Posted on 04/25/2018 4:22:23 PM PDT by conservative98
A former California cop was arrested and outed Wednesday as the infamous Golden State Killer the fiend who murdered at least 12 people and raped dozens of women in the 1970s and 80s and whose crimes were chronicled in the recent best-selling true-crime book Ill Be Gone in the Dark, authorities said.
Officials said they nailed ex-Auburn and former Exeter police Officer Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., now 72, by putting him under surveillance a few days ago and getting discarded DNA from him which they then linked to the horrific crime spree.
James DeAngelo has been called a lot of things by law enforcement. Hes been called the East Side Rapist; the Visalia Ransacker. The Original Night Stalker. The Golden State Killer. Today, its our pleasure to call him defendant, crowed Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.
DeAngelo was busted on at least six counts of murder, although officials believe hes the monster responsible for at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and 120 home burglaries in southern California, according to the Sacramento County Sheriffs Department, the FBI and other sources.
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Anybody shocked that it was a cop?
Me neither.
If you watch the true crime shows you know this is not surprising @ all. But it raises three questions:
1. Does the profession attract psychopaths? / Or are cops driven psycho by the job?
2. What was he on? In that era, I was the straightest, whitest, most suburban kid you could find. But I worked @ night and was often harassed by psycho cops. Back then, I think cocaine use was rampant. Now, I think it’s steroids.
3. Did anyone cover for him?
I hope he suffers for what's left of his worthless life...
There are dozens of books and documentaries that have already been written and made about this creep, BEFORE they knew who he was. Its a cottage industry.
Here's Deangelo...
Key word: Before
Now they know who he is and drastically changes the story.
Or at least it will for the movie. Especially since he was a cop while he was doing all of the nasty bad stuff.
Hollyweird is salivating and hoping for a block buster.
I wonder if he was that ugly back in the 1980s
Reminds me of former Col. David Russell William, positions of power seems to attract a few of these characters....or like Pedophiles who chose vocations for access to vulnerable kids. All these deviants have an inner drive to satisfy their need for control and manipulation and charged sexual fantasies.
It attracts some psychos
It doesnt make them
By far the most fascinating, in fact the only, explanation I’ve seen so far is that investigators recently posted DNA markers of the killer to a genealogy website asking if they could get help in identifying any of the killer’s ancestors, and then followed the ancestor’s family tree back down to the present, looking for male descendants who fit the profile.
I had a personal run in with this whole back in the late 70’s.
I had just gotten out of the navy and was visiting friends at Placer High school in Auburn. When I went to leave, I ran over a flattened soda can that created an audible squeal as I left. Next I see red lights so I pulled over. Then officer DeAngelo accuses me of reckless driving and spinning my tires in front of the school.
I explained what had happened and he told me”Who do you think the judge is going to believe, me or you.” He let me off with a warning but his arrogance has stuck with me for the last 40 years.
I’m happy to see this pos finally get his.
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