( Click here, if you are unable to view this video on your mobile device.) Wednesday and is currently listed on suicide watch. DeAngelo, who according to one report is the “good” father of three adult daughters, was booked into the Sacramento County Sheriff’s jail at about 2:30 a.m. Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones confirmed reports that DeAngelo had worked at Auburn and other police departments in the 1970s. FBI wanted poster shows drawings of a suspect known as the “Golden State Killer”. (AFP/Getty Images) Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, joined by law enforcement leaders from throughout the state, announced that DNA evidence developed in the past six days had led to the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who lived for more than three decades on a quiet suburban street in Citrus Heights.
As part of a plea agreement to not inflict the death penalty, DeAngelo also admitted to uncharged crimes, including attempted murder, kidnapping to commit robbery, rape, robbery, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment.News broke Wednesday that a 72-year-old former police officer was taken into custody Wednesday, accused of being the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and killer who terrorized residents in the Bay Area, Sacramento area and Southern California in the late 1970s. In June, DeAngelo, who was identified and arrested 32 years after he murdered his last victim in 2018, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and 13 additional felony counts of kidnapping to commit robbery dating back to the 1970s and 1980s in California. We heard of the dozens and dozens of sexual assault victims who had to go through that depraved act while some of their husbands watched, which is beyond comprehension.As he was destroying your lives, he got to be on his boat, blow out birthday candles, hold his granddaughter, but all the time in the back of his mind, he knew, he knew-we would get him." We heard of the memories that were never made. "For the last three days," Spitzer later said, "we heard about the 13 lives that were cut short in murder. "I've listened to all of your statements, each one of them, and I am really sorry to everyone I've hurt," he said while standing. DeAngelo will spend the rest of his natural life and ultimately meet his death confined behind the walls of the state penitentiary," Judge Bowman said.ĭeAngelo did briefly address the room before learning his future. Seated in a wheelchair, DeAngelo's facial expression was camouflaged underneath. The convicted killer, who often disguised himself with a face mask while committing his crimes, was once again masked, this time amid the coronavirus pandemic. DeAngelo must also register as a sex offender, pay fines and is barred from owning a firearm.
His sentence includes 11 life terms without the possibility of parole, to be served consecutively, plus 15 life terms and eight years.
21, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the 74-year-old former police officer widely known as the Golden State Killer among other monikers, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Michael Bowman inside the Sacramento State University Ballroom. The Golden State Killer's fate has been unmasked.