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Hello!

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Hello!

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How's it going?

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Welcome back to another episode of Diagnosing a Killer.

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I'm Kenna.

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I'm Koelle.

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I'm excited too.

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I'm ready to lay back and just listen.

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This is really cool.

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How would you even find that?

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I listened to one podcast and they're from Canada.

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That's a little close.

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That being said, we're going to move right into the case.

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Okay, what are we doing?

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I've been wanting to do this one for so long and I finally was like, Kenna, just sit down

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and do the fucking research because I knew it was going to take a while.

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This is one of a very infamous killer, a laundry list of them in California in this time period.

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We are going to be talking about Joseph James DeAngelo, aka the Golden State Killer.

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Oh, okay.

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When you said DeAngelo, all I could think of was Beverly DeAngelo, which is an actress.

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That's not bad.

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I don't think there's any relation.

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Maybe, maybe not.

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I don't know.

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But that's cool.

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Golden State.

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Golden State.

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He is scary.

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He is one of the ones that if I was an adult during this time period, I would have been

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petrified.

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Oh my gosh.

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Now, haunting.

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Joseph James DeAngelo was born on November 8, 1945 in Bath, New York to Kathleen Louise

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DeGroote DeAngelo and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr.

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His father was a member of the United States Army throughout World War II as a sergeant

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and his mother was a career waitress.

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Joseph was one of three children, his siblings being Sister Constance, who they called Connie,

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another sister Rebecca and brother John.

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I do love that name, Constance.

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Yeah, that's cute, right?

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And Connie's cute too.

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Yeah.

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I'm not sure if Rebecca and John were older or younger because I couldn't find it, but

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Connie was definitely younger than Joseph.

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So the children were noted as experiencing a very grim childhood with their grandfather,

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father and mother alike being extremely abusive to all of them.

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Classic.

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Already, right?

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Classic.

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We always hear this.

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It's never like rainbows and butterflies.

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And I mean, sometimes it is, but most of the time it's not.

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Most of the time it's not.

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Joseph however, received the most severe beatings growing up for seemingly no reason other than

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his dad's anger.

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Joseph Sr. would often lock the children in a closet for several hours, only to beat

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them mercilessly the minute he let them out.

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That's so fucked.

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Ugh.

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How can you do that to your child?

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Like isolation and then violence.

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It's awful.

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Their mother would often withhold food from them and force them to go hungry as well.

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A fucking course.

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We hear this unfortunately more often as well than not.

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It's terrible.

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Yeah, it is.

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Due to his father's participation in the army, the family would often travel with

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him to various places while he was stationed there, of course.

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So one time when Joseph Jr. was about nine, the family went to Germany with their father

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while he was working.

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During the time of their stay, Joseph Jr. allegedly witnessed his seven-year-old little

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sister Constance being brutally assaulted and raped by two airmen in a warehouse.

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What?

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Seven years old.

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Seven?

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The two were playing in the warehouse together when the two men entered and overtook Constance,

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giving way for Joseph Jr. to witness the entire attack without being able to stop them.

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He just did it.

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They did it in front of him?

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Yeah.

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I mean, he's nine.

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What is he gonna do?

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Like in their mind, you know?

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Still.

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Like it's awful.

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It's still a witness.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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That's awful.

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Many people believe that witnessing this was the turning point into Joseph Jr.'s life,

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and he began to develop very dark feelings from this point forward.

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Around the time that Joseph Jr. was a teenager, his mother Kathleen separated from Joseph

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Sr. and began dating another man who was a traveling welder.

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Kathleen and her new beau decided that they would move back to the States, and around

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1959, the two of them, along with Joseph Jr., moved to Rancho Cordova, California.

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But left the other kids?

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Yes.

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Why?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So Joseph attended Mills Junior High School between 1959 and 1960, and in 1961, he attended

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Folsom High School where he was on the JV basketball team.

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He would go on to receive his GED in 1964, but it was also noted that during this time,

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Joseph began to play into these awful feelings that he had been harboring.

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And he started to, you guessed it, torture and kill animals, committing numerous burglaries

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at this time as well.

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Like, it just happens.

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Yeah.

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I feel like a lot of our podcasts could be skipped, like right at the beginning, knowing

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what we know now and how many cases we've done.

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Yeah.

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It's like, well, he's going to torture and kill animals.

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Well, he's going to set fires.

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He's going to wet the bed.

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He's going to wet the bed.

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We all know this.

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Once he had his GED in hand, Joseph Jr. joined the US Navy in September of 1964, during the

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Vietnam War.

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It was unclear whether he was drafted or he went on his own accord, but either way, he

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went on to serve 22 months as a damage control man on the cruiser USS Canberra and the destroyer

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tender USS Piedmont.

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Wow, that's a mouthful.

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I know.

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I was like, get through this, get through this, get through this.

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During his time in the Navy, Joseph earned a National Defense Service Medal and Vietnam

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Service Medal and a Vietnam Campaign Medal.

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They're always getting their fucking medals.

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They're always getting medals.

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They gotta overachieve.

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Of course.

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After his 22 months ended, Joseph decided he would go back to school.

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In August of 1968, he enrolled in Sierra College in Rockland, California, where he achieved

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an associate's degree in political science, graduating with honors.

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In 1970, Joseph became engaged to a nursing student by the name of Bonnie Jean Cowell,

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but she broke it off in 1971 after he quickly became manipulative and abusive.

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In a way.

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Really?

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Of course not.

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It was never going to be that or it was going to be a month later, the two at a lobe.

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Yeah, exactly.

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At one point, he tried to manipulate her into helping him cheat on an abnormal psych test,

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but she refused.

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So do you think that he actually earned all those, I don't know, graves?

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That makes me think that he won't.

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After the breakup, Joseph threatened her and attempted to force her to marry him at gunpoint.

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Oh, so it was both.

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Sorry, it was both.

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It was, I'm showing signs of abuse or I'm going to marry you, but in this case it's

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both.

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It's both.

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Yeah, forcing somebody to marry you.

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Thankfully, Bonnie was able to get away from Joseph and she did not speak to him ever

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again.

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Good.

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Clearly.

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After this, he then went on to attend Sacramento State University in 1971, where he earned a

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bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1972.

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Cute.

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A neighbor was noted as saying about Joseph during this time that he was pleasant and

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clean cut in his youth, and he also lost a part of a finger in the war.

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Like pepper that in there.

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Just pepper that in there.

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He can't.

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Yeah.

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Not with a finger.

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Jesus.

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No salt bay for him.

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That's so weird.

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What are you eating?

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That's so weird.

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I don't know.

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Like, I guess that gives him like extra credit.

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Characters.

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Yeah.

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It was probably a drunken accident.

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Joseph later took postgraduate courses and further police training at the College of

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Sequoia and Vysalia, then completed a 32 week police internship at the police department

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in Roseville.

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In 1973, Joseph began dating a woman by the name of Sharon Marie Huddle, and the two quickly

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became married.

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Oh, there it is.

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Called it.

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Around the same time, he allegedly started working as either an intern or a volunteer

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at the Roseville Police Department, though the department apparently, quote, found no

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records of him ever having worked there when they were asked about it later.

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What the fuck?

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Well, he became like a criminal.

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They're like, I don't fucking know who that guy is.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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Burn it, burn it.

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Burn the boy.

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Burn all of the documents.

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The same year, Joseph was hired by the Exeter California Police Department, southeast of

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Fresno, where he worked until 1976.

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From May 1976 to August 1976, Joseph was a burglary unit police officer in Exeter, having

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relocated from Citrus Heights.

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But he was already burglarizing things when he was younger, right?

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He was the burglar, and now he's like a burglar police unit.

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That's like D agents that do fucking cocaine all day.

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Well, it's like fucking BTK that he was like a security, like security system installer,

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and then he like went to his house.

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Yeah, he worked for ADT.

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Yeah.

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They even said about him, quote, the Angelo believes that without law and order, there

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can be no government.

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And without a democratic government, there can be no freedom.

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Law enforcement is his career.

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He says, and his job is serving the community.

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Keep that in mind.

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Believe it or not, he's not that nice of a guy, I'm assuming.

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He doesn't necessarily serve the community well.

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During the time he was working for Auburn, he decided to use his knowledge of criminal

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justice and police procedures for evil.

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Like I said, sure.

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He had been placed on the burglary division of this department and began investigating

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home invasions.

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His own.

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He's investigating his own.

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No.

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No.

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Dexter.

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Everything relates back to Dexter.

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He does not.

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Using the knowledge from these crime scenes, D'Angelo decided that he would begin his own

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series of home invasions as these sparked his interest.

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Seriously.

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The first ever recorded burglary committed by D'Angelo occurred on March 19, 1974, when

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a sum of $50 in coins was stolen from a piggy bank.

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A piggy bank?

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I swear to God.

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What did he just...

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Wait.

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He didn't steal the whole piggy bank.

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He just...

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He stole out of the piggy bank and left the piggy bank.

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Yeah.

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Like how much noise do you think that made?

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Like he had a shake in.

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Shake in.

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Shake in.

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Or he had to break it.

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Yeah.

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Over the bed.

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Or you had to break it.

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Yeah.

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Which, no.

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Most of his activities at this time included breaking into houses, rifling through or vandalizing

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the possessions in the home, going through women's undergarments, and stealing low value

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items while often ignoring higher value items that were in plain sight.

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So he would steal like little things but leave like expensive things lying out.

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Yeah, he's probably like testing the water and seeing what he can get away with, huh?

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He would also frequently arrange or display items in the home.

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Multiple same day ransackings were also occurring, including 12 separate incidents on November

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30th, 1974.

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In one fucking day.

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Well, like how much time do you?

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I don't even think I know 12 people like where 12 people live.

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What the fuck?

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God, he's ballsy.

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I'm telling you what.

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But it's like, but I'm assuming that these people aren't home.

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Is it just like walking down the street and seeing who has a car in the driveway?

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Maybe.

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That's so weird.

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Just fucking ransacking.

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Like who fucking cares?

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And they'll be like, what the fuck are you doing here?

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And be like, I'm investigating burglaries.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Clearly you've been burgled.

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You've been burgled and I am here to help.

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Common MOs of the burglaries included climbing fences, attempting to pry open multiple points

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of entry, leaving multiple points of escape open like windows, moving removed window screens

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onto beds or in bedrooms and placing quote warning items such as dishes or bottles against

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the doors and on handles in case like a homeowner were to awaken or come home.

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Okay.

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So if someone put something in front of the door or if someone tried to open it, he would

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hear it.

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Right.

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He still sounds bumbly as fuck.

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Yeah.

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Like Dennis Pannirator.

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Dennis Pannirator.

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The burglaries became so frequent and well known that he quickly gained the nickname

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the Vysalia Ransacker due to the crimes being committed only in Vysalia, only 10 miles away

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from where he worked.

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It's the Ransacker.

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Oh, he has like a shitload of nicknames.

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No, he doesn't.

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The Ransacker sounds so lame.

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The Ransacker.

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Like he's not a robber.

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He's not a burglar.

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He's not a stealer.

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He's not a burglar.

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He's a Ransacker.

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Yeah.

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He comes in and he just fluffs her clothing for you.

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He just fucks your shit up.

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And then he just leaves like small slight inconveniences wherever he goes.

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We'll get this.

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He would often stay inside homes for hours at a time while rifling through clothing and

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stealing items of significance like one earring or a cufflink.

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Oh my God.

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He is.

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He's the lamest burglar.

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The Vysalia Vandal.

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The Vysalia Vandal.

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He's the Vysalia inconveniencer.

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He has all your missing socks.

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At this time, he was also committing a series of burglaries near Sacramento in Rancho Cordova,

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including twice breaking into his childhood home.

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Okay.

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He broke into his own childhood home twice.

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Okay.

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He's not just a little disturbing though because you know that that's somebody that's

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dealing with childhood trauma for sure.

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These break-ins earned him the nickname the Cordova Cat Burglar.

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Ooh.

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The Cat Burglar now.

328
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It's a Cat Burglar.

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Yeah.

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Not the laundry fluffer.

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In the fall of 1975, D'Angelo added sexual assault and murder to his rap sheet.

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Oh shit.

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That got real serious real quick.

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On September 11th, D'Angelo broke into the home of Claude Snelling, 45, at 532 Whitney

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Lane.

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Claude awoke around 2 a.m. by strange noises.

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Upon leaving his bedroom, Claude ran through the open back door and confronted a ski masked

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man in his carport attempting to kidnap his 16-year-old daughter.

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I did not see that coming.

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The intruder had subdued the 16-year-old with the threat of a gun and Claude ran to his

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daughter's defense.

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D'Angelo responded by shooting the father twice, stumbling back into the house where

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his wife was.

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The father did.

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Oh no.

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After shooting the father, D'Angelo kicked the girl three times in the face and then fled

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the scene, leaving behind a bicycle that he had stolen previously.

348
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What?

349
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Wait.

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He had gotten there on bike and he ran on foot.

351
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But he was trying to put her in the car?

352
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I guess he was trying to steal the family car?

353
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No, there was no car.

354
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He was just in the carport.

355
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Trying to take her on bike.

356
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Like what?

357
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Get in my bike.

358
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What the fuck?

359
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I don't know.

360
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I actually don't.

361
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That's crazy.

362
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Okay, so the dad?

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Unfortunately, the father would not survive this attack.

364
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So sad.

365
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He saved his daughter's life though.

366
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You did.

367
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That's crazy.

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The murder, Beth Snelling, the 16 year old victim, agreed to undergo hypnosis in order

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to try to gain further details about the assailant, but unfortunately nothing came

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of it.

371
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:17,840
That's interesting though.

372
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You don't hear a lot about that.

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Yeah.

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A month later, in Rancho Cordova, a mother and her two daughters were tied up inside

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their home and assaulted.

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After hearing this news, $4,000 was offered as a reward by the police for the Vysalia

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Ranzacker's capture.

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You best believe I did the conversion rate.

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It would be $19,000 today.

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So they know that it's, I guess, just through description.

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They know it's the same perpetrator.

382
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Yeah, and like, MO is very similar.

383
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Yeah.

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Other than the fact that now he's kidnapping people or whatever or tying them up, I guess.

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They don't know at this point that he's the same person that attacked the girl and killed

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the father, but at the same time they happened to put up their reward for the Vysalia Ranzacker.

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They don't know it's him doing it.

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I see.

389
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So, Pat Bergler and the Ranzacker may or may not be the same person.

390
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,280
Yeah, I don't think they don't.

391
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Okay.

392
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And then now there's potentially a third person who's like trying to kidnap young ladies.

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Nighttime stakeouts were set up near houses that had previously been prowled, but the

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Ranzacking continued.

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The Pantyprowler.

396
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The Pantyprowler.

397
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The Pantyprowler.

398
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The Pantyprowler.

399
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The Pantyprowler.

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On December 12, 1975, around 8.30 p.m., a masked man entered the backyard of a home at 1505

401
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W Kawe Avenue, where the Ranzacker had been reported to frequent.

402
00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:43,560
Oh.

403
00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,040
So, he went to this house, oh, just the area, not this house.

404
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,040
Yeah, the mass.

405
00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,360
Okay, because I was thinking the same house over and over.

406
00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:51,960
Well, he broke into his own childhood at home twice.

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Detective William McGowan happened to be on a stakeout inside the garage of this home

408
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and attempted to detain the man.

409
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McGowan fired a warning shot, causing D'Angelo to shriek, remove his mask, and Faine surrender.

410
00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:09,760
Oh my gosh.

411
00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:10,760
He went, ah!

412
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He removed his mask.

413
00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:12,760
And he went, ah!

414
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:13,760
Don't shoot!

415
00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:14,760
He's immediately elderly.

416
00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:15,760
It's just me and the Pantyprowler.

417
00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:16,760
Don't shoot!

418
00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:25,560
I just tried to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.

419
00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,560
I don't do Proud Love.

420
00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,320
I don't mean you any harm, I'm just here to ransack.

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However, D'Angelo quickly began to run away instead of surrender and hopped the fence into

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00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,240
1501, pulling out a revolver in the process.

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He took a shot at McGowan, the bullet nearly missing his face and shattering his flashlight.

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Oh my gosh, that's terrifying.

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Nearby officers of course rushed to McGowan's aid, giving way for D'Angelo to escape.

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They just pull out that glat-glat.

427
00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,440
Just pump a few into the air.

428
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,440
Like what's his face?

429
00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,440
Like son of Sam?

430
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,960
Oh yeah, just running away.

431
00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,680
They were able to collect evidence such as shoe prints, dropped stolen items, and a

432
00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,880
sock full of coins.

433
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,320
It was the 50 cents he stole from that other guy that one time.

434
00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,120
God, he's so dumb.

435
00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:28,080
When D'Angelo transferred to the Auburn Police Department in 1976, his crimes moved with

436
00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:29,080
him.

437
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:30,080
Shocker.

438
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,080
Shock.

439
00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:36,200
Around this time, the East Area Rapist was terrorizing the Sacramento area.

440
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,040
I'm sorry if I can who?

441
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:44,920
During the time, D'Angelo was so active as the East Area Rapist that all of his crimes

442
00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:50,240
are not even listed online because there are too many to name, although it is known that

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he is implicated in at least 50 sexual assaults.

444
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,440
The same guy?

445
00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,320
All of which he committed while working as a police officer.

446
00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,320
What?

447
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,160
So he is not, he is the Vysalia ransacker.

448
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,160
He's the ransacker.

449
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,880
The Cordova Cat burglar and now he is the East Area Rapist.

450
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,520
The Panny Protector and then the Panny Prowler.

451
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:13,120
The Panny Prowler and he wasn't dubbed the Panny Prowler, that was you that named him

452
00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,120
that.

453
00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:15,120
I just gave him an extra one.

454
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It's not like he needs another one, but you know, don't worry.

455
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,960
So now this is the East Area Rapist.

456
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:21,960
Area Rapist.

457
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,440
So he was committing the, so he committed these crimes after he moved?

458
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:27,440
Yes.

459
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,400
So he moved away from Vysalia and Cordova and those crimes just suddenly stopped and

460
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now the East Area Rapist is at large in another city in Sacramento.

461
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,360
But clearly escalating now because it's not just inconveniencing by ransacking.

462
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It's not just tying up a mother and her child.

463
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,800
It's sexual assault.

464
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,920
It's sexual assault now.

465
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His initial MO was to stalk middle-class neighborhoods at night in search of women who were alone

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in one-story homes, usually near a school, creek trail, or other open space that would

467
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,320
provide for an easy escape.

468
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,320
Oh, okay.

469
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,600
So he thought that out.

470
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:08,240
He was seen on multiple occasions by numerous people, but was somehow always able to escape.

471
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,800
On one occasion, he was caught in the act and began to be chased by somebody as he was

472
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running away.

473
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He stopped and turned around, shooting and wounding the young pursuer, but not killing

474
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him.

475
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:20,640
Oh my gosh.

476
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,480
Like he's running and then he just turns around and shoots at you and then runs out.

477
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:24,480
Like that's scary.

478
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,240
Yeah, a burqa wits.

479
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,480
During the time of these attacks, many people had seen or heard a prowler on their property

480
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before experiencing the actual break-in.

481
00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:37,120
So he was just like bumbling a fucking round enough to make a noise.

482
00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:39,000
Do you think that he liked that?

483
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,600
Like he liked being caught?

484
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,360
Yeah, I think he might have, yeah.

485
00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:44,360
That he was like, oh.

486
00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:45,360
He was like, oh.

487
00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,360
Okay, oh.

488
00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,200
Like he liked to kind of scare someone.

489
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,200
Yeah.

490
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,200
That was interesting.

491
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,880
Because that's definitely, that wasn't Angel Rosendaz that somebody else did that, right?

492
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,000
Were they, they were, they like.

493
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000
I think it was BKK.

494
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,440
Maybe it was BKK.

495
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,720
He liked to scare the shit out of them and then whatever.

496
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,720
Yeah.

497
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,720
First.

498
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,720
No, BKK would be like, I'm on the run.

499
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:08,720
All I need is money.

500
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,720
And then he'd be like, psych.

501
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,080
It might have been BKK.

502
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,280
DeAngelo would frequently break in when he knew that the house was vacant and go inside

503
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,440
and pretty much like set up for the next time he would break in.

504
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,920
So he would, he would break into someone's home, like figure out the layout of the house,

505
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,640
like plant things in certain areas and then he would leave and then he would come back

506
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,840
with those things ready for him when he, when the people were home.

507
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,400
What?

508
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:40,200
So he would like set up the house in order to like aid in his assault later.

509
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,800
He would remove bullets from any gun that he found.

510
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,680
He would hide ligatures and various other torture items as well in order for them to

511
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,280
be available to him when he returned.

512
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,520
That's fucking disgusting.

513
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,280
One of the fucking creepiest things about this guy is that he was literally known to

514
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,560
remove the bullets from someone's gun, put it back if it was next to their bedside table,

515
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,760
wake them up with a flashlight and when they reached for their gun, he would show them

516
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,280
that he had the bullets in his hand and that their gun was empty.

517
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,280
Isn't that so fucking creepy?

518
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,280
That's fucking terrifying.

519
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,280
Can you imagine that?

520
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:13,280
Oh my God.

521
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,280
Okay.

522
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,840
Like literally like that's why he scares me so much.

523
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:20,840
That's so creepy.

524
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:21,840
Yeah.

525
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,760
I think it was Richard Ramirez that had removed bullets from the shotgun or something.

526
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,280
I remember someone did.

527
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:35,760
DeAngelo would also call future victims sometimes for months in advance in order to learn their

528
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,080
routines.

529
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,560
Like call their house to see if they were home or not.

530
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,680
Although he originally targeted single women alone in their homes or with children, DeAngelo

531
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:50,040
quickly found himself turning to targeting couples in their homes.

532
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,560
It's just escalated, escalated, escalated.

533
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,200
His original method was to break into the homes and awake the sleeping occupants with

534
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,120
the flashlight, threatening them with a handgun.

535
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:05,360
Victims were then bound with ligatures that he found or brought with him, then blindfolded

536
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,560
and gagged with towels that he had ripped up into strips.

537
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:16,120
The female victim was usually forced to tie up her male companion first before DeAngelo

538
00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,960
would tie her up.

539
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,240
The bindings were usually so tight that the victim's hands would be numb for hours after

540
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,240
being untied.

541
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,200
I was just gonna say though, when you just like kind of not tie up your significant

542
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,360
other if you were like forced to do it, but I guess he's standing there watching it.

543
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,720
He might have checked it too.

544
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,880
He would then separate the couple.

545
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,160
This is where you're gonna be like, what?

546
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,880
Often stacking dishes on the male's back and threatening to kill everyone in the room

547
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,120
if you heard them rattle, i.e. try to move or get free.

548
00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:47,640
That's hilarious because I feel like I reference that all the time on these cast.

549
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,280
And I never know who it is.

550
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,120
And I'm like, you know like that one guy with the plates?

551
00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,120
Yeah.

552
00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,360
That one guy with the plates?

553
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,360
Yes.

554
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:56,760
Content warning.

555
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,800
He would then move the female to the living room and proceed to rape her with her partner

556
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,680
seemingly being able to hear the whole time.

557
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,680
That's awful.

558
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,120
That is fucking disgusting.

559
00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:11,920
During these newfound attacks, DeAngelo would sometimes spend hours in the home making food

560
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,360
for himself or ransacking various rooms.

561
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:17,480
He would ransack that fridge.

562
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,120
He would usually sexually assault the women multiple times during these visits as well

563
00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,240
and drink any alcohol in the home.

564
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,080
So you get fucked up and wasted and that's so fucking disgusting.

565
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,520
That's so gross.

566
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,360
In fact, he would actually hang around so long that sometimes the victims would think he

567
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,520
was gone until he like re-emerged from the darkness.

568
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,160
Who was fucking taking a nap somewhere?

569
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,680
He was just like quiet.

570
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,800
He would always escape the homes on foot but it is believed that he used a stolen bike

571
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,760
to get him back to where his vehicle was or at least far enough away from the scene.

572
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:56,400
The East Area Rapists attacked various victims from June in 1976 until May 1977.

573
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,400
So one year.

574
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,240
Yeah, pretty much.

575
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,120
During this time he took a three month hiatus but returned again in San Joaquin County in

576
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,280
September before returning to Sacramento.

577
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,280
So he like-

578
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,720
Why do you think that is sometimes?

579
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,840
Because we see that sometimes where it's like three or four months off.

580
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,520
Um, routine is a big one.

581
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,440
Remember we say like sometimes when they're on a routine they don't have to do it.

582
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,840
He's married to this woman at this point so maybe they're trying for kids which means

583
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,760
they're having sex more often and maybe he doesn't feel like he needs it.

584
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,760
You know what I mean?

585
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,760
There's can be a lot of different factors.

586
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,280
Or like job changes and like all that stuff.

587
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,600
Well he said the same job this time.

588
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,960
Well yeah, but I'm just saying another example.

589
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:40,600
On March 18th, 1977 the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office received three calls from

590
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,800
a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist.

591
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,920
None of these phone calls were recorded however.

592
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:48,920
Conveniently.

593
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:55,680
The first two calls received at 4.15 and 4.30 pm were the same type of call ending with

594
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,120
laughter and hanging up.

595
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,280
Terrifying.

596
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:05,320
The final call came in at 5 o'clock pm and the caller stated quote, I'm the East Side

597
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:11,240
Rapist and I have my next victim already stalked and you guys can't catch me.

598
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,640
Are you the East Side Rapist or are you the East Area Rapist?

599
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,760
You can get it right.

600
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,040
There's two different ones.

601
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,440
So you can't be both.

602
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:18,440
Sorry.

603
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,400
We already gave that name to another person.

604
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,920
Can't have it.

605
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,920
Like humbling.

606
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:24,920
Panty Brawler.

607
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,880
On December 2nd, 1977 the Sacramento Police Department received a similar call stating

608
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,200
quote, you're never gonna catch me.

609
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,480
East Area Rapist you dumb fuckers.

610
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,200
I'm gonna fuck again tonight.

611
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,200
Be careful.

612
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,200
That's so fucking gross.

613
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,200
That is disgusting.

614
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,200
I'm gonna fuck again tonight.

615
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,200
Because you're a nasty dick.

616
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,200
You only hit a micropanist.

617
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,200
I think Jay will suffer.

618
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,880
I think Jay will suffer too.

619
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,360
I'm pretty sure he has a micropanist.

620
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:50,360
I'm pretty sure.

621
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:51,800
Actually, not that I think about it.

622
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,800
I didn't put it in here but I'm pretty sure he had a micropanist because I remember hearing

623
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080
a story about one time he raped this girl and she was a virgin and he didn't bust her

624
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,440
fucking hymen because his dick is so small.

625
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:02,920
Jay will suffer the exact same thing.

626
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:03,920
Okay, well there you go.

627
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,920
So it's true.

628
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:05,920
It's true.

629
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:06,920
Jay will suffer it.

630
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,920
Jay will suffer it.

631
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:08,920
It's fucking true.

632
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,400
We have the same birthday.

633
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:11,400
Gross.

634
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,400
Not really.

635
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,880
Happy birthday, Jay will.

636
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,640
Happy birthday.

637
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,280
This call was recorded and later released to the public.

638
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,800
However, his claims were legit each time and after both sets of phone calls, new victims

639
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,000
were attacked, just like he had said.

640
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,320
On December 9th, 1977, a previous victim of D'Angelo's received a phone call that she

641
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,200
claimed was her attacker.

642
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,360
The caller was noted as saying, quote, Merry Christmas.

643
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:39,240
It's me again.

644
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,880
The next day on December 10th, Sacramento authorities received two identical phone calls,

645
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,560
both stating, quote, I'm going to hit tonight, what avenue?

646
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,080
Like you're fucking cool.

647
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,840
I'm gonna hit tonight.

648
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,560
I'm gonna hit tonight.

649
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,920
I'm gonna hit.

650
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,840
Both phone calls were recorded and the caller was identified as the same person who placed

651
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,720
the call on December 2nd.

652
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,560
So of course police took this threat very seriously considering his previous calls and claims

653
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,160
because he followed through.

654
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,240
So they increased surveillance on what avenue that night.

655
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,560
It's called what avenue?

656
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:15,560
What.

657
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,560
Oh, what?

658
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,560
Yeah.

659
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:18,560
I thought you were saying what avenue?

660
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,560
Like guess which avenue?

661
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:20,560
No.

662
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,560
Oh, okay.

663
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,560
That makes sense.

664
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,560
Like a light bulb.

665
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,560
Like a bulb.

666
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,560
Okay.

667
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,680
Around 2.30 a.m., a masked man eluded officers after being seen bicycling on the what avenue

668
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,560
bridge.

669
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:38,320
Being spotted again at 4.30 a.m., D'Angelo ditched the stolen bike and fled on foot.

670
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:44,200
Also in December of 77, someone claiming to be the East Area Rapist sent a poem, quote,

671
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,200
Excitement's Crave to the Sacramento Bee, the Sacramento Mayor's Office and TV station

672
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,240
KVIE.

673
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,680
The poem is as follows.

674
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,040
Oh God, I love these.

675
00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:03,280
Quote, all those mortals surviving birth upon facing maturity take inventory of their worth

676
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,720
to prevailing society.

677
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,920
Choosing values becomes a task.

678
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,560
One self must seek satisfaction.

679
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:16,040
The selected route will unmask character when plans take action.

680
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:22,160
Accepting some work to perform at fixed pay but promised for more is a recognized social

681
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,600
norm is as decorum seeking lore.

682
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,560
Achieving while others lifting should be cause for deserving fame.

683
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:37,760
Leisure tempts excitement seeking what's right and expected seems tame.

684
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:44,480
Quote, Jesse James has been seen by all and quote, Son of Sam has an author.

685
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,400
Oh.

686
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,200
Others now feel temptation's call.

687
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,200
Sacramento should make an offer.

688
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,080
To make a movie of my life that will pay for my planned exile.

689
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:02,080
Just now I'd like to add the wife of a mafia lord to my file.

690
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,320
Your East Area Rapist and deserving pest.

691
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,200
See you in the press or on TV.

692
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,200
End quote.

693
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,200
That is intense.

694
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,200
Isn't that wild?

695
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,200
That is wild.

696
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,320
I mean, I kind of hate that he kind of used, well duh, they usually use platforms to be

697
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,880
seen but it was like, oh by the way I'm really good at poetry.

698
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,320
Kind of like, it was good.

699
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,880
Yeah, it was kind of good.

700
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,000
But so Mafia's wife?

701
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:35,120
He said I'd like to add the wife of a mafia lord to my file so maybe he's gonna rape

702
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,120
him.

703
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,320
I mean, he's gonna try to find a mafia's wife.

704
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,320
Maybe he did.

705
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,840
I don't want to say he never digs in somebody's victims.

706
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,840
Yeah, that's so weird.

707
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,800
I'm like, but like, why would you pick on the mafia?

708
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,360
Like you're asking for it.

709
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:56,200
On January 2nd, 1978, DeAngelo's first ever rape victim from the past received a phone

710
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,240
call from a man asking for someone named Ray.

711
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,800
Later that night, the same person called once again and the victim was able to identify

712
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,040
him as her attacker.

713
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:15,720
He stated during this call, quote, gonna kill you, gonna kill you, gonna kill you, bitch,

714
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,600
bitch, bitch, bitch, fucking whore.

715
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,600
And then he hung up.

716
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:22,600
What?

717
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,600
Jesus.

718
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,600
It's like, but he's a fucking poet.

719
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,600
Yeah.

720
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,200
So he called, okay, so he called his first victim.

721
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,200
How did he get in a number?

722
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,200
I don't know.

723
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,200
I mean, this is the 70s.

724
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,200
Yeah.

725
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,200
Fucking yellow pages or something.

726
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,200
White pages.

727
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,200
Yeah.

728
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:41,480
On January 6th, 1978, a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist called the Contact

729
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:47,400
Counseling Service and said, I have a problem.

730
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,600
I need...

731
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,600
What?

732
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,560
It's supposed to say I need help, but it says I need herp.

733
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,560
I need herp.

734
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:03,000
If I had herpes, I'd stop doing this.

735
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,200
Quote.

736
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,200
I need herp.

737
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,200
Please get me some herp.

738
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,200
I need herp.

739
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,200
Okay.

740
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,720
He said, quote, I have a problem.

741
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,000
I need help because I don't want to do this anymore.

742
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,360
After a short conversation, the caller spoke again and said, quote, I believe you are tracing

743
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,000
this call and then hung up.

744
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Yeah.

745
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Creepy.

746
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:32,640
DeAngelo attacked five times during the summer of 1978 in Stanislaus and Yolo counties before

747
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,920
disappearing again for three months and then moved primarily to Contra Costa County in

748
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,080
October and stayed until July of 1979.

749
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,680
At this point in the investigation, the Vysalia Ransacker and the East Area Rapist were thought

750
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,120
to be two different people.

751
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,920
Also at this time, a newly noticed serial killer by the name of the Night Stalker appeared

752
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,280
in the media.

753
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,640
Unbeknownst to the world, this was the Vysalia Ransacker and the East Area Rapist and he

754
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,360
had committed his first murder over a year prior.

755
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,120
Wait, so it wasn't Richard Rivera's?

756
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,400
But they called him the Night Stalker?

757
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,400
Oh my gosh.

758
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,480
There's already Son of Sam and Night Stalker, but not Night Stalker Night Stalker, his

759
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,000
Night Stalker.

760
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,080
On February 2nd, 1978, Brian and Katie Magery were walking their dog in the Rancho Cordova

761
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,700
area, closely where the East Area Rapist was stalking, and they had an unfortunate

762
00:34:26,700 --> 00:34:28,840
run-in with him.

763
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:34,240
After a supposed confrontation, DeAngelo shot Brian, seriously injuring or killing him,

764
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:36,000
it wasn't clear if it was immediate death.

765
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,320
He did ultimately die.

766
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,680
And in response to this, Katie ran away and yelled for help.

767
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:47,080
DeAngelo was able to catch up with her and delivered a fatal gunshot to her head, according

768
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,080
to prosecutors.

769
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,080
Wow.

770
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,600
Just like in the street?

771
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,320
That poor dog probably was like, what do I do?

772
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,320
He left the dog?

773
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:02,160
Didn't say that he did or didn't, but I feel like the dog ran off immediately with a loud

774
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,760
noise like that.

775
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:08,080
Brian Magery was a military policeman for the US Air Force and was living on base at

776
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,400
the time of the attack.

777
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,680
That's so sad.

778
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,840
On December 9th, 1978, during the investigation of one of his attacks, investigators discovered

779
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,680
three sheets of notebook paper, whereas suspicious vehicle had been parked.

780
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,520
They believed the pages were dropped accidentally, like out of a notebook or out of a bag of

781
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,720
some sort.

782
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:32,640
The first sheet looked to be a homework essay on General George Armstrong Custer, while

783
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:38,200
the second sheet contains a journal-style entry describing a teacher who made students

784
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,200
write lines which the author did not like.

785
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,880
On the second paper, read the following.

786
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,800
Mad is the world, the world that reminds me of sixth grade.

787
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,360
I hated that year.

788
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,960
I wish I had known what was going to be going on during my sixth grade year, the last and

789
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,600
worst year of elementary school.

790
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,120
Mad is the world that remains in my head about my dreadful year as a sixth grader.

791
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,720
My madness was one that was caused by disappointments that hurt me very much.

792
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,640
Disappointments from my teachers, such as field trips that were planned, then cancelled.

793
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,280
My sixth grade teacher gave me a lot of disappointments which made me very mad and made me built

794
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,960
a state of hatred in my heart.

795
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,960
No one ever let me down that hard before and I never hated anyone as much as I did him.

796
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,840
Disappointment wasn't the only reason that made me mad in my sixth grade class.

797
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,640
Another was getting in trouble at school, especially talking.

798
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:35,880
That's what really bugged me was writing sentences, those awful sentences that my teacher made.

799
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,960
Me write.

800
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,360
Hours and hours I'd sit and write 50, 100, 150 sentence.

801
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:46,000
Day and night I write those dreadful paragraphs which embarrassed me more and more and made

802
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,200
me ashamed of myself which in turn, deep down inside, made me realize that writing sentence

803
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,400
wasn't fair.

804
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,440
It wasn't fair to make me suffer like that.

805
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,680
It just wasn't fair to make me sit and write until my bones act.

806
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,200
Until my hand felt every horrid pain that it ever had as I wrote.

807
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,480
I got madder and madder until I cried.

808
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,080
I cried because I was ashamed.

809
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,120
I cried because I was disgusted.

810
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,120
I cried because I was mad.

811
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:11,840
And I cried for myself.

812
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,120
Kid who kept on having to write those dain sentences.

813
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,560
My angriest from sixth grade will scar my memory for life and I will be ashamed for my sixth

814
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,360
grade year forever."

815
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,120
This was all on the back of one page?

816
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,120
Yeah.

817
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,360
That is definitely two pages worth of content.

818
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:31,360
Yeah, definitely.

819
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,400
And all of those seemingly sounding typos, I read it how it was written.

820
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:36,400
Yeah.

821
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:37,400
I don't read.

822
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,400
I don't read.

823
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Weemon.

824
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,440
On the last sheet, a hand drawn map of what looks like a neighborhood with the word punishment

825
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,200
written across the backside.

826
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:52,160
So when the front was like remedial, not remedial, but just basic information about nothingness?

827
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:57,000
It was like a essay style thing of like a military general or something.

828
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,600
Yeah, Custer.

829
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,440
And then it was that angry thing about, no, there's three pages total.

830
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,400
The second page was that angry note about his sixth grade teacher.

831
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Oh, I see.

832
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,400
Yeah.

833
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,120
That's still like so weird.

834
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,120
Yeah.

835
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,120
Definitely weird.

836
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,240
But he's like a grown adult.

837
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:16,240
Yeah.

838
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,040
So like why would he have like essay pages for like?

839
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,040
I don't know.

840
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:25,000
I think that he's like, or is he like, was he maybe trying to attempt to like put himself

841
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,600
back in like a high school setting?

842
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,280
And that was like his essay paper.

843
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:35,960
And then he wrote this because he's really into writing.

844
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,760
He said to pull him to the police.

845
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,080
It's so weird.

846
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,680
Although investigators were unable to identify the area that was drawn, experts believe that

847
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:48,400
it was a fantasy-like striking ground drawn by the perpetrator.

848
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:53,160
After these attacks, D'Angelo continued to commit crimes as the East Area rapist, attacking

849
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,760
more than 20 women and couples until 1979.

850
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,840
His last known attack that solely consisted of breaking and entering and rape was on July

851
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,160
5th, 1979.

852
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,920
And after this attack, D'Angelo moved to Southern California, where his crimes escalated once

853
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,400
again to murder.

854
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,400
This fucking guy.

855
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,400
It's really interesting though that like when he moves, it escalates, right?

856
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,320
It's not like, I guess HH was kind of that way too though, right?

857
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:25,920
Like he was just doing petty crime or whatever and then, well not petty crime, he was doing

858
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:26,920
federal fraud.

859
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,520
But you know, but when he moved to Chicago, that's when he started murdering people.

860
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,840
So that's interesting, like location change like that.

861
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,960
Maybe they think they can get away with it more if they move.

862
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,720
He actually left his first trip with out satisfaction as his victims had escaped.

863
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:48,720
But ultimately, D'Angelo would continue to kill until 1986, where he earned the nickname

864
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:54,360
the Night Stalker and invaded responsibility for these attacks until many decades later

865
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,920
when he was renamed the original Night Stalker.

866
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,840
After Richard Ramirez took the previous title.

867
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,840
Interesting.

868
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,480
So he got dubbed OG Night Stalker.

869
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:09,640
So like totally a trumping Richard Ramirez because, well, I forget what the years were

870
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:10,640
for Ramirez.

871
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,840
Well, Ramirez was born in the 70s.

872
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,400
This is like the late 70s.

873
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,160
Well, 80s I guess not.

874
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:21,640
So yeah, well, he was born in the 50s, so I guess, yeah, just older in general.

875
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:28,000
On July 2nd, 1979, D'Angelo had his first and only run in with the law until his capture.

876
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,000
And when?

877
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,000
In 79.

878
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Okay.

879
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,400
He was caught shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent, which was thought later to be able

880
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,120
to assist with his other crimes.

881
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,280
Oh my God, dog repellent?

882
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,880
He did know son of Sam.

883
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,200
D'Angelo was suspended by the Auburn Police Department pending the investigation, and

884
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,840
about two months later on August 27th, he was relieved from his duties as an officer

885
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,760
of the law and his career in law enforcement came to an abrupt end.

886
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:55,760
Interesting.

887
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,680
I wonder how they felt about that because it's kind of like your cover.

888
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:58,760
Yeah, exactly.

889
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,200
Where you work, where you guys.

890
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:01,200
Yeah, exactly.

891
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,400
Where you go to church and all that other stuff is part of your cover.

892
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,440
On October 1st, 1979, D'Angelo broke into a couple's home in Southern California and

893
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,480
tied them both up, reenacting his usual MO.

894
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,400
While he was rifling around their things, the couple overheard D'Angelo talking to

895
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,040
himself, saying things like, quote, I'll kill them.

896
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,360
Are you fucking proving that?

897
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,440
Who are you talking to?

898
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,320
Obviously terrified, the couple began to try to free themselves from the restraints as D'Angelo

899
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,160
was in the other room.

900
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,520
While doing so, the woman began screaming very loud, causing alarm in the home.

901
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,520
Oh my gosh.

902
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,400
D'Angelo did not want to risk the other neighbor's hearing and getting concerned, so he took

903
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,640
off on a bicycle that he probably stole.

904
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,360
That he probably stole.

905
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:51,080
In fact, a neighbor did hear the screaming and he just so happened to be an FBI agent.

906
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,240
Oh shit.

907
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:56,920
He pursued D'Angelo who had abandoned the bicycle and a knife and fled on foot because

908
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,160
you're faster than a bike.

909
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,160
I don't understand.

910
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,440
He must have just been really bad on a bike.

911
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,400
Well, he did flee through connecting neighbors' backyards so he probably couldn't get the

912
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,240
bike like through the fence and stuff.

913
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,680
D'Angelo was able to escape and disappeared into the night.

914
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,000
He must be in good shape if he can keep running out or running these people.

915
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,680
Well, clearly he doesn't know how to ride a bicycle.

916
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,120
He can just stop with the bicycle.

917
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,120
He just runs with the bike in his hand.

918
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,520
You might as well just get a taxi to drive him everywhere.

919
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,920
On October 26th, D'Angelo faced charges in court for his petty shoplifting with the

920
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,240
jury unknowingly deciding the fate of a murderer.

921
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:31,240
That's so creepy.

922
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:32,240
Isn't that creepy?

923
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,240
Yeah, that's creepy.

924
00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:39,280
Unfortunately, these other crimes had not yet been connected to D'Angelo and he was

925
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:45,080
found guilty for his shoplifting, fined $100 and sentenced to six months probation.

926
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,640
Write a poem about that.

927
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:48,640
Probation though.

928
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:49,640
He never went to jail.

929
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:50,640
I know.

930
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:51,640
Write a poem about it.

931
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:57,640
On December 30th, 44-year-old Dr. Robert Offerman and 35-year-old Deborah Alexandra Manning

932
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:02,040
were found shot to death in Robert's condo in Goleta.

933
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,600
When police arrived at the scene, it was noted that Robert's bindings were untied, indicating

934
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:11,080
that he got free at one point and tried to lunge at the attacker.

935
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,040
When questioned, neighbors also said that they did hear multiple gunshots at the suggested

936
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,080
time of death.

937
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:22,760
Also found at the scene, paw prints of a seemingly big dog suggesting that the killer may have

938
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,240
brought one with him.

939
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,240
What?

940
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:26,240
To scare them, maybe?

941
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:28,480
But why would he buy a dog repellent and then buy a dog?

942
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,480
It's a weirdo, I don't know.

943
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,800
Fucking weirdo.

944
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,040
These two children's bikes tie up people in their homes.

945
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:40,560
Lastly, D'Angelo had also broken into the vacant adjoining home and stolen a bicycle.

946
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:41,880
Oh god.

947
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,800
Later found abandoned on the street north of the scene of the crime.

948
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,600
Because he doesn't know how to ride one.

949
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,680
These would be the first murders committed by the original night stalker.

950
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:56,000
On March 13th, D'Angelo broke into the home of 33-year-old Charlene Smith and 43-year-old

951
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,360
Lyman Smith, a married couple living in Ventura.

952
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,680
Upon entering the home, he proceeded to subdue the couple and he raped Charlene.

953
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:08,800
The two had their wrists and ankles tied with drapery cords and the knot was noted as being

954
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,600
an unusual knot known as the diamond knot on Charlene's wrist.

955
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,800
Is it like a Boy Scout thing or a Navy thing?

956
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,880
Wait, did he serve in the Navy or the Army?

957
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:18,880
He was in the Navy.

958
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:19,880
It's a Navy knot!

959
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,880
A Navy knot!

960
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,880
A Navy knot!

961
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,880
Oh shit.

962
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,040
The two victims had been bludgeoned to death with a log taken from a wood pile on the side

963
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,040
of the home.

964
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,040
What is this?

965
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:35,720
The fancy knot that was used to tie up Charlene was so unusual that the murderer was therefore

966
00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:38,640
briefly given the nickname the Diamond Knot Killer.

967
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:39,640
Oh my god.

968
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,120
He's just racking them up.

969
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,120
All these aliases.

970
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:47,800
He's just racking them up unlike some other idiots that like write into newspapers and

971
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,760
like create their own aliases.

972
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,760
I like the following.

973
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:51,760
How about you?

974
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:52,760
I like the following.

975
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:53,760
How about you?

976
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:54,760
You pick it.

977
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:59,320
This Diamond Knot also gave way for the police to connect the original Night Stalker with

978
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:05,280
the East Area Rapist as the same knot was used at two different crime scenes.

979
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:11,120
On August 19th, 24 year old Keith Eli Harrington and 27 year old Patrice Brisco Harrington

980
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,240
were found bludgeoned to death in their home in a gated community.

981
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:19,440
Patrice Harrington had also been notably raped and although no murder weapon or ligatures

982
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:24,240
were found at the scene, there was evidence that both of the wrists and ankles of each

983
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,200
person had been bound for a period of time.

984
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,160
So he had bound them up at some point and then took the stuff with him after they were

985
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,720
deceased it seems like.

986
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:36,720
Patrice was a nurse in Irvine and Keith was a medical student at UC Irvine at the time

987
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:37,960
of their deaths.

988
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:39,880
They had been married for only three months.

989
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,200
They were like newlywed newlywed.

990
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,080
That's so sad.

991
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:50,480
Following this horrific crime, Keith's brother Bruce later spent nearly $2 million supporting

992
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:56,320
California Proposition 69 authorizing DNA collection from all California felons and

993
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:57,320
certain other criminals.

994
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,560
Hell yeah, that's Richard Ramirez that happened right when he was caught.

995
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,240
After these murders occurred, a $25,000 reward was offered for the capture of the original

996
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,000
Night Stalker.

997
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,320
$102,621 today.

998
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:18,240
On February 6th, 1981, 28 year old Manuello Whithun was in her home alone when an intruder

999
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,440
entered unannounced.

1000
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,800
Manuello was home alone because her husband was in the hospital for an extended period

1001
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,000
of time and she just happened to be staying at home that night.

1002
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,000
Could you imagine being in the hospital when something like that happens to your partner?

1003
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,080
Once D'Angelo entered her home, there was evidence that he tied her up with his usual

1004
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:36,080
MO.

1005
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:41,880
D'Angelo raped and murdered the woman, leaving no murder weapon or ligatures behind once again.

1006
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,120
That's weird that he just all of a sudden decided to start taking those but do you think

1007
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,080
it's because he knew that they had found the knot?

1008
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:49,800
I think maybe so.

1009
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,480
Maybe he was like, I've done this too many times now, like I need to start making sure

1010
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,600
I'm being more aware.

1011
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,600
Switching it up a little bit?

1012
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:57,600
Yeah.

1013
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:58,600
Interesting.

1014
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,600
Manuello's TV was also found in the backyard.

1015
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:07,840
Seemingly, the attackers attempt to make the scene look like a robbery gone wrong.

1016
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:08,840
Just the TV?

1017
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:09,840
Yeah.

1018
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,160
Nobody gave a shit about anything else in there?

1019
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,160
Like diamond earrings are still on there.

1020
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:14,160
Yeah.

1021
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:15,160
He just took one.

1022
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:21,480
In July 27th 1981, 35 year old Sherry Domingo and 27 year old Gregory Sanchez became the

1023
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,920
original Night Stalker's 10th and 11th victims.

1024
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:29,480
The two were hanging out at Sherry's home on Taltic Way in Goleta, only four blocks

1025
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,520
down from the murders of Robert Offerman and Deborah Alexandra Manning.

1026
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,920
This guy is so ballsy, like you just not give a shit.

1027
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,480
Upon entering the home through a small bathroom window, D'Angelo did not tie Gregory up but

1028
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:47,920
instead shot him in the cheek, wounding him badly before beating him to death with a garden

1029
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:48,920
tool.

1030
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:49,920
Jesus Christ.

1031
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:50,920
He's ruthless.

1032
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,880
It is thought by authorities that Gregory may have realized that the man he was dealing

1033
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:00,160
with was responsible for the previous two murders down the block and he tried to tackle

1034
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,480
D'Angelo, causing him to be injured without being tied up first.

1035
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,560
Despite the gunshot to the face, no neighbors alerted authorities about any noise during

1036
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:09,560
this time.

1037
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:10,560
Wow.

1038
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:15,160
I think I would be on high alert knowing there was just a murder down the street.

1039
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:19,440
After D'Angelo fatally wounded Gregory, he covered his face up with a pile of clothes

1040
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,080
pulled from the closet and moved on to his next target, Sherry.

1041
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:24,960
What was she doing this whole time?

1042
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,320
Oh, he tied her up.

1043
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:31,160
Sherry was tied up seemingly upon D'Angelo entering the home and was unfortunately raped

1044
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,600
and bludgeoned to death.

1045
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,440
Bruises were left on her wrists and ankles, but the restraints were not left at the crime

1046
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:38,880
scene once again.

1047
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,380
A piece of shipping twine was found near her bed and fibers from an unknown source were

1048
00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:46,280
scattered over her body.

1049
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,000
Fibers of an unknown source?

1050
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:53,160
Maybe like something off his clothing or maybe like a piece of something he used to write

1051
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,440
like tie her hands up or something?

1052
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:56,600
Sure, yeah.

1053
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,640
After investigating the scene and based on evidence found, authorities believe that the

1054
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:05,200
perpetrator may have worked as a painter or in a similar job at the Cal Real Shopping

1055
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:06,200
Center.

1056
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,200
Why?

1057
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,200
I'm not sure.

1058
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,000
The evidence was found.

1059
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,280
After some evidence, it must have been those fibers.

1060
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:13,280
Nothing panned out.

1061
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,880
Oh, I see.

1062
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:19,600
September of the same year, 1981, D'Angelo's first daughter was born.

1063
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:20,600
What?

1064
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,720
He's still with Sharon.

1065
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:23,720
The fuck, Sharon?

1066
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:25,240
Well, she doesn't know.

1067
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:30,520
In 1982, a previous victim of D'Angelo's received a call at her place of work, a Denny's

1068
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,000
restaurant.

1069
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,240
During this call, the rapist threatened to rape her again.

1070
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:40,880
Experts believed that D'Angelo happened to be a patron at their restaurant and recognized

1071
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,280
her giving way for him to find out where she worked.

1072
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:48,120
Could you imagine like this fucker knows who you are?

1073
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,120
Yeah.

1074
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:50,360
And you don't recognize him?

1075
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:51,560
Yeah.

1076
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,160
Because probably psychologically, you've tried to block it out.

1077
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:55,160
Exactly.

1078
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,160
Or he had like a mask on or something.

1079
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:00,680
And then could you imagine the amount of damage he did by calling her?

1080
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:01,680
Yeah.

1081
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,160
And just hearing his voice like totally petrified her.

1082
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,040
That's fucking disgusting.

1083
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,040
This guy's evil.

1084
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,040
Yeah, he is.

1085
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,400
Like, no, he's one of the worst, in my opinion.

1086
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:18,960
On May 4th, 1986, 18-year-old Janelle Lisa Cruz was found after she was raped and bludgeoned

1087
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,800
to death in her home in Irvine.

1088
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,840
At the time of the attack, her family was on vacation in Mexico, and when they arrived

1089
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,640
home, they found the horrible scene.

1090
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,200
That is, oh my god.

1091
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,200
I know.

1092
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,200
This fucking guy.

1093
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,080
The missing pipe wrench reported missing by Janelle's stepfather was thought to be the

1094
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,520
murder weapon.

1095
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,160
During the time of these multiple murders, police could not seem to agree on who they

1096
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:44,880
thought was the perpetrator, or even if the murders were committed by the same person.

1097
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,040
In 1991, a previous victim received a phone call from the perpetrator and spoke with him

1098
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:50,520
for one minute.

1099
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:56,680
She could hear a woman and children in the background, leading to speculation that Joseph

1100
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,480
James D'Angelo had a family.

1101
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,400
Her Sharon, I just mentioned her.

1102
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,560
The two were still married at this point.

1103
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:11,120
They had married in 1973, and Sharon actually became a divorce attorney in 82.

1104
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:16,080
D'Angelo managed to keep his private life a secret from his entire family, having their

1105
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:22,760
second daughter in November of 1986 and his third in May of 1989, until him and Sharon

1106
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,640
separated in 1991.

1107
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:29,880
But it wasn't because of his actions, and it wouldn't be until many years later that

1108
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,360
the divorce was actually filed by Sharon.

1109
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:38,040
It wasn't clear why the two separated, but the phone calls to previous victims also ended

1110
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,280
around the same time that they split up.

1111
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,320
But she didn't leave him because she found anything out, seemingly.

1112
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,520
I find that interesting that she's a divorce attorney.

1113
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,480
And I guess maybe it's just because she sees so many relationships that are decimated,

1114
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:58,880
that maybe it made her appreciate what she has at home, maybe, or something, and try

1115
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,920
to put up with more bullshit.

1116
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:06,560
During this time as well, I told you that D'Angelo was no longer working in law enforcement,

1117
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:11,360
and instead he had gotten a job working as a truck mechanic for Savemarket Supermarket

1118
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,760
Distribution Center in Roseville.

1119
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,200
Maybe that's where the evidence for the...

1120
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,120
It's kind of a similar gig to your painting.

1121
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:26,760
There's actually a huge gap in his reported life between 1990 and 2017, although he was

1122
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,400
arrested once in 1996 for failing to pay for gas.

1123
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:31,640
The charge was dismissed.

1124
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,040
He wasn't doing anything?

1125
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,840
He wasn't raping or murdering or rummaging or...

1126
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,600
Not that we know of.

1127
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:39,600
What the fuck?

1128
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:40,600
Prowling?

1129
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:41,600
Pantyprowling?

1130
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,880
D'Angelo's brother-in-law later claimed that D'Angelo would casually bring up the East

1131
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,000
Area Rapist in conversation around the time of the original crimes.

1132
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,000
Remember that?

1133
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,000
This was crazy.

1134
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,000
What a crazy time.

1135
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,280
Does anyone want to talk about that East Area Rapist that's at large?

1136
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:56,280
Remember that guy?

1137
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,080
No, he was talking about it during the time it was happening.

1138
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,120
He's like, come to think of it, he was mentioning the East Area Rapist a lot when the East

1139
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,120
Area Rapist was that large.

1140
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,000
Come to think of it.

1141
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,240
Neighbors also reported that he would frequently engage in loud, profane outbursts that they

1142
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:13,960
could hear.

1143
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:17,600
One neighbor reported that his family received a phone message from D'Angelo threatening

1144
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:23,760
to, quote, deliver a load of death because of their barking dog.

1145
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,960
Sounds like son of a...

1146
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,480
Deliver a load of death.

1147
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:32,800
I'm gonna deliver a load of death.

1148
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:38,200
Between 1996 and 2001, before officially connecting the original Night Stalker to the East Area

1149
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:43,800
Rapist, some law enforcement officials sought to link the Goleta cases as well.

1150
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,840
The links were primarily due to similar MOs and police were beginning to put the pieces

1151
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,960
of the puzzle together.

1152
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:55,200
On April 6th, 2001, the day after an article in the Sacramento Bee linked the original

1153
00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:00,800
Night Stalker and East Area Rapist, a victim of the rapist received a call from D'Angelo.

1154
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,960
He asked, quote, remember when we played?

1155
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,560
Go fucking roast, right?

1156
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,480
Like that's vile.

1157
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,920
Oh my god, that is disgusting.

1158
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,840
Although the links of these crimes were made in the early 2000s, D'Angelo was able to

1159
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:26,280
lay low for many more years without being known to commit them.

1160
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,640
Though his crimes were now considered cold cases, law enforcement was still actively

1161
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:35,480
looking for any clues that would link them to the identity of the killer.

1162
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:41,440
As a result of D'Angelo's unsolved crimes, California lawmakers began pushing for a centralized

1163
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:46,560
DNA database and the law passed in November of 2004.

1164
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,360
Using the new information and technology to their advantage, police kept working the

1165
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:58,160
case and by January 2007, all of the original Night Stalker murders and 55 sexual assaults

1166
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:07,360
from the East Area Rapist had been definitively linked to the same attacker.

1167
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:12,640
In addition, one month later in February, a retired detective linked the Visalia Rand

1168
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,520
Sacker cases to these crimes.

1169
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:20,760
Now with the original Night Stalker, the East Area Rapist and the Visalia Rand Sacker crimes

1170
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:27,000
all linked together, some saw the need to create a new name for this one perpetrator.

1171
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:33,600
And in 2011, true crime writer Michelle McNamara coined the most infamous name for this attacker,

1172
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,480
the Golden State Killer.

1173
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:41,040
Between 2013 and 2017, partially thanks to the release of this new nickname of the perpetrator,

1174
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:45,760
investigations by multiple law enforcement agencies ramped up yet again.

1175
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:51,800
On June 15, 2016, 40 years after the first known assault by the Golden State Killer,

1176
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:57,960
the FBI added an additional $50,000 reward for any information leading them to the killer

1177
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:02,520
and adding new composite sketches and crime details as well.

1178
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:08,400
Eventually, quote, through the use of genetic genealogy searching on GED match, investigators

1179
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:14,440
identified distant relatives of D'Angelo, including family members related directly

1180
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:30,800
to his great-great-great-great-grandfather dating back to the 1800s.

1181
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:36,400
Based on this information, investigators were able to build about 25 different family trees,

1182
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:43,480
and the one that led to D'Angelo specifically contained about 1,000 people.

1183
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:47,600
They literally had his entire life, like his entire ancestry laid out, and they just had

1184
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,720
to narrow it down to who it was.

1185
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:56,200
Over the course of the next few months, investigators used other clues like age, sex, and place

1186
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:02,120
of residence to rule out suspects populating these trees, eliminating them one by one until

1187
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,040
only D'Angelo remained.

1188
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,040
This is in 2004?

1189
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:08,040
This is in 2017.

1190
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,040
2017?

1191
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,040
Yes.

1192
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:11,040
Like yesterday?

1193
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,040
Yes.

1194
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,160
For fuck's sake.

1195
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:19,760
The idea of using this investigative genetic genealogy came from cold case investigator

1196
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:27,520
Paul Holes, who even used a still-sealed sexual assault kit from 1980 to begin his search.

1197
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:34,880
On April 18, 2018, a DNA sample was collected from the door handle of D'Angelo's car.

1198
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:40,080
The sample was a match to samples associated with Golden State Killer crimes.

1199
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,840
During this time, investigators also looked at multiple other suspects for the crimes they

1200
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,120
had been researching all the while.

1201
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,000
Brett Glassby from Galletto was considered to be a suspect by the Santa Barbara County

1202
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:55,360
investigators, however they found out that he himself was murdered in Mexico in 1982,

1203
00:57:55,360 --> 00:58:00,040
before the murder of Janelle Cruz, eliminating him as a suspect.

1204
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:04,400
Paul Kornfed Schneider, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood.

1205
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:05,400
There it is.

1206
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:11,240
Was living in Orange County when the Harrington's, Manuela Woodham and Janelle Cruz were killed.

1207
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,680
However, a DNA test cleared him in the 90s.

1208
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,760
Lastly, Joe Alsip was a friend and business partner of the victim Lyman Smith and allegedly

1209
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:22,800
confessed something to his pastor during a family counseling session.

1210
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:27,760
Alsip was arraigned for the Smith murders in 1982, but the charges were later dropped

1211
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,760
and his innocence was confirmed by DNA testing in 97.

1212
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:31,760
That's good.

1213
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:32,760
I hope he was a good person.

1214
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:33,760
Yeah.

1215
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,360
After the death of Angelo goes, the evidence was compelling.

1216
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,280
He grew up in Rancho Cordova.

1217
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:44,120
He lived and worked near Vysalia as a police officer during the Vysalia ransackers spree.

1218
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:48,080
He transferred to Auburn at the same time the East Area Rapist spree began.

1219
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,640
And following his termination from the police department, he briefly lived in Southern California

1220
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,600
at the start of the original Night Stalker killings.

1221
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:10,520
On March 18th, 2018, the Sacramento Sheriff's Department began railing the, railing him.

1222
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:15,480
The Sacramento Sheriff's Department began tailing D'Angelo, now 72 years old.

1223
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,080
Oh my gosh.

1224
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,720
They noticed that he had a particularly active lifestyle.

1225
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:24,600
Yard work, fishing, motorcycle riding, etc.

1226
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,600
He's upgraded from bicycles.

1227
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:37,400
On April 23rd, 2018, the Sacramento PD used an empty garbage truck to collect D'Angelo's

1228
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:42,560
trash with the goal of extracting his DNA from a discarded piece of trash.

1229
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:49,480
And later that day, rapid DNA testing definitively linked D'Angelo to several East Area Rapist

1230
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,960
and original Night Stalker crimes.

1231
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:59,120
The next day on April 24th, 2018, Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies arrested D'Angelo

1232
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:04,560
and subsequently charged him with eight counts of first degree murder with special circumstances.

1233
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:05,560
Because of his age?

1234
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:08,200
Well, I didn't know what that meant either, so I had to look it up.

1235
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,160
But pretty much means that they have the right to try him with harsher punishment due to

1236
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,280
the nature of the crimes.

1237
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:18,080
So I thought it might have been an age thing, but apparently it's like, you know, some things

1238
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:19,080
can be ruled out.

1239
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:20,600
Like there has to be like a maximum sentence.

1240
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,040
I think that they kind of like vetoed that in this case.

1241
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,360
Yeah, they were just like, fuck this guy.

1242
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,800
D'Angelo was living with one of his daughters, his eldest daughter, and her daughter, his

1243
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:31,520
grandchild at the time of his arrest.

1244
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,080
What the fuck?

1245
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:37,120
Several months after his arrest, Sharon Marie Huddle filed for divorce from Joseph James

1246
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:38,240
D'Angelo.

1247
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:43,720
After he was in his 70s, after he was caught, then she filed for divorce?

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01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,080
She didn't know until he was caught that he was...

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01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,520
Well they weren't together, I guess, but still.

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01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:53,760
On May 10th, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office charged D'Angelo with

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01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,520
four additional counts of first degree murder.

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01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:03,240
Although D'Angelo was seen being very active in the entire month he was being tailed, as

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01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:10,200
soon as he entered the police station, he began this persona of a feeble old man, seemingly

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01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:14,440
with dementia, an act he would keep up throughout his entire trial.

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01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:16,160
So he's like in a wheelchair?

1256
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,160
He's all decrepit now.

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01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:22,040
He's got the IV and the oxygen tank and the...

1258
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:23,280
They did that with Durst too.

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01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,760
Durst was like, oh he's just this old man.

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01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:33,240
When he was being interviewed for that HBO special, The Jinx, he seemed fine and he seemed

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01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:38,600
healthy and he seemed radiant even at certain points until he started burping, which was

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01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,040
really awkward.

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01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:45,480
But then after that, because he was free then, that as soon as he went to trial, he was this

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01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,920
old man who could remember anything.

1265
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,840
That's really funny that you just brought him up because of what I'm gonna say next.

1266
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:53,840
What?

1267
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:59,080
At one point, while alone in an interrogation room, D'Angelo was overheard talking to himself.

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01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:00,080
Oh my God.

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01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:01,480
Similarly to Robert Durst.

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01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:02,480
Oh my God.

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01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,920
He said, quote, I did all that.

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01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,540
I didn't have the strength to push him out.

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01:02:07,540 --> 01:02:08,640
He made me.

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01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,000
He went with me.

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01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,960
It was like in my head.

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01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:13,880
I mean, he's a part of me.

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01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:15,640
I didn't want to do those things.

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01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:18,160
I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life.

1279
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:19,880
I did all of those things.

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01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:24,200
I've destroyed all their lives, so now I gotta pay the price.

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01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:25,360
Who's Jerry?

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01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,920
This was the first of many times that D'Angelo claimed to have been overcome by a force or

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01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:34,240
a personality named Jerry that was the real perpetrator of the crimes.

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01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:35,240
Not me.

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01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:36,240
I just look like him.

1286
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,560
He's trying to play like he has dissociative identity disorder apparently.

1287
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:39,560
Yeah.

1288
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,520
Well, maybe Jerry's the one that can ride the bike.

1289
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:42,520
Maybe.

1290
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:43,520
Well.

1291
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:47,640
I mean, a force that just supposedly stopped having control in 1986 when he stopped killing.

1292
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:48,640
Yeah.

1293
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:49,640
That doesn't make any sense.

1294
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,280
When he probably didn't get any real psychiatric help.

1295
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:53,280
Yeah.

1296
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,040
Not that you need psychiatric help when you have a DID, I'm just saying.

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01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,040
Yeah.

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01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,480
That in his mind, because he's claiming it.

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01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:01,480
You know what I mean?

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01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,880
Seven survivors of D'Angelo's crimes assisted in his sentencing by picking him out of a

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:10,720
lineup in which all seven chose a photo of him without a doubt in their minds.

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01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:11,720
Hell yeah.

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01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:17,840
All in all, D'Angelo was charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping.

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01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:22,720
Unfortunately, he could not be charged for his sexual assaults or burglaries due to the

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01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:24,440
statute of limitations being passed.

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01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:25,440
It's fucking bullshit.

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01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:26,440
I'm sorry.

1308
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:27,440
That's such bullshit.

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01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:28,440
If you have evidence, it shouldn't matter.

1310
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:29,440
It shouldn't matter.

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01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:33,240
It's the same shit like OJ was like statute of limitations.

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01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:37,160
So for listeners that don't know what that is, a statute of limitations is the maximum

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01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:42,040
amount of time that can pass before a person can no longer be charged with that crime.

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01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:47,400
For sexual assault in 2018, I think it was 10 years unless it was committed on a child

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01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,680
and then there's no limitation.

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01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:53,600
So he was arraigned in 2018, so unfortunately he wasn't able to.

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01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,600
I think domestic violence was seven.

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01:03:56,600 --> 01:04:00,080
Well there's a lot that don't have a statute of murder, of course.

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01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,640
You can always get charged with that.

1320
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:02,840
Clearly 40 years later.

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01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,120
I missed my mark a long time ago.

1322
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:10,440
Also was arraigned in Sacramento on August 23rd, 2018.

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01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,560
In November, prosecutors from six involved counties collectively estimated that the

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01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:20,680
case could cost taxpayers $20 million in last 10 years.

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01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:25,200
About eight months later in a court proceeding on April 10th, 2019, prosecutors announced

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01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:29,480
that they would seek the death penalty and the judge ruled that cameras would be allowed

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01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,880
inside the courtroom during the trial.

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01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:38,480
Just another year went by and on March 4th, 2020, D'Angelo offered to plead guilty as

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01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,880
long as the death penalty were taken off the table.

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01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,080
What does he fucking care?

1331
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,480
I fucking hate that shit.

1332
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,560
Murderers that are terrified to die.

1333
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,680
That makes no sense in my mind.

1334
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,040
Fucking assholes.

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01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:57,040
This plea was not accepted at the time, but in June 2020, news reports stated that an

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01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:01,560
agreement had been reached for D'Angelo to be spared a death sentence in exchange for

1337
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:02,560
pleading guilty.

1338
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:04,320
I bet he used his fucking kids too.

1339
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:09,640
I bet he was like, I have children and grandchildren that I need to be alive for.

1340
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:10,640
Seriously.

1341
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:15,320
On June 29th, 2020, Joseph James D'Angelo pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first degree

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01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:20,880
murder and special circumstances, as well as 13 counts of kidnapping and other various

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01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,720
charges totaling 88 altogether.

1344
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,000
Oh shit.

1345
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:30,440
He also admitted to being the original night stalker, the East Area rapist, the Vesalia

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01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:38,280
ransacker, and the Cordova cat burglar, and the pantyprowler.

1347
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:44,280
From August 18th to August 20th, 2020, D'Angelo was confronted in court by rape survivors,

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01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,840
their relatives, and their relatives of those whom he had killed.

1349
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:52,760
If you see photos from this hearing, he's in a wheelchair, he's all decrepit and he

1350
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:54,920
has a mask on and he's all falling apart.

1351
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:56,120
He looks really fucking creepy.

1352
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,120
Like the Crip Keeper?

1353
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,120
Yeah.

1354
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:04,560
The Carson Sandler, who was raped in 1976 while home with her son, told the court, quote,

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01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,240
I was frozen in fear beyond description.

1356
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:11,960
My attention was not on the rape, but fully on where did you put my son when you removed

1357
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:13,400
him from the bed?

1358
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:16,400
Where did you put him and what were you going to do with him?

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:21,800
Jane also stated that now, decades later, scars from her attack still remain, and seeing

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01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:28,000
a ski mask or hearing someone yell, quote, shut up will forever cause her anxiety.

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01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:32,560
She ended by saying, quote, my comfort at those times is remembering that you are finally

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01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:36,120
going to prison and will remain there until you die.

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01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:40,280
D'Angelo offered a brief apology after hearing the victim's statements, which I don't think

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01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:44,720
they should be allowed to do, whatever, and responded with, quote, I've listened to all

1365
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:49,560
of your statements, each one of them, and I'm truly sorry to everyone I've hurt.

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01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:54,440
Joseph James D'Angelo, Jr. was sentenced to the maximum penalty the court could impose,

1367
01:06:54,440 --> 01:07:00,160
11 consecutive life sentences for murder, plus one additional life sentence for the kidnapping

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01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,920
charges, and an additional eight years for the weapons charges.

1369
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:05,520
Never going to make it.

1370
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:09,200
Yeah, you're going to be like 5,000 weeks.

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01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:13,800
In November of 2020, D'Angelo was transferred to the North Kern State Prison, and as of

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01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:19,440
February 2021, he is incarcerated in protective custody at California State Prison, Corcoran.

1373
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,600
So he's still alive.

1374
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:25,600
The last thing I can find is from early last year, but he's still kicking.

1375
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:29,880
That's crazy to me that he's under protective custody, but if you think about how long he

1376
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:34,560
operated, for how long he operated and how many people he affected, there's got to be

1377
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:38,080
at least one or two people in there that know somebody that was affected by him.

1378
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:43,880
Well, yeah, and also maybe they're thinking if they can keep him at all times, maybe he'll

1379
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,600
confess to more things and they can close more cases.

1380
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,300
That's true.

1381
01:07:48,300 --> 01:07:53,760
For his family and the people around him, nobody really knew the monster inside of him.

1382
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:57,840
His eldest daughter came out years later and stated that he was the perfect father and

1383
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,440
she loved him for who he was at home.

1384
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:04,440
His wife, Sharon, stated that she simply believed his reasons for being out of the house so

1385
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,720
often and she never thought anything was amiss about his lifestyle.

1386
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,040
That's so scary.

1387
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:12,880
Thinking that the person that you've shared a home with was like one.

1388
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,320
They're like a total chameleon.

1389
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,880
Stories of his, however, thought differently about the husband and father.

1390
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:22,640
One of his close neighbors, Corey Harvey, confirmed that D'Angelo was living with his

1391
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:26,680
daughter and granddaughter, but was shocked at the arrest stating that she simply knew

1392
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:31,480
D'Angelo as, quote, Joe, the old man who said retirement was a great opportunity to

1393
01:08:31,480 --> 01:08:33,160
go fishing.

1394
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:38,360
She also said that Joe was an avid bike rider and that he was a normal man, quote, except

1395
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:40,240
for that quirkiness of getting mad.

1396
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:42,360
So he still had a temper in his 70s.

1397
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:43,480
It's a quirk.

1398
01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:45,120
Getting mad mad is a quirk.

1399
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:48,240
Other neighbors saw this angry side of him more often than not.

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01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:53,000
Natalia Bades-Correnti, a neighbor that lived a few doors down, stated, quote, we used to

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01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,000
just call him freak.

1402
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,600
Which kind of fucked up, but he is still.

1403
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:02,040
She continued, quote, he used to have these temper tantrums, not at anybody, just his

1404
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:03,040
self frustration.

1405
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,240
Like he would just yell at himself, I guess.

1406
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,240
Well, I mean, he has a habit of talking to himself.

1407
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,480
So that kind of makes sense.

1408
01:09:09,480 --> 01:09:11,480
A third neighbor.

1409
01:09:11,480 --> 01:09:18,560
This is how long we've been talking about this goddamn case.

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01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:23,680
Eddie Vernon said that he once saw D'Angelo prowling on his property, stating about him,

1411
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:27,000
quote, I had the creeps about this guy for a long time.

1412
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,880
I think everybody likes to say that, though.

1413
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:29,880
Oh, I hope so.

1414
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:31,680
I knew the whole time.

1415
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:32,680
Yeah.

1416
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,080
It's like, bitch, why didn't you do anything, though?

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01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:39,600
Michelle McNamara wrote online and for the Los Angeles magazine about the Golden State

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01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:43,600
Killer, if you don't remember, she was the one that dubbed the nickname, and she suggested

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01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:48,520
that he would ultimately be caught due to the DNA advancements that we have.

1420
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:52,720
Her writings also brought attention to more unsolved crimes, and she made her investigative

1421
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:57,280
journey very public by announcing the writing of a book entitled, quote, I'll be gone in

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01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:58,280
the dark.

1423
01:09:58,280 --> 01:09:59,280
I actually own that book.

1424
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,120
If you want to read it.

1425
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:07,640
Unfortunately, McNamara suffered a fatal overdose in 2016 before she was able to identify

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01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,920
the Golden State Killer.

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01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:13,840
After she passed, her husband, Patton Oswald, I'm not sure if anyone else knows, I know

1428
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:18,920
you know, Patton Oswald oversaw the completion of her book and it became a bestseller after

1429
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:22,480
it was published in February 2018.

1430
01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:23,480
That's like really sweet.

1431
01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:24,480
That is really sweet.

1432
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:27,360
It took her story and clearly loved her a lot.

1433
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:31,080
You can see that in like every interview.

1434
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:35,000
When it comes to Joseph James D'Angelo Jr., there are many different thoughts about the

1435
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,880
state of his mental health.

1436
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:41,000
Some people think that he's a sociopath, a psychopath, that he has antisocial personality

1437
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,920
disorder or even borderline personality disorder.

1438
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:47,960
But the truth is he was never officially diagnosed with anything.

1439
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:52,960
Probably because of a lack of caring on his, you know, parents part.

1440
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:57,480
There are other things that counteract the idea that D'Angelo was a psychopath or sociopath,

1441
01:10:57,480 --> 01:10:58,480
his remorse.

1442
01:10:58,480 --> 01:11:03,120
Now, he didn't seem very remorseful in the court, but look at this.

1443
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:08,160
Being in mid-1977, the survivors of his heinous crimes came forward with information about

1444
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:09,520
their attacker.

1445
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:13,720
They would say that he was overheard crying and muttering things to himself after he would

1446
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:19,240
attack them, saying things like, quote, mommy, I don't want to do this.

1447
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:23,480
There's also a reported call that he made in 1978 again to the counseling service where

1448
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:25,920
he asked for help.

1449
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,880
Another clue to his true sense of self is the fact that he had a family, which is not

1450
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,560
surprising in itself since others have had families.

1451
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:35,440
However, they were completely adamant that he was not only a good husband and father,

1452
01:11:35,440 --> 01:11:37,120
but a great one.

1453
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:41,520
In fact, again, his eldest daughter advocated for him writing a five-page letter to the

1454
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:46,400
court after his arrest, suggesting that he was absolutely not responsible for these crimes

1455
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,960
and he was an amazing person.

1456
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:53,600
So my point is that psychopaths and sociopaths can fake a lot of emotions, but it's hard

1457
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,840
to fake these ones that we've seen in these examples.

1458
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,480
That is really interesting about the...

1459
01:11:59,480 --> 01:12:03,240
I mean, first of all, the Norman Bates shit, like, mommy, I don't want to do this, like,

1460
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:04,240
kind of shit.

1461
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:12,160
But it does show, I guess, some type of a level of the fact that he was connected to

1462
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:16,560
that, even if it was his childhood, like he broke into his childhood home, clearly he's

1463
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:24,720
able to remain in a space where he's connecting with that inner child or something that he's

1464
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:27,280
mourning or something, you know what I mean?

1465
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:28,840
So he's connected to something.

1466
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:32,280
He clearly cares about something enough to do that, right?

1467
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:37,320
And then to be a good father, I mean, how...

1468
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:42,160
What a fucking identity crisis his daughter must be going through to try to connect this.

1469
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:48,240
Does she still think he's innocent or does she now finally accept that he's the one?

1470
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:52,440
And what made him just buckle down and not do anything?

1471
01:12:52,440 --> 01:12:56,080
Because clearly he was living, I guess, separated from his wife, which meant that he probably

1472
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,120
had his daughter some of the time.

1473
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:02,440
But is it that because his daughter had gotten older, he didn't want them to get suspicious?

1474
01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:03,440
Well, I don't know.

1475
01:13:03,440 --> 01:13:04,440
So then he kind of stopped?

1476
01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:07,280
He had also gotten away with it for so long and he did so many crimes.

1477
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,080
Maybe he was like, shit, I might as well quit while I'm ahead and just fucking live out

1478
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:16,120
my retirement and not potentially get caught and put in jail.

1479
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:20,360
He just wasn't expecting DNAs to come in the way.

1480
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:21,360
That's true.

1481
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:23,840
Yeah, and for it to be so easily accessible to people.

1482
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:24,840
Yeah, exactly.

1483
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:25,840
That's crazy.

1484
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:26,840
That's it.

1485
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:27,840
What a good case.

1486
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:32,080
It took me a long time to research that, but it was a really good...

1487
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:33,080
It needed to be done.

1488
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:34,080
It definitely did.

1489
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,800
And I mean, I've heard this story for the first time, like a full podcast episode about

1490
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,240
it, the first time in 2018.

1491
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,920
I think they did it because he had gotten caught.

1492
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:47,680
And so, yeah, it was a really good episode.

1493
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:49,240
I definitely remember hearing about it.

1494
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:53,680
I just didn't realize it had been so long that he had not committed any crimes.

1495
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,040
Yeah, that's wild, right?

1496
01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,160
Yeah, thank you guys for hanging out with us.

1497
01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:00,920
We're gonna get this out pretty quick and we're gonna really buckle down.

1498
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:02,600
We've been talking about just going for it.

1499
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,600
I got the itch all over again.

1500
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:05,600
We have a bunch of...

1501
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:10,160
I have a bunch of unexpected free time, so I'm gonna be using that to get out some content.

1502
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:11,720
We're still looking for sponsors, of course.

1503
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:13,760
Donate to the Patreon if you'd like.

1504
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:14,760
Share us.

1505
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,360
Please tell everybody that you know about us.

1506
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:20,280
We're not gonna ever not want more listeners.

1507
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,280
But yeah, that's all I had.

1508
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:23,280
All right.

1509
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:24,280
Okay, well, that sounds good.

1510
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:25,280
Love you.

1511
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:26,280
Love you.

1512
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:27,280
Bye.

1513
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:56,280
Bye.