him for stealing from a store. you hate to see a police officer accused of crimes of this nature. investigators believe d angelo s crime spree stopped in the mid-1980s. he lived under the radar in sacramento. this has done little to ease the fears of knowing there was a killer and rapist at large for decades. it shakes you to the core. you grew up with the fear of him and to find out he lives right around the corner. when i was 11 years old, he killed 2 people across the street from my house. we heard the gunshot. it always affected me. i am paranoid. the golden state killer, 10 counties could levy charges against d angelo and he could face the death penalty. bret: thanks. after coming under fire for
19-year-old killer cruz back in court. charged with 17 count of first degree murder and 17 count of attempted murder in the valentine s day rampage in a florida high school. this new animation shows the killer s path. he is represented by the black dot. the green dots are the victims. when green turns to gray, they have been shot and killed by cruz who was a thrown threat. a report surfaced that the count s suffer department never acted on cruz s erratic and dangerous behavior including threats to shoot up a school. i gave amazing leadership. 85% of the largest union for the sheriff s department voted no confidence in their boss. we have a lot to be ashamed
of course, it s been 42 years since the crime spree began in sacramento and the sheriff said, as you heard there, they never stopped investigating at all. the so-called east area rapist used the same m.o. usually women alone with children. shine a flashlight in their eyes and raped the women, steal small items and sometimes would taunt his victims by calling them on the telephone. in 78, the east area rapist became the golden state killer when a couple was shot and killed walking their dog. the killer using the same pattern and same m.o. started moving down the coast to santa barbara and on to southern california committing seven murders between 1979 and 1981. in southern california, he was none as the original night stalker. the sheriff talked there, it wasn t until the advances in forensic technology that allowed
investigators to match the dna from the night stalker crimes in southern california to the east area rapist in sacramento and the san francisco bay area. the past several years, the fbi and local police have been convinced that all three names have been the exact same man and now you heard it there, they do believe they have the man who is all three. bay area rapist, golden state killer and the original night stalker. he s 72-year-old joseph james deangelo, a former police officer. we re still following this news conference. see if we can glean more information about the man s background and if he always lived in southern california. the d.a. said he s always been here in sacramento. unclear if he moved to central california or southern california or always lives in the sacramento area. shep? shepard: trace, i wondered if they gave any information that you know of about what happened when the takedown happened?
thank you all. as i said, nothing but good news here today. shepard: thanks, jonathan hunt on scene. more breaking news. we told you a little while ago the suspect is in custody. this is the suspect in the golden state killer case. the original night stalker. the suspect is a 75-year-old former police officer named 72-year-old joseph deangelo. this picture just released by the police. he s been taken into custody after 42 years. authorities said that the way they were able to do this by being able to tie the east side strangler, the dna, from there, the original night stalker and all the rest to one case. we don t yet know much more than