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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Sanguine on April 25, 2018, 03:44:30 pm
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Quite a story:
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo Jr late Tuesday night
DeAngelo is believed to be the Golden State Killer, a serial killer suspected of 12 homicides and nearly 50 rapes in Sacramento County in the 1970s
DeAngelo is being held on two murder charges
The arrest comes two years following the death of author Michelle McNamara, actor Patton Oswalt's late wife, who penned a crime novel about the killer
By Minyvonne Burke
Published: 10:09 EDT, 25 April 2018 | Updated: 11:27 EDT, 25 April 2018
Police believe they have finally captured the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer and rapist suspected of terrorizing southern California nearly 50 years ago.
Late Tuesday night, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department arrested Joseph James DeAngelo Jr on two murder charges, Fox 40 reports.
The 72-year-old man, who is believed to have been an Auburn police officer fired for shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent, is said to be linked to a dozen unsolved homicides, almost 50 rapes and 120 home burglaries that spanned a decade starting in the late 1970s.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5656217/Suspected-Golden-State-Killer-responsible-12-homicides-50-rapes-ARRESTED.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5656217/Suspected-Golden-State-Killer-responsible-12-homicides-50-rapes-ARRESTED.html)
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You have got to me shitting me. They finally caught this guy? He has been taunting the stupid cops for decades. They got within feet of catching him a few times but he was able to slip away. It's been an embarrassment for the Po Po.
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You have got to me shitting me. They finally caught this guy? He has been taunting the stupid cops for decades. They got within feet of catching him a few times but he was able to slip away. It's been an embarrassment for the Po Po.
Looks like it. I've seen a number of crime shows with these cases.
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Quite a story:
No pic of the suspect as he looks today? Why not, I wonder?
Hmmm.....chocolate banana smoothie.....(good idea, think I'll try it!)
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I've no idea about this website but I quote this article, below is Michelle McNamera as mentioned in the article. Maybe this is originally from the NY Magazine anyway, she was writing a book on this case:
(https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2018/02/23/23-mcnamera-feature-lede.w512.h600.2x.jpg)
My Friend Michelle McNamara, the Crime Writer Gone in the Dark
By Kera Bolonik
The case of the Golden State Killer seemed solvable to Michelle McNamara. That’s what pulled her into it in 2010, when she started reading the message boards by fellow armchair detectives about the serial rapist and murderer, who’d claimed 60 victims throughout the state of California from 1976 to 1986. That’s what spurred her to spend the next six years pursuing the killer, eventually writing a feature story in 2013 for Los Angeles Magazine, “In the Footsteps of a Killer,†which she further developed into a book-length investigation, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, released by Harper this month.
McNamara’s fascination with the grisly began when she was just 14, when a young woman named Kathleen Lombardo, whom McNamara knew from church, was murdered while jogging a block and a half away from McNamara’s home in Oak Park, Illinois. The man who slit Lombardo’s throat was never found. McNamara would be forever haunted by what she’d later describe as “the specter of that question mark where the killer’s face should be.†The idea that this murderer could vanish into the night, that life could move on, even return to normal, for the grieving survivors after the young woman’s violent death deeply disturbed McNamara — and inspired her. In 2006, she started a blog, True Crime Diary, dedicated to discussing and revisiting unsolved cases. She saw in cold cases a personal challenge she couldn’t resist — the colder, the better. The Golden State Killer was the coldest case of all, and the one that exploded her fascination into a full-blown obsession.
Read more at: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/michelle-mcnamara-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark.html (http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/michelle-mcnamara-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark.html)
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Well this is odd. Was doing a search on Joseph James DeAngelo Jr ... trying to find a current pic.... and apparently there's a police officer in Citrus Heights, CA (way south of Sacramento), that same age, that same name.....
but still no pic. Hmmmm.....
https://www.mylife.com/joseph-deangelo/e15195723342 (https://www.mylife.com/joseph-deangelo/e15195723342)
Probably just a coincidence.
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Maybe not so odd after all....
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-announcement-planned-elusive-serial-killer-155856774.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=611e8982-b21b-33a7-a66a-e03bcf4392f7&.tsrc=notification-brknews
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What's his freerepublic username?
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http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article209779364.html (http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article209779364.html)
His picture, and a press conference, here
I listened to the press conference live, and they emphasized the large role, that DNA played in solving the crime
Some of the crimes were in Orange County, btw. And the OC DA spoke at the press conference.
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Suspected Golden State killer, a former police officer, identified by DNA evidence
By Joseph Serna, Richard Winton, Sarah Parvini, Melanie Mason and John Myers
Apr 25, 2018 | 1:10 PM
Authorities have arrested a former police officer who is suspected of being one of California’s most prolific serial killers and rapists — the Golden State killer.
A local and federal task force apprehended the suspect late Tuesday evening, after tying him to the crimes through “surveillance and discarded DNA,†said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.
In the 40 years since the Original Night Stalker began his campaign of terror in Sacramento and moved south through Oakland, Santa Barbara and Orange counties, he had remained unidentified. The attacker was also dubbed the East Area rapist and the Golden State killer, and authorities say he is responsible for 12 killings, 45 rapes and more than 120 residential burglaries between 1976 and 1986.
more
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-golden-state-killer-20180425-htmlstory.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-golden-state-killer-20180425-htmlstory.html)
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Big press conference today. Cases from the Bay Area, to the LA area.
The OC DA pitched the role that DNA played in this case.
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Merged topics.
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What's his freerepublic username?
Secret Agent man..have you read this guys post? Never met such a extreme woman hater
@Weird Tolkienish Figure
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Based upon reports DeAngelo had an abnormaly small penis.
Police said one girl age 15 was technicially still a virgin after he raped her and told one women after raping her other woman would laugh at him. . No doubt this is where his hated women might have risen.
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(https://thegoldwater.com/static/media_store/medium/afd49e12b4c198b09a609e8e61a24726d992d0acd2044b239e48bee370f98f5d.jpg)
More at The Goldwater (https://thegoldwater.com/news/24193-Police-Apprehend-Golden-State-Killer-a-72-Year-Old-Former-Police-Officer)
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Wow. Last month Investigation Discovery channel did a whole mini series on him, and this month CNN did one
I wonder if they helped catch him
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Wow. Last month Investigation Discovery channel did a whole mini series on him, and this month CNN did one
I wonder if they helped catch him
I think he had to be sweating the DNA technology for years knowing that they had his on record but didn't have a recent sample of his to test. It was only a matter of time before they matched his to the recovered samples from one of his victims.
It will be interesting to read the story of how they narrowed it down to him as the prime suspect.
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Maybe he slipped up like BTK.
Fascinating stuff. I'm just so sorry for his victims. 8888crybaby
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He moved his crime spree from Northern California to the South. I scan the articles, I'm not sure if he could be responsible for some crimes that were pinned on the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez. Some articles mention this.
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Based upon reports DeAngelo had an abnormaly small penis.
Police said one girl age 15 was technicially still a virgin after he raped her and told one women after raping her other woman would laugh at him. . No doubt this is where his hated women might have risen.
Ummm.......... he didn't rape women because they laughed at him. He raped women because he is a monster.
Let's not go blaming anyone but him, OK?