The ex-wife of accused Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo spoke publicly for the first time this week, the New York Daily News reports. Sharon Huddle, DeAngelo’s former wife, expressed sympathy for the victims in the case. “My thoughts and prayers are for the victims and their families,” Huddle said in a brief statement released by …
DNA from a tissue left in a trash can led authorities to arrest a former California police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer, according to warrants released Friday. The documents detail the case pieced together by Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators to arrest 72-year-old Joseph DeAngelo. He is suspected of committing at least a …
Unsettling new information has been released about Joseph DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer, who has been linked to at least 12 murders and dozens of rapes decades ago in California. The New York Daily News reports that Paul Holes, the investigator who initially cracked the case and tied DeAngelo to the crimes, revealed a …
A convicted serial killer who hates women was found guilty Wednesday of murdering five women in the late 80’s and early 90’s across Southern California. 53-year-old Andrew Urdiales, an ex-Marine, was previously convicted of killing three women in Illinois in 2002 and 2004, reports ABC 10 News. The killer’s Wednesday conviction in the slayings of …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators hunting down the so-called Golden State Killer used information from genetic websites last year that led to the wrong man, court records obtained Friday by The Associated Press showed. An Oregon police officer working at the request of California investigators persuaded a judge in March 2017 to order a 73-year-old …
Authorities in Sacramento have released further details about the arrest of the suspected Golden State Killer, who was taken into custody overnight in the first major break in the decades-old case. Representatives from the Sacramento sheriff department and the District Attorney’s office held a press conference Wednesday afternoon that continued for over an hour while …
Police have reportedly arrested a man they believe may be the elusive Golden State Killer or East Area Rapist, who has evaded authorities for four decades. As CrimeOnline previously reported, jail records show that Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was taken into custody overnight, and booked into the early hours of Wednesday morning. DeAngelo is a former …
Authorities have arrested a 72-year-old man in California who is suspected to be the elusive Golden State Killer. The Daily Beast reports that Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested Tuesday night. Billy Jensen, who helped complete Michelle McNamara’s posthumously published book on the case, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, reportedly told the Daily Beast the …
Investigators may have made a break in the Golden State Killer case, with sources reporting a possible arrest. According to Fox40, sources with knowledge of the investigation have confirmed a major break in the cold case, and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department may have made an arrest. The Golden State Killer, also known as the …
Bruce McArthur, the Canadian landscaper tied to at least six slayings dating back to 2010, was charged with his seventh murder on Wednesday. CBC News reports that McArthur, 66, was officially charged with the murder of Abdulbasir Faizi. Faizi was 44 when he disappeared in 2010. The man’s nephew said Faizi visited Toronto’s Gay Village but …
A man who disappeared in 2013 during a trip to Toronto could be alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur’s eighth victim. So far, McArthur, 66, is facing six murder charges for slayings dating back to 2010. However, last month, Toronto police asked for the public’s help in identifying a John Doe they believe the landscaper also killed, …
An attorney for the Suffolk County Police Department said in court on Monday that the department does not have any transcripts of the 23-minute 911 call Shannan Gilbert made the morning she vanished, the last time she was ever seen alive. In December 2010, detectives searching for Gilbert first discovered the remains of suspected victims …
