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Woman: Joe was so friendly with everybody.

He was always smiling, always laughing.

He was a hard worker and he was smart.

His wife's name was Sharon and we called her "Sherry."

They were very proud parents.

He took good care of his daughters.

Family was everything to him.

But Joe went off the deep end,

and if you want to see the devil at work, here's a good example.

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Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

He terrorized California for more than 40 years,

a super predator who stalked women in a blind rage.

He appeared out of the darkness to torture and kill,

then vanished into the night.

He cornered his victims in their homes,

viciously attacked couples asleep in their beds,

all to see the terror in their eyes.

This serial rapist and murderer seemed to always be

one step ahead of police detectives,

but he left critical evidence behind at the crime scenes,

and investigators were beginning to connect the dots.

This is Part Two of "The Golden State Killer."

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Back in the '70s, a new offender popped up.

Crompton: The East Area Rapist was hitting in the Sacramento area.

He's fearless. He's callous. He's cold-blooded.

We need to do everything we can to stop him.

Daly: Who was this guy?

A very dangerous offender who's motivated by

real or imagined wrongs that he has suffered.

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

I was happily married, had a 3-year-old son.

Holes: Early morning, 6:30 A.M., Jane is home with her son.

Her husband had just left for work.

Carson-Sandler: My little 3-year-old had just climbed in bed with me

for a nice snuggle.

Minutes later, she hears somebody running down the hall

towards her bedroom.

Holes: Next thing she knows, she's looking at a masked man,

and he's shining the flashlight.

Carson-Sandler: Holding a big knife.

Jordan: She can hear him ripping up fabric

even after she's been gagged and blindfolded.

Carson-Sandler: I'm thinking, "Oh, my God.

Is he gonna hang us?"

That was so scary.

This man ends up taking her son away from her.

Carson-Sandler: Then he untied my ankles,

and then I knew what he was there for.

After that, he kept going from the bedroom,

telling us that if we moved, he would kill us,

and then he'd go back in the kitchen.

He would actually stay in the house for hours.

Holes: Not only does he possess the victims,

he possesses their belongings, he possesses their house.

Eventually, her son was placed back into bed next to her.

After we thought he was gone, I was able to take my mask down.

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

Always confronting the victims in bed,

shining a flashlight in their eyes.

Had a ski mask on, and he always had a weapon.

Holes: He would turn the TV on and put the towel over it.

I believe in part, he's doing that so he can see the woman,

but he could also see the terror in her face.

It's a psychological torture.

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

He was the boogeyman of the community.

He was like a ghost.

Holes: 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.

Reporter: The problem is, no one knows

where or when he'll strike again.

We know he went on to commit murder.

His final murder and rape occurred in May of 1986

with Janelle Cruz in Orange County.

Janelle Cruz, my older sister by one year,

she was 18 and I was 17.

She was like Marilyn Monroe.

Holes: Janelle Cruz was this gorgeous 18-year-old girl

that happened to be home alone.

This guy just sees Janelle and decides,

"I'm gonna make her a victim."

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

Michelle: They were listening to music. They did hear noises.

Pool: Janelle said, "It must've been a cat."

So they closed the shutters

and continued listening to music.

He ends up getting into her house through a sliding door

at the rear of the house.

About 11:15 in the evening, the young man decided,

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

Shortly after that, the offender entered the home

and attacked Janelle.

Ho: Hours later, the body of Janelle Cruz

was found in her bedroom.

Holes: She had received blows to her head.

She's the one bludgeoning victim

where the offender hit her in the face.

He had bludgeoned her in the forehead,

across the bridge of her nose.

O'Toole: What has caused that level of anger?

Or has it actually been elevated to hatred?

Because hatred and anger are not the same emotions.

There was so much fear in the community.

I was pulled to help do community meetings.

One of the big questions that was asked here last night --

if we have a gun, could we shoot him?

Knowing what I know about this man,

if I had a gun, I definitely would shoot him.

What I told them was, "If you're gonna shoot, shoot to kill,"

because this was the only way this man

was going to be stopped.

Holes: The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office

is holding town hall meetings in the neighborhoods

where attacks were occurring.

I think the East Area Rapist was at one of the meetings.

Police believe he came hunting for victims

and targeted a man who spoke up during the meeting.

This was another challenge for him.

The gentleman stood up and he said,

"I don't understand how a man in the home

wouldn't be able to defend his wife."

Crompton: Now he was going to prove to everybody

that he was the one in charge,

and his next attack was with a man in the house.

Gagliano: Soon after the town hall meeting,

that man and his wife became victims.

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Daly: There were five people in the home

at the time that they were attacked.

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The rapist was so quiet and so slick

in the darkness of the room.

Shining a flashlight and showing that he had a gun

and throwing shoestrings to the woman

and telling her to tie up her husband.

Having him turn over on his stomach

and tying his hands behind his back,

and then tying the victim up.

The fear of that gun being pointed at you,

that beam of light, and seeing the shadow of a face mask,

it was, "Do it or I'm going to kill you."

It was like playing cat and mouse.

Holes: This is dominance,

and there's nothing you can do about it.

My heart really goes out to them.

And then in 1986...

He just sort of disappeared.

Stopped murdering, stopped raping.

It's very emotionally taxing to go year after year of year

of putting so much effort into it and not solving it.

And then all of a sudden, Paul calls me up and says,

"Hey, I got this idea."

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Holes: The Golden State Killer was intelligent.

He was sophisticated.

We have a phrase that we use in the FBI.

It's called "the mask of sanity."

The reason this violent offender is able to not be captured

is because they live such a normal life,

at least on the surface.

You have the wife and the children

and live in a nice house.

Holes: Somebody that I thought was going to be

reasonably successful, have a career.

Blend in with society.

O'Toole: A serial sexual killer

would not want someone to see their traits,

that they could be sexually aroused

by kidnapping someone or murdering someone.

Fabulous.

O'Toole: Because they don't want to be caught.

They want to be able to continue to maintain that secret life.

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Gagliano: Investigators wondered where the Golden State Killer was hiding,

and Joseph DeAngelo was waging a lifelong battle

between doing what was right and his secret, wild urges.

Joe's house was directly behind ours.

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

because back in the '80s,

Joe had raised his three daughters.

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In '73, he became a law enforcement officer in Exeter.

Holes: In Tulare County, California.

He rose to sergeant in Exeter.

And in 1976, Mr. DeAngelo

relocates to another Sacramento-area police agency,

the Auburn Police Department.

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

but he's working split shifts.

He's doing relief when people are on vacation.

The Golden State Killer investigation

had been a cold case for decades,

but in 2018, the task force got a big break

that might just finally crack the case.

Schubert: Paul calls me up and says, "Hey, I got this idea.

Investigative genetic genealogy."

Another revolution with DNA.

It is the greatest hope we had at solving this case.

People upload their genetic profiles

into publicly accessible websites.

GEDmatch, Ancestry.com, or 23andMe.

Millions of people have submitted their DNA

to genealogy websites.

So they can determine if they have half-cousins or siblings

that they didn't know about.

The goal was to determine if there was a distant relative

of the Golden State Killer on the genealogy websites.

Holes: I just uploaded that

Golden State Killer DNA profile into GEDmatch.

The match report comes back with relatives

of the Golden State Killer.

Somebody within this pool of descendants

that could potentially be your killer.

We were able to develop family trees,

find common ancestors who were born back in the 1840s.

Let's say a great-great-grandparent.

You got to understand that people born in the 1840s

would have 15 kids,

and you have to identify all those children,

then you have to identify all their kids.

In total, we probably had 10,000 entries or more

across all these trees.

Somewhere on this massive family tree is your suspect,

is the killer.

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Mr. DeAngelo has a relationship

with a girl that he meets in college, Bonnie.

He seems fascinated by Bonnie.

She's a brilliant, young student.

She tutors him in some of his classes.

Eventually, we began dating each other.

I saw Joe as a happy, engaged, fun-loving guy.

He was accepted into and just kind of inserted himself

into her family.

Ueltzen: I have five brothers and sisters.

Joe was very much interested in being included.

A year after they meet, Joe proposes to Bonnie.

Ueltzen: Nothing down on the knee, nothing like that.

I think it was more like ownership.

"We're going to marry."

I belong to him.

And then one year after he proposed,

Bonnie gets fed up with Joe.

Holes: He's doing things purposely to scare her.

She can tell he's excited by her fear.

Holes: Later, they're taking a class together,

Abnormal Psychology, and he's struggling.

He basically demands that she help him cheat.

Jordan: Ethically, she doesn't want anything to do with this.

Ueltzen: My father was a high school principal.

My mother had been a teacher.

I was just done.

St. John: And that's when Joe repeats over and over,

"You will do this. You will do this."

And Bonnie stands up for herself with Joe.

"You are not the man I'm going to marry.

We are not going to have a future together."

He's not very happy about that.

Holes: And then a knock on the window, and she opens up the curtain.

Ueltzen: Joe was outside the window, pointing a gun at me

and telling me to get dressed.

We were going to Reno,

that we were going to be married that night.

She goes and gets her father.

Ueltzen: And he went out and talked to Joe for almost two hours.

He just told me that Joe was gone

and I could go back to bed,

and never did he ever tell me what they talked about,

if they had any kind of an agreement.

Holes: And that's literally the last interaction

that she had with DeAngelo.

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Gagliano: Investigators analyzing the genetic genealogy family trees

were dramatically narrowing their search

for the suspected Golden State Killer.

And trying to just, one by one, eliminate subjects.

Some people could be ruled out easily.

Some people might be dead. Some people are female.

And that's where we start narrowing in on

males that potentially have a connection to California

during the years in which the Golden State Killer was active.

Gagliano: Names were popping up at different times.

Then suddenly, the universe of family members

narrowed to one man.

Holes: There was a guy that popped up.

This could very well be the guy.

The person was Joseph James DeAngelo.

"=Let's see what kind of headway I can make on this DeAngelo.

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I saw a newspaper article about DeAngelo

having been engaged to a Bonnie.

I was like, "Well, that's interesting."

Interesting because "Bonnie" was the name the Golden State Killer

had shouted out in front of one of his victims in a 1978 attack.

There were several instances in the East Area Rapist phase

in which the victims report they'd hear him sobbing.

He's crying while he's sexually assaulting her.

This is where he's making the statement,

"I hate you, Bonnie. I hate you, Bonnie."

And that had always been a mystery to investigators.

But now they learn Bonnie was the Joseph DeAngelo romance

that ended in a disturbing broken engagement.

Maybe he still had some very deep-seated fury.

Detectives were able to learn that he was

a former police officer, and that fit in with the profile

and some of the early theories of the case.

Daly: We really felt that it could've been somebody

in either law enforcement or military.

Detectives felt that way because of his M.O.

at all the crime scenes.

It's based off little things, things that he would say

as far as putting their hands behind their back,

not leaving fingerprints anywhere.

He always had an escape route planned,

and I think, a lot of time,

that is military and law-enforcement training.

Jordan: The geography and the timeline of the attacks

coincided with the events in Joseph DeAngelo's life.

The Visalia ransackings were happening at the same time

that DeAngelo was on the Exeter police force,

just 10 miles away from Visalia.

Hagan: In Exeter, he was in charge of the burglary program

that was investigating the Visalia ransacking cases.

He could control those investigations.

Jordan: As DeAngelo was in training for the Auburn police department,

he began the East Area rape attacks.

I'm going, "God, this is awfully coincidental, right?"

Then detectives placed Joseph DeAngelo

down in Southern California

during the Golden State Killer murders.

He and his wife Sharon had moved to L.A.

Sharon gets a job with

the National Labor Relations Board in Los Angeles.

That's when it was like, "You know what?

This DeAngelo guy is adding up. We need to get his DNA."

The law requires us to confirm...

That Joseph DeAngelo was, in fact,

the person who left the DNA behind

at all of these crime scenes.

We had him on surveillance for several days.

At that point, the decision was made that

trash day was coming up in his neighborhood.

We ended up picking up his garbage from the street.

The sample was collected.

A discarded tissue that he had used.

[Cellphone buzzing] My phone lights up and the lab says they're excited.

Jones: They were able to get an absolute positive identification

between the suspect and Joseph DeAngelo.

They were one and the same.

It's him. There's no question about it.

That's a slam dunk.

Okay, we've got our person. What next?

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Welcome back to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

After more than 40 years,

advancements in genetic technology

have caught up with the elusive predator

police called the Golden State Killer.

Now they know his real name -- Joseph James DeAngelo.

Before they close in, they watch his every move,

and the phantom of darkness

is about to be dragged into the light.

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St. John: Joseph DeAngelo starts killing

whenever he feels that he's under threat,

and a different side of him comes out.

Something very cold, calculating, and determined,

and cannot be swayed.

Schubert: You have somebody that's a serial killer, clearly,

who's gotten away with it for 40-plus years,

but then you have the added fact

that he's a former police officer.

We did not want to go into his house to make an arrest.

We did not want to let him get into any place

where he might have secreted a weapon

or be able to execute some plan that we may not be aware of.

There was a concern about his oldest daughter

who was living with him.

We don't want a hostage situation.

I've had so many cases where the offender,

if he thought he was going to be caught,

says that if he had to kill his wife or his children,

he would do that.

Jones: We knew we wanted to catch him by surprise.

On the day of his arrest, a number of sheriff's detectives

were in a minivan, getting ready to arrest him.

Joseph DeAngelo was outside, in front of his house.

At that point, the sheriff detective stepped out

and pretended to ask for directions.

I'm back at the homicide station.

We're listening over a radio, and then it goes silent.

So now it's pins and needles,

because here's a guy that is a serial killer.

Does he have a gun on him?

Ho: And before Joseph DeAngelo knew it...

he was in handcuffs in a minivan, under arrest

for the series of murders and rapes

that he committed throughout California.

Jones: It went exactly as we hoped and expected,

but we were ready for anything.

Holes: The next statement that came over the radio is,

"Subject in custody."

Then it was just -- everybody is, you know,

jumping out of their chairs.

This is good.

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DeAngelo's brought in by the team

and he's placed in the interview room,

and he goes catatonic.

He literally is sitting like this for an hour

without twitching a muscle.

One of the female detectives is going,

"That's what he was doing in the victims' backyards

while he's watching them."

He would go absolutely motionless in the shadows

and just wait until the time was right for him to attack.

Hutchcraft: It's 11:30 at night.

I walk into the room where DeAngelo's being held,

and it's about 10 degrees colder in that room.

There's an immediate sense of evil in there.

I've never felt like that before.

So now I'm sitting across from DeAngelo.

I noticed he was a big guy.

215 pounds, at arrest.

His hands were like bear paws.

Hutchcraft: He actually had broad shoulders and seemed naturally strong.

He could one-arm reach over

and, like, knock you to the ground, kind of guy.

And that shocked me, because of his age.

The way I talk to people is to try to humanize myself

and the person I'm talking to, say things like,

"There's never too late of a time to make anything better."

I was coming up with questions and trying to pull him out.

His eyes were going very fast,

like he was trying to out-think me.

I absolutely could feel a little bit of the terror

the victim must've gone through with this guy.

I kept on looking down to make sure he's cuffed to the floor.

I'm feeling the evilness protruding from him.

I try to appeal more to,

"Would your daughters feel better about you,

knowing that you helped the investigation?"

Holes: A couple of agents were talking to his daughters

out in the lobby, kind of explaining what was going on.

I did see them.

They were distraught. They were crying.

It would be as if your parents

that you thought you knew all your life,

that you were told today that your dad's a serial killer.

And their heartbreak is so obvious.

They're wailing, and his face crumples.

You can see the pain in his face,

and his voice goes very soft.

To the second daughter, he says, "Go away. Go away."

And she leaves the room and they close the door,

and he's whispering to himself, "Goodbye. Goodbye."

Hutchcraft: He'd been offered water, Dr. Pepper,

anything to eat or drink that he wanted,

and he'd been declining all of it.

And we realized, he thinks we're trying to get his DNA.

Oh, it's so sad.

He doesn't know we already have it.

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Tapia: One of the most notorious rapists, serial killers

in California history was caught,

and I happened to live next to him for almost 40 years.

The morning Joe was arrested,

there's police tape on Joe's front yard

and there's sheriffs everywhere.

After so many years, I had this vision

of what this guy would look like,

how he was living.

I considered reaching out to Sharon,

but it was like, they have kids together.

She potentially still has allegiance to him,

and I opted not to talk to her.

DeAngelo's property was immaculate.

Beautifully painted.

But the inside was a different story --

what I would call a semi-organized mess.

But things did stand out.

The big thing that I saw, going into his bedroom,

was his computer,

and then draped over the monitor was a towel.

One of the things that the East Area Rapist would do

is when he separated the woman out

and got to where he was going to sexually assault them,

he would frequently put a towel over the TV

to get that soft glow.

That, to me, was like, "Oh, East Area Rapist, right there."

He's replicating what he was doing

when he's attacking his female victims.

He's still fantasizing, to this day.

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We fully expected to find something

that tied him to the victims.

The search we did was just exhaustive.

At one point, there was a couple agents

that were standing in the backyard,

and they called up to me and they say,

"Hey, you ever see him digging around here?"

Serial sex offenders often keep trophies,

things that remind them of their crime,

so that they can relive those crimes over and over again.

Holes: He took the female victims' driver's licenses.

Has their picture, has their address.

Select items of jewelry as souvenirs.

Tapia: The next day, they started probing that hillside.

They were using some kind of machine

to look for stuff buried.

It looked like a gopher had gone through his entire yard,

'cause there was a hole about every couple feet.

Jones: We didn't want to leave any stone unturned.

St. John: The backyard was dug up. The house was searched.

The walls were even torn open by police.

Jones: We also wanted to make sure there was nothing

that we weren't expecting, like other homicide victims.

They found nothing.

It's impossible to know what happened to his treasure trove.

Jones: Not only did he seemingly stop committing these crimes,

but he got rid of everything

that even reminded him of those crimes.

With serial murderers, serial sex offenders,

it is a compulsion that they either can't or won't overcome,

and so him getting rid of those reminders of those crimes

is very unusual.

What was he doing for those 30 years that was substituting

for his committing sexual assault and rapes?

[ Phone ringing ]

Making the phone calls certainly could've been a way

that he could satisfy some of the urges.

Schneider: When you think about the things that he did,

you look at Ted Bundy or whoever, look at all of them.

They were once somebody's new baby,

somebody's loved, little child.

They were not monsters all their life.

Something happened and they snapped.

I've always wondered what created the monster.

I would look much more deeply into what was going on

when he was a young boy developing his sexuality.

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Schneider: We moved out here in Sacramento in '55.

Maybe we'd been there a year or so

when Joe's family moved in next door.

Jordan: Joseph DeAngelo Sr. and his wife Kathleen,

two daughters, Rebecca and Constance,

and two sons, John and Joseph Jr.

Joe DeAngelo's father was in the Air Force.

And his mother was a waitress.

Schneider: Joe was 13 when we met.

We became good friends. Joe was a typical teenager.

He hung around with my brothers all the time,

and the boys would go out and target practice

and shoot rabbits.

Pool: But he was a bit edgy as a juvenile.

He certainly had trouble conforming with the rules.

St. John: He was a chance-taker.

A good friend of Joe's from high school, Jim,

they're just wild boys.

They're sneaking into places they shouldn't be.

They also began breaking into homes.

On one instance, they were attacked by a German shepherd, [ Dog barking ]

And that's when Jim sees something come over Joe --

a reaction to threat.

He reaches into his pocket

and immediately starts lighting an M-80, a firecracker.

And Joe throws the firecracker.

It lands right underneath the dog.

[ Firecracker pops ]

[ Dog yelps ]

It's not that he hated dogs.

It's how he responded to threat.

The different side of him comes out.

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Schneider: I remember him saying one time,

"We had to move back here to the United States

because my sister Connie was hurt,"

and that's all he'd said.

Joe's sister Connie was molested at a young age.

I was 12 or so, and she was just

a couple years younger than I was.

Connie made a reference to little girls being molested.

She was talking about herself.

That was about her.

Joseph DeAngelo's nephew, in the HBO special

"I'll Be Gone in the Dark," spoke about a childhood trauma

that his sister underwent when they were stationed in Germany.

My mother was, uh -- she was raped.

In Germany, when she was 7 years old.

♪♪

By two military officers or men

in an airplane hangar.

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Guess who was watching?

Uncle Joe.

Now all of a sudden, violence is crossed with sexuality.

Holes: Would that create the serial predator?

Is it a form of stimulation for somebody

who's already fantasizing about committing violent acts?

I think that's a possibility.

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Pool: I think a "why" that satisfies us in any way

will never come.

It can't, 'cause what justifies

this kind of inflicting terror, pain, and suffering

and power over another human being?

St. John: This is obviously a conflicted person,

someone who was compulsively driven.

A very tragic, monstrous wreckage of a human being.

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Daly: For 44 years, every time I walked through

the house at night and I'd look out the door,

I always expected to see a shadowy figure.

And that's the one thing I will always remember,

is the fear.

Daly: When I learned about DeAngelo's background

and that he, in fact, was a police officer

and had been in the military, it's really a sad day.

The irony is that taxpayer money paid him to learn skills

that helped him perfect himself

to becoming a better serial predator.

Hutchcraft: He has done it all, peeper, prowler, burglar.

A sadist, a rapist, a serial killer.

Kneeland: He always had an escape route planned.

We're taught, always know how to escape.

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When I saw him the day after he was arrested,

when they wheeled him into the courtroom...

Schubert: You'd think that he was fresh out of a nursing home.

I'm surprised he wasn't drooling, quite frankly.

But when you know his history, two days before...

Mangang: He was outside moving a boat up and down the driveway,

moving boulders in his yard, cutting his lawn.

Jones: He is not the man that people saw

being wheeled helplessly into court every day.

He's a master manipulator.

Jones: We had video surveillance of him in the jail.

He's walking around, pacing back and forth like a caged predator.

Jumping up on his bunk, jumping up on his table,

cleaning his lights.

Ho: There's also an incident where he was watching

a female worker in the jail and he started to masturbate.

He's not a crippled old man at all.

One last ploy by a serial sex offender and serial killer

to try and garner some sympathy.

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Ho: After 40 years of evading capture,

the Golden State Killer was finally brought to justice.

It was an electrifying moment

where the victims were packed in the courtroom.

♪♪

St. John: I went into the victim impact statements,

and what really struck me is the strength of human spirit

and the resilience that I heard.

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[ Sighs ]

Miyao: I was 28 years old at the time.

I woke up to a flashlight in my eyes.

There was a gun that he put to my head.

Then he took me out of my bedroom

into another room, where he raped me.

Mr. DeAngelo, I want to tell you

what I was constantly thinking during the rape itself.

"You are not going to get me.

You are not gonna get me.

You are not gonna get me."

Carson-Sandler: This man standing in front of the bed with a ski mask on.

He said, "Shh, shh, shut up!

Shut up, shut up or I'll kill you."

My heart was just pounding out of my chest.

My name is Jane Carson-Sandler, and DeAngelo,

I want you to look at me.

I have a loving husband of 26 years

and two amazing, successful sons,

so you didn't destroy my life.

McMullan: My mom, Cheri Domingo, and Greg Sanchez --

I always picture them dancing together.

This monster, DeAngelo, he came in fully prepared,

armed to the teeth, and I think about my mom.

She must've just been absolutely petrified in those moments.

My mom and Greg were killed together in 1981.

Today, the devil loses and justice wins.

Janelle Cruz is my sister.

She was 18 and I was 17 when she was killed.

Now I know who killed my sister Janelle.

Joseph DeAngelo did, a vicious rapist and murderer

and nothing more.

I hope he rots.

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Carson-Sandler: Bonnie was his ex-fiancee years ago,

and actually came to court with me.

She was not able to give an impact statement

because she was not one of his rape victims.

I was able to read what Bonnie wanted to say to him.

I had written, "Even with a gun pointed at my face,

you could not make me choose you."

And I never took my stare off of Joe.

I didn't see a blink or any change whatsoever in Joe.

St. John: After the three days of the impact statements,

he is the one who insisted that he wanted to say something.

And there was an audible gasp in the ballroom when he stood.

I've listened to all your statements, each one of them.

♪♪

and I am truly sorry to everyone I've hurt.

Thank you, Your Honor.

It was a complete shock,

but he stood up without any help.

His voice was strong and audible,

and this whispering person

who seemed to be nodding off all the time,

who seemed totally disengaged,

suddenly, all of that was an act.

Carson-Sandler: As they were wheeling him out,

I just walked back right up to the stage and I said,

"DeAngelo, I just hope you rot in hell."

Rot in hell!

There was a policeman right there that was blocking me,

'cause he thought I was gonna jump up on the stage

and just rip him out of the wheelchair.

I felt empowered, finally.

We now have the control.

We now have the power, you son of a gun,

and I wanted him to know that.

♪♪

Joseph DeAngelo pled guilty to 13 counts of murder.

Judge: Murder in the first degree. How do you plead?

Guilty.

Schubert: 13 other counts of kidnap for purposes of robbery.

The rape charges, the statute of limitations had run long ago,

but he ultimately admitted all the uncharged crimes, as well.

Ho: In exchange for that,

Joseph DeAngelo was sentenced to life in prison

without the possibility of parole.

He will die in prison.

♪♪

Holes: I do know that Sharon divorced him

and made a statement

that she had no knowledge about his attacks

and was wanting her privacy respected.

Daly: Hundreds of people have been involved in this case

and had an active part in trying to see it solved.

One team would retire and another would come on

and they would pick up this case.

Hutchcraft: I think some of the greatest things

to come out of this mayhem

are the developments in DNA, the relationships.

McMullan: The blessing of getting to know other survivors,

and there are dozens and dozens of those

who have meant so much to me.

Carson-Sandler: We're not alone anymore, and that's what's so amazing,

and I know it's hard for those women

that have never been able to confront

or see their perpetrator go to trial,

so I hope we can speak for them.

Never give up hope that if the man that assaulted you

has not been caught, he will be someday.

♪♪

Since the Golden State Killer case,

genetic genealogy has been used to help solve

more than 100 cold cases throughout the country.

Vicious criminals who remained anonymous and free

are being identified and captured to face justice.

And at long last, many survivors and their families

say they have finally found peace.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching.

Goodnight.