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Golden State Killer admits to assaults and slayings in California

By Associated Press

June 29, 2020

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Joseph James DeAngelo, center, charged with being the Golden State Killer, his helped up by his attorney, Diane Howard, as Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman enters the courtroom in Sacramento, Calif. DeAngelo, 74, is expected to plead guilty 40 years after a sadistic series of assaults and slayings in California. Due to the large numbers of people attending, the hearing was held at a ballroom at California State University, Sacramento to allow for social distancing.
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Joseph Cress, left, the public defender for Joseph James DeAngelo, charged with being the Golden State Killer, adjusts the microphone for his client during a hearing in Sacramento Superior Court in Sacramento, Calif. DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of murder and multiple other charges 40 years after a sadistic series of assaults and slayings in California. Due to the large numbers of people attending, the hearing was held at a ballroom at California State University, Sacramento to allow for social distancing.
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Joseph James DeAngelo, center, charged with being the Golden State Killer, is helped up by his attorney, Diane Howard, as Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman enters the courtroom in Sacramento, Calif. DeAngelo pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder and other charges 40 years after a sadistic series of assaults and slayings in California. Due to the large numbers of people attending, the hearing was held at a ballroom at California State University, Sacramento to allow for social distancing.
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Joseph James DeAngelo, charged with being the Golden State Killer, is wheeled into the courtroom in Sacramento, Calif.. DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder and other charges 40 years after a sadistic series of assaults and slayings in California. Due to the large numbers of people attending, the hearing was held at a ballroom at California State University, Sacramento to allow for social distancing.
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People gather in a courtroom set up in a ballroom where a 74-year-old former police officer is tentatively set to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer in Sacramento, Calif. The hearing comes 40 years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators only later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings. The plea deal will spare Joseph DeAngelo any chance of the death penalty, but in partial return survivors of the assaults that spanned the 1970s and 1980s expect him to admit to dozens of rapes that could not be criminally charged because too much time has elapsed.
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This pair of sketches provided by the San Francisco Police Department shows what a serial killer might look like now in a cold case involving at least five stabbing deaths of gay men in the mid-1970s in San Francisco. The killer was dubbed the "Doodler" after he told a person who later became a victim and survived that he was a cartoonist. It's one of several cases being re-examined after the capture last year of the "Golden State Killer" through DNA analysis.
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Authorities gather outside the home of Joseph James DeAngelo in Citrus Heights, Calif. The home of DeAngelo, suspected of being the notorious "Golden State Killer", has been sold to a couple who intend to live there. The Sacramento Bee reports DeAngelo's 1,500-square-foot home in Citrus Heights, Calif., was sold last month.
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Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, from left, Ventura County District Attorney Gregory Totten, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley and Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward arrive for a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif. A former police officer accused of being Golden State Killer will be tried in Sacramento County on more than a dozen murders committed up and down the state that terrorized residents during the 1970s and '80s.
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Joseph James DeAngelo, is arraigned in Sacramento County Superior Court in Sacramento, Calif. The former police officer is tentatively set to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer. The hearing comes 40 years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators only later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings.
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Jennifer Carole, the daughter of Lyman Smith, believed to be one of the victims of the Golden State Killer, talks with reporters after Joseph James DeAngelo's court appearance in Sacramento, Calif. Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators only later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, the 74-year-old former police officer is tentatively set to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer.
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Joseph James DeAngelo, charged with being the Golden State Killer, appears in Sacramento County Superior Court with his attorney, Diane Howard, left, in Sacramento, Calif.. Superior Court Judge Steve White approved prosecutors' request to take more DNA samples from DeAngelo over the objections of his defense attorneys.
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Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, accused of being the Golden State Killer, stands in a Sacramento, Calif., jail court as a judge weighs how much information to release about his arrest. GEDmatch, a popular online genetics database used to find unknown relatives, has tightened its policies for police usage over privacy concerns, after detectives used the site to track down DeAngelo.

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