo's brother-in-law claimed that DeAngelo would casually bring up the East Area Rapist in conversation around the time of the original crimes. Neighbors also reported that he would frequently engage in loud, profane outbursts.[39] One neighbor reported that his family received a phone message from DeAngelo threatening to "deliver a load of death" because of their barking dog.[52] He was living with a daughter and granddaughter at the time of his arrest.[38]

Crimes edit

 
Map showing locations of attacks by region of the East Area Rapist in California

DNA evidence linked DeAngelo to eight murders in Goleta, Ventura, Dana Point, and Irvine; two other murders in Goleta, lacking DNA evidence, were linked by modus operandi.[53][54] DeAngelo pleaded guilty to three other murders: two in Rancho Cordova and one in Visalia. He also committed more than 50 known rapes in the California counties of Sacramento, Contra Costa, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara, and Yolo; and he was linked to hundreds of incidents of thefts, burglaries, vandalism, peeping, stalking, and prowling.[55]

Visalia Ransacker (1974–1976) edit

It was long suspected that the training ground of the criminal who became the East Area Rapist was Visalia.[56][57][58][59][60] Earlier Visalia crimes dating back as early as May 1973 and other sprees like that of the "Cordova Cat Burglar" and the "Exeter Ransacker",[61][62] as well as Visalia burglaries that took place after the shooting of Detective William McGowen (see below under "Shootings"), are now suspected to be linked also.[63][64] Over a period of 20 months, DeAngelo is believed to have been responsible for one murder and around 120 burglaries.[65]

In late-April 2018, the Visalia chief of police stated that while there was no DNA linking DeAngelo to the Central Valley cases, his department had other evidence that played a role in the investigation; and he was "confident that the Visalia Ransacker has been captured".[66] Though the statutes of limitations for the burglaries have each expired,[8][67] DeAngelo was formally charged on August 13, 2018, with the first degree murder of Claude Snelling in 1975.[67][68] In 2020, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to the Snelling murder.[69]

Burglaries edit

 
A composite sketch of the Visalia Ransacker

The first recorded ransacking occurred on March 19, 1974, when a sum of $50 in coins was stolen from a piggy bank.[70] Most of the Ransacker's activities involved breaking into houses, rifling through or vandalizing the owner's possessions, scattering women's underclothes and stealing a range of low-value items while often ignoring banknotes and higher-valued items in plain sight.[71] The Ransacker would also often arrange or display items in the house. Items emptied included piggy banks and coin jars; and stolen items often included Blue Chip Stamps, foreign or historic coins, and personal items (such as single earrings, cuff-links, rings, or medallions) but also included six weapons and various types of ammunition.[70][72][73] Multiple same-day ransackings were common as well,[74][75] including 12 separate incidents on November 30, 1974.[70] Common characteristics of the burglaries included:[76][70][77]

  • climbing fences and moving through established routes such as parks, walkways, ditches, and trails
  • attempting to pry open multiple points of entry, particularly windows
  • leaving multiple points of escape open, especially windows, as well as the house, garage, and garden doors
  • moving removed window screens onto beds or into bedrooms
  • placing "warning items" such as dishes or bottles against doors and on door handles
  • wearing gloves (given the absence of fingerprint evidence)

Shootings edit

On September 11, 1975, DeAngelo broke into the home of Claude Snelling, 45. Snelling, a journalism professor at the College of the Sequoias, had previously chased a prowler discovered under his 16-year-old daughter's bedroom window around 10:00 p.m. on February 5, 1975.[70] On September 11, he was awakened around 2:00 a.m. by strange noises.[78] Upon leaving his bedroom, Snelling ran through the open back door and confronted a ski-masked intruder in his carport attempting to kidnap his daughter, who had been subdued with threats of being stabbed or shot.[79] Snelling was then shot twice, staggered back into the house to his wife, and later died.[71][80] After the shooting the assailant punched and kicked the daughter, leaving her on the ground, and fled the scene.[81] A stolen bicycle, tied to the assailant, was found nearby at 615 Redwood Street.[71] After the murder, Beth Snelling, 16, underwent hypnosis in order to gather further details.[80] The Visalia police also committed more resources to apprehending the Ransacker,[78] and a $4,000 reward was posted. Nighttime stakeouts were set up near houses that he had previously prowled, but the ransackings continued.

Around 8:30 p.m. on December 12, 1975,[82] a masked man entered the back yard of a house at 1505 W. Kaweah Avenue, near where the Ransacker had been reported to frequent.[83][84] When Detective William McGowen (on stakeout inside the garage) attempted to detain the man, the suspect shrieked, removed his mask, and feigned surrender after McGowen fired a warning shot.[84][85] However, after jumping the fence to the house at 1501, he also pulled out a revolver with his left hand and fired once near McGowen's face, shattering his flashlight.[86] Nearby officers rushed to aid McGowen, and the shooter was able to escape.[85] Items collected as evidence included the flashlight, tennis shoe tracks, and dropped loot, namely Blue Chip Stamps and a sock full of coins.[84]

East Area Rapist (1976–1979) edit

 
Three sketches on which the FBI focused when it reopened the case in June 2016

DeAngelo moved to the Sacramento area in 1976, where his crimes escalated from burglary to rape. The crimes initially centered on the then-unincorporated areas of Carmichael, Citrus Heights, and Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento.[7] His initial modus operandi was to stalk middle-class neighborhoods at night in search of women who were alone in one-story homes, usually near a school, creek, trail or other open space that would provide a quick escape.[87] He was seen a number of times but always successfully fled; on one occasion, he shot and seriously wounded a young pursuer.

 
Various sketches of East Area Rapist[88]

Most victims had seen or heard a prowler on their property before the attacks, and many had experienced break-ins. Police believed that the offender would conduct extensive reconnaissance in a targeted neighborhood—looking into windows and prowling in yards—before selecting a home to attack. It was believed that he sometimes entered the homes of future victims to unlock windows, unload guns, and plant ligatures for later use. He frequently telephoned future victims, sometimes for months in advance, to learn their daily routines.[6][89]

Although DeAngelo originally targeted women alone in their homes or with children,[10][90] he eventually preferred attacking couples.[10][91][92] This change in modus operandi is believed to be a direct result of media reports claiming he only attacked women alone in the home. His usual method was to break in through a window or sliding glass door and awaken the sleeping occupants with a flashlight, threatening them with a handgun.[10] Victims were subsequently bound with ligatures (often shoelaces) that he found or brought with him, then blindfolded and gagged them with towels that he had ripped into strips. The female victim was usually forced to tie up her male companion before she was bound.[93] The bindings were often so tight that the victims' hands were numb for hours after being untied. He then separated the couple, often stacking dishes on the male's back and threatening to kill everyone in the house if he heard them rattle. He would then move the female to the living room and rape her, often again and again.[10][93][94] A decade later, police reported that DeAngelo repeatedly said, "I hate you, Bonnie," during a 1978 rape, the 37th attack.[95]

DeAngelo sometimes spent hours in the home ransacking closets and drawers,[96] eating food in the kitchen, drinking beer, raping the woman again, or making additional threats. Victims sometimes thought he had left the house before he "jump[ed] from the darkness".[93] He typically stole items—often personal objects and items of little value, but occasionally cash and firearms. He would then creep away, leaving victims uncertain whether he had left. He was believed to escape on foot through a series of yards and then use a bicycle to go home or to a car, making extensive use of parks, schoolyards, creek beds, and other open spaces that kept him off of the street.[citation needed]

The East Area Rapist operated in Sacramento County from the first attacks in June 1976 until May 1977. After a three-month gap, he struck in nearby San Joaquin County in September before returning to Sacramento for all but one of the next ten attacks. The rapist attacked five times in 1978 in Stanislaus and Yolo counties before disappearing again for three months. Attacks then moved primarily to Contra Costa County in October and lasted until July 1979.[citation needed]

Rapes edit

# Date Time Location County Notes
1 Friday, June 18, 1976 4:00 a.m.  Rancho Cordova Sacramento [97][98][99]
2 Monday, July 19, 1976 2:00 a.m.  Carmichael Marlborough Way, Del Dayo neighborhood[98][99]
3 Sunday, August 29, 1976 3:20 a.m.  Rancho Cordova [98][99]
4 Saturday, September 4, 1976 11:30 p.m.  Carmichael [98][99]
5 Tuesday, October 5, 1976 6:45 a.m.  Citrus Heights [98][99][100]
6 Saturday, October 9, 1976 4:30 a.m.  Rancho Cordova [98][99]
7 Monday, October 18, 1976 2:30 a.m.  Carmichael Kipling Drive, Del Dayo neighborhood[98][99]
8 Monday, October 18, 1976 11:00 p.m.  Rancho Cordova [98][99]
9 Wednesday, November 10, 1976 7:30 p.m.  Citrus Heights Greenback Lane
10 Saturday, December 18, 1976 7:00 p.m.  Carmichael
11 Tuesday, January 18, 1977 11:00 p.m.  Sacramento Glenbrook/College Greens area[101]
12 Monday, January 24, 1977 12:00 a.m.  Citrus Heights Primrose Drive[102]
13 Monday, February 7, 1977 6:45 a.m.  Carmichael Crestview Drive and Madison Ave.[103]
14 Wednesday, February 16, 1977 10:30 p.m.  Sacramento Ripon Court[104]
15 Tuesday, March 8, 1977 4:00 a.m.  Arden-Arcade Robertson and Whitney Ave.[105]
16 Friday, March 18, 1977 10:45 p.m.  Rancho Cordova [106]
17 Saturday, April 2, 1977 3:20 a.m.  Orangevale Madison and Main Ave.
18 Friday, April 15, 1977 2:30 a.m.  Carmichael Madison and Manzanita Avenues[107]
19 Tuesday, May 3, 1977 3:00 a.m.  Sacramento Glenbrook/College Greens area[108]
20 Thursday, May 5, 1977 2:40 a.m.  Orangevale [108]
21 Saturday, May 14, 1977 3:45 a.m.  Citrus Heights Greenback Lane and Birdcage Street[109]
22 Tuesday, May 17, 1977 1:30 a.m.  Carmichael Sand Bar Circle, Del Dayo neighborhood[110]
23 Saturday, May 28, 1977 1:00 a.m.  Parkway Sky Parkway neighborhood[111]
24 Tuesday, September 6, 1977 1:30 a.m.  Stockton San Joaquin Lincoln Village West neighborhood[112]
25 Saturday, October 1, 1977 1:30 a.m.  La Riviera Sacramento La Riviera and Tuolumne Dr.[113]
26 Friday, October 21, 1977 3:00 a.m.  Foothill Farms Elkhorn Blvd./Diablo Dr.[114]
27 Saturday, October 29, 1977 1:45 a.m.  Arden-Arcade Woodson Ave.[115]
28 Thursday, November 10, 1977 3:00 a.m.  Sacramento La Riviera Dr. near Watt Ave.[116]
29 Friday, December 2, 1977 11:30 p.m.  Foothill Farms Brett and Revelstoke Dr.[117]
30 Saturday, January 28, 1978 10:15 p.m.  Carmichael Winding Way, east of Walnut Ave.[118]
31 Saturday, March 18, 1978 11:00 p.m.  Stockton San Joaquin Parkwoods neighborhood[119]
32 Friday, April 14, 1978 10:00 p.m.  Sacramento Sacramento Seamas and Riverside Aves., Little Pocket[120][121]
33 Monday, June 5, 1978 2:30 a.m.  Modesto Stanislaus Northeastern Modesto[121][122]
34 Wednesday, June 7, 1978 3:55 a.m.  Davis Yolo North of UC Davis[123]
35 Friday, June 23, 1978 1:30 a.m.  Modesto Stanislaus Northeastern Modesto
36 Saturday, June 24, 1978 3:15 a.m.  Davis Yolo Rivendell area
37 Thursday, July 6, 1978 2:50 a.m.  Westwood Division[124]
38 Saturday, October 7, 1978 2:30 a.m.  Concord Contra Costa [125]
39 Friday, October 13, 1978 4:30 a.m.  [126]
40 Saturday, October 28, 1978 4:30 a.m.  San Ramon [127]
41 Saturday, November 4, 1978 3:30 a.m.  San Jose Santa Clara
42 Saturday, December 2, 1978 4:30 a.m. 
43 Saturday, December 9, 1978 2:00 a.m.  Danville Contra Costa
44 Monday, December 18, 1978 6:30 p.m.  San Ramon [128][129]
45 Tuesday, March 20, 1979 5:00 a.m.  Rancho Cordova Sacramento [128][129]
46 Wednesday, April 4, 1979 1:00 a.m.  Fremont Alameda [130]
47 Saturday, June 2, 1979 11:30 p.m.  Walnut Creek Contra Costa [131]
48 Monday, June 11, 1979 4:00 a.m.  Danville [132]
49 Monday, June 25, 1979 4:00 a.m.  Walnut Creek [133]
50 Thursday, July 5, 1979 3:45 a.m.  Danville [134]

Maggiore murders edit

 
Sketches of two suspects in the Maggiore murders

A young Sacramento couple—21-year-old Brian Keith Maggiore, a military policeman at Mather Air Force Base, and his 20-year-old wife Katie Lee Maggiore—were walking their dog in the Rancho Cordova area on the night of February 2, 1978, near where five East Area Rapist attacks had occurred.[135] The Maggiores fled after a confrontation in the street but were chased down and shot to death.[136] Some investigators suspected that they had been murdered by the East Area Rapist because of their proximity to the other attacks' locations, and a shoelace was found nearby. The FBI announced on June 15, 2016, that it was confident that the East Area Rapist had murdered the Maggiores.[137] On June 29, 2020, DeAngelo entered a plea of guilty to these murders.[138]

Original Night Stalker (1979–1986) edit

Shortly after the rape committed on July 5, 1979, DeAngelo moved to Southern California and began killing his victims, first striking in Santa Barbara County in October. The attacks lasted until 1981, with a lone 1986 attack, only the couple in the first attack survived, alerting neighbors and forcing the intruder to flee; the other victims were murdered by gunshot or bludgeoning. Since DeAngelo was not linked to these crimes for decades, he was known as the Night Stalker in the area, before being renamed the Original Night Stalker after serial killer Richard Ramirez received the former nickname.[139]

Crimes
# Date Victim(s) Location County
1 Monday, October 1, 1979 None (attempted murder; botched attack) Queen Ann Lane, Goleta[140] Santa Barbara
2 Sunday, December 30, 1979 Robert Offerman, Debra Manning Goleta[141]
3 Thursday, March 13, 1980 Charlene & Lyman Smith Ventura[142] Ventura
4 Tuesday, August 19, 1980 Keith & Patrice Harrington Dana Point[143] Orange
5 Friday, February 6, 1981 Manuela Witthuhn Irvine[143][144]
6 Monday, July 27, 1981 Cheri Domingo, Gregory Sanchez Goleta[145] Santa Barbara
7 Sunday, May 4, 1986 Janelle Cruz Irvine[54][146] Orange

1979 edit

On October 1, an intruder broke in and tied up a Goleta couple. Alarmed at hearing him say, "I'll kill 'em" to himself,[10] the man and woman tried to escape when he left the room, and the woman screamed. Realizing that the alarm had been raised, the intruder fled on a bicycle.[10] A neighbor (an FBI agent) responded to the noise and pursued the perpetrator, who abandoned the bicycle and a knife and escaped on foot through local backyards. The attack was later linked to the Offerman–Manning murders by shoe prints and twine used to bind the victims.[citation needed]

On December 30, 44-year-old Robert Offerman and 35-year-old Debra Manning were found shot to death at Offerman's condominium on Avenida Pequena in Goleta.[147] Offerman's bindings were untied, indicating that he had lunged at the attacker. Neighbors had heard gunshots.[147] Paw prints of a large dog were found at the scene, leading to speculation that the killer may have brought one with him. The killer had also broken into the vacant adjoining residence and stolen a bicycle, later found abandoned on a street north of the scene, from a third residence in the complex.[2]

1980 edit

On March 13, 33-year-old Charlene Smith and 43-year-old Lyman Smith were found murdered in their Ventura home;[148] Charlene Smith had been raped.[10] A log from a woodpile on the side of the house was used to bludgeon the victims to death.[149] Their wrists and ankles had been bound with drapery cord.[10] An unusual Chinese knot, a diamond knot, was used on Charlene's wrists; the same knot was noted in the East Area Rapist attacks, at least one confirmed case of which was publicly known.[2] The murderer was, therefore, briefly given the name Diamond Knot Killer.[150]

On August 19, 24-year-old Keith Eli Harrington and 27-year-old Patrice Briscoe Harrington were found bludgeoned to death in their home on Cockleshell Drive in Dana Point's Niguel Shores gated community.[151] Patrice Harrington had also been raped.[10][152] Although there was evidence that the Harringtons' wrists and ankles were bound, no murder weapon or ligatures were found at the scene.[151] The Harringtons had been married for three months at the time of their deaths.[151] Patrice was a nurse in Irvine, and Keith was a medical student at UC Irvine.[151] Keith's brother Bruce later spent nearly $2 million supporting California Proposition 69, authorizing DNA collection from all California felons and certain other criminals.[10][141]

1981 edit

On February 6, 28-year-old Manuela Witthuh was raped and murdered in her Irvine home.[10][153] Although Witthuhn's body had signs of being tied before she was bludgeoned,[10] no murder weapon or ligatures were found. Though the victim was married, her husband was away, hospitalized; and she was alone at the time of the attack.[153] Witthuhn's television was found in the backyard, possibly the killer's attempt to make the crime appear to be a botched robbery.[citation needed]

On July 27, 35-year-old Cheri Domingo and 27-year-old Gregory Sanchez became the Original Night Stalker's tenth and eleventh murder victims.[154] Both were attacked in Domingo's residence on Toltec Way in Goleta (several blocks south of Robert Offerman's condominium), where Domingo was living temporarily; it was owned by a relative and up for sale.[155] The offender entered the house through a small bathroom window. Sanchez had not been tied and was shot and wounded in the cheek before he was bludgeoned to death with a garden tool.[citation needed]

Some believe that Sanchez may have realized he was dealing with the man responsible for the Offerman–Manning murders and tried to tackle the killer rather than be tied up. Again, no neighbors responded to the gunshot.[155] Sanchez's head was covered with clothes pulled from the closet. Domingo was raped and bludgeoned; bruises on her wrists and ankles indicated that she had been tied, although the restraints were missing.[156] A piece of shipping twine was found near the bed, and fibers from an unknown source were scattered over her body.[157] Authorities believed that the attacker may have worked as a painter or in a similar job at the Calle Real Shopping Centre.[156][158][143]

1986 edit

On May 4, 18-year-old Janelle Lisa Cruz was found dead after she was raped[54][146] and bludgeoned in her Irvine home.[159] Her family was on vacation in Mexico at the time of the attack.[10][153] A pipe wrench, reported missing by Cruz's stepfather, was thought to be the murder weapon. Initially, investigators in respective jurisdictions did not think the southern California murders were connected. A Sacramento detective strongly believed that the East Area Rapist was responsible for the Goleta attacks, but the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office attributed them to a local career criminal who was later murdered. Unaware of the Goleta murders, local police in surrounding jurisdictions followed false leads related to men who were close to the female victims. One person, later cleared, was charged with two of the murders. Many years later, the cases were linked almost entirely by DNA testing.

Other suspected murders edit

After DeAngelo was arrested, he was also suspected of committing the 1974 Visalia rape and murder of Jennifer Armour, the 1975 Exeter rape and murder of Donna Jo Richmond, and a 1978 murder of a woman and her son in Simi Valley, but was cleared as a suspect in all four murders by DNA testing.[160][161][162][163][164][165] Victoria Police ruled out a link between DeAngelo, who docked in Australia during his Navy service, and the Melbourne serial child rapist and murderer known as "Mr Cruel".[166]

Communications edit

Written edit

"Excitement's Crave" poem edit

In December 1977, someone claiming to be the East Area Rapist sent a poem, "Excitement's Crave", to The Sacramento Bee, the Sacramento mayor's office, and television station KVIE. On December 11, a masked man eluded pursuit by law-enforcement personnel after alerting authorities by telephone that he would strike on Watt Avenue that night:[167]

Excitement's Crave

All those mortal's surviving birth
Upon facing maturity,
Take inventory of their worth
To prevailing society.

Choosing values becomes a task;
Oneself must seek satisfaction.
The selected route will unmask
Character when plans take action.

Accepting some work to perform
At fixed pay, but promise for more,
Is a recognized social norm,
As is decorum, seeking lore.

Achieving while others lifting
Should be cause for deserving fame.
Leisure tempts excitement seeking,
What's right and expected seems tame.

"Jessie James" has been seen by all,
And "Son of Sam" has an author.
Others now feel temptations call.
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.

Homework pages and punishment map (December 9, 1978) edit

 
Front of "Mad is the Word".
 
Reverse of "Mad is the Word".
 
Front of the "punishment" map.
 
Reverse of the map, with the word "punishment" scrawled across the page.

During the investigation in Danville of the 42nd attack, investigators discovered three sheets of notebook paper near where a suspicious vehicle had reportedly been parked. They believe the pages were dropped accidentally, perhaps by falling out of a bag.[6] The first sheet appears to be a homework essay on General George Armstrong Custer.[6]

The second sheet contains a journal-style entry describing a teacher who made students write lines, which the author found humiliating:[6]

"Mad is the word, the word that reminds me of 6th grade. I hated that year ... I wish I had know what was going to be going on during my 6th-grade year, the last and worst year of elementary school. Mad is the word that remains in my head about my dreadful year as a 6th grader. My Madness was one that was caused by disapointments that hurt me very much. Dissapointments from my teacher, such as feild trips that were planed, then canncled. My 6th-grade teacher gave me a lot of dissapointments which made me very mad and made me built a state of haterd in my heart, no one ever let me down that hard before and I never hated anyone as much as I did him. Disapointment wasn't the only reason that made me mad in my sixth-grade class, another was getting in trouble at school espeically talking thats what really bugged me was writing sentances, those awful sentance that my teacher made ... me write, hours and hours Id sit and write 50-100-150 sentance day and night I write those dreadful Paragraphs which embarrased me and more inportant it made me ashamed of myself which in turn, deep down in side made me realize that writing sentance wasn't fair it wasn't fair to make me suffer like that, it just wasn't fair to make me sit and wright until my bones aked, until my hand felt every horrid pain it ever had and as I wrote, I got mader and mader until I cried, I cried because I was ashamed I cried because I was discusted, I cried because I was mad, and I cried for myself, kid who kept on having to write those dane sentances. My Angryness from Sixth grade will scar my memory for life and I will be ashamed for my sixth grade year forever"

On the last sheet was a hand-drawn map of what appears to be a suburban neighborhood, with the word "punishment" scrawled across the reverse side.[168] Investigators were unable to identify the area depicted in the map, although the artist clearly had knowledge of architectural layout and landscape design.[169] According to Detective Larry Pool, the map is a fantasy location representing the rapist's desired striking ground.[6]

Phone calls edit

"I'm the East Side Rapist" (March 18, 1977) edit

On March 18, 1977, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office received three calls from a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist; none were recorded.[170] The first two calls, received at 4:15 and 4:30 p.m., were identical and ended with the caller laughing and hanging up. The final call came in at 5:00 p.m., with the caller saying: "I'm the East Side Rapist and I have my next victim already stalked and you guys can't catch me."[citation needed]

"You're never gonna catch me" (December 2, 1977) edit

A man claiming to be the rapist called the Sacramento Police Department, saying: "You're never gonna catch me, East Area Rapist, you dumb fuckers; I'm gonna fuck again tonight. Be careful!" The call was recorded and later released.[89] As with the previous call, the next victim was attacked that night.[citation needed]

"Merry Christmas" (December 9, 1977) edit

During the 1977 Christmas season, a previous victim received a phone call that she attributed to her attacker. The caller said, "Merry Christmas, it's me again!"[citation needed]

"Watt Avenue" (December 10, 1977) edit

Shortly before 10:00 p.m. on December 10, 1977, Sacramento authorities received two identical calls, saying, "I am going to hit tonight. Watt Avenue." Both were recorded, and the caller was identified as the same person who placed the call on December 2. Law-enforcement patrols were increased that night; and at 2:30 a.m., a masked man eluded officers after being seen bicycling on the Watt Avenue bridge. When spotted again at 4:30 a.m., he discarded the bicycle[167] and fled on foot. The bicycle had been stolen.[citation needed]

"Gonna kill you" (January 2, 1978) edit

The first known rape victim received a wrong-number call asking for "Ray" on January 2, 1978. The call was recorded, and police suspect that it may have been the same caller who made a threatening call to her later that evening.[171] That call was also recorded and identified by the victim as the voice of her assailant.[6] The caller said, "Gonna kill you ... gonna kill you ... gonna kill you ... bitch ... bitch ... bitch ... bitch ... fuckin' whore."[89]

Counseling service (January 6, 1978) edit

A man claiming to be the East Area Rapist called the Contact Counseling Service and said, "I have a problem. I need help because I don't want to do this anymore." After a short conversation, the caller said, "I believe you are tracing this call" and hung up.[172]

Later calls (1982–1991) edit

In 1982, a previous victim received a call at her place of work—a Denny's restaurant—during which the rapist threatened to rape her again. According to Contra Costa County investigator Paul Holes, the rapist must have chanced to patronize the restaurant and recognized his victim there.[173][174]

In 1991, a previous victim received a phone call from the perpetrator and spoke with him for one minute. She could hear a woman and children in the background, leading to speculation that he had a family.[7]

Final call (2001) edit

On April 6, 2001, one day after an article in The Sacramento Bee linked the Original Night Stalker and the East Area Rapist, a victim of the rapist received a call from him; he asked, "Remember when we played?"[174]

Investigation edit

 
This billboard advertisement appeared nationwide in June 2016.

Before officially connecting the Original Night Stalker to the East Area Rapist in 2001, some law-enforcement officials (particularly from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department) sought to link the Goleta cases as well.[175] The links were primarily due to similarities in modus operandi. One of the already-linked Original Night Stalker double murders occurred in Ventura, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Goleta; and the remaining murders were committed in Orange County, an additional 90 miles (140 km) southeast. In 2001, several rapes in Contra Costa County believed to have been committed by the East Area Rapist were linked by DNA to the Smith, Harrington, Witthuhn, and Cruz murders. A decade later, DNA evidence indicated that the Domingo–Sanchez murders were also committed by the East Area Rapist (also identified as the Golden State Killer).[17][176]

On June 15, 2016, the FBI released further information related to the crimes, including new composite sketches and crime details;[135] a $50,000 reward was also announced.[177] The initiative included a national database to support law enforcement's investigating of the crimes and to handle tips and information.[178] Eventually, "through the use of genetic genealogy searching on GEDmatch, investigators identified distant relatives of DeAngelo—including family members directly related to his great-great-great-great grandfather dating back to the 1800s. Based on this information, investigators built about 25 different family trees. The tree that eventually linked to [DeAngelo] alone contained approximately 1,000 people. Over the course of a few months, investigators used other clues like age, sex, and place of residence to rule out suspects populating these trees, eliminating suspects one by one until only DeAngelo remained."[17]

Identification of DeAngelo began in December 2017 when officials, led by detective Paul Holes and FBI lawyer Steve Kramer, uploaded the killer's DNA profile from a Ventura County rape kit to the personal genomics website GEDmatch.[179] The website identified ten to twenty people who had the same great-great-great-grandparents as the Golden State Killer; a team of five investigators working with genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter used this list to construct a large family tree.[180] From this tree, they established two suspects; one was ruled out by a relative's DNA test, leaving DeAngelo the main suspect.[181]

On April 18, 2018, a DNA sample was surreptitiously collected from the door handle of DeAngelo's car;[63] another sample was later collected from a tissue found in DeAngelo's curbside garbage can.[182] Both were matched to samples associated with Golden State Killer crimes.[20] Since DeAngelo's arrest, some commentators have raised concerns about the ethics of the secondary use of personally identifiable information.[183][17] During the investigation, several people were considered and later eliminated as suspects:

  • Brett Glasby, from Goleta, was considered a suspect by Santa Barbara County investigators. He was murdered in Mexico in 1982 before the murder of Janelle Cruz, eliminating him as a suspect.[184]
  • Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood, was living in Orange County when the Harringtons, Manuela Witthuhn, and Janelle Cruz were killed. A DNA test cleared him in the 1990s.[185][186]
  • Joe Alsip, a friend and business partner of the victim Lyman Smith. Alsip's pastor said that Alsip had confessed to him during a family-counseling session. Alsip was arraigned for the Smith murders in 1982, but the charges were later dropped,[187][188] and his innocence was confirmed by DNA testing in 1997.[189]

Arrest, trial and incarceration edit

On the evening of April 24, 2018, Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies arrested DeAngelo in the side yard of his Sacramento home.[190][191] He was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances.[16][192] On May 10, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's office charged DeAngelo with four additional counts of first-degree murder.[193] DeAngelo made a confession of sorts after his arrest that cryptically referred to an inner personality named "Jerry", who had forced him to commit the wave of crimes that ended abruptly in 1986.

According to Sacramento County prosecutor Thien Ho, DeAngelo said the following to himself while alone in a police interrogation room after his arrest in April 2018: "I didn't have the strength to push him out. He made me. He went with me. It was like in my head, I mean, he's a part of me. I didn't want to do those things. I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life. I did all those things. I destroyed all their lives. So now I've got to pay the price."[194] Detectives ignored DeAngelo's initial requests to speak to an attorney, later citing a legal theory that this potential Miranda violation would be justified, with the understanding that prosecutors could not use the interview against the defendant in court.[195]

DeAngelo could not be charged with rapes or burglaries, as the statute of limitations had expired for those offenses, but he was charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping. DeAngelo was arraigned in Sacramento on August 23, 2018. In November 2018, prosecutors from six involved counties collectively estimated that the case could cost taxpayers $20 million and last ten years.[196] At an April 10, 2019 court proceeding, prosecutors announced that they would seek the death penalty, and the judge ruled that cameras could be allowed inside the courtroom during the trial.[197][198]

On March 4, 2020, DeAngelo offered to plead guilty if the death penalty were taken off the table, which was not accepted at the time. On June 29, as part of a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to thirteen counts of first-degree murder and special circumstances (including murder committed during burglaries and rapes), as well as thirteen counts of kidnapping.[199][200][201][202] On August 21, 2020, DeAngelo received multiple consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

DeAngelo offered a brief apology after listening to days of pre-sentencing victim impact statements: "I've listened to all your statements, each one of them, and I'm truly sorry to everyone I've hurt."[203][204][205] In November 2020, DeAngelo was transferred to the North Kern State Prison.[206] As of February 2021, DeAngelo is incarcerated in protective custody at California State Prison, Corcoran.[207]

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Further reading edit

Literature edit

Periodicals edit

  • . Los Angeles. Archived from the original on March 2, 2013.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (includes numerous photos and maps)
  • Unmasking a Killer (Report). CNN. February 13, 2018. A seven-part series that profiles California's most prolific uncaught serial killer.

Podcasts edit

Television edit

  • "The Original Nightstalker". Cold Case Files. Season 2. Episode 22. A&E Television Networks.
  • "Dark Minds: The Original Nightstalker". Investigation Discovery.
  • "Golden State Killer: It's Not Over". Investigation Discovery.
  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark. 2020. HBO documentary.
  • "The Golden State Killer". Very Scary People. 2021. Investigation Discovery.

Academic articles edit

  • Zabel, Joseph (2019). "The killer inside us: Law, ethics, and the forensic use of family genetics". Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. 24 (2). SSRN 3368705. from the original on June 30, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joseph James DeAngelo.
  • Full Interview: Golden State Killer investigator Paul Holes (video) – via YouTube.
  • Cold Case – EARONS at coldcase-earons.com
  • EAR/ONS magazine – 188-page magazine of related photos and news articles (from Casefile)
    • "The Original Nightstalker Map, Part 5a". casefilepodcast.com. Map of the EAR/ONS crimes
  • . ear-ons.com. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  • Map of the East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker / Golden State Killer Crimes
  • True Crime Diary at truecrimediary.com
  • Collection of newspaper clippings about the Golden State Killer at Newspapers.com

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Joseph James DeAngelo news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Earons redirects here For the band see The Earons Original Night Stalker redirects here For the unrelated serial killer commonly known as the Night Stalker see Richard Ramirez Joseph James DeAngelo Jr born November 8 1945 is an American serial killer serial rapist burglar peeping tom 3 4 former police officer and former mechanic who committed at least 13 murders 51 rapes and 120 burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986 5 6 7 He is responsible for three known separate crime sprees throughout the state each of which spawned a different nickname in the press before it became evident that they were committed by the same person Joseph James DeAngeloMug shot of DeAngelo taken in 2018BornJoseph James DeAngelo Jr 1945 11 08 November 8 1945 age 78 Bath New York U S Other namesVisalia RansackerEast Area RapistEast Side RapistEast Bay RapistCreek Bed KillerDiamond Knot KillerOriginal Night StalkerEARONSGolden State Killer 1 2 OccupationsPolice officerMechanicHeight5 ft 10 in 1 78 m Criminal statusIncarcerated at California State Prison CorcoranSpouseSharon Marie Huddle m 1973 div 2019 wbr Children3Conviction s First degree murder with special circumstances 13 counts Kidnapping 13 counts Criminal penalty12 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 8 yearsDetailsVictims13 murdered51 raped120 burgledSpan of crimes1974 1986CountryUnited StatesState s CaliforniaWeaponVarious including Miroku revolverDate apprehendedApril 24 2018 In the San Joaquin Valley DeAngelo was known as the Visalia Ransacker from 1974 to 1976 before moving to the Sacramento area where he became known as the East Area Rapist from 1976 to 1979 and was linked by modus operandi to additional attacks in Stockton Modesto and Contra Costa County 8 9 DeAngelo committed serial murders in Santa Barbara Ventura and Orange counties from 1979 to 1986 and was known as the Night Stalker and later the Original Night Stalker in order to differentiate him from Richard Ramirez a later serial killer who also became known as the Night Stalker He is believed to have taunted and threatened both victims and police via obscene phone calls and possibly written communications During the decades long investigation several suspects were cleared through DNA evidence alibis or other investigative methods 10 In 2001 the combined acronym EARONS came into use after DNA testing indicated that the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were the same person 6 The case was a factor in the establishment of California s DNA database which collects DNA from all accused and convicted felons in California 11 and has been called second only to Virginia s in effectiveness in solving cold cases 12 In an attempt to increase awareness crime writer Michelle McNamara coined the name Golden State Killer in early 2013 6 On June 15 2016 the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and local law enforcement agencies held a news conference to announce a renewed nationwide effort offering a 50 000 reward for the Golden State Killer s capture 13 On April 24 2018 California authorities charged 72 year old DeAngelo with eight counts of first degree murder based upon DNA evidence 14 15 16 investigators had identified members of DeAngelo s family through forensic genetic genealogy 17 This was also the first announcement connecting the Visalia Ransacker crimes to DeAngelo 18 Owing to California s statute of limitations on pre 2017 rape cases 19 DeAngelo could not be charged with the rapes he had committed in the 1970s 20 but he was charged in August 2018 with thirteen related kidnapping and abduction attempts 21 On June 29 2020 DeAngelo pled guilty to multiple counts of murder and kidnapping 22 As part of a plea bargain that spared him the death penalty DeAngelo also admitted to numerous crimes with which he had not been formally charged including rapes 23 On August 21 2020 DeAngelo was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole 24 25 26 Contents 1 Early life and career 1 1 Police officer 1 2 Marriage and relationships 1 3 Other employment 1 4 Loud outbursts 2 Crimes 2 1 Visalia Ransacker 1974 1976 2 1 1 Burglaries 2 1 2 Shootings 2 2 East Area Rapist 1976 1979 2 2 1 Rapes 2 2 2 Maggiore murders 2 3 Original Night Stalker 1979 1986 2 3 1 1979 2 3 2 1980 2 3 3 1981 2 3 4 1986 2 4 Other suspected murders 3 Communications 3 1 Written 3 1 1 Excitement s Crave poem 3 1 2 Homework pages and punishment map December 9 1978 3 2 Phone calls 3 2 1 I m the East Side Rapist March 18 1977 3 2 2 You re never gonna catch me December 2 1977 3 2 3 Merry Christmas December 9 1977 3 2 4 Watt Avenue December 10 1977 3 2 5 Gonna kill you January 2 1978 3 2 6 Counseling service January 6 1978 3 2 7 Later calls 1982 1991 3 2 8 Final call 2001 4 Investigation 5 Arrest trial and incarceration 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 8 1 Literature 8 2 Periodicals 8 3 Podcasts 8 4 Television 8 5 Academic articles 9 External linksEarly life and career edit nbsp A photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Office showing DeAngelo who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973 Joseph James DeAngelo Jr was born on November 8 1945 in Bath New York to Kathleen Kay Louise DeGroat June 30 1923 August 21 2010 and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr January 19 1920 February 15 1995 a sergeant in the United States Army 27 28 He had two older sisters Connie and Rebecca and a younger brother John A relative reported that when DeAngelo was a young child he witnessed the rape of Connie by two airmen in a warehouse in West Germany where the family was stationed at the time 29 Following DeAngelo s conviction Rebecca claimed that he was abused by their father while he was growing up 30 Between 1959 and 1960 DeAngelo attended Mills Junior High School in Rancho Cordova California Beginning in 1961 he attended Folsom High School from which he received a GED certificate in 1964 He played on the school s junior varsity baseball team 31 32 Prosecutors reported that DeAngelo committed burglaries mail theft and tortured and killed animals during his teenage years 30 DeAngelo joined the United States Navy in September 1964 33 and served for 22 months during the Vietnam War as a damage controlman on the cruiser USS Canberra 34 and the destroyer tender USS Piedmont 35 Beginning in August 1968 DeAngelo attended Sierra College in Rocklin California he graduated with an associate degree in police science with honors 36 He attended Sacramento State University in 1971 where he earned a bachelor s degree in criminal justice 32 33 DeAngelo later took post graduate courses 33 and further police training at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia then completed a 32 week police internship at the police department in Roseville 37 Police officer edit From May 1973 to August 1976 DeAngelo was a burglary unit police officer in Exeter having relocated from Citrus Heights 31 He then served in Auburn from August 1976 to July 1979 when he was arrested for shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent he was sentenced to six months of probation and fired that October 38 39 During the process of being fired DeAngelo threatened to kill the chief of police and allegedly stalked the chief s house 38 Marriage and relationships edit In May 1970 DeAngelo became engaged to nursing student Bonnie Jean Colwell a classmate at Sierra College but she ended the relationship in 1971 after he became manipulative and abusive 40 culminating in his demand that she help him cheat on an abnormal psychology test 41 After the break up he attempted to force her to marry him by threatening her with a gun 38 42 43 In November 1973 he married Sharon Marie Huddle of Citrus Heights The wedding was held at Auburn First Congregational Church In 1980 they purchased a house in Citrus Heights where he was eventually arrested decades later 35 Huddle became a divorce attorney in 1982 and they had three daughters two were born in Sacramento and one was born in Los Angeles The couple separated in 1991 44 In July 2018 several months after DeAngelo s arrest Huddle filed for a divorce 31 43 45 46 which was finalized the following year 47 DeAngelo committed most of the offenses while he was married and raising a family Neither his wife nor his children ever suspected he was committing serious crimes His eldest daughter claimed he was a perfect father 48 while his wife believed his excuses for being away from home 49 Other employment edit DeAngelo s employment history during the 1980s is unknown 38 From 1990 until his retirement in 2017 he worked as a truck mechanic at a Save Mart Supermarkets distribution center in Roseville 31 50 He was arrested in 1996 for failing to pay for gas but the charge was dismissed 51 Loud outbursts edit DeAngelo s brother in law claimed that DeAngelo would casually bring up the East Area Rapist in conversation around the time of the original crimes Neighbors also reported that he would frequently engage in loud profane outbursts 39 One neighbor reported that his family received a phone message from DeAngelo threatening to deliver a load of death because of their barking dog 52 He was living with a daughter and granddaughter at the time of his arrest 38 Crimes edit nbsp Map showing locations of attacks by region of the East Area Rapist in California DNA evidence linked DeAngelo to eight murders in Goleta Ventura Dana Point and Irvine two other murders in Goleta lacking DNA evidence were linked by modus operandi 53 54 DeAngelo pleaded guilty to three other murders two in Rancho Cordova and one in Visalia He also committed more than 50 known rapes in the California counties of Sacramento Contra Costa Stanislaus San Joaquin Alameda Santa Clara and Yolo and he was linked to hundreds of incidents of thefts burglaries vandalism peeping stalking and prowling 55 Visalia Ransacker 1974 1976 edit It was long suspected that the training ground of the criminal who became the East Area Rapist was Visalia 56 57 58 59 60 Earlier Visalia crimes dating back as early as May 1973 and other sprees like that of the Cordova Cat Burglar and the Exeter Ransacker 61 62 as well as Visalia burglaries that took place after the shooting of Detective William McGowen see below under Shootings are now suspected to be linked also 63 64 Over a period of 20 months DeAngelo is believed to have been responsible for one murder and around 120 burglaries 65 In late April 2018 the Visalia chief of police stated that while there was no DNA linking DeAngelo to the Central Valley cases his department had other evidence that played a role in the investigation and he was confident that the Visalia Ransacker has been captured 66 Though the statutes of limitations for the burglaries have each expired 8 67 DeAngelo was formally charged on August 13 2018 with the first degree murder of Claude Snelling in 1975 67 68 In 2020 DeAngelo pleaded guilty to the Snelling murder 69 Burglaries edit nbsp A composite sketch of the Visalia Ransacker The first recorded ransacking occurred on March 19 1974 when a sum of 50 in coins was stolen from a piggy bank 70 Most of the Ransacker s activities involved breaking into houses rifling through or vandalizing the owner s possessions scattering women s underclothes and stealing a range of low value items while often ignoring banknotes and higher valued items in plain sight 71 The Ransacker would also often arrange or display items in the house Items emptied included piggy banks and coin jars and stolen items often included Blue Chip Stamps foreign or historic coins and personal items such as single earrings cuff links rings or medallions but also included six weapons and various types of ammunition 70 72 73 Multiple same day ransackings were common as well 74 75 including 12 separate incidents on November 30 1974 70 Common characteristics of the burglaries included 76 70 77 climbing fences and moving through established routes such as parks walkways ditches and trails attempting to pry open multiple points of entry particularly windows leaving multiple points of escape open especially windows as well as the house garage and garden doors moving removed window screens onto beds or into bedrooms placing warning items such as dishes or bottles against doors and on door handles wearing gloves given the absence of fingerprint evidence Shootings edit On September 11 1975 DeAngelo broke into the home of Claude Snelling 45 Snelling a journalism professor at the College of the Sequoias had previously chased a prowler discovered under his 16 year old daughter s bedroom window around 10 00 p m on February 5 1975 70 On September 11 he was awakened around 2 00 a m by strange noises 78 Upon leaving his bedroom Snelling ran through the open back door and confronted a ski masked intruder in his carport attempting to kidnap his daughter who had been subdued with threats of being stabbed or shot 79 Snelling was then shot twice staggered back into the house to his wife and later died 71 80 After the shooting the assailant punched and kicked the daughter leaving her on the ground and fled the scene 81 A stolen bicycle tied to the assailant was found nearby at 615 Redwood Street 71 After the murder Beth Snelling 16 underwent hypnosis in order to gather further details 80 The Visalia police also committed more resources to apprehending the Ransacker 78 and a 4 000 reward was posted Nighttime stakeouts were set up near houses that he had previously prowled but the ransackings continued Around 8 30 p m on December 12 1975 82 a masked man entered the back yard of a house at 1505 W Kaweah Avenue near where the Ransacker had been reported to frequent 83 84 When Detective William McGowen on stakeout inside the garage attempted to detain the man the suspect shrieked removed his mask and feigned surrender after McGowen fired a warning shot 84 85 However after jumping the fence to the house at 1501 he also pulled out a revolver with his left hand and fired once near McGowen s face shattering his flashlight 86 Nearby officers rushed to aid McGowen and the shooter was able to escape 85 Items collected as evidence included the flashlight tennis shoe tracks and dropped loot namely Blue Chip Stamps and a sock full of coins 84 East Area Rapist 1976 1979 edit nbsp Three sketches on which the FBI focused when it reopened the case in June 2016 DeAngelo moved to the Sacramento area in 1976 where his crimes escalated from burglary to rape The crimes initially centered on the then unincorporated areas of Carmichael Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova east of Sacramento 7 His initial modus operandi was to stalk middle class neighborhoods at night in search of women who were alone in one story homes usually near a school creek trail or other open space that would provide a quick escape 87 He was seen a number of times but always successfully fled on one occasion he shot and seriously wounded a young pursuer nbsp Various sketches of East Area Rapist 88 Most victims had seen or heard a prowler on their property before the attacks and many had experienced break ins Police believed that the offender would conduct extensive reconnaissance in a targeted neighborhood looking into windows and prowling in yards before selecting a home to attack It was believed that he sometimes entered the homes of future victims to unlock windows unload guns and plant ligatures for later use He frequently telephoned future victims sometimes for months in advance to learn their daily routines 6 89 Although DeAngelo originally targeted women alone in their homes or with children 10 90 he eventually preferred attacking couples 10 91 92 This change in modus operandi is believed to be a direct result of media reports claiming he only attacked women alone in the home His usual method was to break in through a window or sliding glass door and awaken the sleeping occupants with a flashlight threatening them with a handgun 10 Victims were subsequently bound with ligatures often shoelaces that he found or brought with him then blindfolded and gagged them with towels that he had ripped into strips The female victim was usually forced to tie up her male companion before she was bound 93 The bindings were often so tight that the victims hands were numb for hours after being untied He then separated the couple often stacking dishes on the male s back and threatening to kill everyone in the house if he heard them rattle He would then move the female to the living room and rape her often again and again 10 93 94 A decade later police reported that DeAngelo repeatedly said I hate you Bonnie during a 1978 rape the 37th attack 95 DeAngelo sometimes spent hours in the home ransacking closets and drawers 96 eating food in the kitchen drinking beer raping the woman again or making additional threats Victims sometimes thought he had left the house before he jump ed from the darkness 93 He typically stole items often personal objects and items of little value but occasionally cash and firearms He would then creep away leaving victims uncertain whether he had left He was believed to escape on foot through a series of yards and then use a bicycle to go home or to a car making extensive use of parks schoolyards creek beds and other open spaces that kept him off of the street citation needed The East Area Rapist operated in Sacramento County from the first attacks in June 1976 until May 1977 After a three month gap he struck in nearby San Joaquin County in September before returning to Sacramento for all but one of the next ten attacks The rapist attacked five times in 1978 in Stanislaus and Yolo counties before disappearing again for three months Attacks then moved primarily to Contra Costa County in October and lasted until July 1979 citation needed Rapes edit Date Time Location County Notes 1 Friday June 18 1976 4 00 a m Rancho Cordova Sacramento 97 98 99 2 Monday July 19 1976 2 00 a m Carmichael Marlborough Way Del Dayo neighborhood 98 99 3 Sunday August 29 1976 3 20 a m Rancho Cordova 98 99 4 Saturday September 4 1976 11 30 p m Carmichael 98 99 5 Tuesday October 5 1976 6 45 a m Citrus Heights 98 99 100 6 Saturday October 9 1976 4 30 a m Rancho Cordova 98 99 7 Monday October 18 1976 2 30 a m Carmichael Kipling Drive Del Dayo neighborhood 98 99 8 Monday October 18 1976 11 00 p m Rancho Cordova 98 99 9 Wednesday November 10 1976 7 30 p m Citrus Heights Greenback Lane 10 Saturday December 18 1976 7 00 p m Carmichael 11 Tuesday January 18 1977 11 00 p m Sacramento Glenbrook College Greens area 101 12 Monday January 24 1977 12 00 a m Citrus Heights Primrose Drive 102 13 Monday February 7 1977 6 45 a m Carmichael Crestview Drive and Madison Ave 103 14 Wednesday February 16 1977 10 30 p m Sacramento Ripon Court 104 15 Tuesday March 8 1977 4 00 a m Arden Arcade Robertson and Whitney Ave 105 16 Friday March 18 1977 10 45 p m Rancho Cordova 106 17 Saturday April 2 1977 3 20 a m Orangevale Madison and Main Ave 18 Friday April 15 1977 2 30 a m Carmichael Madison and Manzanita Avenues 107 19 Tuesday May 3 1977 3 00 a m Sacramento Glenbrook College Greens area 108 20 Thursday May 5 1977 2 40 a m Orangevale 108 21 Saturday May 14 1977 3 45 a m Citrus Heights Greenback Lane and Birdcage Street 109 22 Tuesday May 17 1977 1 30 a m Carmichael Sand Bar Circle Del Dayo neighborhood 110 23 Saturday May 28 1977 1 00 a m Parkway Sky Parkway neighborhood 111 24 Tuesday September 6 1977 1 30 a m Stockton San Joaquin Lincoln Village West neighborhood 112 25 Saturday October 1 1977 1 30 a m La Riviera Sacramento La Riviera and Tuolumne Dr 113 26 Friday October 21 1977 3 00 a m Foothill Farms Elkhorn Blvd Diablo Dr 114 27 Saturday October 29 1977 1 45 a m Arden Arcade Woodson Ave 115 28 Thursday November 10 1977 3 00 a m Sacramento La Riviera Dr near Watt Ave 116 29 Friday December 2 1977 11 30 p m Foothill Farms Brett and Revelstoke Dr 117 30 Saturday January 28 1978 10 15 p m Carmichael Winding Way east of Walnut Ave 118 31 Saturday March 18 1978 11 00 p m Stockton San Joaquin Parkwoods neighborhood 119 32 Friday April 14 1978 10 00 p m Sacramento Sacramento Seamas and Riverside Aves Little Pocket 120 121 33 Monday June 5 1978 2 30 a m Modesto Stanislaus Northeastern Modesto 121 122 34 Wednesday June 7 1978 3 55 a m Davis Yolo North of UC Davis 123 35 Friday June 23 1978 1 30 a m Modesto Stanislaus Northeastern Modesto 36 Saturday June 24 1978 3 15 a m Davis Yolo Rivendell area 37 Thursday July 6 1978 2 50 a m Westwood Division 124 38 Saturday October 7 1978 2 30 a m Concord Contra Costa 125 39 Friday October 13 1978 4 30 a m 126 40 Saturday October 28 1978 4 30 a m San Ramon 127 41 Saturday November 4 1978 3 30 a m San Jose Santa Clara 42 Saturday December 2 1978 4 30 a m 43 Saturday December 9 1978 2 00 a m Danville Contra Costa 44 Monday December 18 1978 6 30 p m San Ramon 128 129 45 Tuesday March 20 1979 5 00 a m Rancho Cordova Sacramento 128 129 46 Wednesday April 4 1979 1 00 a m Fremont Alameda 130 47 Saturday June 2 1979 11 30 p m Walnut Creek Contra Costa 131 48 Monday June 11 1979 4 00 a m Danville 132 49 Monday June 25 1979 4 00 a m Walnut Creek 133 50 Thursday July 5 1979 3 45 a m Danville 134 Maggiore murders edit nbsp Sketches of two suspects in the Maggiore murders A young Sacramento couple 21 year old Brian Keith Maggiore a military policeman at Mather Air Force Base and his 20 year old wife Katie Lee Maggiore were walking their dog in the Rancho Cordova area on the night of February 2 1978 near where five East Area Rapist attacks had occurred 135 The Maggiores fled after a confrontation in the street but were chased down and shot to death 136 Some investigators suspected that they had been murdered by the East Area Rapist because of their proximity to the other attacks locations and a shoelace was found nearby The FBI announced on June 15 2016 that it was confident that the East Area Rapist had murdered the Maggiores 137 On June 29 2020 DeAngelo entered a plea of guilty to these murders 138 Original Night Stalker 1979 1986 edit Shortly after the rape committed on July 5 1979 DeAngelo moved to Southern California and began killing his victims first striking in Santa Barbara County in October The attacks lasted until 1981 with a lone 1986 attack only the couple in the first attack survived alerting neighbors and forcing the intruder to flee the other victims were murdered by gunshot or bludgeoning Since DeAngelo was not linked to these crimes for decades he was known as the Night Stalker in the area before being renamed the Original Night Stalker after serial killer Richard Ramirez received the former nickname 139 Crimes Date Victim s Location County 1 Monday October 1 1979 None attempted murder botched attack Queen Ann Lane Goleta 140 Santa Barbara 2 Sunday December 30 1979 Robert Offerman Debra Manning Goleta 141 3 Thursday March 13 1980 Charlene amp Lyman Smith Ventura 142 Ventura 4 Tuesday August 19 1980 Keith amp Patrice Harrington Dana Point 143 Orange 5 Friday February 6 1981 Manuela Witthuhn Irvine 143 144 6 Monday July 27 1981 Cheri Domingo Gregory Sanchez Goleta 145 Santa Barbara 7 Sunday May 4 1986 Janelle Cruz Irvine 54 146 Orange 1979 edit On October 1 an intruder broke in and tied up a Goleta couple Alarmed at hearing him say I ll kill em to himself 10 the man and woman tried to escape when he left the room and the woman screamed Realizing that the alarm had been raised the intruder fled on a bicycle 10 A neighbor an FBI agent responded to the noise and pursued the perpetrator who abandoned the bicycle and a knife and escaped on foot through local backyards The attack was later linked to the Offerman Manning murders by shoe prints and twine used to bind the victims citation needed On December 30 44 year old Robert Offerman and 35 year old Debra Manning were found shot to death at Offerman s condominium on Avenida Pequena in Goleta 147 Offerman s bindings were untied indicating that he had lunged at the attacker Neighbors had heard gunshots 147 Paw prints of a large dog were found at the scene leading to speculation that the killer may have brought one with him The killer had also broken into the vacant adjoining residence and stolen a bicycle later found abandoned on a street north of the scene from a third residence in the complex 2 1980 edit On March 13 33 year old Charlene Smith and 43 year old Lyman Smith were found murdered in their Ventura home 148 Charlene Smith had been raped 10 A log from a woodpile on the side of the house was used to bludgeon the victims to death 149 Their wrists and ankles had been bound with drapery cord 10 An unusual Chinese knot a diamond knot was used on Charlene s wrists the same knot was noted in the East Area Rapist attacks at least one confirmed case of which was publicly known 2 The murderer was therefore briefly given the name Diamond Knot Killer 150 On August 19 24 year old Keith Eli Harrington and 27 year old Patrice Briscoe Harrington were found bludgeoned to death in their home on Cockleshell Drive in Dana Point s Niguel Shores gated community 151 Patrice Harrington had also been raped 10 152 Although there was evidence that the Harringtons wrists and ankles were bound no murder weapon or ligatures were found at the scene 151 The Harringtons had been married for three months at the time of their deaths 151 Patrice was a nurse in Irvine and Keith was a medical student at UC Irvine 151 Keith s brother Bruce later spent nearly 2 million supporting California Proposition 69 authorizing DNA collection from all California felons and certain other criminals 10 141 1981 edit On February 6 28 year old Manuela Witthuh was raped and murdered in her Irvine home 10 153 Although Witthuhn s body had signs of being tied before she was bludgeoned 10 no murder weapon or ligatures were found Though the victim was married her husband was away hospitalized and she was alone at the time of the attack 153 Witthuhn s television was found in the backyard possibly the killer s attempt to make the crime appear to be a botched robbery citation needed On July 27 35 year old Cheri Domingo and 27 year old Gregory Sanchez became the Original Night Stalker s tenth and eleventh murder victims 154 Both were attacked in Domingo s residence on Toltec Way in Goleta several blocks south of Robert Offerman s condominium where Domingo was living temporarily it was owned by a relative and up for sale 155 The offender entered the house through a small bathroom window Sanchez had not been tied and was shot and wounded in the cheek before he was bludgeoned to death with a garden tool citation needed Some believe that Sanchez may have realized he was dealing with the man responsible for the Offerman Manning murders and tried to tackle the killer rather than be tied up Again no neighbors responded to the gunshot 155 Sanchez s head was covered with clothes pulled from the closet Domingo was raped and bludgeoned bruises on her wrists and ankles indicated that she had been tied although the restraints were missing 156 A piece of shipping twine was found near the bed and fibers from an unknown source were scattered over her body 157 Authorities believed that the attacker may have worked as a painter or in a similar job at the Calle Real Shopping Centre 156 158 143 1986 edit On May 4 18 year old Janelle Lisa Cruz was found dead after she was raped 54 146 and bludgeoned in her Irvine home 159 Her family was on vacation in Mexico at the time of the attack 10 153 A pipe wrench reported missing by Cruz s stepfather was thought to be the murder weapon Initially investigators in respective jurisdictions did not think the southern California murders were connected A Sacramento detective strongly believed that the East Area Rapist was responsible for the Goleta attacks but the Santa Barbara County Sheriff s Office attributed them to a local career criminal who was later murdered Unaware of the Goleta murders local police in surrounding jurisdictions followed false leads related to men who were close to the female victims One person later cleared was charged with two of the murders Many years later the cases were linked almost entirely by DNA testing Other suspected murders edit After DeAngelo was arrested he was also suspected of committing the 1974 Visalia rape and murder of Jennifer Armour the 1975 Exeter rape and murder of Donna Jo Richmond and a 1978 murder of a woman and her son in Simi Valley but was cleared as a suspect in all four murders by DNA testing 160 161 162 163 164 165 Victoria Police ruled out a link between DeAngelo who docked in Australia during his Navy service and the Melbourne serial child rapist and murderer known as Mr Cruel 166 Communications editWritten edit Excitement s Crave poem edit In December 1977 someone claiming to be the East Area Rapist sent a poem Excitement s Crave to The Sacramento Bee the Sacramento mayor s office and television station KVIE On December 11 a masked man eluded pursuit by law enforcement personnel after alerting authorities by telephone that he would strike on Watt Avenue that night 167 Excitement s CraveAll those mortal s surviving birth Upon facing maturity Take inventory of their worth To prevailing society Choosing values becomes a task Oneself must seek satisfaction The selected route will unmask Character when plans take action Accepting some work to perform At fixed pay but promise for more Is a recognized social norm As is decorum seeking lore Achieving while others lifting Should be cause for deserving fame Leisure tempts excitement seeking What s right and expected seems tame Jessie James has been seen by all And Son of Sam has an author Others now feel temptations call 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 Homework pages and punishment map December 9 1978 edit nbsp Front of Mad is the Word nbsp Reverse of Mad is the Word nbsp Front of the punishment map nbsp Reverse of the map with the word punishment scrawled across the page During the investigation in Danville of the 42nd attack investigators discovered three sheets of notebook paper near where a suspicious vehicle had reportedly been parked They believe the pages were dropped accidentally perhaps by falling out of a bag 6 The first sheet appears to be a homework essay on General George Armstrong Custer 6 The second sheet contains a journal style entry describing a teacher who made students write lines which the author found humiliating 6 Mad is the word the word that reminds me of 6th grade I hated that year I wish I had know what was going to be going on during my 6th grade year the last and worst year of elementary school Mad is the word that remains in my head about my dreadful year as a 6th grader My Madness was one that was caused by disapointments that hurt me very much Dissapointments from my teacher such as feild trips that were planed then canncled My 6th grade teacher gave me a lot of dissapointments which made me very mad and made me built a state of haterd in my heart no one ever let me down that hard before and I never hated anyone as much as I did him Disapointment wasn t the only reason that made me mad in my sixth grade class another was getting in trouble at school espeically talking thats what really bugged me was writing sentances those awful sentance that my teacher made me write hours and hours Id sit and write 50 100 150 sentance day and night I write those dreadful Paragraphs which embarrased me and more inportant it made me ashamed of myself which in turn deep down in side made me realize that writing sentance wasn t fair it wasn t fair to make me suffer like that it just wasn t fair to make me sit and wright until my bones aked until my hand felt every horrid pain it ever had and as I wrote I got mader and mader until I cried I cried because I was ashamed I cried because I was discusted I cried because I was mad and I cried for myself kid who kept on having to write those dane sentances My Angryness from Sixth grade will scar my memory for life and I will be ashamed for my sixth grade year forever On the last sheet was a hand drawn map of what appears to be a suburban neighborhood with the word punishment scrawled across the reverse side 168 Investigators were unable to identify the area depicted in the map although the artist clearly had knowledge of architectural layout and landscape design 169 According to Detective Larry Pool the map is a fantasy location representing the rapist s desired striking ground 6 Phone calls edit I m the East Side Rapist March 18 1977 edit On March 18 1977 the Sacramento County Sheriff s Office received three calls from a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist none were recorded 170 The first two calls received at 4 15 and 4 30 p m were identical and ended with the caller laughing and hanging up The final call came in at 5 00 p m with the caller saying I m the East Side Rapist and I have my next victim already stalked and you guys can t catch me citation needed You re never gonna catch me December 2 1977 edit A man claiming to be the rapist called the Sacramento Police Department saying You re never gonna catch me East Area Rapist you dumb fuckers I m gonna fuck again tonight Be careful The call was recorded and later released 89 As with the previous call the next victim was attacked that night citation needed Merry Christmas December 9 1977 edit During the 1977 Christmas season a previous victim received a phone call that she attributed to her attacker The caller said Merry Christmas it s me again citation needed Watt Avenue December 10 1977 edit Shortly before 10 00 p m on December 10 1977 Sacramento authorities received two identical calls saying I am going to hit tonight Watt Avenue Both were recorded and the caller was identified as the same person who placed the call on December 2 Law enforcement patrols were increased that night and at 2 30 a m a masked man eluded officers after being seen bicycling on the Watt Avenue bridge When spotted again at 4 30 a m he discarded the bicycle 167 and fled on foot The bicycle had been stolen citation needed Gonna kill you January 2 1978 edit The first known rape victim received a wrong number call asking for Ray on January 2 1978 The call was recorded and police suspect that it may have been the same caller who made a threatening call to her later that evening 171 That call was also recorded and identified by the victim as the voice of her assailant 6 The caller said Gonna kill you gonna kill you gonna kill you bitch bitch bitch bitch fuckin whore 89 Counseling service January 6 1978 edit A man claiming to be the East Area Rapist called the Contact Counseling Service and said I have a problem I need help because I don t want to do this anymore After a short conversation the caller said I believe you are tracing this call and hung up 172 Later calls 1982 1991 edit In 1982 a previous victim received a call at her place of work a Denny s restaurant during which the rapist threatened to rape her again According to Contra Costa County investigator Paul Holes the rapist must have chanced to patronize the restaurant and recognized his victim there 173 174 In 1991 a previous victim received a phone call from the perpetrator and spoke with him for one minute She could hear a woman and children in the background leading to speculation that he had a family 7 Final call 2001 edit On April 6 2001 one day after an article in The Sacramento Bee linked the Original Night Stalker and the East Area Rapist a victim of the rapist received a call from him he asked Remember when we played 174 Investigation edit nbsp This billboard advertisement appeared nationwide in June 2016 Before officially connecting the Original Night Stalker to the East Area Rapist in 2001 some law enforcement officials particularly from the Sacramento County Sheriff s Department sought to link the Goleta cases as well 175 The links were primarily due to similarities in modus operandi One of the already linked Original Night Stalker double murders occurred in Ventura 40 miles 64 km southeast of Goleta and the remaining murders were committed in Orange County an additional 90 miles 140 km southeast In 2001 several rapes in Contra Costa County believed to have been committed by the East Area Rapist were linked by DNA to the Smith Harrington Witthuhn and Cruz murders A decade later DNA evidence indicated that the Domingo Sanchez murders were also committed by the East Area Rapist also identified as the Golden State Killer 17 176 On June 15 2016 the FBI released further information related to the crimes including new composite sketches and crime details 135 a 50 000 reward was also announced 177 The initiative included a national database to support law enforcement s investigating of the crimes and to handle tips and information 178 Eventually through the use of genetic genealogy searching on GEDmatch investigators identified distant relatives of DeAngelo including family members directly related to his great great great great grandfather dating back to the 1800s Based on this information investigators built about 25 different family trees The tree that eventually linked to DeAngelo alone contained approximately 1 000 people Over the course of a few months investigators used other clues like age sex and place of residence to rule out suspects populating these trees eliminating suspects one by one until only DeAngelo remained 17 Identification of DeAngelo began in December 2017 when officials led by detective Paul Holes and FBI lawyer Steve Kramer uploaded the killer s DNA profile from a Ventura County rape kit to the personal genomics website GEDmatch 179 The website identified ten to twenty people who had the same great great great grandparents as the Golden State Killer a team of five investigators working with genealogist Barbara Rae Venter used this list to construct a large family tree 180 From this tree they established two suspects one was ruled out by a relative s DNA test leaving DeAngelo the main suspect 181 On April 18 2018 a DNA sample was surreptitiously collected from the door handle of DeAngelo s car 63 another sample was later collected from a tissue found in DeAngelo s curbside garbage can 182 Both were matched to samples associated with Golden State Killer crimes 20 Since DeAngelo s arrest some commentators have raised concerns about the ethics of the secondary use of personally identifiable information 183 17 During the investigation several people were considered and later eliminated as suspects Brett Glasby from Goleta was considered a suspect by Santa Barbara County investigators He was murdered in Mexico in 1982 before the murder of Janelle Cruz eliminating him as a suspect 184 Paul Cornfed Schneider a high ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood was living in Orange County when the Harringtons Manuela Witthuhn and Janelle Cruz were killed A DNA test cleared him in the 1990s 185 186 Joe Alsip a friend and business partner of the victim Lyman Smith Alsip s pastor said that Alsip had confessed to him during a family counseling session Alsip was arraigned for the Smith murders in 1982 but the charges were later dropped 187 188 and his innocence was confirmed by DNA testing in 1997 189 Arrest trial and incarceration editOn the evening of April 24 2018 Sacramento County Sheriff s deputies arrested DeAngelo in the side yard of his Sacramento home 190 191 He was charged with eight counts of first degree murder with special circumstances 16 192 On May 10 the Santa Barbara County District Attorney s office charged DeAngelo with four additional counts of first degree murder 193 DeAngelo made a confession of sorts after his arrest that cryptically referred to an inner personality named Jerry who had forced him to commit the wave of crimes that ended abruptly in 1986 According to Sacramento County prosecutor Thien Ho DeAngelo said the following to himself while alone in a police interrogation room after his arrest in April 2018 I didn t have the strength to push him out He made me He went with me It was like in my head I mean he s a part of me I didn t want to do those things I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life I did all those things I destroyed all their lives So now I ve got to pay the price 194 Detectives ignored DeAngelo s initial requests to speak to an attorney later citing a legal theory that this potential Miranda violation would be justified with the understanding that prosecutors could not use the interview against the defendant in court 195 DeAngelo could not be charged with rapes or burglaries as the statute of limitations had expired for those offenses but he was charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping DeAngelo was arraigned in Sacramento on August 23 2018 In November 2018 prosecutors from six involved counties collectively estimated that the case could cost taxpayers 20 million and last ten years 196 At an April 10 2019 court proceeding prosecutors announced that they would seek the death penalty and the judge ruled that cameras could be allowed inside the courtroom during the trial 197 198 On March 4 2020 DeAngelo offered to plead guilty if the death penalty were taken off the table which was not accepted at the time On June 29 as part of a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty DeAngelo pleaded guilty to thirteen counts of first degree murder and special circumstances including murder committed during burglaries and rapes as well as thirteen counts of 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Commentary Photographs and Documents WildBlue Press ISBN 978 1947290556 Crompton Larry 2010 Sudden Terror Bloomington Indiana AuthorHouse ISBN 978 1 4520 5241 0 Periodicals edit Help us catch a killer Los Angeles Archived from the original on March 2 2013 a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link includes numerous photos and maps Unmasking a Killer Report CNN February 13 2018 A seven part series that profiles California s most prolific uncaught serial killer Podcasts edit 3 Golden State Killer podcasts that go deep on the case podcast links Time Man in the window podcast Los Angeles Times The Creep Among Us Stitcher podcast Television edit The Original Nightstalker Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 22 A amp E Television Networks Dark Minds The Original Nightstalker Investigation Discovery Golden State Killer It s Not Over Investigation Discovery I ll Be Gone in the Dark 2020 HBO documentary The Golden State Killer Very Scary People 2021 Investigation Discovery Academic articles edit Zabel Joseph 2019 The killer inside us Law ethics and the forensic use of family genetics Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 24 2 SSRN 3368705 Archived from the original on June 30 2020 Retrieved May 4 2020 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joseph James DeAngelo Full Interview Golden State Killer investigator Paul Holes video via YouTube Cold Case EARONS at coldcase earons com EAR ONS magazine 188 page magazine of related photos and news articles from Casefile The Original Nightstalker Map Part 5a casefilepodcast com Map of the EAR ONS crimes East Area Rapist Original Night Stalker ear ons com Archived from the original on June 17 2016 Retrieved June 11 2016 Map of the East Area Rapist Original Night Stalker Golden State Killer Crimes True Crime Diary at truecrimediary com Collection of newspaper clippings about the Golden State Killer at Newspapers com Portals nbsp Biography 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