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♪♪

Woman: When he breaks
into a home

and he shines a flashlight
into people's eyes,

he witnesses the fear
on their faces.

He runs a knife
along their skin.

He presses the muzzle of a gun
against someone's head.

Golden State Killer:
I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People".

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

He was a ruthless predator,

a remorseless serial rapist,

and a killer
on a brutal rampage.

He took down his prey with
the cold eye of a professional,

hunting in the pre-dawn hours,

catching his victims asleep
in bed.

He was a living nightmare
who rushed out of the darkness

to attack, then disappeared
back into the shadows.

For more than 40 years, no one
could figure out who he was.

But the Golden State Killer
left key evidence behind,

and when police finally
put a name

and a face to this phantom
of the night,

the mystery of how he got away
with his crimes

for so long would end
in a shocking reveal.

This is part one of
"The Golden State Killer".

♪♪

Woman: The worst thing
is not knowing --

not knowing when the rapist
will strike again,

not knowing if you will be
his next victim.

Hope that he gets caught
before he gets to you.

O'Toole: The Golden State Killer
is frightening to so many of us

because he's
a very violent sex offender.

Crompton: Most of the rapists
at that time that we knew of,

they were there
for the satisfaction of the sex.

The Golden State Killer --

he was there
because of the terror

he wanted to put in people.

He showed us
who he really was --

an extremely angry person
who essentially hated women.

Carson-Sandler:
In 1976, I was 30 years old,
and I was happily married.

My husband was a captain
in the Air Force

at McClellan Air Force Base.

I was also in the Air Force
reserves as a flight nurse.

October 5th, 1976.

Jane Carson's husband
leaves for work

at about 6:30 in the morning.

Carson-Sandler: My little
three-year-old

had just climbed in bed with me
for a nice snuggle.

Suddenly, just a few minutes
later --

The next thing I saw was a light
shining down the hall,

and then there was this man

standing in front of the bed
with a ski mask on.

And a large knife in his hand.

And the minute I screamed,
he said --

"I'll kill everything
in the house."

Carson-Sandler:
He gagged us both.

He blindfolded us both,
and he tied us up.

And then the next thing I know,
he had some kind of cloth

that he began ripping
in a very ritualistic manner.

I'm thinking, "Oh, my God.
Is he gonna hang us?"

That was so scary.

Jane's son was just a toddler
at the time.

Carson-Sandler:
He took my son away.

My heart was just pounding
out of my chest.

"What did you do with my son?
Where'd you put him?"

Then he untied my ankles,

and then I knew
what he was there for.

I don't remember anything
about the rape.

My whole attention
was "where's my son?"

That was what's so terrifying.

He did move my son back
next to me.

"If I hear you move,
if I hear anything,

I'm gonna come back
and kill you."

He would actually stay
in the house for hours.

He's going into the fridge.

Carson-Sandler:
He's going to go in my kitchen

and eat something
after he just raped me?

Holes: Not only does he possess
the victims,

he possesses their belongings,
he possesses their house.

I knew that I just needed
to wait

until I didn't hear anything
to know that he was gone.

I was able to get my blindfold
down just a little bit,

and then I could look at my son,

and I just remember hugging him
and just thanking God

that my little guy
was still there with me.

Daly: I was a detective
in the Sacramento

County Sheriff's Department.

Jane was at a neighbor's house,
and I met her there,

and I took her to the hospital.

I would sob and sob and sob

because of what
had just happened.

♪♪

After the rape, I was looking
over my shoulder

all the time at any male
that I came in contact with.

I didn't know if he was going
to come back.

Oh, my goodness. I over-ate.

I didn't wear makeup.
I isolated.

I decided that maybe I could
medicate myself with alcohol,

and I became very ill.

♪♪

Kneeland: Is he walking down
the street and getting the urge

and picking out a house
and going in there

and, you know, perpetrating an
attack, or what's behind it?

We had five cases that all had
the same method of operation.

He was entering the homes
either through an unlocked door

or had forced his way in,

and always confronted
the victims in bed,

shining a flashlight
in their eyes.

He had a ski mask on.

He's saying the same things
to the victims.

Woman: "Shut up.
All I want is food and money."

Daly: He always had a weapon --
a knife, a gun.

We knew that we had one single
person doing these crimes.

We've got a serial rapist,
and this is a bad guy.

From June 1976 to December
of 1977, there were 28 attacks.

And he attacked twice in
the same 24-hour period of time.

Daly: We responded to one rape,
and next thing we know,

we're turning around and we're
at another crime scene.

We need to do everything
we can to stop him.

♪♪

What is happening is he
is prowling a neighborhood.

Reconnaissance and tracking,
surveillance, stalking.

He was looking through windows.

Daly: He was following
people home,

watching the house
to see who came and went.

He knows when
the trash man comes.

He knows when
the milk man comes.

Holes: He's already
got an escape route

planned to avoid
law enforcement's response.

He's criss-crossing like
a spider doing a web

so that he never comes and goes
from the same direction.

Daly: Some of these rape victims
were repeatedly raped.

Just act after act after act.

Each thing that this person
did is a separate crime.

We're seeing this guy
for what he is.

He's a predator.

He's hunting human beings.

Daly: There probably was
no other series of cases

that were as horrific
as the East Area Rapist.

He came running right down
the sidewalk.

He looked up and he saw me
standing right here.

♪♪

Gagliano: In October of 1976,
30 year old mother

Jane Carson is sexually attacked

by a serial rapist
in her own home.

Her mysterious attacker
goes on to commit

one brutal sexual assault
after another.

The same incredible, absolutely
unbelievable brazenness

that is so often characterized
as worked before,

the East Area Rapist
has once again struck

in precisely
the same neighborhood

that has been his target
so many times before.

Jones: There were other sexual
offenders

and predators out there,
but nobody really

captured the sort
of collective imagination

and fear as what we called
the East Area Rapist.

Woman:
So, what will you do now?

Have a dog in the house.
Big dog.

The victims were very consistent
in describing a white male

somewhere between 5'8" to 5'10",

reasonably athletic build,
160 to 180 pounds.

We knew he had a size 9 foot
from the footprints.

We got all sorts of eye color --
blue, green, brown.

We didn't have that much
to go on.

Gagliano:
But police gathered 11 different
descriptions from witnesses

who had seen
the unmasked suspect

as he fled several different
crime scenes.

He came running right down
the sidewalk.

And he looked up and he saw me
standing right here.

Gagliano:
The witness made a sketch
of the fleeing man's face

in the minutes
after seeing him close up.

I'm an art student,
and I drew out a picture of him

standing next to the tree,
because I saw him

and I drew a picture of him
running down, front and back.

But investigators were not able
to positively identify

a suspect from that sketch.

Nothing they did seemed to be
able to stop this person.

He just kept going and going.

Gagliano: And then he targets
a 13-year-old schoolgirl

named Margaret Wardlow.

My parents were divorced,
and I was living with my mom.

My mom was a single parent.

Holes: She's living in
a two-story structure

that backed up to the levy
to the American river.

Wardlow:
I was only 13 years old.

I never considered the fact
that I might become a victim.

Holes:
It's very possible he's just
wandering along the levy,

looking into houses,
and sees Margaret,

and decides, "You know what?

I'll take the risk, but I think
I can get away with it."

♪♪

Wardlow:
I went to bed fairly early,

and I was awoken
with a flashlight in my face.

And it didn't take me very long
to realize

that it was
the East Area Rapist.

I was blindfolded, I was gagged.

My hands and feet
were both tied.

Their mother was
in another bedroom,

and the rapist went in there
and tied her

and bound her
and gagged her.

Holes: There's no question
the East Area Rapist

really got off
on inflicting fear.

Wardlow:
Everything that he said was
in this harsh whisper.

"Do you want to die?

Do you want me
to kill your mother?"

And I realized that right
at that very moment,

"He's gonna rape me."

This is not just about the rape.

This is about causing incredible
fear and exhibiting a rage.

♪♪

Wardlow: After we realized
that he had gone,

my mom started screaming out
for the neighbor to come,

and he came over
with a shotgun.

And then the neighbor's wife
came in and untied me.

My mom was in shock
after what happened.

My mom took it really,
really hard.

My role was to be there
to interview the victims

as soon as possible
after the rape had occurred.

I was hoping that
they would catch this guy.

St. John: A man downtown calls
the police department and says,

"I know the identity
of the East Area Rapist,"

and the officer that they
dispatched to take that report

was Joe DeAngelo.

DeAngelo writes nothing
in the report

about what the man says,
just the letters "HBD" --

has been drinking,
and closes the file.

Gagliano: After a stint
in the military,

Joseph DeAngelo got his degree
in criminal justice

and joined the men
and women in blue.

He moves to Exeter

and becomes a police officer
for three years.

There was a huge increase
in burglaries,

and the department was really
struggling to find the culprit.

He was very proud
whenever he wore a uniform.

Gagliano: DeAngelo
was kept busy on patrol,

but on off hours,
he had a seemingly traditional

home life as a family man.

Joe DeAngelo and Sharon
got married in 1973.

Schneider: We called her Sherry.
They were happy together.

Joe's childhood friend,
Judy Schneider,

and her parents were Joe's very
special guests at the wedding.

When you look
at the wedding picture,

you can see the pride
in Joe's face.

You can see the pride
in my parents' face.

And the strong bond DeAngelo
shared with Judy and her family

grew as Joe
became a father.

Schneider: They'd come out
here to house all the time

and visit mom and dad,
bring the babies,

and they were
very proud parents.

His wife was in law school
at the time.

My sister and I, you know,
we'd go out and baby sit

because then we found out,
well,

Joe was helping
put her through school.

He worked nights.

Joe would be fixing dinner
or paying bills, shopping.

He was doing all that

so that she could have
the time to go to school

and not be disturbed
by other stuff.

St. John:
The women he was attracted
to were very strong women,

very outgoing.

This is not a man
who surrounded himself

with meek women.

And in 1976, Mr. DeAngelo
relocates

to another Sacramento
area police agency --

the Auburn Police Department.

When he's in Auburn, he begins
not only as a patrolman,

but he is at the bottom
of the rung,

and he is sent out
to take a report

of a broken manhole cover
or barking dogs.

This is the lowest
of the low policing,

but he never takes initiative
to try to rise above that.

He remains on patrol.

Holes: I talked
with Chief Nick Willick.

I initially called him up
and I asked him

if he remembered
a Joe DeAngelo.

He goes, "Oh, yeah.
I was his sergeant."

Joe DeAngelo was not a very
good law enforcement officer.

He was not really popular
among the officers.

They did sense something in him
that did not seem

to allow him
to fit in to the ranks.

He liked the trappings
of being a police officer.

He liked the power,
the control, wearing a gun.

♪♪

Jordan:
You think that you're safe
because your husband

is in bed alone with you?

You think he can protect you?

♪♪

Man: The East Area Rapist
is different.

He terrorizes his victims.

[ Telephone ringing ]

Holes:
He's now calling the victims
after he's attacked them

and letting them know
he's still around.

"I'm still here."

East Area Rapist: I'll kill you.

I'll kill you.

He likes that fear.

Woman:
The problem is no one knows

where or when
he'll strike again.

The East Area Rapist seemed
to know everything

that we were doing.

We knew that he was reading
the newspaper.

Man: He has never been caught
in a home

where there was a man present.

He goes, "I'll show you.

I'll show you who I am."

♪♪

Joanne Miyao and her husband
lived in the city of San Jose.

Miyao: I was a nurse at Stanford
Hospital in Palo Alto,

and I also wanted
to start a family.

Holes:
December 2nd, 1978, you have

Joanne and her husband
asleep in their bed,

when a masked man
with a gun comes in.

Miyao:
I woke up to a flashlight in my
eyes, and this guy's yelling,

"I have a gun."

I screamed at the top
of my lungs.

Jordan: He ordered Joanne
to tie up her husband,

and then he tied up

Joanne by her wrists
and her ankles.

Miyao:
He brought that gun to my head.

I thought this was gonna be it.

And then he got a plate

and he put it on
the back of my husband.

And he said,
"If these plates fall,

I will hear it
and I will kill you."

He took Joanne
into the living room

and raped her multiple times.

I just kept on saying
to myself that,

"You're not gonna get me.

You either survive
or you don't."

I heard the refrigerator open
and then him crying.

Holes: The victims report that
the offender usually,

after the sexual assault,
would kind of isolate himself,

and they'd hear him cry.

"My mommy's making me do it."

Miyao:
What's going on with this guy?

Clearly, he has some deep-seated
issues from childhood

that are behind
these attacks.

Finally, I couldn't hear
anything, so then I got up,

and somehow, I was able to
dial zero to get the police.

I went to the hospital.

They didn't have rape kits
or counseling services.

My husband and I really
never talked

about what happened
to us that night.

I wasn't allowed
to talk about it,

which I don't think
was good for me.

Joanne held back
powerful emotions.

Miyao: Tension and a lot
of grief, and shame

and guilt,
but mostly grief.

About a year into
the East Area Rapist attacks,

Sacramento detectives get a call
from a police department

in Visalia, California.

They think they have
a potential lead.

Visalia experienced a rash
of residential burglaries.

About 120 cases.

There was a streak of alarming
home invasions

from 1974 to 1975,
ending just six months

before the start of the East
Area Rapist in Sacramento.

They called him
the Visalia ransacker.

Gagliano: And police felt he had
a number of similarities

to the East Area Rapist.

Jordan: Did the Visalia
Ransacker evolve

and become
the Sacramento Rapist?

It was a theory.
A good theory.

♪♪

He was about the same height,
same weight.

Both offenders ransacked
and burglarized.

Hutchcraft:
The Visalia Ransacker would
go into the homes

when people were away
from the homes,

and they would come home
and find their house

completely ransacked.

Items were pulled
out of the drawers,

out of the cabinets,
strewn on the bed.

There was a sexual component
to these burglaries.

Kneeland: He would take out
bra and panties

and lay it out on the bed,
almost anatomically,

like a person was laying there.

He was masturbating
inside the homes.

This pattern does fit the
evolution of a serial rapist.

O'Toole: Somebody
doesn't wake up one day

and just become
a very experienced predator.

This behavior starts
at a much earlier age.

An offender learns over time
how to commit crimes.

O'Toole: How to break in
without being caught.

"What kind of a weapon
do I need to bring with me?"

So, they get better and better.

Gagliano: If these serial crimes
were perpetrated

by one lone predator,

police now had something deeply
troubling to worry about --

an evolving,
angry sex predator

with a sinister urge
to commit murder.

Hagan: He witnesses the fear
on their faces.

You can think about him
witnessing these women's

reactions to seeing their
husbands or boyfriends killed.

He would have enjoyed that.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People".

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

The East Area Rapist has been
playing a haunting game

of "catch me if you can"
with investigators

while he continues his reign
of terror in Sacramento.

But after committing dozens
of rapes,

he mysteriously vanishes,

leaving frustrated
law enforcement agents

to wonder if the East Area
Rapist is gone for good,

or if he will return
one day as a killer.

They shut our task force down,
and even though we were told,

"let it go", we couldn't.

That was the hardest part
for me to deal with,

that there was no closure.

O'Toole: With an offender
like this,

and I've seen it
with psychopathic individuals,

they get bored
with what they are doing

and they ratchet it up,
and they take on new challenges.

The biggest fear for me
was that my next call

was gonna be a homicide call.

We had so much fear
that this man was ready to kill.

♪♪

Hutchcraft:
Approximately three months
after the East Area Rapist

has his last attack
in Northern California,

a series of homicides
begins in Southern California,

and women and couples start
being killed in their beds.

♪♪

The killer was somebody
who could blend

into these upscale communities.

Hutchcraft: The couples
that were being targeted

were in no way related to crime.

They had no enemies.

Holes: Dr. Robert Offerman,
who was an orthopedic surgeon.

Dr. Debra Manning
was a psychologist.

Lyman Smith was a former
D.A.

Charlene Smith was his wife.

She was running her own
home-based business,

selling different types
of jewelry.

Woman: Manuela Wittuhn,
a loan officer,

was raped and murdered
in her home.

Keith and Patty Harrington,

a young medical student
and a nurse.

Hutchcraft:
It's very scary because
there's really no clues,

nothing left behind
about who the offender

is that's committing
these crimes.

Gagliano: As this terrifying
new serial killer

emerges in Southern California,

Joseph DeAngelo has been
an Auburn police officer

for three years.

Auburn is located

right outside of the city
of Sacramento.

♪♪

That part of his career ended
when he was caught stealing.

DeAngelo's arrested for
shoplifting dog repellent

and a hammer.

It was a very stupid
thing to do.

[ Siren wailing ]

St. John:
It's what happened afterward
in apprehending this man

that has kind of blown
the mind

of the deputies
who are taking the report.

Gagliano: When two sheriff's
deputies arrive at the store,

they're surprised
to find the clerks

have tied DeAngelo
up in a chair.

St. John:
He's faked a heart attack.

He's began ranting
and acting crazy and insane.

And then when the deputies
arrive,

he says he's got a head injury,

but the moment that the clerks
leave the room,

the insanity act stops.

The deputies are so concerned

at what they've just witnessed
that they call Auburn.

That's why he loses
his job instantly.

Not because of the hammer,

but because of what happened
in the arrest.

Holes: And so, the process
determinate was underway.

There was an internal
affairs investigation.

No longer be a police officer.
He has been terminated.

He's been shamed
in that community,

whether it's from determination

or there's something else
going on in his life

at that point in time,
he still has that anger.

He is mad at his circumstances.

So, what does he do?

McMullan: I'm the surviving
daughter of Cheri Domingo,

who was one of
the murder victims

in the Golden State Killer case.

My mom met Greg
when she was nearly divorced.

She was a single mom
on a budget.

What really made Greg attractive
was his personality.

Greg was just so down to Earth.

♪♪

The relationship between me
and my mom was really complex.

As a teenager, I had already
started to desire

kind of that independence.

I was 15 at the time, just a few
weeks before my 16th birthday.

Mom and I had been arguing
a lot that summer.

I had had this argument
with my mom on the phone.

I had yelled at her,

"I don't have to comply
with your rules anymore.

I'll just go wherever I want."

And I disappeared.

The next day,
I got another phone call,

and it was from
my mom's best friend,

and the tone of her voice
convinced me

that maybe there was
something important enough

that I really did need
to come home.

Over the years, my mom and Greg
would be together

and then they would break up and
they would be together again,

and on again, off again.

But when I saw Greg's car,
for some reason,

I got this little glimmer.

I thought, "Oh, man,
if Greg's here,

everything's gonna be okay."

I said, "I want to see my mom.
I want to see Greg."

And finally, somebody said,
"No, you can't go in.

It's too messy."

Pool: They were in a downstairs
bedroom and in bed.

The offender appeared to have
gained access to the house

by opening a bathroom window.

There were deep shoe impressions

in one specific spot
in the bathroom carpet,

which would indicate that he
stood in that particular spot

for a very,
very long period of time.

The door that led into the
bedroom was a little bit warped,

so when the door opened,
it made a scraping noise.

We believe that it was probably
that that gave Greg the ability

to get to his feet
and lunge at the offender

as he made entry
into the bedroom.

McMullan: Greg had to go
into fight mode to try

and save his own life
and my mother's.

Greg actually gets shot
through the left cheek.

It's a nonfatal wound.

It was enough of a blow
that it dropped

Mr. Sanchez to his knees.

If I close my eyes,
I can picture that bedroom,

and I can picture Greg
fighting for his life.

At that point I think is
probably when he went

and tied my mother.

Her legs were pulled up
behind her,

and the wrists and ankles
bound together behind her back.

Cheri was killed by multiple
blows to the head.

Holes: In the midst of this,

he's constantly have to go
back and deal with Greg.

It looks like he probably
rushed the offender

and gets shot again.

He goes crumpling
down the closet.

And that is where he died
and was found deceased.

O'Toole: How is he able to
commit these very violent acts

and then walk away

and presumably have
a lot of blood on him

and not have people notice?

♪♪

Hutchcraft: Working these cases
takes over your life.

It gets in your mind.

I still, to this day,
can't take a shower

without someone else
in the house.

I don't like to put my head back
with my eyes

closed with the shower
running over my ears,

because I can't hear
what's happening.

That's changed me.

♪♪

Women and couples
start being killed,

usually by bludgeoning.

Sometimes by getting shot,

and it was one offender,
a serial killer.

He fed off of their terror.

And the more terrifying he was,

the more he enjoyed
what he was doing.

Pool:
He stalked people at night.

In Santa Barbara County,

a detective there said
he's a night stalker.

Ho: And he was raping
and murdering them,

and by that point in time,
there was already

a night stalker known
as Richard Ramirez,

so they called him
the original night stalker.

Hagan: The way he is eliminating
the victims,

through blunt force trauma,

is an extremely brutal way
to kill anyone.

He was able to escape.

He disappeared
for the next five years.

No one's sure why there was no
homicides between 1981 and 1986.

O'Toole: There could be some
very logical reasons.

Takes a lot of strength
and physical fitness

to commit a murder,
to break into somebody's home,

and so, there could have been
the aging process.

But the urges to continue to do
what he was doing

were probably still there.

And then, I believe, somehow,
some way, he sees Janelle,

and he can't help himself.

♪♪

Janelle Cruz, my older sister
by one year,

she was 18 and I was 17.

She was like Marilyn Monroe.

She could walk down the road,

and guys would just be
staring at her.

She was actually getting
ready to go to college.

She was looking forward
to a lot of different things.

♪♪

Janelle Cruz happened
to be home alone.

Her family ended up
doing a vacation down in Mexico.

She had a friend, a male friend,
over to the house.

We know what happened because
he lived to tell about it.

Cruz:
They were listening to music.

They did hear noises.

They disregarded those noises
as maybe it was a cat outside,

so they closed the shutters

and continued
listening to music.

Holes: Janelle's house
backed up to a park,

and there's a low wall

that separates that park
to her rear yard.

It appears that he ends up
getting into her house

through a sliding door
at the rear of the house.

At that point in time,
the young man decided,

"It's getting late.
I better leave."

That was about 11:15
in the evening.

He left.

And not too much later,

she was fighting for her life.

At midnight, another one
of our friends

had returned a phone call,
and Janelle never answered.

[Telephone ringing]

Ho: Hours later, the body
of Janelle Cruz

was found in her bedroom.

Janelle showed evidence that she
had previously been bound,

but the bindings
had been removed.

He didn't leave her tied up
for the investigators to find.

He was trying to throw them off.

The difference of
Janelle Cruz's case

was that it was more
violent than the others.

The offender not only bludgeoned
her by the back of the head,

he had bludgeoned her
in the forehead,

across the bridge of her nose.

She swallowed her teeth.

She's the one victim where the
offender hit her in the face.

He's face to face with her,
versus the other victims

were always face-down.

There's a reason
he's doing this.

Kneeland:
Firing a gun is noisy.

He knew he's in an affluent
neighborhood.

Gunshots are not normal.

Bludgeoning -- it's quieter.

The offender is progressing.

O'Toole: What was caused
that level of anger,

or has it actually
been elevated to hatred?

Because hatred and anger
are not the same emotions,

and if you hate someone,

you're able to turn them
into an object.

She was depersonalized by him,

which does suggest
that he hated her.

Janelle had been raped
before she was killed.

The way in which
Janelle Cruz's body was found --

one arm was located raised
slightly above her head.

I believe this indicates

that she fought back
against the offender,

was able to flip over,
and was fighting with him.

And that's what haunts me all
the time, was just how she died.

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I still live my life in fear

because I didn't know
who killed Janelle,

so I didn't know if they were
watching me or following me.

Kneeland: What made it more
terrifying is what if one day,

they decide to flip
that switch again

and go back to
their violent tendencies?

That is scary.

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O'Toole: People that are
involved in serial sexual murder

don't go home at night
and regret what they did.

They enjoy hunting
for human beings.

They enjoy wrapping them up
in ligatures

and sexually assaulting them.

To you and me,
that sounds horrific.

They don't care.

Hutchcraft: In 1986,
the homicide of Janelle Cruz

was the last known
original night stalker murder.

Kneeland: How does this guy
keep getting away?

How is he evading everybody?

Maybe something else
is gonna happen

that's gonna cause him to commit
a different type of crime

and get caught,
but it never happened.

They're chasing ghosts.

Then as time goes by, you start
losing a little bit of hope.

Years pass,
and the cases go cold.

I felt like he was out there,
watching everything going on.

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Gagliano: As the case went cold,
Joseph DeAngelo

settled into a routine life
of work and family.

In 1986, Joseph DeAngelo
and his wife, Sharon,

welcomed their second daughter.

A third daughter would follow
a few years later.

They would have these weekend
family movie nights.

But by the early 1990s,
his marriage had fallen apart.

Joe's house was directly
behind ours.

My family kind of referred
to him as "Mr. Mom",

because Joe had raised
his three daughters,

from what I could tell,
mostly on his own.

Schneider:
He saw that his daughters had
whatever they wanted --

horse-riding lessons,
skating lessons.

Maybe he was trying
to compensate for the family

he didn't have as a child.

Kegley: The kids seemed
really happy.

I've known Joe since I was 14.

When he asked me
if I could baby sit,

I said, "Yeah, sure."

He would never say why
or where he was going.

He would just go.

He was never dressed up like
he was going out for dinner.

He just seemed to always
wear a T-shirt.

He never seemed, like, happy
or sad when he came back.

He was just very much
business as usual.

He was always building things.

He built them a pool
and he built them

a shaded area for the pool.

He ultimately gets a job
as a truck mechanic.

At a local grocery distribution
center -- Save Mart.

I started in 1993 as a driver,

and Joe was
a very good mechanic.

He had a good work ethic.

He could fix just about
anything on the trailer.

Joe became close friends
with one of his co-workers.

I'd been to his house.
I met his family.

He was a compassionate person.

We went out three or four times
a week, sometimes.

He was a happy fisherman.

He loved to catch fish.

Mangang: Can you imagine
when it was in action

and it was blasting them
freaking guns and [bleep]?

Fabulous, dude.

But while one minute,
he was friendly Joe DeAngelo,

in the next minute,

he could show a much more
explosive side of himself.

Tapia: Being curious little
kids, you would sometimes

look through the fence slats

and see in other
people's backyards.

He was the scary man
on the other side of the fence

that used to yell a lot.

He would yell at us
to get away from the fence

and stop looking at him.

We were always told to kind
of avoid him by our parents.

Kegley: His girls were swimming
in the pool, and he said,

"Make sure that you stay
in the shady part of the pool."

And so, just to kind of mess
with their dad,

one of the girls put their arm
in the sunny spot and said,

"Look, Dad,
I'm in the sun",

and he just turned around
and he exploded at the girl

and said,
"I told you to get in the shade!

Get out of the sun!
It's not okay!"

And it was just this
really huge overreaction.

Something just started
to feel not right.

The house was just very sparse,

and it just kind of had
this sad feeling to it.

There wasn't a lot of pictures.

Everything was very brown.

The kitchen was empty,
most notably was the fridge.

There was like a gallon of milk
and some ketchup

and, like, a jar of pickles.

His fishing buddy witnessed
Joe's instant fury

in a disturbing act
of road rage.

We were on our way to the lake,
and a gentlemen cut us off.

Joe ran up to the gentleman's
truck, pounded on his window.

He was hollering at the guy.

He said he would have snatched
his eyes out his eye socket.

But even that was not
as disturbing

as Joe's admission
to hearing voices.

Mangang:
There was one time, he asked me,
"Do you hear things?"

I was like, "Excuse me?"

He said,
"Do you ever hear things?"

And we really
didn't get into it.

I said, "No, I don't."

I thought it was very strange
at the time he asked me that.

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Kneeland:
We were dealing with somebody
who was very intelligent.

He would see what was happening,
so he had all this information.

He was always steps ahead of me.

Kneeland: I was of the opinion
he was dead,

and then to learn that not only
is he not deceased,

but he's living a stone's
throw away from myself

and, you know, still in this
community was very jarring.

I decide I'm going boots
on the ground

where this guy was living.

Some day in the future,
he would die in prison.

♪♪

After more than 40 years,
over 50 rapes, 13 murders,

and countless dead ends, there's
a stunning break in the case.

Investigators are finally
closing in

on this brutal and elusive
serial rapist and killer

to take down the Golden
State Killer in part two.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Goodnight.