The Golden State Killer was a serial killer, rapist, and thief who committed at least 12 murders, more than 50 rapes, and more than 100 robberies in California from 1974 to 1986. He is believed to be responsible for three criminal sprees throughout California, each spawning a different nickname in the press before it became clear that they were done by the same person. In the Sacramento area he is known as East Area Rapist , and is linked by modus operandi (MO) to additional attacks in Contra Costa County, Stockton, and Modesto. He was later known for Southern California crime as the Original Night Stalker . He is alleged to have started as a thief ( Visalia Ransacker ) before moving to the Sacramento area, based on the same MO and indirect evidence; however, in June 2018 no direct relationship was revealed.
During the investigation, several suspects have been cleared through DNA evidence, alibi, or other investigative methods. In 2001, DNA testing showed that East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker were the same person and he was known as "EAR/ONS". The FBI and local law enforcement agencies held a press conference on June 15, 2016 to announce renewed national efforts, offering a prize of US $ 50,000 for his arrest. To raise awareness that the non-caught killer operates throughout California, crime writer Michelle McNamara calls her "Golden State Killer".
Authorities accuse 72-year-old Navy veteran and former police Joseph James DeAngelo of eight counts of first-degree murder, based on DNA evidence, April 24, 2018. This is the first announcement linking Visalia Ransacker crime to the Gold State Murderer.. Because of California's restrictive legislation on pre-2017 rape cases, DeAngelo could not be charged with rape in the late 1970s.
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Crime
DNA evidence connects the Gold State Killer with eight murders in Goleta, Ventura, Dana Point and Irvine; two other murders in Goleta, lacking DNA evidence, linked by MO. Researchers suspect the same killer in three other murders: two in Rancho Cordova and one in Visalia. The perpetrators also committed more than 50 rapes in California, Sacramento, Contra Costa, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda, Santa Clara and Yolo, in addition to hundreds of theft incidents, peeping, stalking and wandering.
Visalia Ransacker (April 1974-December 1975)
It has long been suspected that the crime-training venue that will become a Gold State Murderer is Visalia, California (though the previous crime of 'Cordova Catburgler' or 'Exeter Ransacker' is now allegedly linked as well). From April 1974 to December 1975, Visalia Ransacker was believed to be responsible for one murder and about 120 robberies. Most of Ransacker's activities involve breaking into homes, ransacking (or destroying) owner property, scattering women's underwear, stealing coins and low-value or personal items, while often ignoring paper money and other valuables in sight.
At the end of April 2018, the Visalia police chief said that the department was "confident that Visalia Ransacker had been arrested." However, he admits that the main suspect (DeAngelo) has never been a suspect in their investigation, there is no DNA evidence, and no other unsolved murders or rape in the connected area. The restriction law has ended for theft, and there is no relationship between September 1975 The murder of Claude Snelling and DeAngelo has been made.
East Area Rapist (June 1976-July 1979)
The Golden State Killer is believed to have moved to the Sacramento area, progressing from a robbery to rape in mid-1976. The crime was initially centered in the unconnected areas of Carmichael, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova, east of Sacramento. Initially modus operandi is to lurk middle-class neighborhoods at night looking for a lone woman in a one-story house, usually near schools, creeks, walkways or other open spaces that will provide escape. He was seen several times, but always managed to escape; on one occasion he shot and wounded a young pursuer.
Most victims have seen (or heard) a thief in their property before the attack, and many have been burglarized. Police believe that the perpetrator has an extensive surveillance pattern in some homes in the targeted environment before choosing one to attack. As part of his oversight, he was known to look into the windows of the victims in the future and roam the yard for a few nights before attacking. On several occasions, it is believed that in attacks to attack the perpetrator enter the victim's home in the future to open the window, unload the weapon and bind the ligature for later use. He often called them before the attack, sometimes months before, to learn their daily routine; he sometimes hangs up, pretends the wrong number, or (in a call after an attack) threatens to hurt the victim again.
Although initially he only targeted women in their homes or with children, the offender ultimately preferred to attack the couple. His MO was barging in through a sliding glass window or door and waking the sleepers with a flashlight, threatening them with a gun. The victim is then tied up with a ligature (often a shoelace) that he finds or carries with him, blindfolded and clogged with a towel he has torn. Female victims are usually forced to tie up their male friends before they are tied up. The binding was often so tight that the victim's hands numbed for hours after being released. He then separates the couple, often stacking plates on his back and threatening to kill everyone at home if he hears them ticking. She moves her into the living room and often rapes her repeatedly, sometimes for several hours.
Perpetrators sometimes spend hours in homes that robbing cabinets and drawers, eating food in the kitchen, drinking beer, raping the woman again or making additional threats. The victim sometimes thinks he has left home before he "jumps [ed] from the dark". Offenders usually steal items, often personal belongings and small valuables but sometimes cash and firearms. He then creeps away, leaving the victim uncertain if he leaves. The perpetrator is believed to run away on foot through a series of yards and then use the bike to go home or to the car, utilizing the park, school, creek beds, and other open spaces that make it away from the street.
The rapist operated in Sacramento County from the first attack in June 1976 to May 1977. After three months, he attacked in nearby San Joaquin County in September before returning to Sacramento for all but one of the next ten attacks. Rapists attacked five times during the summer of 1978 in Stanislaus and Yolo districts before disappearing again for three months. The attack was then transferred mainly to Contra Costa County in October and lasted until July 1979.
Murder
The young Sacramento couple Brian and Katie Maggiore, (formerly a military police officer at Mather Air Force Base), were walking with their dogs in the Rancho Cordova area on the night of February 2, 1978, near where five East Area Rapist attacks occurred.. Maggiores escaped after a confrontation on the road, but was chased and shot dead. Some investigators suspect that they have been murdered by East Area Rappers due to their proximity to the location of other attacks, and shoelaces are found nearby. The FBI announced on June 15, 2016, that it was convinced that East Area Rapists killed Maggiores.
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Shortly after the rape took place on July 5, the East Area Rapist moved to southern California and first attacked in Santa Barbara County in October. The attack lasted until 1981 (with one 1986 attack), and took a darker turn when the rapist began killing his victim. Only the couple in the first attack survived, warned the neighbors and forced the intruder to flee; other victims were killed by gunfire or banging. Since East Area Rapist was not linked to this crime for decades, he was known as Night Stalker in the area before being named the Original Night Stalker after Richard Ramirez received his previous nickname.
1979
On October 1st, an intruder broke in and tied up the Goleta couple. Fearing to hear him say, "I'll kill them" to himself, the man and the woman tried to escape when he left the room and the woman screamed. Realizing that the alarm had been raised, the intruder had escaped by bicycle. A neighbor (FBI agent) responds to noise and chases the offender, who leaves his bicycle and knife and runs away on foot via the local backyard. The attack was later attributed to the Offerman-Manning assassination by a shoe-print and yarn used to tie the victims.
On 30 December, 44-year-old Robert Offerman and 35-year-old Debra Alexandra Manning were found shot dead in condado Condado at Avenida Pequena in Goleta. Binding Offerman was not binding, indicating that he had hit the attacker. Neighbors heard gunfire but failed to answer, saying they thought the shot was harmless. Large dog foot prints were found at the scene, leading to speculation that the killer might have brought him. The killer also enters the abode of an empty residence and steals the bike, then is found abandoned on the road north of the scene, from the third residence in the compound.
1980
On March 13, Charlene Smith was 33 years old and 43-year-old Lyman Smith (who will be appointed judge) was found murdered in their Ventura home; Charlene Smith has been raped. A wooden block from a wooden pile on the side of the house was used to shower the victim to death. Their wrists and ankles have been tied with curtain ropes. An unusual Chinese knot, a diamond node, used on Charlene's wrist; the same knot was recorded in the Sacramento East Area attack, at least one confirmed public case.
On August 19, 24-year-old Keith Eli Harrington and 27-year-old Patrice Briscoe Harrington were found beaten to death at their home on Cockleshell Drive in the Nigeling Shores peat community at Dana Point. Patrice Harrington has also been raped. Despite the evidence that the wrist and ankle of the Harringtons were bound, no ligature or murder weapons were found at the scene. Harringtons had been married for three months at the time of their death. Patrice is a nurse in Irvine, and Keith is a medical student at UC Irvine. Brother Keith, Bruce, then spent nearly $ 2 million supporting California Proposition 69 validating DNA collections from all California criminals and some other criminals.
1981
On February 6, 28-year-old Manuela Witthuhn was raped and murdered at Irvine's home. Although Witthuhn's body had signs tied up before he was hit, no ligatur or murder weapon was found. Victims get married; her husband was hospitalized, and she was alone at the time of the attack. The detectives noted that Witthuhn's television was found in the backyard, perhaps the killer's attempt to make the crime look like a failed robbery.
On July 27, 35-year old Cheri Domingo and 27-year-old Gregory Sanchez were murder victims of the 10 and 11 Genuine Sacrifices of the Night. Both were attacked at Domingo's residence in Toltec Way in Goleta (several blocks south of Robert Offerman's condominium), where he lived temporarily; it is owned by the relatives of the deceased and for sale. The perpetrator entered the house through a small bathroom window. Sanchez had not been tied up, and was shot and wounded on the cheek before he was beaten to death with a garden tool. Some people believe that Sanchez might have realized he was dealing with the man responsible for the Offerman-Manning murder, and tried to deal with the killer rather than be tied up. Again, no neighbors responded to the shot. Sanchez's head was covered with clothes pulled from the closet. Domingo was raped and beaten; bruises on her wrists and ankles show that she has been tied up, even though her obstacles are gone. A piece of yarn is found near the bed, and fibers from unknown sources are scattered all over his body. Authorities believe that the assailant may have worked as a painter or in the same work at Calle Real Shopping Center.
1986
On May 4, an 18-year-old Janelle Lisa Cruz was found after she was raped and beaten to death at Irvine's home. His family was on vacation in Mexico at the time of the attack. The key to the pipe, reportedly missing by Cruz's stepfather, is considered a murder weapon.
The murder of southern California was not initially considered connected by researchers in their respective jurisdictions. A Sacramento detective firmly believes that East Area Rapists are responsible for Goleta attacks, but the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department connects them with local career criminals who were later killed. The investigation of crimes that were not committed at Goleta caused the local police to follow false instructions related to those close to female victims. One person, then cleansed, is accused of two murders. The cases were related almost entirely to DNA testing, many years later.
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Suspected profile
Known physical characteristics
This physical characteristic is considered factual based on crime scene evidence and an almost universal agreement by victims and law enforcement:
- White man
- About 5Ã, ft 10 in (1.78 m) high
- Slim, athletic
- Size 9 to 9 1 / 2 shoes
- Type A's blood
- Non-secretors: Sperm does not contain blood group antigens.
- Lively and able to run fast, cycling, and climbing fences
Possible characteristics
This physical characteristic is considered possible; some victims describe the perpetrators differently:
- 18-25 years when the rape began in 1976; the authorities believe he is between 60 and 75 years old by 2018.
- Blonde or blond hair
- Blue or light-colored eyes
- Penis size is "small" or "smaller than average"
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, microscopic paint chips were found in three crime scenes (two murders and rape). It shows that Golden State Killer may have worked in construction, probably using a spray paint gun. Construction work has taken place near the 1979 Goleta assassination site, and a cold case investigator contacted the developer in 2013 to identify subcontractors working on site and obtain job records.
Psychological profile
After the criminologists matched the serological evidence found in homicides in southern California, a speculative psychological profile of the Golden State Killer was compiled based on probabilistic analysis. According to Leslie D'Ambrosia, the lead author of the profile, Golden State Killer may have the following characteristics:
- The emotional age equivalent to the age of 26 to 30 years at the time of the murder started in 1979
- Engage in paraphilic behavior and brutal sex in his personal life
- Engage in sex with prostitutes
- Have knowledge of police investigation methods and evidence-gathering techniques
- Sexually functioning, able to ejaculate with approved and disagreeing partners
- Dress nice and will not stand out in an upscale environment
- Living or working near Ventura, California in 1980
- Good physical condition
- The cat burglar is experienced and experienced, and may have started like that
- Have a deleted teenage record
- Have some revenue tool, but it does not work in the early hours of the morning
- Hates women for actual (or perceived) mistakes
- If married, may have an obedient partner who tolerates her deviant sexual behavior
- Smart and articulate
- It may begin as a voyeur in the late teens or early twenties
- Neat and well-organized in his private life, and driving well-kept cars
- Peek in the window of many people who are not attacked
- Probably not married, and not entering long-term relationships
- Confident and confident
- Will continue to commit violent crimes until disabling by prison, death, or other intervention
- Be explained by those who know him as arrogant, dominant, manipulative, and a chronic liar
In addition to outlining the Killer characteristics of the Golden State, the profile speculates that he may be jailed after the murder of Janelle Cruz or killed in a similar crime; However, the latter is not possible because he contacted the victims until the end of 2001. Apart from that, the profile recommends that law enforcement agencies investigate the attempts of burglary theft of the late 1980s resulting in the death of a male offender. This shows little possibility that the Golden State Killer committed suicide; he can not be confined within mental institutions.
According to the profile, the teleprinter bulletin was broadcast to law enforcement agencies across the United States after the original murder. The bulletin asked for information about a similar home invasion involving sexual assault, murder, beatings, double casualties, and slavery. In 2015, no similar crimes were reported. The profile argues that the Golden State Killer may continue to commit his crimes in another unrelated country.
Correspondence
Letters and other posts
< span id = "& quot; & quot; Spirit"> "Joy of Excitement" (December 11, 1977)
In December 1977, letters containing a poem entitled "The Spirit of Excitement" by an individual claiming to be East Area Raiders were sent to the Sacramento Bee Editor, the Sacramento mayor's office, and KVIE TV station. December 11 is the date when a masked man (probably a Gold Country Killer) avoids persecution by law enforcement personnel after warning authorities over the phone that he will strike on Watt Avenue that night. Although the authenticity of the poem was never proven, his avoidance of the police that morning might have inspired him to write it.
The Spirit of Joy
homework page and map of punishment (9 December 1978)
During the investigation of the 42nd attack in Danville, investigators found three notebook leaves near the spot where a suspicious vehicle was reported to have been parked, though whether they came from the East Area Rapist has not been proven. The first leaf appears to be an essay on General George Armstrong Custer. The second contains journal-style entries in which the author writes about a teacher who makes their students write lines, which, according to the embarrassing author:
Mad is a word, a word that reminds me of grade 6. I hate that year ... I wish I knew what would happen during my 6th year, last year and worst in elementary school. Madness is the word left in my head about my terrible year as a 6th grader. My madness is one that is caused by the disappointment that hurt me so much. Dissapointments from my teachers, such as planned feild trips, can then be integrated. My 6th grade teacher gave me a lot of likelihood that made me very angry and made me build a state of hater in my heart, no one has ever let me down and I have never hated anyone as much as I did to her. Disapointment is not the only reason that makes me crazy in my sixth grade, others are having trouble at school, especially talking about what really annoys me is writing sentences, horrible sentences made by my teacher ... i write, hours and hours Id sit and write 50-100-150 sentences day and night i write a horrible Paragraph that embarrass me and more important it makes me ashamed of myself which in turn, deep inside makes me realizing that writing unfair sentences, it's unfair to make me suffer like that, it's unfair to make me sit and wright until my bones are aked, until my hands feel every terrible pain that ever existed and as I write, I become crazy and crazy till i cried, i cried in shame i cried because i was discusted, i cried because i was angry, and i cried for myself i, the child who continues to have to write the sentence dane it. My anger from sixth grade will leave my memory for life and I will be ashamed for my sixth year forever
The last is a map drawn by hand from what appears to be a suburban neighborhood, with the word "punishment" written on the back side of the paper. The researcher can not identify the areas depicted on the map, although the artist clearly has knowledge of the architectural layout and landscape design. According to Detective Larry Pool, this map is a fantasy location that represents the land desired by Golden State Killer.
Phone call
"I am East Side Rapist "(March 18, 1977)
On March 18, 1977, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office received three calls from a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist; no one recorded. The first two calls, received at 4:15 and 4:30, are identical and ends with the caller laughing and hanging up. The last call came at 5:00, with the caller saying: "I am East Side Rapist and I have the next victim who's been stalking and you can not catch me".
"Will never catch me" (2 December 1977)
A man who claims to be a rapist called the Sacramento Police said: "You will never catch me, East Area Rapist, stupid bastard, I'll make love again tonight. The call was recorded and then released. Similar to previous calls, the East Area Rapist attacked the next victim on the same night.
"Merry Christmas" (December 9, 1977)
A victim previously received a phone call during the 1977 Christmas season that he gave to his attacker. The caller said, "Merry Christmas, here I am again!"
"Watt Avenue" (December 10, 1977)
Shortly before 10:00 pm on the night of December 10, 1977, dispatchers from the Sacramento County Police Department and the Sacramento City Police Department received a similar call saying: "I am going to hit tonight." Watt Avenue. Both were reportedly recorded, and the caller was identified as the same person who placed the 2nd of December call. The law enforcement patrol was upgraded that night in response, and at 2:30 a.m. the sheriff's deputy saw a masked man cycling on the Watt Avenue bridge; he avoids them. She was found again at 4:30 am by city police. He dumps the bike, which is determined to have been stolen in Redding, California, and runs on foot.
"Gonna Kills You" (January 2, 1978)
The first known rape victim received the wrong number call to ask for "Ray" on January 2, 1978. The call was recorded, and police suspected that it might be the same caller who made the threatening call for her later that night. The call was also recorded and identified by the victim as the attacker's voice. The caller said, "I'll kill you... will kill you... will kill you... bitch... bitch... bitch... bitch... a fucking whore."
Counseling services (January 6, 1978)
A volunteer for Call Counseling Services answered a call from a man claiming to be the East Area Rapist, who said: "I have a problem I need help because I do not want to do this anymore." After a short conversation, the caller said, "I'm sure you searched for this call" and hung up.
Later call
In 2002, a previous victim who worked at Denny's restaurant received a call at work from a rapist in which he said that he would rape him again. According to Costa Cross County District Attorney Paul Holes, a rapist must go to a restaurant and recognize one of his victims working there.
In 1991, the previous victim received a phone call from the perpetrator and talked to her for a minute. She can hear a woman and children in the background, leading to speculation that she has a family. On April 6, 2001, the day after an article was published on the Sacramento Bee that confirmed that the Original Nurseman and East Area Rape was the same person, a rapist was receiving a call from him. ; he asked, "Remember when we played?" before hanging up.
Investigation
Before officially connecting the Native Nightmite to the East Area Rapist in 2001, several law enforcement officials (especially from the Sacramento Sheriff's Department) sought to link the Goleta cases as well. The link is primarily because of the similarity in modus operandi . One of the premiere Original Night Stalker killings took place in Ventura, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Goleta, and the remaining killing was done in Orange County - an additional 90 miles (140 km) southeast. In 2001, some rape in Contra Costa County was believed to have been carried out by DNA-linked East Area Rapist with the murders of Smith, Harrington, Whithuhn, and Cruz. A decade later, DNA evidence indicates that the Domingo-Sanchez murder was committed by the Golden State Killer.
On June 15, 2016, the FBI released further information related to the crime, including new composite sketches and testimony from victims and local and federal investigators. A press conference was held in Sacramento, where local law enforcement agencies and the FBI announced a prize of US $ 50,000 for information leading to the Golden State Killer conviction. This initiative includes a national database to support law enforcement that investigates crime and handles tips and information.
Suspect
During the investigation, some people were considered and eliminated as a suspect:
- Brett Glasby, from Goleta, is considered a suspect by investigators Santa Barbara County. He was murdered in Mexico in 1982 (before the murder of Janelle Cruz), removing him as a suspect.
- Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, high-level member of the Aryan Brotherhood. Schneider is a career criminal, who lives in Orange County, California, when the murders of Harringtons, Manuela Witthuhn, and Janelle Cruz were done. During the late 1990s, when an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, Schneider provided a DNA sample that cleared it.
- Joe Alsip, friend and business partner of victim Lyman Smith. Alsip had visited the Smith family the day before Lyman and Charlene Smith were murdered, and the priest Alsip said he had confessed to him during a family counseling session. Although the reported claims were dubious by the County Ventura County Prosecutor's Office, Alsip was dragged for Smith's 1982 murder. After the preliminary hearing, the indictment was dropped, and his innocence was confirmed by DNA testing in 1997.
In November 2002, journalist Colleen Cason wrote a newspaper series on the killing for Ventura County Star. According to Cason, Detective Larry Pool of the Orange County Sheriff's Department visited California Death Row at San Quentin in an attempt to find the Golden State Killer; The pool is suspected that the murderer has been arrested and sentenced to death for other violent crimes. However, no genetic samples were collected from Death Row inmates matching the DNA of the Golden State Killer.
Joseph James DeAngelo
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo on the afternoon of April 24, 2018, in connection with the crime. DeAngelo, a former police officer in Auburn and Exeter, California, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in special circumstances. On May 10, the Santa Barbara District Prosecutor's Office charged DeAngelo with four additional charges of first-degree murder of four murders believed to have been committed by the Golden State Killer in the area. Prior to the arrest, law enforcement uploaded a DNA Gold Killer DNA profile from a complete rape tool in Ventura County to a Florida-based GEDmatch personal genomic site. The website identifies 10 to 20 distant relatives of the Golden State Killer (sharing the same great-grandfather's great-grandfather), from whom a team of five investigators builds a family tree. They identified two suspects in the case (one of whom was ruled out by a relative's DNA test), leaving DeAngelo as the main suspect. On April 18, DNA samples furtively collected from the driver's side door handle a DeAngelo seen driving car parked in Hobby Lobby's parking lot in Roseville, California. Five days later, another DNA sample was collected from the tissue found in the DeAngelo side bins. Both samples are consistent with profiles of Orange and Ventura County suspects. About four months passed between the first match on GEDmatch and DeAngelo's capture.
DeAngelo was born on November 8, 1945 in Bath, New York to Joseph James DeAngelo Sr. and Kathleen Louise DeGroat. She attended ninth grade at Mills Middle School in Rancho Cordova, California. He graduated from Folsom High School in June 1964. DeAngelo joined the US Navy in September of that year, and served for 22 months during the Vietnam War as a damage controller on the USS Canberra , and received the National Defense Services, Vietnam Services, and Campaign Medal Vietnam. From August 1968, DeAngelo studied at Sierra College, graduating from an associate degree in police science with honors in June 1970. He was engaged to Bonnie Colwell in May 1970; they were classmates at Sierra College, but they never married. Colwell admitted to canceling the wedding. Researchers believe this may be connected to violators reportedly saying, "I hate you, Bonnie!" during at least one attack. From 1971, he attended Sacramento State, where he focused on criminal law and received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. He then continued his post-graduate work, before completing a 32-week police apprentice at the Roseville Police Department.
He was then a police officer in Exeter (moved from Citrus Heights) from May 18, 1973 to August 1976. He married Sharon Marie Huddle's lawyer on November 19, 1973; they had three daughters, and split up in 1991. In 1976 he was promoted to sergeant and in charge of the Exeter Government-funded "Joint Attack on Burglary" program. He then served in Auburn from August 1976 to July 1979, when he was caught shoplifting hoards and dog hooves and sentenced to a six-month trial in October of that year. His job history for the next decade is unknown. From 1990 to retirement in 2017, DeAngelo was a truck mechanic at the Roseville distribution center for the Save Mart Supermarket. DeAngelo lived in Citrus Heights with a daughter and granddaughter at the time of her arrest. His brother-in-law, James Huddle, said that DeAngelo casually raised the Eastern Area Rapist in conversations around the time of the original crime. Neighbors reported that DeAngelo was often involved in a loud and profane explosion.
Significance
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