True Crime Vault: The Monster Among Us

Speaker 1 I'm John Quiñones. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier, vanishes while on duty at an Army base in Texas.
Her family demands answers.

Speaker 2 How can she go missing on a military base?

Speaker 3 That's too ridiculous.

Speaker 6 The search goes on for months.

Speaker 8 Where is Vanessa?

Speaker 10 And a dark story starts to unfold.

Speaker 11 She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.

Speaker 1 What investigators finally uncover is horrifying. Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked a reckoning in the U.S.
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Speaker 12 Welcome back to the 2020 True Crime Vault.

Speaker 15 Joseph D'Angelo was in the Navy.

Speaker 16 He was a police officer.

Speaker 15 He was married.

Speaker 17 He was like a Hannibal Lecter.

Speaker 12 Highly intelligent, highly sadistic, master manipulator.

Speaker 19 His first rape attack that we know of, he was 30 years old.

Speaker 22 This was a man who was clearly living a double life.

Speaker 23 A man in a leather hood entered the window of a house in Citrus Heights and sneaked up on a 16-year-old girl watching television alone in the den.

Speaker 23 He pointed a knife at her and issued a chilling warning. Make one move and you'll be silent forever.
And I'll be gone in the dark.

Speaker 15 Crime after crime, it was that same terrifying MO.

Speaker 24 I saw a flashlight shining down the hall and I thought, no, that's odd.

Speaker 26 The leather gloves are really, really remembered because they made kind of a sound, you know, when they moved.

Speaker 12 He started ripping sheets or towels, I'm not sure.

Speaker 24 But it was very methodical and it was very slow.

Speaker 30 It was a time when a vast area was terrified of one

Speaker 32 being.

Speaker 15 This was a criminal who went by many different names.

Speaker 11 He was known as the East Airy Rapist in Sacramento County, the original night stalker in Orange County.

Speaker 34 A 29-year-old wife was raped while her tied-up husband had to listen.

Speaker 20 A 17-year-old girl was attacked here.

Speaker 37 He would put his knees on the victim's chest.

Speaker 38 And he had a gun in one hand, a flashlight in the other.

Speaker 11 Peepings, prowlings, stalking. Over 100 burglaries.

Speaker 26 Police think he checks the home out before he thrived.

Speaker 4 He put plates on the man's back, and he told the man, if I hear these rattle, I will kill your wife.

Speaker 11 At least 13 homicides.

Speaker 43 This is a sustained campaign of cruelty and viciousness that lasted for decades.

Speaker 45 Welcome to Crime Scene, a podcast that examines real-life crimes. I'm Michelle McNamara of TrueCrimediary.com.

Speaker 46 Michelle McNamara was a true crime blogger.

Speaker 48 She was a writer and producer. She was a citizen detective and a true crime writer.

Speaker 46 Very much being a mom during the day, very much writing about true crime at night. She was working on all different types of unsolved cases.
Then she found a case that really dug its claws into her.

Speaker 45 What turned him on was terror. The East Area rapist Original Night Stalker is California's most prolific serial offender.

Speaker 45 He murdered more people than the Zodiac killer, but has little name recognition. Partly that's because he moved between communities and his crimes spanned 10 years.

Speaker 50 Everything about it is a mystery

Speaker 52 and it has such a boogeyman aspect to it.

Speaker 46 Michelle used to talk about this case and the thing that boggled her mind is that people didn't know about it. This was one of the most horrific serial killers in history and nobody talked about him.

Speaker 33 It's summer, 1976. It was the bicentennial.

Speaker 13 It's all about happy days.

Speaker 7 Happy days.

Speaker 24 Laverne and Shirley.

Speaker 7 Haas and Bamp Incorporated.

Speaker 38 In those days, the middle class in America was thriving.

Speaker 46 We felt safe, but the crime rates were going up.

Speaker 53 Suburban Sacramento was considered a safe place in the mid-70s.

Speaker 33 You could ride your bike all over town.

Speaker 17 My parents would just tell us be home before dark.

Speaker 58 People didn't lock their doors, they left their windows open, especially people close to the river. We'd get the delta breeze.

Speaker 21 Everything changed in the summer of 1976.

Speaker 42 An attack occurred in Rancho, Cordova.

Speaker 59 A young lady woke up and there's a guy standing in the doorway and he blindfolded her, tied her up, and then sexually assaults her.

Speaker 42 This is the first known sexual assault attributed to the man we know as the East Area Rapist.

Speaker 37 Nobody knew about the first attack except the police.

Speaker 60 The first attack, the second, the third, the fourth.

Speaker 19 When this first started in Sacramento, a lot of the people didn't know what was going on. They didn't put it in the paper at the time.

Speaker 48 The press had not yet covered it because Sacramento County Sheriff's Department asked them not to.

Speaker 19 There was a reason for that, that if you put it in there, the suspect's going to know that you're looking for them.

Speaker 57 At the time the rape started happening in Sacramento, Sacramento Sheriff's Department didn't have a specialized sexual assault unit, just whoever had a free caseload, you know, that could take on another case.

Speaker 57 And so I did not become involved with these cases until rape number five when it was Jane Carson.

Speaker 24 I was 30 years old. I was married with a three-year-old son.
My husband was stationed at McClellan Air Force Base.

Speaker 12 Jane was a nurse. She was a colonel in the Air Force Reserve.

Speaker 24 It was about 6.30 in the morning. My three-year-old son hopped in bed with me for a snuggle.
I heard the garage door close and I knew my husband had just left for work.

Speaker 24 I saw a flashlight shining down the hall and I thought, now that's odd and I screamed out to my husband, what have you forgotten? And there was no answer.

Speaker 27 Then the rapist all dressed in ski mask and dark clothes shining a flashlight at her.

Speaker 24 He told us with clenched teeth, shut up or I'll kill you.

Speaker 12 He tells her to turn over and he's going to tie her up.

Speaker 39 He gags us, both of us.

Speaker 24 He blindfolds us.

Speaker 11 And he ties us up with shoelaces, very tight.

Speaker 24 His next move was to move my son.

Speaker 67 I was already scared to death, but this is where the fear really took place.

Speaker 46 All she's thinking about is the life of her little boy and saving him.

Speaker 24 After the rape was over,

Speaker 24 praise the Lord, he moved my son back next to me. I could feel his body, and then I was relieved.
So we hobbled around to the front fence, screamed for a neighbor, she called the police.

Speaker 12 And then Carol Daly, the female detective, showed up.

Speaker 24 And I call her my angel.

Speaker 38 One of my great heroes of this story is Carol Daly.

Speaker 38 She was an investigator for the Sheriff's Department in Sacramento. She was asked to go out and interview the victims.

Speaker 70 Maybe something that the man said or something that he did to you or something that you recall hearing.

Speaker 10 Through that process, she was able to glean a lot of information, like what he would would say to his victims, and sometimes he would call out a name.

Speaker 19 In one of the cases,

Speaker 19 the victim said that she heard him crying and saying, Bonnie.

Speaker 49 For years, detectives didn't know what to make of this name.

Speaker 40 Who's Bonnie?

Speaker 21 Bonnie was not a victim, but a mystery woman.

Speaker 73 At the center of the case.

Speaker 46 Bonnie was the girlfriend and then fiancé

Speaker 46 of Joseph D'Angelo.

Speaker 48 One of the first women to get a real glimpse of the psychopathy behind Joe DiAngelo was Bonnie Caldwell.

Speaker 74 She's 18, really smart, going to a community college studying nursing. And she's in the middle of the quad, and this older guy ambles up to her and begins a conversation.

Speaker 53 Bonnie talked about her relationship with Joe D'Angelo in the HBO docu series All Be Gone in the Dark.

Speaker 17 He was very gregarious, outgoing to all my friends.

Speaker 76 We'd been together close to a year.

Speaker 17 He gave me a high solitaire engagement ring.

Speaker 46 And he told me that we're going to be married.

Speaker 48 They were both students at the time. He was studying criminal justice.
So Joe was someone who initially was impressive to Bonnie. He was exciting.
He had a motorcycle. He taught her to shoot.

Speaker 48 But the longer she dated him, the more trouble began materializing.

Speaker 75 He takes her on thrill rides

Speaker 75 and this is where the relationship starts to show its hand with Joe.

Speaker 61 Joe without saying a word to me just turned right, went down a very steep bank that I had no idea what he was doing.

Speaker 75 He's obviously thrilled not just by the speed but he's thrilled by Bonnie's terror.

Speaker 17 The rules were never for him.

Speaker 61 So many of the things that we did together, he pushed me toward fear.

Speaker 75 As they're riding on a motorcycle, a German shepherd comes out from the side of the road and nips at the tires and Joe swings a foot out and breaks the dog's neck instantly.

Speaker 75 There's such an efficiency to his movement that stuns her.

Speaker 46 Eventually Bonnie said, I don't want to be with you anymore.

Speaker 11 She actually broke their engagement.

Speaker 11 He showed up at her house in the middle of the night. He had a gun and he told her that she had to marry him.

Speaker 61 Just inches from my face, there was the barrel of a gun pointing at me and it was Joe.

Speaker 61 What he said to me was, get your clothes on, get dressed, we're going to Reno and we're going to get married tonight.

Speaker 11 Her dad was able to break it up and send Joe on his way. I think it's a foreshadowing that he was going to use violence against people in the future.

Speaker 82 Bonnie breaks her engagement with Joe D'Angelo and within just a few years, strange crimes start happening in Rancho Cordova.

Speaker 77 He would empty female underwear drawers and perfectly line up the underwear down the hallway.

Speaker 11 It's all control and power. This is my house now.
These are my items now.

Speaker 28 He's the king of the house.

Speaker 23 Every obsession needs a room of its own. Mine was strewn with coloring paper on which I'd scribble down California penal codes in crayon.

Speaker 23 It was around midnight on July 3rd, 2012, when I opened a document I'd compiled listing all the unique items he'd stolen over the years.

Speaker 15 He would take mementos almost like they were trophies from inside the home.

Speaker 46 He would steal rings with engravings on them.

Speaker 48 He stole driver's license. He stole photos from albums.

Speaker 42 There is a fantasy component about these crimes.

Speaker 84 I still have a part of you.

Speaker 52 I have your jewelry.

Speaker 84 I have your driver's license. I have, you know, something that means something to you.
And now I own it.

Speaker 23 He was a serial rapist known as the ear, attacking women and girls. First in East Sacramento County.
This place meant something to him. He attacked here first and kept coming back.
Was it home?

Speaker 23 Some of the investigators, especially the ones who worked the case in the beginning, think so.

Speaker 12 We were always trying to figure out why victims were chosen and why the locations were chosen.

Speaker 79 For Joe D'Angelo, this was his home, right in his own backyard.

Speaker 80 He lived in three or four houses in this exact same area where many of the rapes were committed.

Speaker 12 He grew up in Rancho Cordova. He was familiar with the playgrounds, the schools, the empty lots.

Speaker 12 This is the home of the first documented rape that occurred in Sacramento County.

Speaker 12 He was very agile. He could jump over fences.

Speaker 12 He knew which way to go. From whatever neighborhood he was in, he knew the best way to get in and out.

Speaker 55 He knew this area like the back of his hand.

Speaker 68 He grew up there.

Speaker 75 Joseph D'Angelo Jr. grew up the son of a master sergeant in the Air Force who moved around a lot.

Speaker 14 We met Joe when he was 13 years old. My father was stationed at Mathri Air Force Base, and then his father was transferred there.
And we shared a duplex.

Speaker 75 The girl who became very close to him at the time, Judy, described a very lonely boy.

Speaker 14 He was missing a family.

Speaker 14 His mother and father had split when he was young.

Speaker 48 At a very young age, he was neglected. He and his siblings would be locked in the closet and then beaten by the father.

Speaker 76 Her, his siblings, Joe DiAngelo, received the worst of his vitriol

Speaker 76 and anger when they were growing up.

Speaker 14 Joe was always over at our house and he just became a good family friend. He never talked about himself.
He never talked about any problems he might have.

Speaker 14 He never discussed anything that was bothering him.

Speaker 14 They started reporting, you know, the peeping toms here in Rancho.

Speaker 14 And I remember I was in the bedroom and I was asleep and I had this feeling I woke up because I had this feeling somebody was there and when I looked up and glanced towards the window I saw this outlined figures I didn't do anything to let them know I saw them that I was aware of them so the next morning I came in here and I says dad I says somebody was peeking in my window last night and he says what and I says yeah and there was footprints out there in the dirt, two distinct footprints there.

Speaker 84 It's very common for sexual offenders to start out, particularly in adolescence, as peepers or voyeurs that are creeping around the neighborhood, looking in windows, watching women undress, almost like a training ground.

Speaker 19 Many of us had never seen anything like this before in our career.

Speaker 31 His whole thing was terror.

Speaker 42 It wasn't the sex.

Speaker 19 It was the terror that he wanted to put in these people that was his number one priority.

Speaker 48 His victims ranged in age from 13, I think, to 39.

Speaker 19 Out of the first 10 attacks,

Speaker 37 six of those

Speaker 19 were juveniles.

Speaker 84 Oftentimes, sex offenders or sexual seal murderers will start out with, I guess, easier victims, victims that are younger, that are more vulnerable, victims that he could control.

Speaker 88 My name is Chris Pedretti. I was 15.
I was a kid, just a normal kid, cartwheels in the front yard, and really not a care in the world. It was not ever even a thought that our world might be unsafe.

Speaker 48 So it was a week before Christmas, she'd been left home alone.

Speaker 88 I was supposed to go to a high school dance.

Speaker 88 And it was the last day before Christmas vacation.

Speaker 88 I put a pizza in the oven

Speaker 88 and I went to go play the piano.

Speaker 88 I remember hearing a noise and I stopped playing

Speaker 32 and listened.

Speaker 88 Didn't hear it again. No, it was nothing.
So I kept playing.

Speaker 88 It was very shortly after that, probably seconds, that he approached me.

Speaker 48 She turned around and she saw a man in a ski mask.

Speaker 88 I froze. The brain stopped thinking at that point.
I mean, I just went straight into survival mode.

Speaker 88 I don't remember thinking at that point

Speaker 88 anything other than kind of turning into a robot. Just do what he says, do what he says.
It was like Chris had left the body, and it was just the body left.

Speaker 48 That individual led her to the back patio. She tied her up.

Speaker 88 I didn't know about rape. I certainly didn't know about sex.
What he did to me, what he took from me, I can't ever get it back. He kind of ruined my childhood.

Speaker 88 You know, he took it away.

Speaker 38 Everybody knew something was going on, but nobody knew exactly what.

Speaker 58 The sheriff decided that we would hold community forums.

Speaker 58 I had no idea there were going to be several hundred people that would show up.

Speaker 52 If we have a gun, could we shoot him? Knowing what I know about this man, if I had a gun, I definitely would shoot him. And I would not shoot to injure.

Speaker 86 I would shoot to take care of him.

Speaker 46 He liked this. He liked the police being on edge.
He liked the town being on edge.

Speaker 89 I have a gun, but I still don't feel safe being, you know, at home alone.

Speaker 40 Law enforcement was bracing for more attacks as his rampage of violence continued.

Speaker 90 His tactics were changing, and no one knew what he would do next.

Speaker 14 I have to admit, I'm scared today.

Speaker 11 The young girl made one bad move after another.

Speaker 34 Her attitude was much too inviting.

Speaker 57 She should never have stopped to window shop at night.

Speaker 33 In the 1970s, when a woman reported rape, She was shamed.

Speaker 3 She was blamed.

Speaker 33 Often she was ostracized by her own community.

Speaker 12 Rape cases really weren't considered serious. They were a misdemeanor.
You had to make an arrest within a year or else they were not prosecuted.

Speaker 12 Even if an arrest was made, the defense was always it was the victim's fault.

Speaker 77 Rape was such a prevalent crime back in those days that there were multiple serial rapists operating in California.

Speaker 91 217 were reported last year.

Speaker 65 That's about one every day and a half.

Speaker 77 In the Bay Area, you had the stinky rapist who smelled like diesel fuel.

Speaker 19 I had pillowcase rapist. He had the key car rapist.

Speaker 48 When the East Area rapist became active in Sacramento, he quickly upstaged all the other rapists in the area because of how terrifying his MO was.

Speaker 77 Concern over rape is mounting in this community.

Speaker 37 There was panic in the city of Sacramento. The fact that they couldn't catch this guy just ignited the city in fear.

Speaker 34 No one knows where or when he'll strike again.

Speaker 21 They were getting guard dogs, they were putting in alarm systems in their homes.

Speaker 56 Have the dog in the house, the big dog.

Speaker 89 The worst thing is not knowing. All you can do is take every possible precaution and then hope that he gets caught before he gets to you.

Speaker 24 Every day in the newspaper, it was was number eight, it was number 10, it was number 15, 20. You know, it just kept going on and on and on.

Speaker 40 It seemed like every time investigators thought they were getting close, he would disappear.

Speaker 22 But he kept attacking again and again.

Speaker 63 He was elusive, like a puff of smoke in the night.

Speaker 83 Detective Carol Daly wanted this serial rapist behind bars, and she was relentless in her pursuit of him, but constantly frustrated by the fact that they couldn't catch him.

Speaker 93 The officers in this department that are working on this case are frustrated because there's just no evidence to give any firm lead. We're doing everything humanly possible to catch this man.

Speaker 48 He was a phantom.

Speaker 75 Descriptions ranged pretty widely.

Speaker 75 One person thought he was Hispanic.

Speaker 4 And now all of a sudden, he's blonde hair, blue-eyed.

Speaker 3 There are like eight, nine, ten drawings of him, and they have completely changed.

Speaker 57 The best descriptions that we had were his height and his possible weight.

Speaker 58 We knew he wore a size nine shoe.

Speaker 46 When the police were taking the victim statements, many of the women described his penis as being very, very small.

Speaker 58 We said, all right, if he is so underendowed, we went to a doctor who specialized in what I would call infantile penises to see if he had any patients that came in.

Speaker 62 And we didn't have any luck there.

Speaker 89 It's a very serious situation. I think it's very dangerous.

Speaker 70 The last thing I think of when I'm going to bed is I look at the doorway in my bedroom and I think that he could be standing there.

Speaker 21 Detective Daly was following every lead.

Speaker 3 We filled out a long background form for the victims.

Speaker 27 Where did they go to school?

Speaker 62 What did they look like?

Speaker 27 What age were they? You know, what was their bill?

Speaker 62 There was no pattern among any of the victims.

Speaker 57 Because he was just prowling.

Speaker 27 He would see them and follow them home.

Speaker 22 Margaret Wardlow, she was just 13 years old when she was attacked by the East Area rapists.

Speaker 27 Margaret was probably the strongest young victim I have ever talked to.

Speaker 26 Growing up in Sacramento was great. Where we lived was ideal.
It was right next to the American River.

Speaker 26 Go down there with my dog after school, go fishing. Totally felt safe.

Speaker 22 Margaret had a curiosity about her.

Speaker 73 She wanted to know about the East Area rapists.

Speaker 26 I was a reader of everything I could get my hands on that had to do with this individual. Like what was making this guy tick? Why was he doing this?

Speaker 53 She herself became a victim.

Speaker 94 I believe there was a pre-wired strength in her mind that helped her survive this attack.

Speaker 26 It was a school night, just my mother and myself. I went to bed at like a regular school night hour.

Speaker 26 I was awoken about 2.30 in the morning with a flashlight in my face. I thought it was a joke.
I thought my mom had asked him to come in and wake me up and scare me or something.

Speaker 57 As he tied her up and then went into the mother's room, Margaret knew that either her or her mother were going to be the victim.

Speaker 46 The rapist tied up her mother and put plates on her back as a warning device.

Speaker 58 He did that with so many of the victims when there was more than one person in the house.

Speaker 56 If he heard anybody moving, he was right back and told them, don't move, don't move, I'm going to kill you, I'll kill you.

Speaker 11 Putting the dishes on someone's back, he knows he has to do something, either hurt them, flee. So as much of the bravado as he's trying to convey,

Speaker 11 he's scared of the physical confrontation.

Speaker 26 A little voice inside of me said, you know, you get out of a lot of stuff, Margaret, but you're not going to get out of this one.

Speaker 26 The whole time he'd been threatening me, he'd been saying, did you want to die? He wanted fear. He wanted to see fear in me.

Speaker 42 This is your psychological sadist. He is enjoying controlling that woman like that.

Speaker 46 This guy was so beyond the pale, and that was why Michelle was so interested in him, is because he was so frightening.

Speaker 50 The way he walks around people's houses and the way he destroys them and sort of hangs out and eats, there's something so psychologically fascinating about that to me.

Speaker 50 It's like he got to the emotional center of people's lives and just wanted to destroy that.

Speaker 42 Michelle hot the bug. She started going down the rabbit holes in this case.
At this point, instead of writing a book, she was investigating the case.

Speaker 23 I'm obsessed. It's not healthy.
I know the strangest details about him.

Speaker 23 I know his blood type. I know his penis size.

Speaker 23 He vaulted fences. He escaped foot chases.
But I believe it's the rare moments when he was human that will be his downfall in the end.

Speaker 42 As time went on, this East Area rapist started to crisscross Sacramento, attacking women home alone or women with their kids in the middle of the night.

Speaker 15 He seemed to be expanding what his capabilities were when he was carrying out these crimes.

Speaker 24 He became much more aggressive

Speaker 66 and his tactics.

Speaker 24 He did more horrible things than than I can even describe.

Speaker 11 This tells us that the offender is adapting and learning as he is committing crimes.

Speaker 11 He really messes with people's minds, both investigators and the victims.

Speaker 23 Part of the thrill of the game for him was a kind of connect the dots puzzle he played with people.

Speaker 23 He stole two packs of Winston cigarettes from the first victim and left them outside the fourth victim's house.

Speaker 23 Junk jewelry stolen from a neighbor two weeks earlier was left at the fifth victim's house. It was a power play, a signal of ubiquity.
I am both nowhere and everywhere.

Speaker 23 You may not think you have something in common with your neighbor, but you do.

Speaker 31 Me.

Speaker 11 Michelle started as a blogger talking about cases that no one else was paying attention to and trying to get people motivated to look at those cases.

Speaker 23 The case dragged me under quickly. Curiosity turned to clawing hunger.
I was on the hunt, absorbed by a click fever that connected connected my propulsive tapping with a dopamine rush. I wasn't alone.

Speaker 23 I found a group of hardcore seekers who congregated on an online message board and exchanged clues and theories on the case.

Speaker 46 Citizen sleuths, they are ordinary people that go to work, they go home, they put their kids to bed, and then they go on the computer. And they spend hours and hours trying to solve certain crimes.

Speaker 48 My name is Paul Haynes. I was Michelle McNamara's research collaborator.

Speaker 48 When I first began learning about the case, there was a specific forum dedicated to the Easter rapist. It was the most active forum on that website.

Speaker 46 Paul Haynes was a writer living in Florida. And Michelle recognized that he had a great proclivity for digging into old archives and things.

Speaker 46 It was a case that a lot of citizen detectives got into because there were so many clues.

Speaker 23 Arons wasn't a supervillain. He was a man, a guy with habits and traits and preferences that, with enough examination, should shine like Hansel's breadcrumbs in the woods.

Speaker 77 My name is Kay Gilbraith, and I call myself a researcher. I started seeing patterns emerging to me where I became convinced it was solvable because all of the crimes had common bonds.

Speaker 49 He was leaving ligatures at the scene with this particular knot.

Speaker 48 He would eat food out of the victims' refrigerators. I was spending every waking hour trying to find men who fit the criteria.
And it was at that time that I first connected with Michelle.

Speaker 45 It's a fascinating community.

Speaker 51 I had been on those boards for a while following the story because everyone had such great information.

Speaker 77 Michelle's quest was to get this case solved. She just had an abiding curiosity in letting the details lead us to the perpetrator.

Speaker 48 The Easter rapist would target not people, but neighborhoods. You can see the proximity of these homes to greenbelts like drainage ditches and creeks and canals.

Speaker 12 We believe he used the canal as an escape route, which ran along the back of so many properties.

Speaker 12 He was a great escape artist.

Speaker 48 These are passageways that this killer used to surveil the residents unseen, cloaked by the darkness of these green belts.

Speaker 77 He was able to look over those fences, look into those homes, look at what time people ate dinner. I mean, he knew what time the husband left.

Speaker 8 The Sacramento Sheriff's Office has invested more than 40,000 man hours in the search for the East Area rapist.

Speaker 42 Sacramento would have a helicopter up in the sky, and they all knew it was because they were chasing the East Area rapist.

Speaker 9 It was terrible.

Speaker 42 It was terrible terrible to hear that.

Speaker 20 Well, he didn't like it either.

Speaker 49 And it turns out that he served in Vietnam.

Speaker 4 He left Sacramento because of that helicopter.

Speaker 37 Then these things started up in the East Bay of San Francisco.

Speaker 65 There are two things known about the rapist.

Speaker 65 One is he has never been caught in a home where there was a man present. The other is he's never been in a home where there has been a big dog.

Speaker 58 These are rapists worked on challenges. Everything he saw in the paper, if we said he didn't do something, he did it the next time.

Speaker 46 When the newspapers reported that he was just attacking single females, he took this as a challenge.

Speaker 42 At attack number 16,

Speaker 42 he started to attack with a man present, and then two-thirds of the attacks he does since then has a man present.

Speaker 37 He is purposefully choosing couples.

Speaker 30 My name's Gay Hardwick.

Speaker 42 And my name's Bob Hardwick. And we've been married 41 years this August.
Happily married 41 years.

Speaker 46 Bob and Gay Hardwick were a couple living in Stockton, California.

Speaker 30 We had picked out a home in one of the little picture perfect tree-lined streets. We were just happy in our new home, living together.

Speaker 30 The day of our attack was March 18th, 1978, and we were attack number 31.

Speaker 30 We had gone out to dinner and a movie, normal Friday night, and we came home around 10 o'clock and went to bed.

Speaker 30 Later that night, we were awakened by a very bright light right in our faces and a voice saying,

Speaker 14 wake up, wake up.

Speaker 48 The attack on Bob and Gay Hardwick was much like all the other attacks in that he confronted Bob and Gay when they were in bed. He ordered her at gunpoint to bind Bob.

Speaker 30 Nothing you can do when there's a 357 magnum pointed

Speaker 3 at your head.

Speaker 48 He then bound Gay.

Speaker 48 He re-tied Bob.

Speaker 46 Turns him over, puts the plates on his back as a warning device.

Speaker 97 Things would go silent for a period of time and then as soon as they moved, he was right in their face.

Speaker 37 Move and I'll kill you.

Speaker 48 Ultimately, he moved Gay into the living room where he sexually assaulted her.

Speaker 30 You're convinced at that moment that this is not a full human being that you're dealing with.

Speaker 84 He can not only humiliate a woman who's about to rape, but he can also completely in his mind emasculate her partner, putting him in a position where he is helpless and has to listen to what's going on in a different room.

Speaker 46 These attacks are happening in the macho 1970s. You know, six million dollar man.

Speaker 29 We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.

Speaker 98 Well, talk to me, good buddy.

Speaker 46 And Burt Reynolds, you know, these are the icons. And the men were not not looked at as victims.
They were looked at as just being weak for not being able to protect their wives and their girlfriends.

Speaker 3 I never talked to anybody about it over the years.

Speaker 69 I just wanted to put it out of my mind, you know.

Speaker 30 It was, we're going to get through this. We're going to get back to normal.
And you don't ever really

Speaker 30 make it to normal.

Speaker 42 It was tough, but you know, I loved her and

Speaker 69 I said we're going to get through it.

Speaker 30 Our home never felt the same again.

Speaker 30 Every surface that you could think of was covered in fingerprint dust. It just looked like a smoke bomb had been set off in our house.

Speaker 30 It was contaminated and ruined for us.

Speaker 46 He wasn't out attacking people on lovers' lanes or in parks.

Speaker 46 He was attacking people where they feel the most safe, in bed with their partner in their home.

Speaker 46 And he was able to say, You know what?

Speaker 46 I have so much power, I can take all of that security away and devastate your life.

Speaker 83 Why couldn't they catch him?

Speaker 79 Somehow, he was always one step ahead of law enforcement, and they wondered: could he be one of us?

Speaker 46 After the East Area rapist would terrorize these women,

Speaker 46 sometimes he would call them

Speaker 46 and taunt them.

Speaker 12 This rapist did not stop with just the assault of that night.

Speaker 27 He terrorized them their whole lives.

Speaker 42 This is that psychological sadist at work. He is getting off on continuing to cause fear in his victim.

Speaker 45 I'm Michelle McNamara of TrueCrimediary.com. Larry Crompton is a retired lieutenant for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department.
He worked on the rapist task force in the 70s.

Speaker 99 How optimistic are you that

Speaker 99 he may be caught one day?

Speaker 7 I'm very, very optimistic.

Speaker 19 I had worked many, many crimes while I was on the department, but none of them were really like this.

Speaker 19 I knew what these people went through and I knew what the family was going through.

Speaker 29 I couldn't let it go.

Speaker 31 And for many, many years,

Speaker 19 it was me.

Speaker 19 What did I miss? What did I do wrong? Why didn't I catch them?

Speaker 23 Helicopters, roadblocks.

Speaker 23 Citizen patrols taking down plate numbers. Hypnotists, psychics.
Nothing.

Speaker 23 You were a scent and shoe impressions.

Speaker 23 Bloodhounds and detectives tracked both.

Speaker 23 They led away. They led nowhere.

Speaker 42 He next shows up down in Modesto in June of 1978.

Speaker 69 He attacks a couple down there.

Speaker 42 And then 48 hours later, he's up in the town of Davis.

Speaker 42 over 110 driving miles away and is attacking a UC Davis co-ed there.

Speaker 34 Early Wednesday morning, the infamous masked man made his 44th attack on a young couple living in Mission San Jose.

Speaker 97 It was as if he knew what police were doing.

Speaker 55 And all along, many of the detectives who were working in the case thought that maybe he was a police officer or a military.

Speaker 36 And ultimately, that turned out to be true.

Speaker 7 You

Speaker 7 should have seen me coming.

Speaker 44 One of the things that's important to remember when you're looking at Joseph Angelo is he actually graduated with an associate degree in police science.

Speaker 75 He had told Bonnie that his aspiration was to join the California Highway Patrol.

Speaker 7 You

Speaker 7 should have seen me coming.

Speaker 12 He studied evidence and he studied crime scene.

Speaker 19 He went to Northern California California and he applied with the Auburn Police Department and was hired there.

Speaker 19 And then that's when he started his rapes.

Speaker 11 He actually started out committing crimes as a teenager.

Speaker 11 At some point, he even blew up a dog with a firework, killed the dog while he was committing a residential burglary.

Speaker 78 You should

Speaker 78 see me come in.

Speaker 84 It makes sense that somebody who has a need for control, wants to be in power, would be attracted to a position that allows him to have that every single day.

Speaker 19 When I was working the cases, I thought he's got to be in law enforcement.

Speaker 42 The first clue was in attack number three in Sacramento. He had gloves on to protect from fingerprints and he's got a gun in one hand and a padded baton in another hand.

Speaker 42 And he says, freeze or I'll shoot.

Speaker 12 We felt so strongly that he could have a law enforcement background that we were looking at every officer in our department who fit the description of the height and the weight and the shoe size.

Speaker 59 Up to that point, he would sometimes take his clothes off during a sexual assault.

Speaker 59 Carol and I figured out how to fingerprint the human body.

Speaker 12 We found out that fingerprints stayed on the skin for really just a very short period of time, but there was an iodine technique that we could use to try to pull them off.

Speaker 59 Carol and I talked to the guy in charge and said, don't talk about this on the radio. These blasted us all over the place.
Just a couple days later, his gloves never came off.

Speaker 59 There's no question you knew what we were doing.

Speaker 100 The police have one last bit of advice, and that is don't panic, because that alters your judgment.

Speaker 100 and by the way that advice goes out to anyone in the Bay Area not just the people of Concord because with this guy the next rape could be anywhere.

Speaker 48 Michelle was a mother and she was a wife and when she took this book on this investigation became her life.

Speaker 46 It's really the obsession is with the investigation and she knew that When you look at cases out there, famous serial killer cases, they were caught with innocuous things.

Speaker 50 He was, first and foremost, it seems to me, a burglar, a cat burglar.

Speaker 48 I think Michelle felt that if she could find one of the items that had been stolen in any of those rapes or in any of those burglaries, she could trace that item back the way you would trace someone's ancestry to its original owner.

Speaker 91 And that would lead to the offender's identity.

Speaker 48 And in one case, this offender stole a pair of personalized monogrammed cufflinks.

Speaker 13 It was the initials N-R.

Speaker 46 They were like a 1950s style. So Michelle took this and thought, if I could follow those pair of cuff links, we might get closer to the answer.

Speaker 23 Then I saw it. A single image out of hundreds loading on my laptop screen.
They were going for $8 at a vintage store in a small town in Oregon. My husband was on his side sleeping.

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Speaker 73 It has now been 40 years that one of the most prolific serial killers in American history has managed to elude police.

Speaker 7 You should see me coming.

Speaker 19 You had better catch him. He is going to kill.
He wants to kill.

Speaker 18 It was never enough. to commit the horrible crimes.
It always had to be, and let me do something more.

Speaker 84 We all want to think that we would recognize a serial killer based on how this person looks.

Speaker 14 I wonder if he was out stalking his next victim. I don't know because everything seems so normal.

Speaker 84 The scariest aspects of serial killers is they don't look different.

Speaker 11 From the very beginning, I knew DNA was going to solve this case.

Speaker 83 Police have been sitting on this genetic fingerprint for four decades.

Speaker 4 Holy smokes, this is like the big break.

Speaker 38 He's been living there under everybody's noses.

Speaker 84 This is the Golden State Killer.

Speaker 24 I just want to tell you, buddy, to rot in hell.

Speaker 46 Michelle McNamara was a true crime blogger.

Speaker 48 She was a citizen detective and a true crime writer.

Speaker 46 She was talking to her publisher about writing a book that didn't have an ending.

Speaker 23 My interest in crime has personal roots. The unsolved murder of a neighbor when I was 14 sparked a fascination with cold cases.

Speaker 23 What gripped me was the specter of that question mark where the killer's face should be. I need to see his face.
He loses his power when we know his face.

Speaker 25 When I'm puzzling over the details of non-solved crime, I'm like a rat in a maze given a task.

Speaker 64 The world narrows, the search propels.

Speaker 25 I felt in the truest sense of the word gripped.

Speaker 64 I had a murder habit, and it was bad.

Speaker 25 I would feed it for the rest of my life.

Speaker 11 I considered Michelle McNamara a friend. She impacted the Golden State killer case.

Speaker 11 One way we're able to keep on investigating the case is to have public interest, to have the online interest, and she helped push that.

Speaker 23 On a sleepless night last July, I googled a description of a pair of cufflinks he stole. Then a jolt of recognition.

Speaker 29 There they were.

Speaker 23 I bought them immediately. The best thing to do, I knew, was to turn the cufflinks over to an authority on the killer.

Speaker 76 As soon as I saw those cufflinks, I thought, this is pretty astonishing. I photographed those and sent those to surviving victims because it was potentially a very good lead in the case.

Speaker 48 Unfortunately, the cufflinks didn't pan out. The victims looked at them and they weren't the cufflinks that were stolen.

Speaker 11 And she was devastated. I don't know if Michelle was convinced she could solve the case, but I believe that she was convinced she could make a difference and that she wanted to do it for the victims.

Speaker 34 He forced the woman at Knife Point to tie up her boyfriend, then he tied her up and raped her. The East Area rapist has struck 40 times in the last two and a half years, and he hasn't been caught yet.

Speaker 77 He started inflicting real physical pain on the victims, like punching, giving black eyes.

Speaker 84 One of the most sadistic things I think that he would do would be to say to them, I'm going to cut off a piece of your wife and bring it back to you.

Speaker 12 We knew that he was becoming more and more angry.

Speaker 40 As fear in the community intensified, Detective Carol Daly held regular public forums.

Speaker 70 One thing I want to emphasize, ladies, is for you not to be polite.

Speaker 86 If you are going to defend yourself, you injure him enough to incapacitate him in any way that you can.

Speaker 19 I started working with these cases and I thought if I can talk to one of the people that deal with these rapists, maybe I can get into the head of what I'm looking for.

Speaker 19 Vacaville Medical Center is where they have rapists that have been convicted.

Speaker 72 The men were asked what they thought was motivating the East Area rapists.

Speaker 98 The mere fact that he ties his victims up has to have them completely submissive.

Speaker 41 You can sense the conquest he had.

Speaker 102 You're not what you think you are and you won't accept it. So you strike out to prove to them that you are, but in reality you aren't.
And until you face that, you're going to keep on going and going.

Speaker 98 If I'm willing to kill you, the first move you make, you're going to be kid.

Speaker 19 The doctor told me, you had better catch him.

Speaker 29 He is going to kill.

Speaker 19 He wants to kill.

Speaker 84 He first becomes a burglar and then he progresses to sexual assault and then proceeds to escalate to murder.

Speaker 53 The East Area rapist disappeared from Northern California in July of 1979.

Speaker 69 He showed up in Santa Barbara in October of 79.

Speaker 85 And shortly thereafter, he starts killing.

Speaker 23 The Pacific Ocean was warming up, an inviting churn of white caps making its way towards soft sand and an endless line of 100-foot palm trees.

Speaker 23 Golden teenage boys with blank hair and effortless muscles headed for the water with their boards in a gate the locals called the surfer bass.

Speaker 23 This was Santa Barbara's magic time.

Speaker 77 Dr. Offerman was an orthopedic surgeon.
He had begun dating a psychologist named Alexandra Manning.

Speaker 48 On the morning of December 30th, 1979, some friends of Robert Offerman's had shown up at his condo for a tennis game. There was no answer at the door.

Speaker 104 I went in the sliding door and looked around the living room.

Speaker 96 On the floor, there were Christmas ornaments that had fallen off on the ground.

Speaker 104 There were some bones right by the sliding door, which I thought he would leave there, so we knew something was wrong.

Speaker 104 So I turned to go right towards his bedroom, and that's when I saw Miss Manning on the bed. He was on the floor.

Speaker 19 Offerman and Manning both were shot and killed.

Speaker 23 It was the holidays. As authorities processed the crime scene, they stepped around a turkey carcass wrapped in cellophane that had been discarded on the patio.

Speaker 23 They concluded that at some point the killer had opened the refrigerator and helped himself to Dr. Offerman's leftover Christmas dinner.

Speaker 29 It was never enough to commit the horrible crimes.

Speaker 18 It always had to be, and let me do something more. Let me go into your refrigerator and eat your holiday meal.

Speaker 18 The level of depravity that this man had and the execution of it was despicable and shocking.

Speaker 48 Larry Crompton, who led the Ear Task Force in Contra Costa County, reached out to Santa Barbara investigators and told them this sounds like the Easter rapist that we've been dealing with.

Speaker 19 When I called Santa Barbara and talked to the lieutenant and said, I heard that you had a double homicide, would like to know about it because we think it's our rapist that is down there.

Speaker 19 And he said, don't know what you're talking about. Haven't had anything like that.

Speaker 31 Nope.

Speaker 18 Law enforcement agencies weren't necessarily as connected as they are now. I think there was still this thought that these are isolated instances throughout California.

Speaker 19 And that was it.

Speaker 42 It was so frustrating.

Speaker 11 I am sure that Larry Crompton called many jurisdictions because he truly believed that the rapist would move on and become a killer.

Speaker 46 Santa Barbara is an enclave of rich people. You've got Ronald Reagan.
You've got people that are worried about their property values. They don't want news about a double murder in a house going wide.

Speaker 46 Pretty soon it gets off the front page.

Speaker 44 He gets a taste for not only murdering people, but murdering them after these prolonged, terrifying times in their homes.

Speaker 82 In 1979, a new and terrifying chapter.

Speaker 73 He starts a killing spring.

Speaker 48 Two double murders in Galia, one double murder in Ventura, the murder in Irvine, and the double murder in Dana Point.

Speaker 15 The rampage of violence was brutal and unstoppable.

Speaker 77 Four horrible murders within a six-block radius in a suburban middle-class neighborhood.

Speaker 19 We knew it was the same person, but we couldn't prove it.

Speaker 46 Profilers of that day said, I know of no one who does what this offender does.

Speaker 19 I thought once he started killing, there's no way he can stop, and he's going to continue to do it.

Speaker 23 Most violent criminals smash through life like human sledgehammers. They're caught easily, but every so often, a blue moon surfaces, a snow leopard slinks by.

Speaker 81 After 1981, we don't have an attack for five years.

Speaker 24 Well, I think people slow down in life.

Speaker 50 You don't have that sort of energy to be prowling. Like you literally can't be out at 3 a.m.
like running across roofs because you're not 18 anymore.

Speaker 84 I don't believe that his sexual deviances went away, but I can believe that he found other less risky ways of satisfying those urges.

Speaker 11 Could he have moved out of the state, out of the country? Could he have died, got medicated? I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 48 In 1981, Jo DiAngelo became a father. The first of his three daughters was born.
The second of his three daughters was born in 86. And then his third daughter was born in 1989.

Speaker 77 They had a wife who was a lawyer. He lived a middle-class existence.

Speaker 14 He sent all his girls through Montessori schools and he would take them to their different sports events, the horseback riding, the roller skating.

Speaker 84 We all want to think that we would recognize a serial killer based on how this person looks.

Speaker 84 And yet, so often, this is somebody who's living in the community, who knows his neighbors. And I think that is one of the scariest aspects of serial killers is they don't look

Speaker 84 different from other people.

Speaker 14 My sister and I, Melody, used to take turns going out and babysitting while Sharon was in school and I didn't start thinking about it until after he was arrested because when they started showing all these dates I'm going oh my goodness.

Speaker 14 I wonder if he was out stalking his next victim.

Speaker 95 I don't know.

Speaker 6 It's been five years with no more rapes or murders by Joseph D'Angelo.

Speaker 42 For some reason, he runs across beautiful 18-year-old Janelle Cruz and can't help himself and kills her.

Speaker 35 Janelle was kind of a shy girl. She was very pretty, very popular.

Speaker 23 The brief life of Janelle Cruz was no less tragic than her death. Her biological father was long out of the picture.

Speaker 11 Her parents had gone to a cruise with her six-year-old brother and she was staying at the residence alone.

Speaker 35 For the first time left my daughter alone because that was another thing that I never did because I was worried that if I was gone that something might happen.

Speaker 11 Janelle Cruz had had a friend over to the house and heard noises in the backyard.

Speaker 76 They got up to inspect that, saw nothing.

Speaker 48 And sometime that night, Janelle was confronted by an intruder.

Speaker 48 She was raped, and then she was bludgeoned to death.

Speaker 35 And I got that telephone call that every mother and any family member is just

Speaker 35 devastated by.

Speaker 46 The Janelle case just felt like such an outlier because

Speaker 46 He had decided to go after couples,

Speaker 46 and then he had stopped for a really long time, and then he attacks Janelle. And then that seemingly is his last attack.

Speaker 23 Some think you died or went to prison.

Speaker 29 Not me.

Speaker 23 I think you bailed when the world began to change.

Speaker 48 In the 1970s, there was no DNA.

Speaker 82 The investigators had evidence, but couldn't connect the crime scenes.

Speaker 40 They needed the science to catch up.

Speaker 48 DNA didn't enter the forensic landscape until about 1986, 1987.

Speaker 82 It would take 15 years for DNA to finally link the Northern California East Area Rapist Series with the Southern California homicides, as all being done by one man.

Speaker 42 I was immediately on the phone to Larry Poole down at Orange County Sheriff's Office, and we're talking about, holy smokes, this is like the big break.

Speaker 15 But detectives still had no idea who he was.

Speaker 76 I got a little excited maybe in the first 18 to 24 months but over the years I chronicled and logged over 8,700 suspects in the investigation.

Speaker 19 After five years we got no match and after 10 years we got no match and we just were not getting a hit.

Speaker 23 When people have asked whether it worries me that the killer may still be out there, I wave dismissively, pointing out that he'd be much much older now. He can't hurt me, I say.

Speaker 23 Not realizing that in every sleepless hour, in every minute spent hunting him and not cuddling my daughter, he already has.

Speaker 21 Michelle McNamara was a mom married to actor Patton Oswald, investigating this case and working on a book.

Speaker 73 Patton describes her as staying awake at all hours of the night, would not put down her computer, would not put away the files.

Speaker 30 At the same time, struggling with her writing and publication deadlines, and she began self-medicating. I actually

Speaker 30 see her as being his final victim.

Speaker 48 I got an email from a friend of Michelle's, and he told me that Michelle had passed away that morning. I think I went completely numb.

Speaker 46 I eventually learned that she had fallen asleep and didn't get up.

Speaker 48 According to the medical examiner's report, Michelle died from a combination of fentanyl, Xanax, and I believe Adderall.

Speaker 48 And that's when the magnitude of her loss hit me.

Speaker 46 And I immediately thought, what can I do? I can help finish this book.

Speaker 46 When Michelle passed, we decided at the end of the book, what are the strings that she left us to get us out of this maze? It was genetic genealogy.

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Speaker 23 Thousands of pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. And only one person knew what it was supposed to look like.

Speaker 23 That one person wasn't wasn't Michelle.

Speaker 23 It was the killer himself.

Speaker 15 It has now been 40 years that one of the most prolific serial killers in American history has managed to elude police.

Speaker 72 The man known as the Golden State Killer has been linked to 50 rapes and 13 murders.

Speaker 91 Police are frustrated and running out of leads.

Speaker 42 I have no path to go on this investigation. None of the tips are coming in or anything that I'm excited about.
So So I'm floundering.

Speaker 46 When Michelle passed and me and Paul were working on the book, we talk about what are the strings that she left us to get us out of this maze. And it was genetic genealogy.

Speaker 48 Forensic genealogy was something that Michelle was excited about and that seemed like the most viable direct pathway to this offender's identity.

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Speaker 90 Companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe had already been using genetic genealogy for years, allowing millions of customers to spit into a tube and use their DNA to discover family roots and long-lost relatives.

Speaker 53 Ancestry.com searches the world's largest online family history recently.

Speaker 71 As a growing number, particularly of adoptees, are realizing these sites that are really created for learning about family history can help me start to figure out who I'm biologically related to.

Speaker 71 To help people to find their biological mothers, to find their biological fathers,

Speaker 71 to find siblings, to find cousins.

Speaker 46 It wasn't too long for people to realize: wait a minute, what if we use the DNA of criminals to try and identify their second cousins or third cousins and try to narrow it down from there?

Speaker 42 I start learning how this technology could be used.

Speaker 42 We become blown away at the power of it. And then we recognize this is the way we need to go.

Speaker 42 But then there was a concern as to whether we had enough DNA. I had consumed all the East Area Rapist DNA doing all the testing I had done over the years.

Speaker 94 And he found a pristine DNA sample going back to the 1980 murder of Lyman and Charlene Smith in Ventura County.

Speaker 4 A second sexual assault kit in the coroner's office that had never been opened.

Speaker 92 To my knowledge, there are no other medical examiners who make duplicate rape kits.

Speaker 42 In March of 1980, Lyman and Charlene Smith were found bludgeoned to death in their bed.

Speaker 92 It was a horrific scene that I will never forget.

Speaker 69 God arrived at the scene with my little suitcase, a tube rack, dry ice, and a microscope.

Speaker 92 I always made duplicate kits and both kits were identical.

Speaker 42 That turned out to be a gold mine for us because that second kit had sat in the coroner's possession for 38 years untouched.

Speaker 42 And so the swabs collected from Charlene Smith's body were pristine.

Speaker 83 Police had been sitting on this genetic fingerprint for four decades, waiting for the science to catch up.

Speaker 3 Genetic genealogy had only been used to solve a criminal case once before by a woman named Barbara Ray Venter.

Speaker 95 I've always liked puzzles. I used to love playing Clue when I was a kid.

Speaker 95 What I've discovered is that law enforcement are pretty big gossips. And so they were all sort of talking amongst each other.
And apparently Paul was talking to the detective on the other case.

Speaker 49 And I was like, how did you do that?

Speaker 42 I call Barbara up and I explain, I'm working a case. It's an old case.
I don't tell her what case it is, but could this be done to identify this unknown offender?

Speaker 4 So Paul Holz was able to take that DNA and convert it into a DNA profile, which is basically a number.

Speaker 53 And he used this no-frills genealogy website called JEDMatch.

Speaker 53 And I just uploaded the Golden State Killers profile and allowed the JEDMatch servers to do their magic and produce the list of people that potentially shared some DNA with my offender.

Speaker 95 We were all logging in several times a day to see if the matches are there.

Speaker 97 Then all of a sudden, he started connecting to some distant relatives.

Speaker 81 We're talking third, fourth, fifth cousins.

Speaker 95 So we immediately knew that we were going to be building a lot of family trees to sort out who he was.

Speaker 42 We're now trying to identify common ancestors from this list of people who share DNA with the person we're looking for.

Speaker 42 And we end up spending four months building family trees.

Speaker 10 And unlike if you were to upload your DNA to a website and try to build out a family tree from yourself being the beginning point, this is reverse engineering a family tree.

Speaker 40 So you start with a wide swath of potential relatives, and by a painstaking process of elimination, you start cutting down that pool.

Speaker 72 Narrow it down, narrow it down, narrow it down.

Speaker 42 Genealogy testing had indicated that our offender was of European descent.

Speaker 30 40% Southern European.

Speaker 95 And a number of the matches that we had were with people who had Italian surnames.

Speaker 82 Once it came down to that final pool, that's when the real detective work began.

Speaker 10 You had to hit public records.

Speaker 53 Things like marriage certificates,

Speaker 16 birth certificates, grave site markings.

Speaker 95 So now we only had six men on the list.

Speaker 95 So now they had to be a certain age, they had to be in Northern California, and they had to be related only through the maternal line to our crime scene DNA.

Speaker 95 And at that point, we then had one other piece of information that we hadn't applied yet, and that was eye color.

Speaker 51 She looks at a separate tool on a related site that suggests that their suspect had blue eyes and was bald.

Speaker 95 The FBI then pulled the California DMV records for those six men.

Speaker 3 Only one had blue eyes.

Speaker 42 Joseph D'Angelo.

Speaker 103 Joseph D'Angelo.

Speaker 21 Joseph D'Angelo.

Speaker 72 After four decades and countless hours of detective work, It's an emerging technology, genetic genealogy, that finally gives investigators their strongest lead lead yet, a name.

Speaker 49 Who is this guy?

Speaker 42 I need to start drilling down on him and I'm now within a couple of weeks of retiring. So I'm trying to find out as much as possible, as fast as possible, about Joe DiAngelo.

Speaker 79 He's not in any of the criminal databases, so police start putting together a case to either eliminate him or prove he is in fact the man they're looking for.

Speaker 42 Physically, he was within the specs of what we are expecting for the Golden State killer. Born in 1945, a little bit on the older side, but most certainly within that 1940 to 1960 range.

Speaker 55 Investigators started zeroing in on Joseph D'Angelo and they started digging up things about his past.

Speaker 46 He goes into the Navy.

Speaker 46 We know he is stationed in San Diego. We know that he spent some time overseas.

Speaker 48 Joe DiAngelo returned to Sacramento, began working with the Auburn Police Department.

Speaker 69 He had a nickname on the department. It was Junk Food Joey.
He would always have a Coke in his hand, a bag of chips, a candy bar.

Speaker 72 He really violated people's space all the time.

Speaker 69 Get kind of close to your face and always be touching you.

Speaker 42 He had been fired from Auburn Police back in 1979.

Speaker 48 He had been observed shoplifting a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a Citrus Heights drugstore. He was accosted by the clerk.
He was subsequently arrested.

Speaker 36 Auburn Police Chief Nick Willick had to fire D'Angelo at the time.

Speaker 42 And the chief said, when Joe was put on administrative leave, he had threatened to kill me.

Speaker 69 I immediately remembered back my daughter, you know, being afraid.

Speaker 9 A short time after he had been fired, she said, There was someone looking in my bedroom window with a flashlight.

Speaker 42 She said he got up and ran outside. That man was gone, but there were shoe impressions all around the perimeter of his house.

Speaker 4 But there's another huge piece of the puzzle they had been investigating in relation to possible suspects, and that piece also seemingly falls into place in D'Angelo's story, Bonnie.

Speaker 75 There's a newspaper clip from an Auburn journal about the engagement and there's this picture of a young brunette. She's 18 years old.

Speaker 48 Announcing his engagement in 1970 to a woman named Bonnie Colwell.

Speaker 81 Remember, Bonnie was one of D'Angelo's early girlfriends who broke off their engagement.

Speaker 4 So suddenly, Detective Holes and others were like, wait a minute, could this be Bonnie that we remember following early on in the case?

Speaker 48 And of course, Bonnie was significant due to the victim in attack number 36.

Speaker 42 While the East Area rapist is literally raping that victim, he is crying and he's saying, I hate you, Bonnie, I hate you, Bonnie, over and over.

Speaker 42 I'm now within days of retiring. It's like, okay, I've got to go boots on the ground on this D'Angelo.

Speaker 75 More and more things connect and click. You know, right place, right time.

Speaker 75 Let's go see if this is the guy.

Speaker 42 I'm now my second to last day at work. And I go, I have to go see this guy, where he's living.
And I park on the curb directly opposite from D'Angelo's house. There's a car in the driveway.

Speaker 42 I'm pretty sure he's home. And I'm sitting there and I'm wondering, what's the likelihood really that this is the Golden State killer?

Speaker 80 A day before his retirement, Paul Holes literally has the suspect in his crosshairs.

Speaker 72 It's been a 24-year hunt, but he uses restraint.

Speaker 53 and turns in his badge the next day.

Speaker 42 It was a tough decision to drive away from that house that day. I was upset.
I was like, you know, I didn't solve this case before I retired.

Speaker 97 The Sacramento Sheriff's Office picks up where Paul Holes left off.

Speaker 71 And so what they have to do next is conduct surveillance on Joseph D'Angelo. And what they're waiting for is an opportunity to collect his DNA.

Speaker 75 And they secretly follow him to a shopping plaza.

Speaker 66 But Joseph was not smoking, he was not spitting out gum.

Speaker 71 So what they had to work with was he had a car, they swabbed the door handle, and that gave them something that's called touch DNA.

Speaker 20 They were able to pick up an initial DNA sample and some fingerprints from his car door.

Speaker 42 I'm sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Colorado Springs, and my cell phone rings, and it's Lieutenant Kirk Campbell from Sacramento DA's office. You can absolutely not tell anybody about this.

Speaker 42 And at that moment, I go, okay.

Speaker 42 And he says, the lab is excited about this.

Speaker 75 Let's mix with DNA from other people, but it looks like it might be a close match.

Speaker 42 But the Sacramento DA was saying, we want a cleaner sample.

Speaker 75 So they stake out his house, wait for him to put out the trash.

Speaker 42 He puts his trash out on the curb. They get a guy that comes and collects the trash.

Speaker 75 They sneak over and pull tissue out of the trash bin and take that back to the lab.

Speaker 42 And one of the items out of the trash had a single source male DNA profile that matched 100%

Speaker 42 the Golden State killer's DNA profile.

Speaker 12 I get this call from my chief deputy.

Speaker 28 I think his first words are, are you sitting down?

Speaker 17 And I asked him a million times, and I'm like, you better not be messing with me.

Speaker 18 He goes, they're shaking, Anne-Marie.

Speaker 17 They're shaking at the crime lab.

Speaker 10 They got a match, but now they have to get the suspect into custody.

Speaker 6 So they call Paul Holtz back to assist with the operation.

Speaker 42 There was concerns about how he would respond if this did not go smoothly.

Speaker 84 I can imagine they were prepared for every scenario. This is somebody who has been a sophisticated, a diverse, sadistic killer.

Speaker 36 A law enforcement team now gathers outside D'Angelo's home for the takedown.

Speaker 72 He and his wife have been separated for decades, and he's living with his daughter and granddaughter.

Speaker 42 The hope was to get him away from his house in order to be able to do it safely. So at a certain point, DeAndro Zulfur off to the side of his house.
It looks like a prime spot.

Speaker 42 And then we just hear over the radio go.

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Speaker 65 He's been called the Eastside Rapist, the Bisalia Ransacker, the original Night Stalker.

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Speaker 65 And the Golden State killer. Today, it's our pleasure to call him defendant.

Speaker 78 Sooner or later, God will cut you down.

Speaker 55 That bombshell arrest, that former police officer, 72-year-old Joseph James D'Angelo.

Speaker 20 He's been described as one of the most prolific serial killers that terrorized California for decades.

Speaker 31 Sooner or later, God will cut you down.

Speaker 36 The arrest of Joseph D'Angelo dropped like a bomb.

Speaker 82 All these years, hiding in plain sight.

Speaker 38 Oh my God, he's living in Sacramento. He's been living there under everybody's noses for all this time.

Speaker 23 It was stunning.

Speaker 17 It's a moment when you realize that 40 years of work by a lot of folks to bring some answers to some family members was becoming real.

Speaker 3 It's just unbelievable after all these years they got him.

Speaker 64 I feel I reverted right back.

Speaker 88 That part that I was so successful at tucking away in my brain,

Speaker 88 that door opened. I was shaking.

Speaker 57 It was hard to process.

Speaker 56 I know after I got the call, the tears welled up.

Speaker 57 Thousands of nightmares and thousands of sleepless nights have come to a rest.

Speaker 19 It was just something that was on my mind for all those years. Want them caught before I die.

Speaker 42 We could finally put a face and a name to this massed individual that was terrorizing all these communities back in the 70s and 80s.

Speaker 73 Joseph D'Angelo's first arraignment in court

Speaker 15 was a complete madhouse. It was a zoo.

Speaker 81 In the front rows were family members of victims and victims themselves.

Speaker 88 We're all super, super nervous.

Speaker 24 I start sobbing and sobbing and I couldn't stop.

Speaker 7 Joseph James D'Angelo.

Speaker 72 And then that moment, Joseph D'Angelo in a red orange jumpsuit that says prisoner on the back

Speaker 49 rolls in in a wheelchair, hunched over, his hands handcuffed.

Speaker 84 This is the Golden State killer, this old man, and he looks so harmless. And I think that is exactly the impression that he wants to create.

Speaker 54 Is Joseph James D'Angelo your true and correct legal name?

Speaker 5 I'm sorry?

Speaker 54 At that moment, you could hear gasps.

Speaker 40 There was something about his voice that clearly brought back years of pain and fear.

Speaker 58 I thought, this has got to be a big act.

Speaker 42 In the week prior, he's riding a motorcycle at high speeds.

Speaker 31 He was walking around just fine.

Speaker 74 And within a day of his arrest, he's all of a sudden bound to a wheelchair.

Speaker 81 But then the jail surveillance camera tells a very different story.

Speaker 74 He's climbing up on the bunks and getting up on the vents and cleaning things.

Speaker 65 Doing exercises in the jail cell.

Speaker 19 He's a master of disguise. He used that during all of his crimes, and he has continued to use it, but now in a different way.

Speaker 12 Victims are still processing it.

Speaker 57 And the big question: why?

Speaker 32 Why did he do all of this?

Speaker 4 What really did transpire?

Speaker 42 Why he became this person, this predator?

Speaker 11 I think that's the million-dollar question.

Speaker 41 Mr. D'Angelo would like to make a brief statement.

Speaker 19 I'd like to get into his mind to talk to him and find out what brought him up to where he was.

Speaker 84 There is no recipe for a serial killer. We can see all of these markers or all of these risk factors along the way.

Speaker 84 We have a physically abusive dad.

Speaker 36 And a relative reveals a bombshell in that HBO docuseries, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, detailing how Joseph D'Angelo, at the age of nine or 10, allegedly witnessed his younger sister being sexually assaulted.

Speaker 20 She was seven years old.

Speaker 69 The very thing

Speaker 54 that happened to my mother.

Speaker 54 is the very thing that my uncle went and did to other women.

Speaker 76 How sickening is that?

Speaker 84 It would be so easy for us as forensic psychologists if we could kind of go, a person is abused and therefore they become this kind of offender.

Speaker 11 The vast majority of people don't turn into serial rapists and serial killers. So it's hard to feel the sympathy for these offenders or to say that this event made him do it.

Speaker 84 Bonnie certainly is not responsible for D'Angelo's actions and the breakup did not cause those actions.

Speaker 11 Sentencing today for the so-called Golden State killer.

Speaker 36 Former police officer Joseph D'Angelo Jr.

Speaker 39 committed rapes and murders all across California.

Speaker 15 This is a matter of the people of the state of California versus Joseph James D'Angelo.

Speaker 44 This will be the first time that these people have seen him since the nights that they were victimized.

Speaker 17 This is a network of people that have come together that never knew each other, but share one thing in common.

Speaker 78 On March 18th, 1978,

Speaker 78 Joe D'Angelo attacked us while we were sleeping.

Speaker 78 He kidnapped me from my bed.

Speaker 78 He raped me repeatedly.

Speaker 26 I want you to look at me.

Speaker 67 You bound my wrist and ankles.

Speaker 24 You blindfolded me.

Speaker 7 Remember that?

Speaker 88 At three different times that night, I thought I was going to die.

Speaker 13 No 13-year-old

Speaker 88 should have to find out what a rape kit is.

Speaker 13 My family couldn't hide the agony in their faces.

Speaker 67 What matters is that you will spend the rest of your life in prison and I survive.

Speaker 24 I just want to tell you, buddy, to rot in hell.

Speaker 88 You will forever be known as a repulsive coward who hid behind a mask of evil.

Speaker 88 The devil can keep you company in your prison cell as he gnaws away at whatever soul you have left.

Speaker 41 Mr. D'Angelo would like to make a brief statement.

Speaker 65 I've listened to all your

Speaker 65 statements,

Speaker 54 and I'm

Speaker 65 truly sorry

Speaker 54 to everyone I've heard.

Speaker 54 Mr. D'Angelo is sentenced to a total of 11 life without the possibility parole sentences, plus an additional life sentence, plus an additional eight years.
The survivors have spoken clearly.

Speaker 54 The defendant deserves no mercy.

Speaker 30 In the end, we may have lost a battle one night, but we've won the war of life. We're nearing the end of a very long journey here.

Speaker 46 It shows that justice doesn't have a time limit. You can still find answers decades and decades later if you're willing to do the work.

Speaker 46 Inside Michelle's computer, she had a letter, and it was her writing directly to the Golden State killer.

Speaker 23 One day soon, you'll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. This is how it ends for you.
You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark. You threatened a victim once.
Open the door.

Speaker 23 Show us your face. Walk into the light.

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