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1. DNA leads to former police officer being named suspected Golden State Killer
A man once sworn to protect the public from crime was accused Wednesday of living a double life terrorizing suburban neighborhoods at night, becoming one of California's most feared serial killers and rapists in the 1970s and '80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for more than three decades.
2. Victim's brother on Golden State Killer's crimes: 'It was an awful situation'
"I don't want to see it. I don't want to know his name. No. He's a jerk. I wouldn't give him the notoriety." That's what Bruce Harrington had to say about seeing Joseph James DeAngelo’s face for the first time.
3. Neighbors react to suspected East Area Rapist living next to them
Investigators spent all of Wednesday collecting evidence at the home where Joseph James DeAngelo lived. DeAngelo’s next door neighbor described him as a "nice guy."
4. Rancho Cordova neighbors gripped by fear of East Area Rapist for decades
The East Area Rapist first attacked a woman in her home along Paseo Drive in Rancho Cordova on June 18, 1976. In a much simpler and safer time, people began to change the way they lived their lives.
5. Stockton woman believes she was nearly a Golden State Killer victim
The East Area Rapist is attributed to two attacks in Stockton and two more in Modesto. The night the rapist struck Carla Hose’s Stockton neighborhood on Meadow Drive, she was nearly a victim herself.
6. Why Patton Oswalt hopes to visit Golden State Killer suspect in jail
True-crime writer Michelle McNamara didn't live to see April 25, 2018, the day police arrested a suspect in the decades-old investigation into the Golden State Killer, a serial murder-rape case she obsessed over in her book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
7. Mapping out the Golden State Killer's alleged crimes
The Golden State Killer's list of alleged crimes go back decades, starting in Rancho Cordova in 1976 and ending in Irvine in 1986.
8. Golden State Killer suspect allegedly identified through DNA on National DNA Day
Police have allegedly identified 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, as the suspected Golden State Killer. The announcement came on April 25, also known as National DNA Day.
9. Golden State Killer vs East Area Rapist: What's in the name?
One of the most prolific and sadistic of American serial killers has gone by a number of different names in the 40-plus years since his first crimes in the Sacramento area.
10. Facebook Live: Sacramento County officials announce the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer suspect
