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Arrest made in decades old Golden State Killer case (1 Viewer)

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An arrest has been made related to the Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist. This case stretches back to the 70s and the suspect is believed to have killed at least 12 people, raped at least 45 victims and burglarized hundreds of homes.

A book called "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is currently #4 on the NYT Best Sellers list about the case. It was written by Michelle McNamara who passed away in 2016 before the book was completed (she was the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt).

Sacramento Bee article on arrest

 
I have to wonder how they caught him.  They had his DNA.  Does anything this places like Geneology.com that do DNA tests also have a list of know criminal's DNA that they can alert authorities with if they get a match, that would be awesome 

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/8es4cx/east_area_rapistoriginal_night_stalker_officially/

He is 100% DNA match. In other words, this is definitely the guy,

He is in custody and IS talking,

He was a police officer in Auburn, CA although was fired from this position after being caught shoplifting in 1979,

This means he was a member of law enforcement for all but one of the EAR attacks. After his dismissal from the force he escalated exclusively to murder, (with thanks to /u/ragnarockette for this clarification)

Was born in 1947 (possibly 1945), so would have been in the upper predicted age range (based on victim statements),

He has confirmed to LE that he was also the Visalia Ransacker (a B&E spree the pre-dated the main EAR attacks) Much disagreement was originally had as to whether the VR was or was not the EAR. Turns out he was!

Law enforcement will be giving a press conference at 12pm (PST) TODAY - I originally said it would be tomorrow (Thursday) but forgot that time differences exist (sigh). I'm in the UK, so several hours ahead of the US - my excitement got the better of me!

Check out /r/EARONS for more information on the crimes,

Current publicly available information comes from this alert that states a 'possible break' in the case. The details, including those reported above are from several verified inside sources

UPDATE 1 - The press conference is currently scheduled for 12pm PST, 3pm ET, 8pm GMT, 9pm CET, 5AM AEST - It would seem you can stream the press conference here although alternative/better streams may become available closer to the time,

UPDATE 2 - It seems a name has been found in regards to the police officer who was fired for shoplifting in 1979. The same name is currently listed as 'in custody' on murder charges on the live update Sacramento PD website.

UPDATE 3 - Ok so it is looking very likely we have found the name of the guy. It's important to stress this person has not been officially named by the police, although all information would certainly suggest this is him. A newspaper article regarding the fired Auburn policeman can be found here and a man with the same name and age range is now in custody in Sacramento on murder charges in Ventura County (where two people were killed by EAR/ONS...). That publicly available information can be seen here. Interestingly, the information that can be found for this man matches to known EAR/ONS dates of importance i.e. a daughter was born at the same time an unexplained gap in attacks took place. That this is him is entirely supposition based on the information we do have. It's likely (if not it's one HELL of a coincidence!), but until it's officially confirmed to be him (or not) then this is purely a probable suspect. N.B THIS SUSPECT HAS NOW BEEN CONFIRMED

UPDATE 4 - The news of his arrest is gaining traction with various media outlets and the name of our probable suspect above is also being publicly mentioned by a lot of them, so take from that what you will.

UPDATE 5 - The policeman fired for shoplifting (that sources confirmed earlier is the EAR/ONS) stole dog repellent and a hammer. EAR/ONS had an uncanny ability to evade/distract dogs inside the homes he entered and nobody was sure how. I guess now we know! As for the hammer....

UPDATE 6 - Ok, I'm going to take a punt on this and name the main suspect. It would seem our man is Joseph James DeAngelo. I'm only doing this as inside sources confirm EAR/ONS suspect under arrest was an Auburn policeman who was fired for shoplifting. DeAngelo was also an Auburn police officer arrested and fired for shoplifting. A lot of other things fit, the most recent being discovery that DeAngelo was engaged to a woman named Bonny, a name EAR/ONS was repeatedly heard to mutter to himself during some of the attacks.... I think it's fair to say this is the guy. If I'm wrong, I'll remove it immediately, but to save constant updates that might get confusing, I'll go out on a limb. - N.B THIS HAS NOW BEEN CONFIRMED

UPDATE 7 - Seems DeAngelo also spent time in the Navy (LE long suspected military connections) and this could explain the habit EAR/ONS had for using quite complicated/uncommon knots. An alleged picture of DeAngelo during his time in the Navy can be seen here although this is based on other people sleuthing and is not an officially released photo by police.

UPDATE 7.1 - A few people have oh-so-politely messaged me to say I should not have named Joseph DeAngelo as he could be "completely innocent". Just a quick reminder that DeAngelo, whether EAR/ONS or not, is currently under arrest on the charge of double homicide and all information I am posting is publicly available. I can't speak for any other posters who may be finding/posting private information, but anything I add here is publicly available and is relevant to the case.

UPDATE 8 - /u/Elcyis is currently hosting an excellent live thread and will be updating everytime there's a new development (particularly useful for media outlet mentions). You can check this out over here

UPDATE 9 - A few pictures of DeAngelo are starting to pop up with comparisons against EAR/ONS composites. At the risk of further inflaming those who feel a man currently in custody for double homicide is innocent and should not have his name associated with EAR/ONS, I'll post two of those composites here abd here for the curious. As above, this guy has not been confirmed as the same man in custody for the EAR/ONS murders, although it's looking bloody likely at this stage... N.B DeANGELO IS NOW CONFIRMED AS THE SUSPECT

UPDATE 10 - Big one now, news sites are starting to directly name DeAngelo as the EAR/ONS suspect... Daily Beast article here (with thanks to /u/aprildismay for noting this development!)

UPDATE 11 - Not much to report yet beyond the increase in media outlets picking this up. The live thread here is excellent at catching whenever a new article/tweet/media post etc is published. Only a few hours until the press conference now, although worth noting most of the newer media articles are directly naming DeAngelo as EAR/ONS.

UPDATE 12 - One of the EAR victims announced that police confirmed to her that they have caught him.

UPDATE 13 - Direct quote from this article - "[the suspect] was identified after a renewed push of the investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a source said".

UPDATE 14 - OK, the big media hitters are starting to report the arrest of EAR/ONS now and almost all are directly naming DeAngelo as the suspect. I think, in place of something else happening in the interim, I'll stop updating until after the press conference later on. I am very very much hoping the final update will be to confirm DeAngelo is the one, although at this stage it seems pretty certain. In the meantime, thank you for the double gold (!!!!) and the kind words. I am BUZZING that he has finally been caught. This is something of a pet case for me and I truly believed it would go unsolved. See you all post press conference.

MAJOR UPDATE 15 - Fox 40 has confirmed the EAR/ONS suspect under arrest IS Joseph DeAngelo

UPDATE 16 - From /u/Elcyis - "FBI agents and a heavy police presence is currently at DeAngelo's residence. Can be seen collecting evidence from the household and taking photographs. Reporter from Fox40 has spoken to neighbours. One neighbour said they have known this man their entire life and is completely surprised at this news."

UPDATE 17 - from /u/naitpac-x - FOX40 footage apparently showing the retrieval from DeAngelos house of items stolen from the victims https://streamable.com/mbo95

 
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I deleted the thread I started. 

Not surprising he was LE, creepy thing would be is if was responding to his own crimes. 

 
toshiba said:
He has confirmed to LE that he was also the Visalia Ransacker (a B&E spree the pre-dated the main EAR attacks) Much disagreement was originally had as to whether the VR was or was not the EAR. Turns out he was!
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Whoa.  This is interesting.

We used to live in Visalia.  We moved away a few years before the Ransacker cases.  But his first murder took place less than a mile where we had lived.  A homeowner tried to stop him from abducting his daughter and was shot in the process.  The girl had gone to elementary school with my older brothers.

 
Fired from his Law Enforcement job at height of rapes for shoplifting. 

What did he shoplift? Dog repellent and a hammer. 

This guy was calling women he has raped ten and twenty years later to remind them, a true psychopath. 

 
Attack #36: After the rape, (HAP: he laid his head on the pillow next to her) and began sobbing "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you Bonnie." (HAP: The victim was not certain that he was saying "Bonnie," but that's what it sounded like).

What we know so far:

Joseph James DeAngelo.

Born 11/8/1945.

Graduated from Folsom High School June 1964 and joined the Navy that September. Served 22 months.

Graduated Sierra College in Political Science.

Attend s California State University in 1970. Earns a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, specialising in criminal law.

May 19 1973 joins the Exeter Police Force aged 27. During this time plans to marry Sharon Huddle.

On July 19 1979, working for Auburn poli ce, De Angelo is caught shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent which leads to his dismissal.

Al so worked at Sierra Crane & Boost Co. During this time was set to be married to Bonnie Jean Colwell. Unsure a bout the specific date.

 
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toshiba said:
Attack #36: After the rape, (HAP: he laid his head on the pillow next to her) and began sobbing "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you Bonnie." (HAP: The victim was not certain that he was saying "Bonnie," but that's what it sounded like).

What we know so far:

Joseph James DeAngelo.

Born 11/8/1945.

Graduated from Folsom High School June 1964 and joined the Navy that September. Served 22 months.

Graduated Sierra College in Political Science.

Attend s California State University in 1970. Earns a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, specialising in criminal law.

May 19 1973 joins the Exeter Police Force aged 27. During this time plans to marry Sharon Huddle.

On July 19 1979, working for Auburn poli ce, De Angelo is caught shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent which leads to his dismissal.

Al so worked at Sierra Crane & Boost Co. During this time was set to be married to Bonnie Jean Colwell. Unsure a bout the specific date.
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:shock:  

 
toshiba said:
Attack #36: After the rape, (HAP: he laid his head on the pillow next to her) and began sobbing "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you Bonnie." (HAP: The victim was not certain that he was saying "Bonnie," but that's what it sounded like).

What we know so far:

Joseph James DeAngelo.

Born 11/8/1945.

Graduated from Folsom High School June 1964 and joined the Navy that September. Served 22 months.

Graduated Sierra College in Political Science.

Attend s California State University in 1970. Earns a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, specialising in criminal law.

May 19 1973 joins the Exeter Police Force aged 27. During this time plans to marry Sharon Huddle.

On July 19 1979, working for Auburn poli ce, De Angelo is caught shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent which leads to his dismissal.

Al so worked at Sierra Crane & Boost Co. During this time was set to be married to Bonnie Jean Colwell. Unsure a bout the specific date.
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are you catching up now or have you been reading along?

i started following this case (the sub reddit) after reading an article i found on longform, maybe a year ago. it's quite the rabbit hole to go down.

 
Michelle McNamara wrote a piece called “Letter to an Old Man” I think today this is really worth a read...

“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.

The doorbell rings.

No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.

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. Show us your face.

Walk into the light.”
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/letter-to-the-golden-state-killer/amp

 
mr. furley said:
are you catching up now or have you been reading along?

i started following this case (the sub reddit) after reading an article i found on longform, maybe a year ago. it's quite the rabbit hole to go down.
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I spend a lot of time on unresolved mysteries, and this one has so much that sharing it all would take years.  But there are some good, very touching, stories.

 
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toshiba said:
I spend a lot of time on unresolved mysteries, and this one has so much that sharing it all would take years.  But there are some good, very touching, stories.
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this EAR/ONS story got me to start reading r/unresolvedmysteries

pretty interesting stuff. if a bit morbid.

 
Him placing dishes on victims so he could hear them try to move while he raped someone else in the house, or had a sandwich, was something he did a lot. 

He went 10+ years breaking into hundreds of homes. He terrorized victims, it was always more than a rape or even murder. He killed one guy with a piece of firewood. Torture. 

 
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[–]ieatstickers 16 points 2 hours ago 

At one of the crime scenes, they assumed that he couldn’t have possibly jumped the fence without injuring himself. When they looked into nearby hospitals, a man went for a shoulder injury 3 days after that attack. He used a fake name and social security number. I think he was admitted for a day or two and then fled. One of the two guys who helped finish Michelle’s book said that when they were looking into this, it became a dead end because the intake person had passed away.

[–]Peter_Felterbush [score hidden] 55 minutes ago 

I had the impression he was only in the hospital for a short amount of time, leaving as soon as he realized the intake nurse was suspicious of him.

[–]eritain [score hidden] 19 minutes ago 

You are correct. Wasn't ever fully checked in.

[–]eritain [score hidden] 18 minutes ago 

Used an ID that had gone missing from a burglary victim a couple years earlier. And EAR took a 3-month break immediately afterward.

 
They need to check his dvr to see how many times he watched the HLN series. 

I mean it just finished last week. This can’t be a coincidence, someone he knew figured out it was him. 

 
The two warrants are out of Ventura County.  Did he ever live there?  Did he make a point to commit crimes away from where he lived?

Fascinating stuff 

 
I wonder how influential McNamara's book was in DeAngelo's arrest. Was it just a complete coincidence? Did it cause someone who read it to come forward with information? Did it put pressure on police to put more resources on it that enabled it to finally break open?

 
Crazy....

Paul Sanchietti, who lives a quarter-block away, described DeAngelo as "the odd neighbor" who cursed loudly while working in his front yard.

"He was aggravated or upset, his voice would carry, his swearing was alarming," Sanchietti said. "But he seemed to calm down in the last few years."

Neighbors said they believed DeAngelo lived in the home with at least one other person, and they reported seeing DeAngelo working in his front yard as recently as Tuesday, building a table. A Toyota and a Volvo sat in the meticulously maintained garage Wednesday morning.

Kevin Tapia said he grew up in a home behind DeAngelo and is now raising his own family there. In more than three decades, Tapia said his family has often had angry run-ins with DeAngelo.

"He had a lot of verbal altercations with my parents," Tapia said.

Tapia described DeAngelo as extremely meticulous, to the point of having permanent markings on his driveway so he could be exact in parking his boat. He said he talked to DeAngelo as recently as a week ago about a motorcycle mechanic.
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So it says DNA and surveillance resulted in his arrest.

So maybe he was called in on a tip line because of the show, police did some investigating, figured he was a good suspect, and then they got his DNA out of the trash or something. That’s my guess.,

 
Doctor Detroit said:
So it says DNA and surveillance resulted in his arrest.

So maybe he was called in on a tip line because of the show, police did some investigating, figured he was a good suspect, and then they got his DNA out of the trash or something. That’s my guess.,
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I'm thinking they got the DNA from a mosquito trapped in amber.

 
Jesus...

In 1982, a previous victim who was working at a Denny's restaurant received a call at work from the rapist, during which he said he would rape her again. Contra Costa County District Attorney Paul Holes has stated that the rapist must have gone to the restaurant and recognized one of his victims working there
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These are stupid questions. 

How was this suspect initially referred to law enforcement? Did it come from a tip or by other means?

ask that you ####### dopes

 
General Malaise said:
In 1982, a previous victim who was working at a Denny's restaurant received a call at work from the rapist, during which he said he would rape her again. Contra Costa County District Attorney Paul Holes has stated that the rapist must have gone to the restaurant and recognized one of his victims working there
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" (evil laugh)....oh and can I get a Moons Over MyHammy to-go too?"

 
Glad they finally caught the guy.  I never figured they would...just assumed he was dead since he went quiet in the early 80's.  I'm amazed someone that sick and twisted could just quit cold turkey like that. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
So it says DNA and surveillance resulted in his arrest.

So maybe he was called in on a tip line because of the show, police did some investigating, figured he was a good suspect, and then they got his DNA out of the trash or something. That’s my guess.,
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So I got this part but what pointed them at this guy? He must have a relative in jail or that has given a dna sample.

He wasn’t on LE radar until six days ago, they collected a discarded sample to confirm it was him, but how did they get there? 

 
Pipes said:
Glad they finally caught the guy.  I never figured they would...just assumed he was dead since he went quiet in the early 80's.  I'm amazed someone that sick and twisted could just quit cold turkey like that. 
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Based on the timeline, seems like he stopped after having kids. Maybe his wife was nagging him for staying out all night. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
So I got this part but what pointed them at this guy? He must have a relative in jail or that has given a dna sample.

He wasn’t on LE radar until six days ago, they collected a discarded sample to confirm it was him, but how did they get there? 
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We will probably have to wait for the book unfortunately.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Based on the timeline, seems like he stopped after having kids. Maybe his wife was nagging him for staying out all night. 
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Some guys quit cigarettes or pot once they have kids.  I guess it's reasonable to give up rape and murder for the sake of your family.  

 
McJose said:
Some guys quit cigarettes or pot once they have kids.  I guess it's reasonable to give up rape and murder for the sake of your family.  
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Maybe the wife found the trophies he was taking. This is going to be interesting if he’s talking. 

I can’t believe the timing on this though. That 5 part series ended the Sunday before last, and four days later they identify this guy and police say it has nothing to do with show/book. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Maybe the wife found the trophies he was taking. This is going to be interesting if he’s talking. 

I can’t believe the timing on this though. That 5 part series ended the Sunday before last, and four days later they identify this guy and police say it has nothing to do with show/book. 
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Yeah that's pretty crazy.  

 
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