Full coverage: ‘Man in the Window’
Some 50 women were raped during a reign of terror in Sacramento and the Bay Area in the late 1970s, with the suspect then progressing to murder. The predator was given various names in each region, including the Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, Creek Bed Killer and Original Night Stalker, before becoming known as the Golden State Killer. With the help of genealogical databases, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was arrested at his home in the Sacramento suburbs on April 24, 2018, and prosecutors say they’ll seek the death penalty.
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To an early love interest, Joe DeAngelo was energetic and worldly. Now, nearly 50 years later, he stands accused of an extended spasm of violence — home invasions, rapes, murders — in the 1970s and ’80s.
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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a former cop who murdered 13 people and raped more than 50 women and girls, was sentenced to life in prison.
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Golden State Killer victims continue to recount the impact of the serial killer’s scores of crimes, including murders and rapes.
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Victims of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. will spend three days telling the court about the impact of his crimes before he is sentenced Friday.
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Jailhouse videos belie Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.'s appearances in court as a feeble, frail old man, prosecutors say.
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Victims watch as a former police officer admits to committing murders and rapes in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The expected plea hearing for the man accused of being a prolific rapist and serial killer will be unlike any in memory.
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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 74, has agreed to admit to scores of crimes for which he is not charged, sources said.
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The statement from the public defenders representing DeAngelo says, ‘He has offered to plead to the charges with a lifetime sentence.’
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The Golden State Killer’s violence against women has been retold in detail. But little is said about the male targets who were bound, threatened and forced to witness the terror of loved ones.
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Police and prosecutors are determined to access DNA information from private, consumer sites. They say the data is invaluable, but privacy advocates say the practice is ripe for abuses.
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When she began investigating the trail of the Golden State Killer last year, Times reporter Paige St. John quickly realized there was a thread that had nothing to do with the rapes and killings themselves.
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Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for the man accused of being the Golden State Killer.
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The four-decade hunt for the Golden State Killer reached a turning point in April when detectives lifted the DNA of their suspect from his car door as he shopped inside Hobby Lobby, court documents released Friday show.
