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| Sketch Of The Golden State Killer By FBI |
Joseph James DeAngelo, believed to be the notorious “East Area Rapist,” or “Golden State Killer,” was arrested early Wednesday morning in the Sacramento area. His arrest comes more than 30 years after allegedly killing at least 12 people and raping 51 victims from 1976 to 1986. The long-hunted serial killer was also known as “the Original Night Stalker.”
Joseph James DeAngelo, was arrested on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked on two counts of murder.
DeAngelo is a former Auburn, California police officer.
He is being charged with two counts of first-degree murder with three special circumstances. Those circumstances are: multiple murders; murder during the commission of a rape; and murder during the commission of a robbery. Just the beginning.
The victims are Lyman Smith, 43, and Charlene Smith, 33. They were killed in Ventura County on March 13, 1980.
Investigators are saying that the two murder charges (so far) are linked to a number of previously unsolved killings, rapes, and home robberies committed in the 1970s and 1980s that many attribute to a single perpetrator, the Golden State Killer. Now they believe DeAngelo is that killer.
DeAngelo was actually fingered as the main suspect in the Golden State Killer case by Michelle McNamara, comedian Patton Oswald’s late wife, in her book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. She worked with investigators on the Golden State Killer mystery, but died before the book was published.
Police were seen outside DeAngelo’s home Wednesday, in a part of Sacramento called Citrus Heights.
The task force on the Golden State Killer case stated that DNA led to the arrest of DeAngelo.
It seems clear they have further evidence and more charges will likely be announced in the days and months to come.
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