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Crime after crime, it was that same terrifying m. O. I saw a flashlight shining down the hall, and i thought, now, thats odd. The leather gloves i really, really remember cause they made kind of a sound, you know, when they moved. He started ripping sheets, or towels, im not sure, but it was very methodical, and it was very slow. It was a time when a vast area was terrified of one evil being. This was a criminal who went by many different names. He was known as the east area rapist in Sacramento County. The original night stalker in Orange County. A 29yearold wife was raped while her tiedup husband had to listen. A 17yearold girl was attacked here. He put his knees on the victims chest. He had a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other. Peepings, prowlings, stalking. Over 100 burglaries. Police say he checks the home out before he strikes. He put plates on the mans back. And he told the man, if i hear these rattle, i will kill your wife. At least 13 homicides. This is a sustained campaign of cruelty and viciousness that lasted for decades. Welcome to crime scene, a podcast that examines real life crimes. Im Michelle Mcnamara of truecrimediary. Com. Michelle mcnamara was a true crime blogger. She was a writer and producer. She was a citizen detective. And a true crime writer. Very much being a mom during the day, very much writing about true crime at night. She was working on all different types of unsolved cases. Then she found a case that really dug its claws into her. What turned him on was terror. The east area rapist original night stalker is californias most prolific serial offender. He murdered more people than the zodiac killer, but has little name recognition. Partly thats because he moved between communities and his crimes spanned ten years. Everything about it is a mystery and it has such a boogeyman aspect to it. Michelle used to talk about this case and the thing that boggled her mind is that people didnt know about it. This was one of the most horrific serial killers in history. And nobody talked about him. Its summer, 1976. It was the bicentennial. Its all about happy days, laverne and shirley. In those days, the middle class in america was thriving. We felt safe but the crime rates were going up. Suburban sacramento was considered a safe place in the mid70s. You could ride your bike all over town. My parents would just tell us, be home before dark. People didnt lock their doors. They left their windows open, especially people close to the river, wed get the delta breeze. Everything changed in the summer of 1976. An attack occurred in rancho cordova. The young lady woke up and there was a guy standing in the doorway and he blindfolded her, tied her up. And then sexually assaults her. This is the first known Sexual Assault attributed to the man we know as the east area rapist. Nobody knew about the first attack except the police. The first attack, the second, the third, the fourth. When this first started in sacramento a lot of the people didnt know what was going on. They didnt put it in the paper at the time. The press had not yet covered it because Sacramento County Sheriffs Department asked them not to. There was a reason for that, that if you put it in there the suspects going to know that youre looking for him. At the time the rapes started happening in sacramento, the sacramento Sheriffs Department didnt have a specialized Sexual Assault unit. Just whoever had a free caseload, you know, that could tack on another case. And so i did not become involved with these cases until rape number five, when it was jane carson. I was 30 years old. I was married with a 3yearold son. My husband was stationed at Mcclellan Air force base. Jane was a nurse. She was a colonel in the air force reserve. It was about 6 30 in the morning. My 3yearold son hopped in bed with me for a snuggle. I heard the garage door close and i knew my husband had just left for work. I saw a flashlight shining down the hall, and i thought, now, thats odd, and i screamed out to my husband, what have you forgotten . And there was no answer. Then the rapist, all dressed in ski mask and dark clothes, shining a flashlight at her. He told us, with clenched teeth, shut up, or ill kill you. He tells her to turn over and hes gonna tie her up. He gags us, both of us, he blindfolds us, and he ties us up with shoelaces, very tight. His next move was to move my son. I was already scared to death, but this is where the fear really took place. All shes thinking about is the life of her little boy and saving him. After the rape was over, praise the lord, he moved my son back next to me. I could feel his body, and then i was relieved. So we hobbled around to the front fence, screamed for a neighbor, and she called the police. And then carol daly, the female detective, showed up. And i call her my angel. One of my great heroes of this story is carol daly. She was an investigator for the Sheriff Department in sacramento. She was asked to go out and interview the victims. Maybe something that the man said, or something that he did to you, or something that you recall hearing. Through that process, she was able to glean a lot of information like what he would say to his victims. And sometimes he would call out a name. In one of the cases, the victim said that she heard him crying and saying, bonnie. For years, detectives didnt know what to make of this name. Whos bonnie . Bonnie was a mystery woman, at the center of the case. Bonnie was the girlfriend and then fiance of Joseph Deangelo. One of the first women to get a real glimpse of the psychopathy behind joe deangelo was bonnie colwell. Shes 18, really smart, going to a community college, studying nursing. And shes in the middle of the quad this older guy ambles up to her and begins a conversation. Bonnie talked about her relationship with joe deangelo on the hbo docuseries, ill be gone in the dark. He was very gregarious, outgoing to all my friends. Wed been together close to a year. He gave me a high solitaire Engagement Ring and he told me that were going to be married. They were both students at the time. He was studying criminal justice. So joe was someone who initially was impressive to bonnie. He was exciting. He had a motorcycle. He taught her to shoot. But the longer she dated him, the more trouble began materializing. He takes her on thrill rides. And this is where the relationship starts to show its hand with joe. Joe, without saying a word to me, just turned right, went down a very steep bank that i had no idea what he was doing. Hes obviously thrilled not just by the speed but hes thrilled by bonnies terror. The rules were never for him. So many of the things that we did together, he pushed me toward fear. As theyre riding on the motorcycle, a German Shepherd comes out from the side of the road and nips at the tires. And joe swings a foot out and breaks the dogs neck instantly. And theres such an efficiency to his movement, that stuns her. Eventually bonnie said, i dont want to be with you anymore. She actually broke their engagement. He showed up at her house in the middle of the night. He had a gun, and he told her that she had to marry him. Just inches from my face there was the barrel of a gun pointing at me and it was joe. What he said to me was, get your clothes on, get dressed. Were going to reno. Were going to get married tonight. Her dad was able to break it up and send joe on his way. I think its a foreshadowing of the fact that he was going to use violence against people in the future. Bonnie breaks her engagement with joe deangelo and within just a few years, strange crimes start happening in rancho cordova. 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It was around midnight on july 3th, 2012, when i opened a document id compiled listing all the unique items hed stolen over the years. He would take mementos, almost like they were trophies from inside the home. He would steal rings with engravings on them. He stole a drivers license, he stole photos from albums. There is a fantasy component about these crimes. I still have a part of you. I have your jewelry. I have your drivers license. I have, you know, something that means something to you. And now i own it. He was a serial rapist known as the ear, attacking women and girls. First in east Sacramento County. This place meant something to him. He attacked here first and kept coming back. Was it home . Some of the investigators, especially the ones who worked the case in the beginning, think so. We were always trying to figure out why victims were chosen and why the locations were chosen. For joe deangelo, this was his home. Right in his own backyard. He lived in three or four houses in this exact same area where many of the rapes were committed. He grew up in rancho cordova, he was familiar with the playgrounds, the schools, the empty lots. This is the home of the first documented rape that occurred in Sacramento County. He was very agile. He could jump over fences. He knew which way to go, from whatever neighborhood he was in. He knew the best way to get in and out. He knew the area like the back of his hand. He grew up there. Joseph deangelo jr. Grew up the son of a Master Sergeant in the air force who moved around a lot. We met joe when he was 13 years old. My father was stationed at Mather Air Force base and his father was transferred there and we shared a duplex. A girl who became very close to him at the time, judy, described a very lonely boy. He was missing a family. His mother and father had split when he was young. At a very young age he was neglected. He and his siblings would be locked in the closet and then beaten by the father. Per his siblings, joe deangelo received the worst of his vitriol and anger when they were growing up. Joe was always over at our house. And he just became a good family friend. He never talked about himself. He never talked about any problems he might have. He never discussed anything that was bothering him. They started reporting, you know, the peeping toms here in rancho. And i remember i was in the bedroom and i was asleep and i had this feeling. I woke up cause i had this feeling somebody was there. And when i looked up and glanced towards the window, i saw this outlined figure standing. I didnt do anything to let em know i saw them, that i was aware of them. The next morning, i came in here and i says, dad, i says, somebody was peeking in my window last night. And he says, what . And i says, yeah, and there was footprints out there in the dirt, two distinct footprints there. Its very common for sexual offenders to start out, particularly in adolescence, as peepers or voyeurs that are creeping around the neighborhood, looking in windows, watching women undress. Its almost like a training ground. Many of us had never seen anything like this before in our career. His whole thing was terror, it wasnt the sex, it was the terror that we wanted to put in these people, that was his number one priority. His victims ranged in age from 13, i think, to 39. Out of the first ten attacks, six of those were juveniles. Oftentimes sex offenders or sexual serial murders will start out with, i guess, easier victims. Victims that are younger, that are more vulnerable. Victims that he could control. My name is kris pedretti. I was 15. I was a kid. Just a normal kid. Cartwheels in the front yard and really not a care in the world. It was not ever even a thought that our world might be unsafe. So it was a week before christmas. She had been left home alone. I was supposed to go to a High School Dance and it was the last day before christmas vacation. I put a pizza in the oven and i went to go play the piano. I remember hearing a noise and i stopped playing and listened. Didnt hear it again. Oh, it was nothing. So i kept playing. It was very shortly after that, probably seconds, that he approached me. She turned around and she saw a man in a ski mask. I froze. The brain stopped thinking at that point. I mean, i just went straight into survival mode. I dont remember thinking at that point anything other than kind of turning into a robot. Just do what he says. Do what he says. It was like kris had left the body and it was just the body left. That individual led her to the back patio. He tied her up. I didnt know about rape. I certainly didnt know about sex. What he did to me, what he took from me, i cant ever get it back. He kind of ruined my childhood. You know, he took it away. Everybody knew something was going on but nobody knew exactly what. The sheriff decided that we would hold community forums. I had no idea there were going to be several hundred people that would show up. If we have a gun, could we shoot him . Knowing what i know about this man, if i had a gun, i definitely would shoot him. And i would not shoot to injure, i would shoot to take care of him. He liked this. He liked the police being on edge. He liked the town being on edge. I have a gun but i still dont feel safe being, you know, at home alone. Law enforcement saw that his rampage of violence continued with his tactics changing. No one knew what he would do next. I have to admit im scared to death. T, the fastest nationwide 5g network. Now, new and existing customers can get our best deal. Really . mom at t has the deal for new and existing customers i will. So whatd she say . Its the wrong person. Its a guy named carl. But hes very excited and on his way. Wordofmouth advertising. 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Click, call, or visit a store today. The young girl made one bad move after another. Her attitude was much too inviting. She should never have stopped to window shop at night. In the 1970s, when a woman reported rape, she was shamed. She was blamed. Often, she was ostracized by her own community. Rape cases really werent considered serious. They were a misdemeanor. You had to make an arrest within a year or else they were not prosecuted. Even if an arrest was made, the defense was always, it was the victims fault. Rape was such a prevalent crime back in those days that there were multiple serial rapists operating in california. 217 were reported last year, thats about one every day and a half. In the bay area you had the stinky rapist, who smelled like diesel fuel. I had the pillowcase rapist. We had the keycard rapist. When the east area rapist became active in sacramento, he quickly upstaged all the other rapists in the area because of how terrifying his m. O. Was. Concern over rape is mounting in this community. There was panic in the city of sacramento. The fact that they couldnt catch this guy just ignited the city in fear. No one knows when or where hell strike again. They were getting guard dogs, they were putting in alarm systems in their homes. Have a dog in the house. A big dog. The worst thing is not knowing. All you can do is take every possible precaution and hope that he gets caught before he gets to you. Every day in the newspaper. It was number eight, it was number ten, it was number 15, 20, you know, it just kept going on and on and on. It seemed like every time investigators thought they were getting close, he would disappear. But he kept attacking again and again. He was elusive. Like a puff of smoke in the night. Detective carol daly wanted this serial rapist behind bars. And she was relentless in her pursuit of him, but constantly frustrated by the fact that they couldnt catch him. The officers in this department who are working on this case are frustrated because there is just no evidence to give any firm leads. Were doing everything humanly possible to catch this man. He was a phantom. Descriptions ranged pretty widely. One person thought he was hispanic. And now all of a sudden hes blonde haired, blueeyed. There are eight, nine, ten drawings of him and they have completely changed. The best descriptions that we had were his height and his possible weight. We knew he wore a size nine shoe. When the police were taking the victims statements, many of the women described his penis as being very, very small. We said, all right, if he is so underendowed we went to a doctor, who specialized in what i would call infantile penises, to see if he had any patients that came in. And we didnt have any luck there. Its a very serious situation. I think its very dangerous. The last thing i think of when im going to bed is, i look at the doorway in my bedroom and i think that he could be standing there. Detective daly was following every lead. We filled out a long background form for the victims. Where did they go to school . What did they look like . What age were they . You know, what was their build . There was no pattern among any of the victims. Because he was just prowling. He would see them and follow them home. Margaret wardlow, she was just 13 years old when she was attacked by the east area rapist. Margaret was probably the strongest young victim i have ever talked to. Growing up in sacramento was great. Where we lived was ideal. It was right next to the american river. And id go down there with my dog after school, go fishing. I totally felt safe. Margaret had a curiosity about her. She wanted to know about the east area rapist. I i could get my hands on that had to do with this individual. Like, what was making this guy tick . Why was he doing this . She herself became a victim. I believe there was a prewired strength in her mind that helped her survive this attack. It was a school night. Just my mother and myself. I went to bed at, like, a regular school night hour. I was awoken about 2 30 in the morning with a flashlight in my face. I thought it was a joke. I thought he had my mom had asked him to, like, come in and wake me up and scare me or something. As he tied her up and then went into the mothers room, margaret knew that either her or her mother were going to be the victim. The rapist tied up her mother and put plates on her back as a warning device. He did that with so many of the victims when there was more than one person in the house. If he heard anybody moving, he was right back, and told them, dont move, dont move, im gonna kill you, ill kill you. Putting the dishes on someones back, he knows he has to do something, either hurt them, flee. So as much of a bravado as hes trying to convey, hes scared of the physical confrontation. A little voice inside of me said, you know, you get out of a lot of stuff, margaret. But youre not gonna get out of this one. The whole time hed been threatening me. Hed been saying, do you want to die . He wanted fear. He wanted to see fear in me. This is your psychological sadist. He is enjoying controlling that woman like that. This guy was so beyond the pale, and that was why michelle was so interested in him, is because he was so frightening. The way he walks around peoples houses and the way he destroys them and sort of hangs out and eats. Theres something so psychologically fascinating about that to me. Its like he got to the Emotional Center of peoples lives and just wanted to destroy that. Michelle caught the bug. She started going down the rabbit holes in this case. At this point, instead of writing a book, she was investigating the case. Im obsessed. Its not healthy. I know the strangest details about him. I know his blood type. I know his penis size. He vaulted fences. He escaped foot chases. But i believe its the rare moments when he was human that will be his downfall in the end. As time went on, this east area rapist started to criscross sacramento, attacking women home alone, or women with their kids in the middle of the night. He seemed to be expanding what his capabilities were when he was carrying out these crimes. He became much more aggressive in his tactics. He did more horrible things than i can even describe. This tells us that the offender is adapting and learning as he is committing crimes. He really messes with peoples minds, both investigators and the victims. Part of the thrill of the game for him was a kind of connectthedots puzzle he played with people. He stole two packs of winston cigarettes from the first victim, and left them outside the fourth victims house. 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They go home, they put their kids to bed, and then they go on the computer. And they spend hours and hours trying to solve certain crimes. My name is paul haynes. I was Michelle Mcnamaras research collaborator. When i first began learning about the case there was a specific forum dedicated to the east area rapist. It was the most active forum on that website. Paul haynes was a writer living in florida. And michelle recognized that he had a great proclivity for digging into old archives and things. It was a case that a lot of citizen detectives got into because there were so many clues. Ear ons wasnt a supervillain. He was a man, a guy with habits and traits and preferences that, with enough examination, should shine like hansels breadcrumbs in the woods. My name is kay gilbraith. And i call myself a researcher. I started seeing patterns emerging to me where i became convinced it was solvable because all of the crimes had common bonds. He was leaving ligatures at the scene with this particular knot. He would eat food out of the victims refrigerators. I was spending every waking hour trying to find men who fit the criteria. And it was at that time that i first connected with michelle. Its a fascinating community. I had been on those boards for a while following the story because everyone had such great information. Michelles quest was to get this case solved. She just had an abiding curiosity in letting the details lead us to the perpetrator. The east area rapist would target not people but neighborhoods. You can see the proximity of these homes to green belts like drainage ditches and creeks and canals. We believe he used the canal as an escape route, which ran along the back of so many properties. He was a great escape artist. These are passageways this killer used to surveil the residence unseen, cloaked by the darkness of these green belts. He was able to look over those fences, look into those homes, look at what time people ate dinner. He knew what time the husband left. The Sacramento Sheriffs Office has invested more than 40,000 man hours in the search for the east area rapist. Sacramento would have a helicopter up in the sky and they all knew it was because they were chasing the east area rapist. It was terrible was terrible to hear that. Well, he didnt like it either. And it turns out that he served in vietnam. He left sacramento because of that helicopter and then these things started up in the east bay of san francisco. There are two things known about the rapist. One is, he has never been caught in a home where there was a man present. The other is hes never been in a home where there has been a big dog. The east area rapist worked on challenges. Everything he saw in the paper, if we said he didnt do something, he did it the next time. When the newspapers reported that he was just attacking single females, he took this as a challenge. At attack number 16, hes starting to attack with a man present, and then twothirds of the attacks he does since then has a man present. He is purposefully choosing couples. My names gay hardwick. And my names bob hardwick. And weve been married 41 years this august. Happily married 41 years. Bob and gay hardwick were a couple living in stockton, california. We had picked out a home in one of the little picture perfect, treelined streets. We were just happy in our new home, living together. The day of our attack was march 18th, 1978. And we were attack number 31. We had gone out to dinner and a movie. Normal friday night. And we came home around 10 00 and went to bed. Later that night, we were awakened by very bright light right in our faces and a voice saying, wake up, wake up. The attack on bob and gay hardwick was much like all the other attacks in that he confronted bob and gay when they were in bed. He ordered her at gunpoint to bind bob. Nothing you can do when theres a. 357 magnum pointed at your head. At your head. He then bound gay. He retied bob. Turns him over, put the plates on his back as a warning device. Things would go silent for a period of time. And then as soon as they moved, he was right in their face, move and ill kill you. Ultimately he moved gay into the living room where he sexually assaulted her. Youre convinced at that moment that this is not a full human being that youre dealing with. He can not only humiliate a woman who hes about to rape, but he can also completely in his mind emasculate her partner. Putting him in a position where he is helpless and has to listen to whats going on in a different room. These attacks are happening in the macho 1970s. You know, six Million Dollar man. We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man. And burt reynolds, you know, these are the icons. And the men were not looked at as victims. They were looked at as just being weak for not being able to protect their wives and their girlfriends. I never talked to anybody about it over the years. I just wanted to put it out of my mind, you know. It was were gonna get through this. Were gonna get back to normal. And you dont ever really, really make it to normal. It was tough. But, you know, i loved her and and i said, were gonna get through it. Our home never felt the same again. Every surface that you could think of was covered in fingerprint dust. It just looked like a smoke bomb had been set off in our house. It was contaminated and ruined for us. He wasnt out attacking people on lovers lanes or in parks. He was attacking people where they feel the most safe, in bed with their partner in their home. And he was able to say, you know what . I have so much power. 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How optimistic are you that, you know, he may be caught one day . Very, very optimistic. I had worked many, many crimes while i was on the department, but none of them were really like this. I knew what these people went through. And i knew what the family was going through. I couldnt let it go. And for many, many years it was me. What did i miss . What did i do wrong . Why didnt i catch him . Helicopters. Roadblocks. Citizen patrols taking down plate numbers. Hypnotists. Psychics. Nothing. A scent and shoe impressions. Bloodhounds and detectives tracked both. They led away. They led nowhere. He next shows up down in modesto in june of 1978. He attacks a couple down there. And then 48 hours later, hes up in the town of davis, over 110 driving miles away, and is attacking a uc davis coed there. Early wednesday morning, the infamous masked man made his 44th attack on a young couple living in mission san jose. It was as if he knew what police were doing. And all along, many of the detectives who were working the case thought that maybe he was a Police Officer or military. And ultimately, that turned out to be true. You should have seen me coming one of the things thats important to remember when youre looking at Joseph Deangelo is he actually graduated with an associate degree in police science. He had told bonnie that his aspiration was to join the california highway patrol. You should have seen me calling he studied evidence, and he studied crime scene. He went to Northern California. And he applied with the Auburn Police department and was hired there. And then, thats when he started his rapes. He actually started out committing crimes as a teenager. At some point he even blew up a dog with a firework, killed the dog while he was committing a residential burglary. You should have seen me coming it makes sense that somebody who has a need for control, wants to be in power, would be attracted to a position that allows him to have that every single day. When i was working the cases, i thought, hes got to be in Law Enforcement. The first clue was in attack number three in sacramento. He had gloves on to protect from fingerprints. And hes got a gun in one hand, and a padded baton in another hand. And he says, freeze or ill shoot. We felt so strongly that he could have a Law Enforcement background that we were looking at every officer in our department who fit the description of the height and the weight and the shoe size. Up to that point, he would sometimes take his gloves off during a Sexual Assault. Carol and i figured out how to fingerprint the human body. We found out that fingerprints stayed on the skin for, really, just a very short period of time. But there was an iodine technique that we could use to try to pull them off. Carol had talked to the guy in charge and said, dont talk about this on the radio. They blasted it all over the place. Just a couple of days later, his gloves never came off. Theres no question he knew what we were doing. The police have one last bit of advice, and that is dont panic, because that alters your judgment. And, by the way, that advice goes out to anyone in the bay area, not just the people of concord. Because with this guy, the next rape could be anywhere. Michelle was a mother and she was a wife. When she took this book on, this investigation became her life. Its really, the obsession is with the investigation. And she knew that when you look at cases out there, famous serial killer cases, they were caught with innocuous things. He was, first and foremost, it seemed to me, a burglar, a cat burglar. 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This is, like, the big break. Hes been living there, under everybodys noses . This is the Golden State Killer . I just want to tell, buddy, to rot in hell. Michelle mcnamara was a true crime blogger. She was a citizen detective. And a true crime writer. She was talking to her publisher about writing a book that didnt have an ending. My interest in crime has personal roots. The unsolved murder of a neighbor when i was 14 sparked a fascination with cold cases. What gripped me was the specter of that question mark where the killers face should be. I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face. When im puzzling over the details of an unsolved crime im like a rat in a maze given a task. The world narrows. The search propels. I felt in the truest sense of the word gripped. I had a murder habit and it was bad. I would feed it for the rest of my life. I considered Michelle Mcnamara a friend. She impacted the Golden State Killer case. One way we were able to keep on investigating the case is to have public interest, to have the online interest. And she helped push that. On a sleepless night last july i googled a description of a pair of cufflinks he stole, then a jolt of recognition. There they were. I bought them immediately. The best thing to do, i knew, was to turn the cuff links over to an authority on the killer. As soon as i saw those cufflinks, i thought, this is pretty astonishing. So i photographed those and sent to surviving victims who know what the cufflinks look like because it was potentially a very good lead in the case. Unfortunately, the cufflinks didnt pan out. The victims looked at them and they werent the cufflinks that were stolen. And she was devastated. I dont know if michelle was convinced she could solve the case, but i believe that she was convinced she could make a difference. And that she wanted to do it for the victims. He forced the woman at knifepoint to tie up her boyfriend. Then he tied her up and raped her. The east area rapist has struck 40 times in the last two and a half years and he hasnt been caught yet. He started inflicting real physical pain on the victims like punching, giving black eyes. One of the most sadistic things i think that he would do would be to say to them, im gonna cut off a piece of your wife and bring it back to you. We knew that he was becoming more and more angry. As fear in the community intensified, detective carol daly held regular public forums. One thing i want to emphasize, ladies, is for you not to be polite. If you are going to defend yourself, you injure him enough to incapacitate him in any way that you can. I started working with these cases and i thought, if i could talk to one of the people that deal with these rapists, maybe i can get into the head of what im looking for. Vacaville Medical Center is where they have rapists that have been convicted. The men were asked what they thought was motivating the east area rapist. The mere fact that he ties his victims up, has to have them completely submissive. You can sense the conquest he had. Youre not what you think you are. And you wont accept it, so you strike out to prove to them that you are, but in reality, you arent. Until you face that, youre going to keep on going and going. If im willing to kill you, the first move you make, youre going to be dead. The doctor told me, you had better catch him. He is going to kill. He wants to kill. He first becomes a burglar. And then he progresses to Sexual Assault and then proceeds to escalate to murder. He disappeared from Northern California in july of 1979. He showed up in Santa Barbara in october of 79, and shortly thereafter, he starts killing. The Pacific Ocean was warming up, an inviting churn of whitecaps making its way toward soft sand and an endless line of 100foot palm trees. Golden teenage boys with lank hair and effortless muscles headed for the water with their boards in a gait the locals called the surfer bounce. This was Santa Barbaras magic time. Dr. Offerman was an orthopedic surgeon. He had begun dating a psychologist named alexandria manning. On the morning of december 30th, 1979, some friends of robert offermans had shown up at his condo for a tennis game. There was no answer at the door. I went in the sliding door and looked around the living room. Christmas ornaments that had fallen off on the ground. There were some bones right by the sliding door which i thought, he wouldnt leave that there. So we knew something was wrong. So i took a right towards his bedroom and thats when i saw ms. Manning on the bed. He was on the floor. Offerman and manning both were shot and killed. It was the holidays. As authorities processed the crime scene, they stepped around a turkey carcass wrapped in cellophane that had been discarded on the patio. They concluded that at some point the killer had opened the refrigerator and helped himself to dr. Offermans leftover christmas dinner. It was never enough to commit the horrible crimes. It always had to be, and let me do something more. Let me go into your refrigerator and eat your holiday meal. The level of depravity that this man had and the execution of it was despicable and shocking. Larry crompton who led the ear task force in Contra Costa County reached out to Santa Barbara investigators and told them, this sounds like the east area rapist that weve been dealing with. When i called Santa Barbara and talked to the lieutenant and said, i heard that you had a double homicide, we would like to know about it because we think its our rapist that is down there. And he said, dont know what youre talkin about. Havent had anything like that. Nope. Law enforcement agencies werent necessarily as connected as they are now. I think there was still this thought that these are isolated incidents throughout california. And that was it. It was so frustrating. I am sure that Larry Crompton called many jurisdictions, because he truly believed that the rapist would move on and become a killer. Santa barbara is an enclave of rich people. Youve got ronald reagan. Youve got people that are worried about their property values. They dont want news about a double murder in a house going wide. Pretty soon it gets off the front page. He gets a taste for not only murdering people, but murdering them after these prolonged, terrifying times in their homes. In 1979 a new and terrifying chapter, he starts a killing spree. Two double murders in goleta, the one double murder in ventura. The murder in irvine, and the double murder in dana point. The rampage of violence was brutal and unstoppable. Four horrible murders within a sixblock radius in a suburban middle class neighborhood. 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The first of his three daughters was born. The second of his three daughters was born in 86. And then his third daughter was born in 1989. He had a wife who was a lawyer. He lived a middle class existence. He sent all his girls through montessori schools. And he would take them to their different sports events, the horseback riding, the roller skating. We all want to think that we would recognize a serial killer based on how this person looks. And yet so often this is somebody whos living in the community, who knows his neighbors. And i think that is one of the scariest aspects of serial killers, is they dont look different from other people. My sister and i, melody, used to take turns going out and babysitting while sharon was in school. And i didnt start thinking about it till after he was arrested. cause when they started showing all these dates, im going, oh, my goodness. I wonder if he was out stalking his next victim. I dont know. Its been five years with no more rapes or murders by Joseph Deangelo. For some reason, he runs across beautiful 18yearold janelle cruz and cant help himself. And kills her. Janelle was kind of a shy girl. She was very pretty, very popular. The brief life of janelle cruz was no less tragic than her death. Her biological father was long out of the picture. Her parents had gone to a cruise with her 6yearold brother. And she was staying at the residence alone. For the first time, left my daughter alone because that was another thing that i never did. Because i was worried that if i was gone that something might happen. Janelle cruz had had a friend over to the house, and heard noises in the backyard. They got up to inspect that, saw nothing. And sometime that night, janelle was confronted by an intruder. She was raped and then she was bludgeoned to death. And i got that telephone call that every mother and any Family Member is just devastated by. The janelle case just felt like such an outlier because he had decided to go after couples. And then he had stopped for a really long time. And then he attacks janelle. And then that seemingly is his his last attack. Some think you died or went to prison. Not me. I think you bailed when the world began to change. In the 1970s there was no dna. The investigators had evidence, but could not connect the crime scenes. They needed the science to catch up. Dna didnt enter the forensic landscape until about 1986, 1987. It would take 15 years for dna to finally link the Northern California east area rapist series with the Southern California homicides. As all being done by one man. I was immediately on the phone to larry pool down at Orange County sheriffs office, and were talking about, holy smokes. This is, like, the big break. But detectives still had no idea who he was. I got a little excited maybe in the first 18 to 24 months, but over the years i i chronicled and logged over 8,700 suspects in the investigation. After five years we got no match, and after ten years we got no match. And we just were not getting a hit. When people have asked whether it worries me that the killer may still be out there, ive waved dismissively, pointing out that hed be much older now. He cant hurt me, i say, not realizing that in every sleepless hour, in every minute spent hunting him and not cuddling my daughter, he already has. Michelle mcnamara was a mom, married to actor patton oswalt, investigating this case and working on a book. Patton describes her a staying awake at all hours of the night, would not put down her computer, would not put away the files. At the same time struggling with her writing and publication deadlines. And she began selfmedicating. I actually see her as being his final victim. 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Companies like ancestry. Com and 23 and me had already been using genetic genealogy for years, allowing millions of customers to spit into a tube and use their dna to discover family roots and long lost relatives. Ancestry. Com features the worlds most a growing number, particularly of adoptees, are realizing these sites that are really created for learning about Family History can help me start to figure out who im biologically related to. To help people to find their biological mothers, to find their biological fathers, to find siblings, to find cousins. It wasnt too long for people to realize, wait a minute. What if we use the dna of criminals to try and identify their second cousins or third cousins, and try to narrow it down from there . I start learning how this technology could be used. We become blown away at the power of it. And then we recognize, this is the way we need to go. But then there was a concern as to whether we had enough dna. I had consumed all the east area rapists dna, doing all the testing i had done over the years. And he found a pristine dna sample going back to the 1980 murder of lyman and Charlene Smith in ventura county. A second Sexual Assault kit in the Coroners Office that had never been opened. To my knowledge, there are no other medical examiners who make duplicate rape kits. In march of 1980, lyman and Charlene Smith were found bludgeoned to death in their bed. It was a horrific scene that i will never forget. Id arrive at the scene with my little suitcase, a tube rack, dry ice, and a microscope. I always made duplicate kits and both kits were identical. That turned out to be a gold mine for us. Because that second kit had sat in the coroners possession for 38 years untouched. And so the swabs collected from Charlene Smiths body were pristine. Police had been sitting on this genetic fingerprint for four decades, waiting for the science to catch up. Genetic genealogy had only been used to solve a criminal case once before by a woman named barbara raeventer. Ive always liked puzzles. I used to love playing clue, when i was a kid. What ive discovered is that Law Enforcement are pretty big gossips. And so they were all sort of talking amongst each other. And apparently paul was talking to the detective on the other case. And i was like, how did you do that . I call barbara up, and i explain, im working a case, its an old case. I dont tell her what case it is, but could this be done to identify this unknown offender . So paul holes was able to take that dna and convert it into a dna profile, which is basically a number. And he used this nofrills genealogy website called gedmatch. And i just uploaded the Golden State Killers profile and allowed the gedmatch servers to do their magic and produce the list of people that potentially shared some dna with my offender. Were all logging in several times a day to to see if the matches are there. Then all of a sudden, he started connecting to some distant relatives. Were talking third, fourth, fifth cousins. So we immediately knew that we were gonna be building a lot of family trees to sort out who he was. Were now trying to identify common ancestors from this list of people who share dna with the person were looking for. And we end up spending four months Building Family trees. And unlike if you were to upload your dna to a website and try to build out a family tree from yourself being the beginning point, this is reverse engineering a family tree. So you start with a wide swath of potential relatives, and by a painstaking process of elimination, you start cutting down that pool. Narrow it down. Narrow it down. Narrow it down. Genealogy testing had indicated that our offender was of european descent. 40 southern european. And a number of the matches that we had were with people who had italian surnames. Once it came down to that final pool, thats when the real detective work began. You had to hit public records, things like marriage certificates, birth certificates, gravesite markings. So now we only had six men on the list. So now they had to be a certain age. They had to be in Northern California. And they had to be related only through the maternal line to our crime scene dna. And at that point, we then had one other piece of information that we hadnt applied yet. And that was eye color. She looks at a separate tool on a related site that suggests that their suspect had blue eyes and was bald. The fbi then pulled the california dmv records for those six men. Only one had blue eyes. Joseph deangelo. Joseph deangelo. Joseph deangelo. You should have seen me coming to customizes yourcan gocar insurancetual. Com so you only pay for what you need . Really . I didnt aah ok. Im on vibrate. 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After four decades and countless hours of detective work, it is an emerging technology, genetic genealogy, that finally gives investigators their strongest lead yet, a name. Who is this guy . I need to start drilling down on him, and im now within a couple of weeks of retiring. So im trying to find out as much as possible, as fast as possible, about joe deangelo. He is not in any criminal databases, so police start putting together a case to either eliminate him or prove he is in fact the man theyre looking for. Physically, he was within the specs of what we were expecting for the Golden State Killer. Born in 1945, a little bit on the older side, but most certainly within that 1940 to 1960 range. Investigators started zeroing in on Joseph Deangelo, and they started digging up things about his past. He goes into the navy. We know he is stationed in san diego. We know that he spent some time overseas. Joe deangelo returned to sacramento, began working with the Auburn Police department. He had a nickname on the department. It was junk food joey. He would always have a coke in his hand, a bag of chips, a candy bar. He really violated peoples space all the time. Hed get kind of close to your face and always be touching you. He had been fired from Auburn Police back in 1979. He had been observed shoplifting a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a Citrus Heights drug store. He was accosted by the clerk. He was subsequently arrested. Auburn police chief nick willick had to fire deangelo at the time. And the chief said, when joe was put on administrative leave, he had threatened to kill me. I immediately remembered back my daughter being afraid a short time after he had been fired. She said, there was someone looking in my bedroom window with a flashlight. Chief said he got up and ran outside. That man was gone, but there were shoe impressions all around the perimeter of his house. But theres another huge piece of the puzzle they had been investigating in relation to possible suspects, and that piece also seemingly falls into place in deangelos story, bonnie. Theres a newspaper clip from an auburn journal about the engagement, and theres this picture of a young brunette. Shes 18 years old. Announcing his engagement in 1970 to a woman named bonnie colwell. Remember, bonnie was one of deangelos early girlfriends who broke off their engagement. So suddenly, detective holes and others were like, wait a minute, could this be bonnie that we remember following early on in the case . And of course bonnie was significant due to the victim in attack number 36. While the east area rapist is literally raping that victim, he is crying, and hes saying, i hate you bonnie, i hate you bonnie, over and over. Im now within days of retiring. Its like, okay, ive got to go boots on the ground on this deangelo. More and more things connect and click. You know, right place, right time. Lets go see if this is the guy. Im now on my second to last day at work. And i go, i have to go see this guy, where hes living. And i park on the curb directly opposite from deangelos house. Theres a car in the driveway. Im pretty sure hes home. And im sitting there, and im wondering, whats the likelihood really that this is the Golden State Killer . A day before his retirement, paul holes literally has the suspect in his crosshairs. Its been a 24year hunt. But he uses restraint and turns in his badge the next day. It was a tough decision to drive away from that house that day. I was upset. I was like, you know, i didnt solve this case before i retired. The Sacramento Sheriffs Office picks up where paul holes left off. And so what they have to do next is conduct surveillance on Joseph Deangelo. And what theyre waiting for is an opportunity to collect his dna. And they secretly follow him to a shopping plaza. But joseph was not smoking. He was not spitting out gum. So what they had to work with was he had a car. They swabbed the door handle. And that gave them something thats called touch dna. They were able to pick up an initial dna sample and some fingerprints from his car door. Im sitting in a Chinese Restaurant in Colorado Springs and my cell phone rings. And its lieutenant Kirk Campbell from sacramento d. A. s office. You can absolutely not tell anybody about this. And at that moment, i go, okay. And he says, the lab is excited about this. Its mixed with dna from other people. But it looks like it might be a close match. But the sacramento d. A. Was saying, we want a cleaner sample. So they stake out his house, wait for him to put out the trash. He puts his trash out on the curb. They get a guy that comes and collects the trash. They sneak over and pull tissue out of the trash bin, and take that back to the lab. And one of the items out of the trash had a Single Source male dna profile that matched 100 the Golden State Killers dna profile. I get this call from my chief deputy. I think his first words are, are you sitting down . I asked him a million times. And im like, you better not be messing with me. He goes, theyre shaking, anne marie. Theyre shaking at the crime lab. They got a match. But now they have to get the suspect into custody. So they call paul holes back to assist with the operation. There was concerns about how he would respond if this did not go smoothly. I can imagine they were prepared for every scenario. This is somebody who has been a sophisticated, a diverse, sadistic killer. A team of Law Enforcement officers gathers outside deangelos home for the takedown. He and his wife have been separated for decades and he is living with his daughter and granddaughter. The hope was to get him away from his house in order to be able to do it safely. So at a certain point, deangelos over off to the side of his house, and it looks like a prime spot. And then, we just hear over the radio, go. 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It was hard to process. I know after i got the call, the tears welled up. Thousands of nightmares and thousands of sleepless nights have come to a rest. It was just something that was on my mind for all those years. Want him caught before i die. We could finally put a face and a name to this this masked individual that was terrorizing all these communities back in the 70s and 80s. Joseph deangelos first arraignment in court was a complete madhouse. It was a zoo. In the front rows were Family Members of victims, and victims themselves. We were all super, super nervous. I start sobbing and sobbing, and i couldnt stop. And then that moment, Joseph Deangelo, in a redorange jumpsuit that says prisoner on the back, rolls in in a wheelchair, hunched over, his hands handcuffed. This is the Golden State Killer . This old man . And he looks so harmless. And i think that is exactly the impression that he wants to create. Is Joseph James Deangelo your true and correct legal name . At that moment, you could hear gasps. There was something about his voice that clearly brought back years of pain and fear. I thought, this has got to be a big act. In the week prior, hes riding a motorcycle at high speeds. He was Walking Around just fine. And within a day of his arrest, hes all of a sudden bound to a wheelchair. But then the jail surveillance camera tells a very different story. Hes climbing up on the bunks. And getting up on the vents and cleaning things. Doing exercises in the jail cell. Hes a master of disguise. He used that during all of his crimes and he has continued to use it, but now in a different way. The victims are still processing it. And the big question, why . Why did he do all of this . What really did transpire . Why he became this person, this predator. I think thats the 1 million question. Mr. Deangelo would like to make a brief statement. Who takes care of yourself. So when it comes to screening for colon cancer, dont wait. 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The very thing that happened to my mother is the very thing that my uncle went and did to other women. How sickening is that. It would be so easy for us, as forensic psychologists, if we could kind of go, a person is abused and therefore they become this kind of offender. The vast majority of people dont turn into serial rapists and serial killers. So its hard to feel this sympathy for these offenders or to say that this event made him do it. Bonnie is certainly not responsible for deangelos actions. And the breakup did not cause those actions. Sentencing today for the socalled Golden State Killer. Former Police Officer Joseph Deangelo jr. Committed rapes and murders all across california. This is the matter of the people of the state of california versus Joseph James Deangelo. This will be the first time that these people have seen him since the nights that they were victimized. This is a network of people that have come together that never knew each other, but share one thing in common. On march 18th, 1978, joe deangelo attacked us while we were sleeping. He kidnapped me from my bed. He raped me repeatedly. I want you to look at me. You bound my wrist and ankles, you blindfolded me, you remember that . At three different times that night, i thought i was going to die. No 13yearold should have to find out what a rape kit is. My family couldnt hide the agony in their faces. What matters is that you will spend the rest of your life in prison and i survive. I just want to tell you, buddy, to rot in hell. You will forever be known as a repulsive coward who hid behind a mask of evil. The devil can keep you company in your prison cell as he gnaws away at whatever soul you have left. Mr. Deangelo would like to make a brief statement. Ive listened to all of your statements. And im truly sorry to everyone ive hurt. Mr. Deangelo is sentenced to a total of 11 life without the possibility of parole sentences, plus an additional life sentence plus an additional eight years. The survivors have spoken clearly. The defendant deserves no mercy. [ applause ] in the end, we may have lost a battle one night, but weve won the war of life. Were nearing the end of a very long journey here. It shows that justice doesnt have a time limit. You can still find answers decades and decades later if youre willing to do the work. Inside michelles computer, she had a letter. And it was her writing directly to the Golden State Killer. One day soon, youll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. This is how it ends for you. Youll be silent forever, and ill be gone in the dark, you threatened a victim once. Open the door. Show us your face. Walk into the light. The sound of woman after covid, my hours got cut. So we cant pay our bills. And now our Family Budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. The yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even day care. We cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15