California authorities have released jailhouse footage showing the Golden State Killer exercising and moving freely in his cell — while appearing in court as a “feeble old man.” The newly-released videos from June and July show Joseph DeAngelo, 74, climbing on furniture, exercising in front of a mirror, and effortlessly bending down to put on …
Serial killer Joseph DeAngelo, otherwise known as the Golden State Killer, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a California judge decided Friday. DeAngelo, a former California police officer, pleaded guilty last year to raping over 50 women and killing 13 people. As part of a plea deal, DeAngelo admitted to additional crimes …
The former police officer who confessed to dozens of violent crimes committed by a serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer is in court on Tuesday as victims and family members of victims confront Joseph DeAngelo before he is sentenced to life in prison on Friday. As NBC San Diego reports,DeAngelo pleaded …
A former California police officer who terrorized the state as a serial rapist and murderer pleaded guilty Monday to 13 murders and admitted to more than 80 rapes over a 12 year period, bringing an end to the decades long search for the man known as the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, now …
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that the man suspected of being California’s Golden State Killer was absolved of any involvement in the 1975 murder of a 14-year-old girl through the use of DNA evidence. Per the Fresno Bee, Donna Jo Richmond, 14, vanished on December 26, 1975, while riding a bike near her home. Her body was found …
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors added another murder charge Monday against a California serial killing suspect, boosting the number of victims to 13 in the Golden State Killer case. Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Claude Snelling, who was shot while …
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 …
The man who California authorities recently linked to the infamous unsolved Golden State Killer case was charged with an additional 4 counts of murder Thursday for a total of 12. According to the Los Angeles Times, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 72, is alleged to have killed Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez on Oct. 27, 1981, …
With the arrest of Joseph DeAngelo, who allegedly murdered at least a dozen people and rape more than 50 women between 1976 and 1986, the survivors and the families of the dead are telling their stories. Four of them talked to Nancy Grace for a special Crime Stories live event at CrimeCon this week. Jane …
After DNA testing helped capture the alleged Golden State Killer, authorities are hoping it will lead to the elusive Zodiac Killer, who remains unidentified after killing at least five people decades ago. “It is possible,” former San Francisco homicide detective Pam Hofsass told The Sacramento Bee. “It’s totally worth looking at, and I hope with all …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The former policeman accused of being the Golden State Killer headed back to court Thursday to fight prosecutors’ efforts to collect more of his DNA. Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was scheduled to appear in a Sacramento courtroom connected to the county jail where he’s being held. His public defender, Diane Howard, has …
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The genealogy website used to find the man accused of being California’s Golden State Killer had no idea its database was tapped in pursuit of a suspect who eluded law enforcement for four decades, the site’s co-founder said Friday. The revelation came as …
