

Late in 2017, they uploaded this profile to a genealogy database. Investigators used the DNA evidence in their possession to create a genetic profile of the Golden State Killer.

In June 2020, DeAngelo pleaded guilty and in August, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.ĭeAngelo worked at a supermarket distribution center as a mechanic for 27 years. In 2001 DNA analysis revealed that these rapes and murders had been committed by the same perpetrator, whom crime writer Michelle McNamara labeled the "Golden State Killer." In 2018 Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer, was arrested and charged with 13 murders and other crimes linked to the Golden State Killer. In southern California between 19, a serial killer who was dubbed the Original Night Stalker took the lives of ten people. From 1976 to 1979, more than 40 rapes in northern California were attributed to an assailant called the East Area Rapist.
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The Golden State Killer is responsible for a series of burglaries, rapes and murders that took place across California in the 1970s and '80s. The killer was at large for decades until DNA evidence led to the arrest of Joseph DeAngelo in 2018, who pleaded guilty in June 2020.

The Golden State Killer was a serial rapist turned serial killer who terrorized Californians in the 1970s and '80s.
