Sacramento, A Community Forever Changed
Stories from Those Who Lived Through
the Terror of the East Area Rapist
Edited by Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, 270 pages.
Posted on 12/30/2020 10:18:41 PM PST by Swordmaker
With the successful arrest, prosecution and sentencing of Joseph DeAngelo, Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert wanted to provide a voice to all those affected by the East Area Rapist. Several months ago, she invited those who lived in the Sacramento region during the 1970’s to email their stories to the DA’s Office. The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of individuals responded, recounting their experience and memories during that terrifying time. These stories have been put into an online book to share with the entire Sacramento community.
This book is dedicated to all of the direct survivors and victims of the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer, along with the hundreds of individuals who shared their stories and the entire community that endured the horror of these crimes decades ago.
READ HERE: “https://www.sacda.org/sacramento-a-community-forever-changed/"
*Only initials have been used and redactions have been made to protect personal identifying information.
My current lady of ten years, then unknown to me, whom I would meet 40 years later, was also a Rosemont resident, living about a half mile from my Rosemont home. Her father, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and ex-pilot was then a mail carrier on whose route the East Area Rapist chose many of his victims, and two of his mail customers, Air Force Sgt. Brian & Katie Maggiori, who were the EAR’s second and third murder victims (first was later known to have been a father he had murdered in an escape from a burglary down valley years earlier when he’d been known as the Visalia Ransacker, a petty thief of women’s undergarments and cheap trinkets). My Lady’s recounting of her experiences and the affect the EAR events had on her life begins on page 103 and end on page 107. She’s listed as K.T.P.
I figure this time next year the unhinged seattle city council will add rape and murder to their poverty defense....
Somehow I doubt it.
Wow.
Fascinating and of course, sad, post.
With happiness mixed in.
I’m glad you found someone ten years ago that you seem to be quite happy with.
I’m 52 so it gives me hope.
The deaths are horrifying.
One odd thing... I’m pretty sure that I may have sold Joseph James DeAngelo a service revolver, either while I was managing the Olde Sacramento Armoury, or Simms Hardware’s Gun Department. . . The parent corporation of the Armoury was Pacific International Mercantile Syndicate which was the West Coast Colt whole sale outlet for all gun shops. On the other hand Simms was the West Coast Colt and S&W parts repository and service center for both manufacturers as well as other gun makers. Either of those two gun shops were the “go to” stores for police in the area and both were only about a twenty-five minute drive from his police department up Interstate-80. They were both only a few blocks apart. In fact, after the Armoury moved from off-Broadway, it was at 22nd and J while Simms was just six blocks East at 28th and J. They were also both only ten minutes from the East Area stomping grounds where the East Area Rapist would eventually start his crime spree.
I recall a baby-faced Placer County officer buying a Colt Diamondback, nickel plated, and I recall thinking the “Angel” name suiting the baby-face as I filled out the paperwork. We joked about it after he left with his Colt. This was either ‘74 or ‘75, as I left the gun business in mid ‘75 to work for the US Chamber of Commerce. . . and that’s around when he got hired on in Placer County.
I thought he had dead eyes even then.
There was another newspaper series supposedly set in 70s Sacramento that used Sacramento visuals including a Victorian house the old lady publisher lived in. The name I come up with is "The Name of the Game". . . But I’m not sure. That beautiful Victorian house is on the corner of 21st and about P Street, I think. A real old lady lived in that house who sold antiques. I bought my elder daughter a gorgeous Art-Deco oak sideboard there. . . and I bought some leaded glass works from her. What’s funny is it’s only a couple-three blocks from the McClatchy headquarters at The Sacramento Bee building! I often wondered if that close proximity had anything to do with the house’s selection for the series.
They’ll make them minor infractions if committed upon a conservative but capital crimes if committed on a progressive politician.
That’s if any progressive is still in Seattle after the poor clean them out..Needed the stuff to pay for food for my babies..This may stop abortions..If you are going to get away with theft,you need hungry babies to prove it....
And California supreme court just reduced sexual predictors and thier crimes. Good luck ladies
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