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  1. Jun 30, 2020 · DeAngelo was arrested in 2018 after authorities used DNA to track him. DeAngelo, who has never publicly acknowledged the killings, is said to have added: "I didn't have the strength to push him out. He made me. He went with me. It was like in my head, I mean, he's a part of me. "I didn't want to do those things.

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  2. Jun 30, 2020 · After he was arrested, DeAngelo admitted his crimes to himself in an interview room, saying: ‘I did all those things. I destroyed all their lives. So now I’ve got to pay the price.’

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  3. Jun 30, 2020 · “I did all that,” DeAngelo said to himself while alone in a police interrogation room after his arrest in April 2018, Sacramento County prosecutor Thien Ho said.

  4. Jun 29, 2020 · Sacramento County prosecutor Thien Ho said that after he was arrested in 2018, and left alone in an interrogation room, DeAngelo began speaking to himself, seeming to address a person...

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    On Sept. 11, 1975, DeAngelo, while serving as a police officer, shot and killed professor Claude Snelling in front of his daughter at his Visalia, California, home, according to prosecutors. DeAngelo kicked the daughter three times in the face and then fled, prosecutors said. Visalia is 10 miles away from Exeter.

    DeAngelo served as a police officer in Auburn, California, from 1976 to 1979. He was fired for allegedly stealing a hammer and a can of dog repellent, The Associated Press reported, citing Auburn Journal articles from the time.

    In the summer of 1976, burglaries and rapes terrorized the eastern district of Sacramento County. The "Golden State Killer" would break into his victims' homes by prying open a window or door while they slept, the FBI said. Sometimes he would take jewelry, identification, cash and coins from the victims' homes.

    In February 1978, the "Golden State Killer" shot and killed Brian and Katie Maggiore, who were walking their dog in the Sacramento area. After Brian Maggiore was shot, Katie Maggiore ran away and yelled for help, but DeAngelo caught up with her and shot her in the head, prosecutors said. The burglaries continued in the East Bay area of Northern Cal...

    No crimes were attributed to the "Golden State Killer" from July 1981 until May 1986, when 18-year-old Janelle Cruz was killed. Cruz was bound, raped and bludgeoned in the face and head at her home, prosecutors said. That was his last known crime.

    The case went cold for decades. DeAngelo's name came up for the first time in the investigation in 2018, Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said. DeAngelo became the first public arrest obtained through genetic genealogy,a new technique that takes the DNA of an unknown suspect left behind at a crime scene and identifies him or her by ...

    On June 29, 2020, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder. The plea deal also required DeAngelo to admit to multiple uncharged acts, including rapes, which were described in horrific detail by prosecutors. The death penalty was taken off the table and he will serve life without parole, prosecutors said. From Aug. 18, 2020, to Au...

  5. Aug 21, 2020 · When DeAngelo was arrested, Cruz said she "cried and cried for hours." "I could stop looking over my shoulder with fears of him sneaking up on me," Cruz said.

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  7. Jun 29, 2020 · Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. had remained almost silent in court since his 2018 arrest until he repeatedly uttered the words "guilty'' and "I admit'' in a hushed and raspy voice as part of a...