1 00:00:01,376 --> 00:00:12,220 ♪♪ 2 00:00:12,345 --> 00:00:14,180 Woman: When he breaks into a home 3 00:00:14,305 --> 00:00:18,184 and he shines a flashlight into people's eyes, 4 00:00:18,309 --> 00:00:21,521 he witnesses the fear on their faces. 5 00:00:21,646 --> 00:00:23,982 He runs a knife along their skin. 6 00:00:24,065 --> 00:00:28,403 He presses the muzzle of a gun against someone's head. 7 00:00:28,528 --> 00:00:31,197 Golden State Killer: I'll kill you. 8 00:00:31,281 --> 00:00:33,491 I'll kill you. 9 00:00:33,575 --> 00:00:44,210 ♪♪ 10 00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:55,513 ♪♪ 11 00:00:55,597 --> 00:00:57,682 Welcome to "Very Scary People". 12 00:00:57,766 --> 00:00:59,309 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 13 00:00:59,392 --> 00:01:00,894 He was a ruthless predator, 14 00:01:01,019 --> 00:01:03,438 a remorseless serial rapist, 15 00:01:03,563 --> 00:01:06,149 and a killer on a brutal rampage. 16 00:01:06,232 --> 00:01:09,986 He took down his prey with the cold eye of a professional, 17 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,113 hunting in the pre-dawn hours, 18 00:01:12,238 --> 00:01:14,824 catching his victims asleep in bed. 19 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:17,243 He was a living nightmare who rushed out of the darkness 20 00:01:17,369 --> 00:01:21,122 to attack, then disappeared back into the shadows. 21 00:01:21,247 --> 00:01:25,043 For more than 40 years, no one could figure out who he was. 22 00:01:25,126 --> 00:01:28,588 But the Golden State Killer left key evidence behind, 23 00:01:28,713 --> 00:01:30,548 and when police finally put a name 24 00:01:30,632 --> 00:01:33,009 and a face to this phantom of the night, 25 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,220 the mystery of how he got away with his crimes 26 00:01:35,303 --> 00:01:38,890 for so long would end in a shocking reveal. 27 00:01:38,973 --> 00:01:42,102 This is part one of "The Golden State Killer". 28 00:01:42,227 --> 00:01:54,280 ♪♪ 29 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:56,282 Woman: The worst thing is not knowing -- 30 00:01:56,366 --> 00:01:59,077 not knowing when the rapist will strike again, 31 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,788 not knowing if you will be his next victim. 32 00:02:01,871 --> 00:02:06,459 Hope that he gets caught before he gets to you. 33 00:02:06,543 --> 00:02:10,046 O'Toole: The Golden State Killer is frightening to so many of us 34 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,466 because he's a very violent sex offender. 35 00:02:13,591 --> 00:02:17,387 Crompton: Most of the rapists at that time that we knew of, 36 00:02:17,470 --> 00:02:21,307 they were there for the satisfaction of the sex. 37 00:02:21,391 --> 00:02:22,809 The Golden State Killer -- 38 00:02:22,892 --> 00:02:25,395 he was there because of the terror 39 00:02:25,478 --> 00:02:26,855 he wanted to put in people. 40 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:28,815 He showed us who he really was -- 41 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:33,653 an extremely angry person who essentially hated women. 42 00:02:36,573 --> 00:02:41,786 Carson-Sandler: In 1976, I was 30 years old, and I was happily married. 43 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:43,747 My husband was a captain in the Air Force 44 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:45,623 at McClellan Air Force Base. 45 00:02:45,707 --> 00:02:50,211 I was also in the Air Force reserves as a flight nurse. 46 00:02:50,337 --> 00:02:52,339 October 5th, 1976. 47 00:02:52,464 --> 00:02:54,549 Jane Carson's husband leaves for work 48 00:02:54,674 --> 00:02:56,843 at about 6:30 in the morning. 49 00:02:56,968 --> 00:02:58,428 Carson-Sandler: My little three-year-old 50 00:02:58,511 --> 00:03:03,058 had just climbed in bed with me for a nice snuggle. 51 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,894 Suddenly, just a few minutes later -- 52 00:03:08,396 --> 00:03:13,360 The next thing I saw was a light shining down the hall, 53 00:03:13,485 --> 00:03:15,862 and then there was this man 54 00:03:15,987 --> 00:03:21,368 standing in front of the bed with a ski mask on. 55 00:03:21,493 --> 00:03:23,328 And a large knife in his hand. 56 00:03:23,411 --> 00:03:27,207 And the minute I screamed, he said -- 57 00:03:27,332 --> 00:03:31,002 "I'll kill everything in the house." 58 00:03:31,086 --> 00:03:33,046 Carson-Sandler: He gagged us both. 59 00:03:33,171 --> 00:03:38,968 He blindfolded us both, and he tied us up. 60 00:03:39,052 --> 00:03:43,473 And then the next thing I know, he had some kind of cloth 61 00:03:43,556 --> 00:03:48,228 that he began ripping in a very ritualistic manner. 62 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:50,855 I'm thinking, "Oh, my God. Is he gonna hang us?" 63 00:03:50,939 --> 00:03:53,149 That was so scary. 64 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:55,902 Jane's son was just a toddler at the time. 65 00:03:55,985 --> 00:03:57,779 Carson-Sandler: He took my son away. 66 00:03:57,904 --> 00:04:00,573 My heart was just pounding out of my chest. 67 00:04:00,657 --> 00:04:03,535 "What did you do with my son? Where'd you put him?" 68 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:05,245 Then he untied my ankles, 69 00:04:05,328 --> 00:04:09,916 and then I knew what he was there for. 70 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,336 I don't remember anything about the rape. 71 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:17,048 My whole attention was "where's my son?" 72 00:04:17,132 --> 00:04:19,342 That was what's so terrifying. 73 00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:25,098 He did move my son back next to me. 74 00:04:25,181 --> 00:04:27,600 "If I hear you move, if I hear anything, 75 00:04:27,726 --> 00:04:30,270 I'm gonna come back and kill you." 76 00:04:30,353 --> 00:04:33,106 He would actually stay in the house for hours. 77 00:04:33,189 --> 00:04:35,191 He's going into the fridge. 78 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:36,693 Carson-Sandler: He's going to go in my kitchen 79 00:04:36,776 --> 00:04:39,070 and eat something after he just raped me? 80 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:40,613 Holes: Not only does he possess the victims, 81 00:04:40,697 --> 00:04:44,659 he possesses their belongings, he possesses their house. 82 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:48,121 I knew that I just needed to wait 83 00:04:48,204 --> 00:04:52,375 until I didn't hear anything to know that he was gone. 84 00:04:55,211 --> 00:04:58,882 I was able to get my blindfold down just a little bit, 85 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:00,467 and then I could look at my son, 86 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:03,470 and I just remember hugging him and just thanking God 87 00:05:03,553 --> 00:05:06,723 that my little guy was still there with me. 88 00:05:06,806 --> 00:05:08,516 Daly: I was a detective in the Sacramento 89 00:05:08,641 --> 00:05:10,393 County Sheriff's Department. 90 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:13,146 Jane was at a neighbor's house, and I met her there, 91 00:05:13,229 --> 00:05:15,440 and I took her to the hospital. 92 00:05:15,523 --> 00:05:18,151 I would sob and sob and sob 93 00:05:18,234 --> 00:05:20,278 because of what had just happened. 94 00:05:20,362 --> 00:05:23,365 ♪♪ 95 00:05:23,490 --> 00:05:25,617 After the rape, I was looking over my shoulder 96 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:29,162 all the time at any male that I came in contact with. 97 00:05:29,287 --> 00:05:32,165 I didn't know if he was going to come back. 98 00:05:32,248 --> 00:05:34,417 Oh, my goodness. I over-ate. 99 00:05:34,501 --> 00:05:37,420 I didn't wear makeup. I isolated. 100 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:42,842 I decided that maybe I could medicate myself with alcohol, 101 00:05:42,967 --> 00:05:44,678 and I became very ill. 102 00:05:44,803 --> 00:05:49,391 ♪♪ 103 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:51,434 Kneeland: Is he walking down the street and getting the urge 104 00:05:51,518 --> 00:05:53,269 and picking out a house and going in there 105 00:05:53,353 --> 00:05:58,316 and, you know, perpetrating an attack, or what's behind it? 106 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,320 We had five cases that all had the same method of operation. 107 00:06:02,404 --> 00:06:05,990 He was entering the homes either through an unlocked door 108 00:06:06,074 --> 00:06:08,284 or had forced his way in, 109 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:11,705 and always confronted the victims in bed, 110 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:13,957 shining a flashlight in their eyes. 111 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,875 He had a ski mask on. 112 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:18,044 He's saying the same things to the victims. 113 00:06:18,169 --> 00:06:22,215 Woman: "Shut up. All I want is food and money." 114 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:25,176 Daly: He always had a weapon -- a knife, a gun. 115 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:30,056 We knew that we had one single person doing these crimes. 116 00:06:30,140 --> 00:06:33,810 We've got a serial rapist, and this is a bad guy. 117 00:06:33,893 --> 00:06:40,483 From June 1976 to December of 1977, there were 28 attacks. 118 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:45,155 And he attacked twice in the same 24-hour period of time. 119 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:47,741 Daly: We responded to one rape, and next thing we know, 120 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:50,994 we're turning around and we're at another crime scene. 121 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:53,204 We need to do everything we can to stop him. 122 00:06:53,288 --> 00:06:56,541 ♪♪ 123 00:06:56,624 --> 00:07:00,754 What is happening is he is prowling a neighborhood. 124 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:05,967 Reconnaissance and tracking, surveillance, stalking. 125 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:07,218 He was looking through windows. 126 00:07:07,302 --> 00:07:08,928 Daly: He was following people home, 127 00:07:09,054 --> 00:07:12,265 watching the house to see who came and went. 128 00:07:12,349 --> 00:07:13,975 He knows when the trash man comes. 129 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,144 He knows when the milk man comes. 130 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:18,188 Holes: He's already got an escape route 131 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:21,274 planned to avoid law enforcement's response. 132 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:24,486 He's criss-crossing like a spider doing a web 133 00:07:24,611 --> 00:07:28,281 so that he never comes and goes from the same direction. 134 00:07:28,406 --> 00:07:31,701 Daly: Some of these rape victims were repeatedly raped. 135 00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:34,287 Just act after act after act. 136 00:07:34,412 --> 00:07:40,126 Each thing that this person did is a separate crime. 137 00:07:40,210 --> 00:07:41,586 We're seeing this guy for what he is. 138 00:07:41,670 --> 00:07:42,837 He's a predator. 139 00:07:42,962 --> 00:07:44,464 He's hunting human beings. 140 00:07:44,547 --> 00:07:48,468 Daly: There probably was no other series of cases 141 00:07:48,593 --> 00:07:54,432 that were as horrific as the East Area Rapist. 142 00:07:56,768 --> 00:08:00,271 He came running right down the sidewalk. 143 00:08:00,355 --> 00:08:02,607 He looked up and he saw me standing right here. 144 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:09,447 ♪♪ 145 00:08:14,452 --> 00:08:17,997 Gagliano: In October of 1976, 30 year old mother 146 00:08:18,081 --> 00:08:20,166 Jane Carson is sexually attacked 147 00:08:20,250 --> 00:08:23,003 by a serial rapist in her own home. 148 00:08:23,128 --> 00:08:25,296 Her mysterious attacker goes on to commit 149 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:28,508 one brutal sexual assault after another. 150 00:08:28,633 --> 00:08:32,262 The same incredible, absolutely unbelievable brazenness 151 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:35,432 that is so often characterized as worked before, 152 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:37,642 the East Area Rapist has once again struck 153 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:40,311 in precisely the same neighborhood 154 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:43,231 that has been his target so many times before. 155 00:08:43,356 --> 00:08:44,607 Jones: There were other sexual offenders 156 00:08:44,691 --> 00:08:47,027 and predators out there, but nobody really 157 00:08:47,152 --> 00:08:50,280 captured the sort of collective imagination 158 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:54,451 and fear as what we called the East Area Rapist. 159 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:56,036 Woman: So, what will you do now? 160 00:08:56,161 --> 00:08:58,288 Have a dog in the house. Big dog. 161 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:03,209 The victims were very consistent in describing a white male 162 00:09:03,293 --> 00:09:06,046 somewhere between 5'8" to 5'10", 163 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:10,717 reasonably athletic build, 160 to 180 pounds. 164 00:09:10,842 --> 00:09:14,596 We knew he had a size 9 foot from the footprints. 165 00:09:14,721 --> 00:09:19,434 We got all sorts of eye color -- blue, green, brown. 166 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,063 We didn't have that much to go on. 167 00:09:23,188 --> 00:09:26,900 Gagliano: But police gathered 11 different descriptions from witnesses 168 00:09:27,025 --> 00:09:28,777 who had seen the unmasked suspect 169 00:09:28,902 --> 00:09:32,030 as he fled several different crime scenes. 170 00:09:32,113 --> 00:09:35,742 He came running right down the sidewalk. 171 00:09:35,867 --> 00:09:38,995 And he looked up and he saw me standing right here. 172 00:09:39,079 --> 00:09:42,082 Gagliano: The witness made a sketch of the fleeing man's face 173 00:09:42,207 --> 00:09:44,834 in the minutes after seeing him close up. 174 00:09:46,711 --> 00:09:50,799 I'm an art student, and I drew out a picture of him 175 00:09:50,924 --> 00:09:52,717 standing next to the tree, because I saw him 176 00:09:52,801 --> 00:09:57,305 and I drew a picture of him running down, front and back. 177 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:00,850 But investigators were not able to positively identify 178 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:04,646 a suspect from that sketch. 179 00:10:04,771 --> 00:10:08,191 Nothing they did seemed to be able to stop this person. 180 00:10:08,274 --> 00:10:10,485 He just kept going and going. 181 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:13,988 Gagliano: And then he targets a 13-year-old schoolgirl 182 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,449 named Margaret Wardlow. 183 00:10:16,574 --> 00:10:19,411 My parents were divorced, and I was living with my mom. 184 00:10:19,494 --> 00:10:21,162 My mom was a single parent. 185 00:10:21,287 --> 00:10:23,581 Holes: She's living in a two-story structure 186 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:27,335 that backed up to the levy to the American river. 187 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,379 Wardlow: I was only 13 years old. 188 00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:33,758 I never considered the fact that I might become a victim. 189 00:10:35,802 --> 00:10:39,139 Holes: It's very possible he's just wandering along the levy, 190 00:10:39,264 --> 00:10:42,058 looking into houses, and sees Margaret, 191 00:10:42,142 --> 00:10:43,601 and decides, "You know what? 192 00:10:43,685 --> 00:10:46,730 I'll take the risk, but I think I can get away with it." 193 00:10:46,813 --> 00:10:52,277 ♪♪ 194 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,695 Wardlow: I went to bed fairly early, 195 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:59,284 and I was awoken with a flashlight in my face. 196 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:03,788 And it didn't take me very long to realize 197 00:11:03,872 --> 00:11:05,915 that it was the East Area Rapist. 198 00:11:08,084 --> 00:11:10,587 I was blindfolded, I was gagged. 199 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:14,090 My hands and feet were both tied. 200 00:11:14,174 --> 00:11:15,633 Their mother was in another bedroom, 201 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:17,594 and the rapist went in there and tied her 202 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:20,430 and bound her and gagged her. 203 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:22,724 Holes: There's no question the East Area Rapist 204 00:11:22,849 --> 00:11:26,519 really got off on inflicting fear. 205 00:11:26,603 --> 00:11:29,272 Wardlow: Everything that he said was in this harsh whisper. 206 00:11:29,356 --> 00:11:30,523 "Do you want to die? 207 00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:31,900 Do you want me to kill your mother?" 208 00:11:32,025 --> 00:11:34,361 And I realized that right at that very moment, 209 00:11:34,444 --> 00:11:37,072 "He's gonna rape me." 210 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:39,199 This is not just about the rape. 211 00:11:39,282 --> 00:11:44,746 This is about causing incredible fear and exhibiting a rage. 212 00:11:44,871 --> 00:11:48,750 ♪♪ 213 00:11:48,875 --> 00:11:51,044 Wardlow: After we realized that he had gone, 214 00:11:51,169 --> 00:11:55,131 my mom started screaming out for the neighbor to come, 215 00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:57,801 and he came over with a shotgun. 216 00:11:57,884 --> 00:12:01,554 And then the neighbor's wife came in and untied me. 217 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:05,058 My mom was in shock after what happened. 218 00:12:05,183 --> 00:12:08,687 My mom took it really, really hard. 219 00:12:08,770 --> 00:12:14,025 My role was to be there to interview the victims 220 00:12:14,109 --> 00:12:17,404 as soon as possible after the rape had occurred. 221 00:12:17,487 --> 00:12:19,906 I was hoping that they would catch this guy. 222 00:12:22,409 --> 00:12:26,913 St. John: A man downtown calls the police department and says, 223 00:12:27,038 --> 00:12:29,916 "I know the identity of the East Area Rapist," 224 00:12:30,041 --> 00:12:33,878 and the officer that they dispatched to take that report 225 00:12:33,962 --> 00:12:35,755 was Joe DeAngelo. 226 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:37,924 DeAngelo writes nothing in the report 227 00:12:38,049 --> 00:12:42,637 about what the man says, just the letters "HBD" -- 228 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:47,517 has been drinking, and closes the file. 229 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,019 Gagliano: After a stint in the military, 230 00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:52,272 Joseph DeAngelo got his degree in criminal justice 231 00:12:52,397 --> 00:12:54,399 and joined the men and women in blue. 232 00:12:54,482 --> 00:12:56,276 He moves to Exeter 233 00:12:56,359 --> 00:13:00,864 and becomes a police officer for three years. 234 00:13:00,947 --> 00:13:03,116 There was a huge increase in burglaries, 235 00:13:03,199 --> 00:13:06,953 and the department was really struggling to find the culprit. 236 00:13:07,037 --> 00:13:10,373 He was very proud whenever he wore a uniform. 237 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:12,959 Gagliano: DeAngelo was kept busy on patrol, 238 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:15,295 but on off hours, he had a seemingly traditional 239 00:13:15,378 --> 00:13:17,797 home life as a family man. 240 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:23,636 Joe DeAngelo and Sharon got married in 1973. 241 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,806 Schneider: We called her Sherry. They were happy together. 242 00:13:26,890 --> 00:13:29,017 Joe's childhood friend, Judy Schneider, 243 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:32,812 and her parents were Joe's very special guests at the wedding. 244 00:13:32,896 --> 00:13:34,272 When you look at the wedding picture, 245 00:13:34,356 --> 00:13:36,775 you can see the pride in Joe's face. 246 00:13:36,858 --> 00:13:39,694 You can see the pride in my parents' face. 247 00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:43,448 And the strong bond DeAngelo shared with Judy and her family 248 00:13:43,531 --> 00:13:45,617 grew as Joe became a father. 249 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:46,910 Schneider: They'd come out here to house all the time 250 00:13:46,993 --> 00:13:48,745 and visit mom and dad, bring the babies, 251 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,873 and they were very proud parents. 252 00:13:51,998 --> 00:13:54,000 His wife was in law school at the time. 253 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:56,211 My sister and I, you know, we'd go out and baby sit 254 00:13:56,336 --> 00:13:57,545 because then we found out, well, 255 00:13:57,671 --> 00:13:59,714 Joe was helping put her through school. 256 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,049 He worked nights. 257 00:14:01,174 --> 00:14:04,552 Joe would be fixing dinner or paying bills, shopping. 258 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:05,929 He was doing all that 259 00:14:06,012 --> 00:14:08,515 so that she could have the time to go to school 260 00:14:08,598 --> 00:14:10,433 and not be disturbed by other stuff. 261 00:14:10,517 --> 00:14:13,770 St. John: The women he was attracted to were very strong women, 262 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:14,854 very outgoing. 263 00:14:14,938 --> 00:14:17,232 This is not a man who surrounded himself 264 00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:19,275 with meek women. 265 00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:23,947 And in 1976, Mr. DeAngelo relocates 266 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:27,117 to another Sacramento area police agency -- 267 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,203 the Auburn Police Department. 268 00:14:30,286 --> 00:14:33,915 When he's in Auburn, he begins not only as a patrolman, 269 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,710 but he is at the bottom of the rung, 270 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:39,379 and he is sent out to take a report 271 00:14:39,504 --> 00:14:42,549 of a broken manhole cover or barking dogs. 272 00:14:42,632 --> 00:14:46,302 This is the lowest of the low policing, 273 00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:51,224 but he never takes initiative to try to rise above that. 274 00:14:51,349 --> 00:14:53,309 He remains on patrol. 275 00:14:53,393 --> 00:14:55,562 Holes: I talked with Chief Nick Willick. 276 00:14:55,645 --> 00:14:56,896 I initially called him up and I asked him 277 00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:58,398 if he remembered a Joe DeAngelo. 278 00:14:58,523 --> 00:15:00,066 He goes, "Oh, yeah. I was his sergeant." 279 00:15:00,150 --> 00:15:05,113 Joe DeAngelo was not a very good law enforcement officer. 280 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:10,660 He was not really popular among the officers. 281 00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:14,581 They did sense something in him that did not seem 282 00:15:14,706 --> 00:15:18,501 to allow him to fit in to the ranks. 283 00:15:18,585 --> 00:15:20,879 He liked the trappings of being a police officer. 284 00:15:20,962 --> 00:15:23,757 He liked the power, the control, wearing a gun. 285 00:15:23,882 --> 00:15:27,093 ♪♪ 286 00:15:27,218 --> 00:15:29,346 Jordan: You think that you're safe because your husband 287 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:31,598 is in bed alone with you? 288 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:33,058 You think he can protect you? 289 00:15:33,141 --> 00:15:39,856 ♪♪ 290 00:15:44,986 --> 00:15:47,113 Man: The East Area Rapist is different. 291 00:15:47,238 --> 00:15:49,115 He terrorizes his victims. 292 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,951 [ Telephone ringing ] 293 00:15:52,077 --> 00:15:54,996 Holes: He's now calling the victims after he's attacked them 294 00:15:55,121 --> 00:15:57,290 and letting them know he's still around. 295 00:15:57,415 --> 00:15:59,167 "I'm still here." 296 00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:02,462 East Area Rapist: I'll kill you. 297 00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:06,091 I'll kill you. 298 00:16:06,174 --> 00:16:08,635 He likes that fear. 299 00:16:08,718 --> 00:16:10,095 Woman: The problem is no one knows 300 00:16:10,178 --> 00:16:12,889 where or when he'll strike again. 301 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:16,101 The East Area Rapist seemed to know everything 302 00:16:16,184 --> 00:16:17,769 that we were doing. 303 00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:21,106 We knew that he was reading the newspaper. 304 00:16:21,189 --> 00:16:22,649 Man: He has never been caught in a home 305 00:16:22,732 --> 00:16:24,317 where there was a man present. 306 00:16:24,442 --> 00:16:26,194 He goes, "I'll show you. 307 00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:27,404 I'll show you who I am." 308 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:31,741 ♪♪ 309 00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:35,995 Joanne Miyao and her husband lived in the city of San Jose. 310 00:16:36,079 --> 00:16:39,916 Miyao: I was a nurse at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, 311 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,502 and I also wanted to start a family. 312 00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:47,716 Holes: December 2nd, 1978, you have 313 00:16:47,841 --> 00:16:49,676 Joanne and her husband asleep in their bed, 314 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,512 when a masked man with a gun comes in. 315 00:16:52,637 --> 00:16:57,475 Miyao: I woke up to a flashlight in my eyes, and this guy's yelling, 316 00:16:57,559 --> 00:16:59,060 "I have a gun." 317 00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:02,689 I screamed at the top of my lungs. 318 00:17:02,772 --> 00:17:04,774 Jordan: He ordered Joanne to tie up her husband, 319 00:17:04,858 --> 00:17:06,151 and then he tied up 320 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:09,195 Joanne by her wrists and her ankles. 321 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,364 Miyao: He brought that gun to my head. 322 00:17:11,448 --> 00:17:14,117 I thought this was gonna be it. 323 00:17:17,203 --> 00:17:18,788 And then he got a plate 324 00:17:18,872 --> 00:17:22,042 and he put it on the back of my husband. 325 00:17:22,125 --> 00:17:24,586 And he said, "If these plates fall, 326 00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:29,049 I will hear it and I will kill you." 327 00:17:29,174 --> 00:17:31,217 He took Joanne into the living room 328 00:17:31,343 --> 00:17:35,221 and raped her multiple times. 329 00:17:35,347 --> 00:17:38,558 I just kept on saying to myself that, 330 00:17:38,641 --> 00:17:40,518 "You're not gonna get me. 331 00:17:40,602 --> 00:17:42,771 You either survive or you don't." 332 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,277 I heard the refrigerator open and then him crying. 333 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:52,322 Holes: The victims report that the offender usually, 334 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:56,785 after the sexual assault, would kind of isolate himself, 335 00:17:56,910 --> 00:17:58,787 and they'd hear him cry. 336 00:17:58,912 --> 00:18:00,955 "My mommy's making me do it." 337 00:18:01,081 --> 00:18:03,416 Miyao: What's going on with this guy? 338 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:08,088 Clearly, he has some deep-seated issues from childhood 339 00:18:08,171 --> 00:18:10,674 that are behind these attacks. 340 00:18:13,843 --> 00:18:17,931 Finally, I couldn't hear anything, so then I got up, 341 00:18:18,056 --> 00:18:22,936 and somehow, I was able to dial zero to get the police. 342 00:18:25,939 --> 00:18:29,442 I went to the hospital. 343 00:18:29,526 --> 00:18:34,781 They didn't have rape kits or counseling services. 344 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:36,574 My husband and I really never talked 345 00:18:36,658 --> 00:18:40,328 about what happened to us that night. 346 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:42,163 I wasn't allowed to talk about it, 347 00:18:42,288 --> 00:18:45,583 which I don't think was good for me. 348 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:48,336 Joanne held back powerful emotions. 349 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:51,756 Miyao: Tension and a lot of grief, and shame 350 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,844 and guilt, but mostly grief. 351 00:18:58,013 --> 00:19:00,974 About a year into the East Area Rapist attacks, 352 00:19:01,099 --> 00:19:03,852 Sacramento detectives get a call from a police department 353 00:19:03,977 --> 00:19:05,812 in Visalia, California. 354 00:19:05,937 --> 00:19:07,814 They think they have a potential lead. 355 00:19:07,897 --> 00:19:11,985 Visalia experienced a rash of residential burglaries. 356 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:14,195 About 120 cases. 357 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,698 There was a streak of alarming home invasions 358 00:19:16,823 --> 00:19:20,994 from 1974 to 1975, ending just six months 359 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,247 before the start of the East Area Rapist in Sacramento. 360 00:19:24,330 --> 00:19:27,459 They called him the Visalia ransacker. 361 00:19:27,542 --> 00:19:30,170 Gagliano: And police felt he had a number of similarities 362 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:31,963 to the East Area Rapist. 363 00:19:32,047 --> 00:19:34,758 Jordan: Did the Visalia Ransacker evolve 364 00:19:34,841 --> 00:19:37,969 and become the Sacramento Rapist? 365 00:19:38,053 --> 00:19:40,055 It was a theory. A good theory. 366 00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:43,683 ♪♪ 367 00:19:43,767 --> 00:19:46,686 He was about the same height, same weight. 368 00:19:46,811 --> 00:19:50,482 Both offenders ransacked and burglarized. 369 00:19:50,565 --> 00:19:53,860 Hutchcraft: The Visalia Ransacker would go into the homes 370 00:19:53,943 --> 00:19:56,154 when people were away from the homes, 371 00:19:56,237 --> 00:19:58,448 and they would come home and find their house 372 00:19:58,531 --> 00:19:59,991 completely ransacked. 373 00:20:00,075 --> 00:20:01,284 Items were pulled out of the drawers, 374 00:20:01,368 --> 00:20:04,871 out of the cabinets, strewn on the bed. 375 00:20:04,954 --> 00:20:08,458 There was a sexual component to these burglaries. 376 00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:10,377 Kneeland: He would take out bra and panties 377 00:20:10,502 --> 00:20:13,672 and lay it out on the bed, almost anatomically, 378 00:20:13,755 --> 00:20:16,591 like a person was laying there. 379 00:20:16,716 --> 00:20:19,469 He was masturbating inside the homes. 380 00:20:22,472 --> 00:20:26,393 This pattern does fit the evolution of a serial rapist. 381 00:20:26,518 --> 00:20:28,395 O'Toole: Somebody doesn't wake up one day 382 00:20:28,478 --> 00:20:31,731 and just become a very experienced predator. 383 00:20:31,815 --> 00:20:34,901 This behavior starts at a much earlier age. 384 00:20:34,984 --> 00:20:40,740 An offender learns over time how to commit crimes. 385 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:43,910 O'Toole: How to break in without being caught. 386 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:46,746 "What kind of a weapon do I need to bring with me?" 387 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:50,291 So, they get better and better. 388 00:20:50,417 --> 00:20:52,711 Gagliano: If these serial crimes were perpetrated 389 00:20:52,794 --> 00:20:54,379 by one lone predator, 390 00:20:54,462 --> 00:20:57,924 police now had something deeply troubling to worry about -- 391 00:20:58,008 --> 00:21:00,802 an evolving, angry sex predator 392 00:21:00,927 --> 00:21:04,097 with a sinister urge to commit murder. 393 00:21:07,017 --> 00:21:10,311 Hagan: He witnesses the fear on their faces. 394 00:21:10,437 --> 00:21:14,274 You can think about him witnessing these women's 395 00:21:14,357 --> 00:21:19,446 reactions to seeing their husbands or boyfriends killed. 396 00:21:19,571 --> 00:21:21,114 He would have enjoyed that. 397 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:27,996 ♪♪ 398 00:21:30,206 --> 00:21:34,252 ♪♪ 399 00:21:34,336 --> 00:21:36,546 Welcome back to "Very Scary People". 400 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:38,131 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 401 00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:40,967 The East Area Rapist has been playing a haunting game 402 00:21:41,051 --> 00:21:43,470 of "catch me if you can" with investigators 403 00:21:43,553 --> 00:21:47,140 while he continues his reign of terror in Sacramento. 404 00:21:47,223 --> 00:21:49,476 But after committing dozens of rapes, 405 00:21:49,601 --> 00:21:51,311 he mysteriously vanishes, 406 00:21:51,394 --> 00:21:53,313 leaving frustrated law enforcement agents 407 00:21:53,396 --> 00:21:57,525 to wonder if the East Area Rapist is gone for good, 408 00:21:57,650 --> 00:22:01,446 or if he will return one day as a killer. 409 00:22:03,948 --> 00:22:07,994 They shut our task force down, and even though we were told, 410 00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:11,831 "let it go", we couldn't. 411 00:22:11,956 --> 00:22:14,542 That was the hardest part for me to deal with, 412 00:22:14,668 --> 00:22:17,170 that there was no closure. 413 00:22:17,295 --> 00:22:18,838 O'Toole: With an offender like this, 414 00:22:18,963 --> 00:22:21,716 and I've seen it with psychopathic individuals, 415 00:22:21,841 --> 00:22:24,052 they get bored with what they are doing 416 00:22:24,177 --> 00:22:29,391 and they ratchet it up, and they take on new challenges. 417 00:22:29,516 --> 00:22:32,602 The biggest fear for me was that my next call 418 00:22:32,686 --> 00:22:34,938 was gonna be a homicide call. 419 00:22:35,021 --> 00:22:38,483 We had so much fear that this man was ready to kill. 420 00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:43,530 ♪♪ 421 00:22:43,655 --> 00:22:47,200 Hutchcraft: Approximately three months after the East Area Rapist 422 00:22:47,283 --> 00:22:50,453 has his last attack in Northern California, 423 00:22:50,537 --> 00:22:56,376 a series of homicides begins in Southern California, 424 00:22:56,459 --> 00:23:00,714 and women and couples start being killed in their beds. 425 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:07,220 ♪♪ 426 00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:09,222 The killer was somebody who could blend 427 00:23:09,347 --> 00:23:12,559 into these upscale communities. 428 00:23:12,684 --> 00:23:14,936 Hutchcraft: The couples that were being targeted 429 00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:17,647 were in no way related to crime. 430 00:23:17,731 --> 00:23:19,441 They had no enemies. 431 00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:22,318 Holes: Dr. Robert Offerman, who was an orthopedic surgeon. 432 00:23:22,402 --> 00:23:26,656 Dr. Debra Manning was a psychologist. 433 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:29,284 Lyman Smith was a former D.A. 434 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:32,245 Charlene Smith was his wife. 435 00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:35,248 She was running her own home-based business, 436 00:23:35,373 --> 00:23:37,917 selling different types of jewelry. 437 00:23:38,001 --> 00:23:40,211 Woman: Manuela Wittuhn, a loan officer, 438 00:23:40,295 --> 00:23:42,881 was raped and murdered in her home. 439 00:23:42,964 --> 00:23:44,549 Keith and Patty Harrington, 440 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:48,261 a young medical student and a nurse. 441 00:23:48,386 --> 00:23:51,348 Hutchcraft: It's very scary because there's really no clues, 442 00:23:51,431 --> 00:23:52,974 nothing left behind about who the offender 443 00:23:53,099 --> 00:23:56,269 is that's committing these crimes. 444 00:23:56,394 --> 00:23:58,146 Gagliano: As this terrifying new serial killer 445 00:23:58,271 --> 00:24:00,482 emerges in Southern California, 446 00:24:00,607 --> 00:24:03,318 Joseph DeAngelo has been an Auburn police officer 447 00:24:03,443 --> 00:24:05,528 for three years. 448 00:24:05,612 --> 00:24:07,113 Auburn is located 449 00:24:07,197 --> 00:24:09,324 right outside of the city of Sacramento. 450 00:24:09,449 --> 00:24:13,370 ♪♪ 451 00:24:13,453 --> 00:24:18,667 That part of his career ended when he was caught stealing. 452 00:24:18,792 --> 00:24:22,087 DeAngelo's arrested for shoplifting dog repellent 453 00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:24,005 and a hammer. 454 00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:26,132 It was a very stupid thing to do. 455 00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:30,387 [ Siren wailing ] 456 00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:33,765 St. John: It's what happened afterward in apprehending this man 457 00:24:33,848 --> 00:24:35,642 that has kind of blown the mind 458 00:24:35,767 --> 00:24:38,520 of the deputies who are taking the report. 459 00:24:38,645 --> 00:24:41,272 Gagliano: When two sheriff's deputies arrive at the store, 460 00:24:41,356 --> 00:24:43,233 they're surprised to find the clerks 461 00:24:43,316 --> 00:24:46,152 have tied DeAngelo up in a chair. 462 00:24:46,236 --> 00:24:48,113 St. John: He's faked a heart attack. 463 00:24:48,196 --> 00:24:52,325 He's began ranting and acting crazy and insane. 464 00:24:52,409 --> 00:24:53,993 And then when the deputies arrive, 465 00:24:54,077 --> 00:24:56,329 he says he's got a head injury, 466 00:24:56,454 --> 00:25:00,625 but the moment that the clerks leave the room, 467 00:25:00,709 --> 00:25:02,794 the insanity act stops. 468 00:25:02,877 --> 00:25:04,504 The deputies are so concerned 469 00:25:04,587 --> 00:25:07,257 at what they've just witnessed that they call Auburn. 470 00:25:07,340 --> 00:25:10,343 That's why he loses his job instantly. 471 00:25:10,468 --> 00:25:11,720 Not because of the hammer, 472 00:25:11,845 --> 00:25:17,225 but because of what happened in the arrest. 473 00:25:17,350 --> 00:25:20,353 Holes: And so, the process determinate was underway. 474 00:25:20,437 --> 00:25:24,649 There was an internal affairs investigation. 475 00:25:24,733 --> 00:25:26,901 No longer be a police officer. He has been terminated. 476 00:25:27,027 --> 00:25:29,029 He's been shamed in that community, 477 00:25:29,154 --> 00:25:30,739 whether it's from determination 478 00:25:30,864 --> 00:25:33,283 or there's something else going on in his life 479 00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:36,327 at that point in time, he still has that anger. 480 00:25:36,411 --> 00:25:39,956 He is mad at his circumstances. 481 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,791 So, what does he do? 482 00:25:45,003 --> 00:25:48,548 McMullan: I'm the surviving daughter of Cheri Domingo, 483 00:25:48,631 --> 00:25:50,884 who was one of the murder victims 484 00:25:51,009 --> 00:25:52,886 in the Golden State Killer case. 485 00:25:52,969 --> 00:25:56,056 My mom met Greg when she was nearly divorced. 486 00:25:56,181 --> 00:25:57,891 She was a single mom on a budget. 487 00:25:58,016 --> 00:26:01,227 What really made Greg attractive was his personality. 488 00:26:01,311 --> 00:26:03,772 Greg was just so down to Earth. 489 00:26:03,897 --> 00:26:10,653 ♪♪ 490 00:26:10,737 --> 00:26:14,699 The relationship between me and my mom was really complex. 491 00:26:14,783 --> 00:26:17,744 As a teenager, I had already started to desire 492 00:26:17,827 --> 00:26:19,371 kind of that independence. 493 00:26:19,454 --> 00:26:23,249 I was 15 at the time, just a few weeks before my 16th birthday. 494 00:26:23,333 --> 00:26:25,627 Mom and I had been arguing a lot that summer. 495 00:26:25,752 --> 00:26:29,130 I had had this argument with my mom on the phone. 496 00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:30,548 I had yelled at her, 497 00:26:30,632 --> 00:26:32,258 "I don't have to comply with your rules anymore. 498 00:26:32,342 --> 00:26:34,928 I'll just go wherever I want." 499 00:26:35,011 --> 00:26:36,721 And I disappeared. 500 00:26:39,224 --> 00:26:42,602 The next day, I got another phone call, 501 00:26:42,727 --> 00:26:44,312 and it was from my mom's best friend, 502 00:26:44,437 --> 00:26:46,564 and the tone of her voice convinced me 503 00:26:46,648 --> 00:26:49,442 that maybe there was something important enough 504 00:26:49,526 --> 00:26:52,404 that I really did need to come home. 505 00:26:52,487 --> 00:26:54,531 Over the years, my mom and Greg would be together 506 00:26:54,614 --> 00:26:56,908 and then they would break up and they would be together again, 507 00:26:56,991 --> 00:26:58,785 and on again, off again. 508 00:26:58,910 --> 00:27:02,831 But when I saw Greg's car, for some reason, 509 00:27:02,956 --> 00:27:04,124 I got this little glimmer. 510 00:27:04,207 --> 00:27:06,376 I thought, "Oh, man, if Greg's here, 511 00:27:06,459 --> 00:27:07,877 everything's gonna be okay." 512 00:27:07,961 --> 00:27:09,963 I said, "I want to see my mom. I want to see Greg." 513 00:27:10,046 --> 00:27:15,635 And finally, somebody said, "No, you can't go in. 514 00:27:15,719 --> 00:27:17,429 It's too messy." 515 00:27:20,015 --> 00:27:23,476 Pool: They were in a downstairs bedroom and in bed. 516 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,896 The offender appeared to have gained access to the house 517 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:31,151 by opening a bathroom window. 518 00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:35,155 There were deep shoe impressions 519 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,825 in one specific spot in the bathroom carpet, 520 00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:43,079 which would indicate that he stood in that particular spot 521 00:27:43,163 --> 00:27:45,915 for a very, very long period of time. 522 00:27:47,959 --> 00:27:52,630 The door that led into the bedroom was a little bit warped, 523 00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:55,675 so when the door opened, it made a scraping noise. 524 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,388 We believe that it was probably that that gave Greg the ability 525 00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:04,476 to get to his feet and lunge at the offender 526 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:07,228 as he made entry into the bedroom. 527 00:28:07,354 --> 00:28:09,773 McMullan: Greg had to go into fight mode to try 528 00:28:09,856 --> 00:28:14,027 and save his own life and my mother's. 529 00:28:14,152 --> 00:28:16,196 Greg actually gets shot through the left cheek. 530 00:28:16,321 --> 00:28:17,864 It's a nonfatal wound. 531 00:28:17,989 --> 00:28:20,033 It was enough of a blow that it dropped 532 00:28:20,158 --> 00:28:22,035 Mr. Sanchez to his knees. 533 00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:24,913 If I close my eyes, I can picture that bedroom, 534 00:28:25,038 --> 00:28:29,250 and I can picture Greg fighting for his life. 535 00:28:31,419 --> 00:28:34,214 At that point I think is probably when he went 536 00:28:34,297 --> 00:28:35,757 and tied my mother. 537 00:28:35,882 --> 00:28:38,134 Her legs were pulled up behind her, 538 00:28:38,218 --> 00:28:42,013 and the wrists and ankles bound together behind her back. 539 00:28:42,097 --> 00:28:46,935 Cheri was killed by multiple blows to the head. 540 00:28:47,060 --> 00:28:48,520 Holes: In the midst of this, 541 00:28:48,603 --> 00:28:52,565 he's constantly have to go back and deal with Greg. 542 00:28:52,649 --> 00:28:54,818 It looks like he probably rushed the offender 543 00:28:54,901 --> 00:28:56,653 and gets shot again. 544 00:28:56,736 --> 00:28:59,030 He goes crumpling down the closet. 545 00:28:59,114 --> 00:29:03,576 And that is where he died and was found deceased. 546 00:29:06,121 --> 00:29:10,458 O'Toole: How is he able to commit these very violent acts 547 00:29:10,583 --> 00:29:11,835 and then walk away 548 00:29:11,918 --> 00:29:15,463 and presumably have a lot of blood on him 549 00:29:15,588 --> 00:29:17,215 and not have people notice? 550 00:29:17,298 --> 00:29:23,805 ♪♪ 551 00:29:27,851 --> 00:29:30,020 Hutchcraft: Working these cases takes over your life. 552 00:29:30,103 --> 00:29:31,396 It gets in your mind. 553 00:29:31,479 --> 00:29:33,231 I still, to this day, can't take a shower 554 00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:35,400 without someone else in the house. 555 00:29:35,483 --> 00:29:37,277 I don't like to put my head back with my eyes 556 00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:39,904 closed with the shower running over my ears, 557 00:29:39,988 --> 00:29:42,323 because I can't hear what's happening. 558 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:43,867 That's changed me. 559 00:29:43,950 --> 00:29:48,830 ♪♪ 560 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:51,332 Women and couples start being killed, 561 00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:52,625 usually by bludgeoning. 562 00:29:52,751 --> 00:29:55,587 Sometimes by getting shot, 563 00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:59,424 and it was one offender, a serial killer. 564 00:29:59,507 --> 00:30:02,635 He fed off of their terror. 565 00:30:02,761 --> 00:30:04,763 And the more terrifying he was, 566 00:30:04,846 --> 00:30:07,932 the more he enjoyed what he was doing. 567 00:30:08,016 --> 00:30:10,477 Pool: He stalked people at night. 568 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,853 In Santa Barbara County, 569 00:30:11,978 --> 00:30:15,982 a detective there said he's a night stalker. 570 00:30:16,107 --> 00:30:17,817 Ho: And he was raping and murdering them, 571 00:30:17,942 --> 00:30:19,569 and by that point in time, there was already 572 00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:22,489 a night stalker known as Richard Ramirez, 573 00:30:22,572 --> 00:30:26,451 so they called him the original night stalker. 574 00:30:26,534 --> 00:30:29,496 Hagan: The way he is eliminating the victims, 575 00:30:29,621 --> 00:30:30,997 through blunt force trauma, 576 00:30:31,081 --> 00:30:35,001 is an extremely brutal way to kill anyone. 577 00:30:35,126 --> 00:30:38,338 He was able to escape. 578 00:30:38,421 --> 00:30:41,341 He disappeared for the next five years. 579 00:30:41,424 --> 00:30:47,180 No one's sure why there was no homicides between 1981 and 1986. 580 00:30:47,263 --> 00:30:50,642 O'Toole: There could be some very logical reasons. 581 00:30:50,725 --> 00:30:52,894 Takes a lot of strength and physical fitness 582 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:55,063 to commit a murder, to break into somebody's home, 583 00:30:55,188 --> 00:30:58,983 and so, there could have been the aging process. 584 00:30:59,067 --> 00:31:03,154 But the urges to continue to do what he was doing 585 00:31:03,238 --> 00:31:04,781 were probably still there. 586 00:31:04,864 --> 00:31:09,411 And then, I believe, somehow, some way, he sees Janelle, 587 00:31:09,536 --> 00:31:11,204 and he can't help himself. 588 00:31:11,329 --> 00:31:14,874 ♪♪ 589 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,212 Janelle Cruz, my older sister by one year, 590 00:31:19,337 --> 00:31:23,049 she was 18 and I was 17. 591 00:31:23,174 --> 00:31:24,801 She was like Marilyn Monroe. 592 00:31:24,884 --> 00:31:26,928 She could walk down the road, 593 00:31:27,053 --> 00:31:31,391 and guys would just be staring at her. 594 00:31:31,516 --> 00:31:34,060 She was actually getting ready to go to college. 595 00:31:34,185 --> 00:31:37,063 She was looking forward to a lot of different things. 596 00:31:37,188 --> 00:31:44,404 ♪♪ 597 00:31:44,487 --> 00:31:47,615 Janelle Cruz happened to be home alone. 598 00:31:47,741 --> 00:31:51,161 Her family ended up doing a vacation down in Mexico. 599 00:31:51,244 --> 00:31:54,748 She had a friend, a male friend, over to the house. 600 00:31:54,831 --> 00:31:59,294 We know what happened because he lived to tell about it. 601 00:31:59,419 --> 00:32:01,087 Cruz: They were listening to music. 602 00:32:01,171 --> 00:32:02,756 They did hear noises. 603 00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:07,594 They disregarded those noises as maybe it was a cat outside, 604 00:32:07,719 --> 00:32:10,388 so they closed the shutters 605 00:32:10,472 --> 00:32:14,476 and continued listening to music. 606 00:32:14,601 --> 00:32:16,269 Holes: Janelle's house backed up to a park, 607 00:32:16,394 --> 00:32:18,021 and there's a low wall 608 00:32:18,104 --> 00:32:21,733 that separates that park to her rear yard. 609 00:32:21,816 --> 00:32:24,986 It appears that he ends up getting into her house 610 00:32:25,111 --> 00:32:28,948 through a sliding door at the rear of the house. 611 00:32:30,867 --> 00:32:34,454 At that point in time, the young man decided, 612 00:32:34,537 --> 00:32:36,790 "It's getting late. I better leave." 613 00:32:36,873 --> 00:32:39,042 That was about 11:15 in the evening. 614 00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:40,752 He left. 615 00:32:40,835 --> 00:32:45,298 And not too much later, 616 00:32:45,382 --> 00:32:47,801 she was fighting for her life. 617 00:32:47,884 --> 00:32:50,679 At midnight, another one of our friends 618 00:32:50,804 --> 00:32:56,309 had returned a phone call, and Janelle never answered. 619 00:32:56,393 --> 00:32:58,645 [Telephone ringing] 620 00:33:00,188 --> 00:33:03,233 Ho: Hours later, the body of Janelle Cruz 621 00:33:03,316 --> 00:33:05,318 was found in her bedroom. 622 00:33:05,443 --> 00:33:09,197 Janelle showed evidence that she had previously been bound, 623 00:33:09,322 --> 00:33:11,324 but the bindings had been removed. 624 00:33:11,408 --> 00:33:14,661 He didn't leave her tied up for the investigators to find. 625 00:33:14,744 --> 00:33:18,498 He was trying to throw them off. 626 00:33:18,623 --> 00:33:20,667 The difference of Janelle Cruz's case 627 00:33:20,792 --> 00:33:23,753 was that it was more violent than the others. 628 00:33:23,837 --> 00:33:27,632 The offender not only bludgeoned her by the back of the head, 629 00:33:27,716 --> 00:33:29,759 he had bludgeoned her in the forehead, 630 00:33:29,843 --> 00:33:32,137 across the bridge of her nose. 631 00:33:32,220 --> 00:33:34,389 She swallowed her teeth. 632 00:33:34,514 --> 00:33:38,852 She's the one victim where the offender hit her in the face. 633 00:33:38,977 --> 00:33:41,271 He's face to face with her, versus the other victims 634 00:33:41,354 --> 00:33:43,690 were always face-down. 635 00:33:43,773 --> 00:33:45,900 There's a reason he's doing this. 636 00:33:46,026 --> 00:33:47,819 Kneeland: Firing a gun is noisy. 637 00:33:47,902 --> 00:33:50,697 He knew he's in an affluent neighborhood. 638 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:53,199 Gunshots are not normal. 639 00:33:53,283 --> 00:33:57,454 Bludgeoning -- it's quieter. 640 00:33:57,537 --> 00:33:59,539 The offender is progressing. 641 00:33:59,664 --> 00:34:02,542 O'Toole: What was caused that level of anger, 642 00:34:02,667 --> 00:34:05,211 or has it actually been elevated to hatred? 643 00:34:05,337 --> 00:34:08,381 Because hatred and anger are not the same emotions, 644 00:34:08,465 --> 00:34:10,175 and if you hate someone, 645 00:34:10,258 --> 00:34:12,886 you're able to turn them into an object. 646 00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:15,096 She was depersonalized by him, 647 00:34:15,221 --> 00:34:18,850 which does suggest that he hated her. 648 00:34:18,933 --> 00:34:23,063 Janelle had been raped before she was killed. 649 00:34:23,188 --> 00:34:25,857 The way in which Janelle Cruz's body was found -- 650 00:34:25,940 --> 00:34:30,320 one arm was located raised slightly above her head. 651 00:34:30,403 --> 00:34:31,738 I believe this indicates 652 00:34:31,863 --> 00:34:33,740 that she fought back against the offender, 653 00:34:33,865 --> 00:34:38,244 was able to flip over, and was fighting with him. 654 00:34:38,328 --> 00:34:42,415 And that's what haunts me all the time, was just how she died. 655 00:34:42,540 --> 00:34:46,753 ♪♪ 656 00:34:46,836 --> 00:34:48,088 I still live my life in fear 657 00:34:48,213 --> 00:34:50,256 because I didn't know who killed Janelle, 658 00:34:50,382 --> 00:34:54,010 so I didn't know if they were watching me or following me. 659 00:34:54,094 --> 00:34:57,097 Kneeland: What made it more terrifying is what if one day, 660 00:34:57,222 --> 00:34:59,641 they decide to flip that switch again 661 00:34:59,766 --> 00:35:01,976 and go back to their violent tendencies? 662 00:35:02,102 --> 00:35:03,395 That is scary. 663 00:35:03,478 --> 00:35:07,857 ♪♪ 664 00:35:12,404 --> 00:35:16,241 O'Toole: People that are involved in serial sexual murder 665 00:35:16,324 --> 00:35:20,453 don't go home at night and regret what they did. 666 00:35:20,537 --> 00:35:22,622 They enjoy hunting for human beings. 667 00:35:22,706 --> 00:35:25,000 They enjoy wrapping them up in ligatures 668 00:35:25,125 --> 00:35:27,293 and sexually assaulting them. 669 00:35:27,377 --> 00:35:29,713 To you and me, that sounds horrific. 670 00:35:29,796 --> 00:35:32,340 They don't care. 671 00:35:32,465 --> 00:35:36,469 Hutchcraft: In 1986, the homicide of Janelle Cruz 672 00:35:36,594 --> 00:35:40,807 was the last known original night stalker murder. 673 00:35:40,890 --> 00:35:42,600 Kneeland: How does this guy keep getting away? 674 00:35:42,684 --> 00:35:44,310 How is he evading everybody? 675 00:35:44,394 --> 00:35:46,229 Maybe something else is gonna happen 676 00:35:46,312 --> 00:35:50,191 that's gonna cause him to commit a different type of crime 677 00:35:50,316 --> 00:35:53,862 and get caught, but it never happened. 678 00:35:53,987 --> 00:35:56,281 They're chasing ghosts. 679 00:35:56,364 --> 00:36:01,786 Then as time goes by, you start losing a little bit of hope. 680 00:36:01,870 --> 00:36:06,666 Years pass, and the cases go cold. 681 00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:11,171 I felt like he was out there, watching everything going on. 682 00:36:11,296 --> 00:36:17,886 ♪♪ 683 00:36:18,011 --> 00:36:20,221 Gagliano: As the case went cold, Joseph DeAngelo 684 00:36:20,347 --> 00:36:23,850 settled into a routine life of work and family. 685 00:36:23,975 --> 00:36:28,063 In 1986, Joseph DeAngelo and his wife, Sharon, 686 00:36:28,188 --> 00:36:30,231 welcomed their second daughter. 687 00:36:30,357 --> 00:36:33,193 A third daughter would follow a few years later. 688 00:36:33,276 --> 00:36:37,364 They would have these weekend family movie nights. 689 00:36:37,447 --> 00:36:41,701 But by the early 1990s, his marriage had fallen apart. 690 00:36:44,329 --> 00:36:47,540 Joe's house was directly behind ours. 691 00:36:47,624 --> 00:36:51,044 My family kind of referred to him as "Mr. Mom", 692 00:36:51,127 --> 00:36:55,090 because Joe had raised his three daughters, 693 00:36:55,215 --> 00:36:57,717 from what I could tell, mostly on his own. 694 00:36:57,801 --> 00:37:00,720 Schneider: He saw that his daughters had whatever they wanted -- 695 00:37:00,845 --> 00:37:03,431 horse-riding lessons, skating lessons. 696 00:37:03,556 --> 00:37:05,767 Maybe he was trying to compensate for the family 697 00:37:05,892 --> 00:37:08,061 he didn't have as a child. 698 00:37:08,186 --> 00:37:11,564 Kegley: The kids seemed really happy. 699 00:37:11,690 --> 00:37:17,153 I've known Joe since I was 14. 700 00:37:17,237 --> 00:37:19,572 When he asked me if I could baby sit, 701 00:37:19,656 --> 00:37:22,200 I said, "Yeah, sure." 702 00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:26,121 He would never say why or where he was going. 703 00:37:26,246 --> 00:37:28,665 He would just go. 704 00:37:28,748 --> 00:37:32,419 He was never dressed up like he was going out for dinner. 705 00:37:32,502 --> 00:37:36,089 He just seemed to always wear a T-shirt. 706 00:37:36,172 --> 00:37:39,175 He never seemed, like, happy or sad when he came back. 707 00:37:39,259 --> 00:37:43,388 He was just very much business as usual. 708 00:37:45,598 --> 00:37:48,059 He was always building things. 709 00:37:48,143 --> 00:37:49,978 He built them a pool and he built them 710 00:37:50,103 --> 00:37:52,772 a shaded area for the pool. 711 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,279 He ultimately gets a job as a truck mechanic. 712 00:37:59,362 --> 00:38:03,658 At a local grocery distribution center -- Save Mart. 713 00:38:03,783 --> 00:38:06,828 I started in 1993 as a driver, 714 00:38:06,953 --> 00:38:10,331 and Joe was a very good mechanic. 715 00:38:10,457 --> 00:38:12,167 He had a good work ethic. 716 00:38:12,292 --> 00:38:15,211 He could fix just about anything on the trailer. 717 00:38:18,256 --> 00:38:22,302 Joe became close friends with one of his co-workers. 718 00:38:22,385 --> 00:38:25,722 I'd been to his house. I met his family. 719 00:38:25,805 --> 00:38:28,308 He was a compassionate person. 720 00:38:28,433 --> 00:38:31,978 We went out three or four times a week, sometimes. 721 00:38:32,062 --> 00:38:34,564 He was a happy fisherman. 722 00:38:34,647 --> 00:38:36,358 He loved to catch fish. 723 00:38:36,483 --> 00:38:38,318 Mangang: Can you imagine when it was in action 724 00:38:38,443 --> 00:38:41,988 and it was blasting them freaking guns and [bleep]? 725 00:38:42,072 --> 00:38:45,116 Fabulous, dude. 726 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,536 But while one minute, he was friendly Joe DeAngelo, 727 00:38:48,661 --> 00:38:49,996 in the next minute, 728 00:38:50,121 --> 00:38:54,292 he could show a much more explosive side of himself. 729 00:38:54,376 --> 00:38:56,795 Tapia: Being curious little kids, you would sometimes 730 00:38:56,878 --> 00:38:58,838 look through the fence slats 731 00:38:58,922 --> 00:39:01,716 and see in other people's backyards. 732 00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:04,844 He was the scary man on the other side of the fence 733 00:39:04,969 --> 00:39:06,388 that used to yell a lot. 734 00:39:06,513 --> 00:39:08,640 He would yell at us to get away from the fence 735 00:39:08,723 --> 00:39:10,225 and stop looking at him. 736 00:39:10,350 --> 00:39:14,104 We were always told to kind of avoid him by our parents. 737 00:39:14,187 --> 00:39:16,690 Kegley: His girls were swimming in the pool, and he said, 738 00:39:16,815 --> 00:39:20,193 "Make sure that you stay in the shady part of the pool." 739 00:39:20,276 --> 00:39:22,278 And so, just to kind of mess with their dad, 740 00:39:22,362 --> 00:39:25,657 one of the girls put their arm in the sunny spot and said, 741 00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:27,575 "Look, Dad, I'm in the sun", 742 00:39:27,701 --> 00:39:31,871 and he just turned around and he exploded at the girl 743 00:39:31,996 --> 00:39:34,833 and said, "I told you to get in the shade! 744 00:39:34,916 --> 00:39:37,544 Get out of the sun! It's not okay!" 745 00:39:37,669 --> 00:39:41,548 And it was just this really huge overreaction. 746 00:39:43,383 --> 00:39:47,137 Something just started to feel not right. 747 00:39:47,220 --> 00:39:49,139 The house was just very sparse, 748 00:39:49,222 --> 00:39:53,059 and it just kind of had this sad feeling to it. 749 00:39:53,143 --> 00:39:54,894 There wasn't a lot of pictures. 750 00:39:55,020 --> 00:39:56,563 Everything was very brown. 751 00:39:56,688 --> 00:40:01,234 The kitchen was empty, most notably was the fridge. 752 00:40:01,359 --> 00:40:03,778 There was like a gallon of milk and some ketchup 753 00:40:03,903 --> 00:40:06,531 and, like, a jar of pickles. 754 00:40:06,614 --> 00:40:09,993 His fishing buddy witnessed Joe's instant fury 755 00:40:10,076 --> 00:40:13,538 in a disturbing act of road rage. 756 00:40:13,621 --> 00:40:17,876 We were on our way to the lake, and a gentlemen cut us off. 757 00:40:17,959 --> 00:40:22,547 Joe ran up to the gentleman's truck, pounded on his window. 758 00:40:22,630 --> 00:40:24,174 He was hollering at the guy. 759 00:40:24,257 --> 00:40:28,470 He said he would have snatched his eyes out his eye socket. 760 00:40:28,595 --> 00:40:30,805 But even that was not as disturbing 761 00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:33,767 as Joe's admission to hearing voices. 762 00:40:33,850 --> 00:40:37,645 Mangang: There was one time, he asked me, "Do you hear things?" 763 00:40:37,771 --> 00:40:39,230 I was like, "Excuse me?" 764 00:40:39,314 --> 00:40:41,191 He said, "Do you ever hear things?" 765 00:40:41,274 --> 00:40:43,234 And we really didn't get into it. 766 00:40:43,318 --> 00:40:45,236 I said, "No, I don't." 767 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,781 I thought it was very strange at the time he asked me that. 768 00:40:47,864 --> 00:40:59,250 ♪♪ 769 00:40:59,334 --> 00:41:01,628 ♪♪ 770 00:41:01,753 --> 00:41:05,006 Kneeland: We were dealing with somebody who was very intelligent. 771 00:41:05,131 --> 00:41:09,719 He would see what was happening, so he had all this information. 772 00:41:09,803 --> 00:41:12,389 He was always steps ahead of me. 773 00:41:12,472 --> 00:41:14,641 Kneeland: I was of the opinion he was dead, 774 00:41:14,724 --> 00:41:19,479 and then to learn that not only is he not deceased, 775 00:41:19,562 --> 00:41:24,317 but he's living a stone's throw away from myself 776 00:41:24,442 --> 00:41:29,531 and, you know, still in this community was very jarring. 777 00:41:29,656 --> 00:41:31,866 I decide I'm going boots on the ground 778 00:41:31,991 --> 00:41:34,160 where this guy was living. 779 00:41:34,244 --> 00:41:37,956 Some day in the future, he would die in prison. 780 00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:41,543 ♪♪ 781 00:41:41,668 --> 00:41:46,506 After more than 40 years, over 50 rapes, 13 murders, 782 00:41:46,631 --> 00:41:50,885 and countless dead ends, there's a stunning break in the case. 783 00:41:51,011 --> 00:41:52,804 Investigators are finally closing in 784 00:41:52,887 --> 00:41:56,683 on this brutal and elusive serial rapist and killer 785 00:41:56,808 --> 00:42:01,062 to take down the Golden State Killer in part two. 786 00:42:01,187 --> 00:42:02,689 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 787 00:42:02,772 --> 00:42:04,024 Thanks for watching. 788 00:42:04,149 --> 00:42:05,692 Goodnight.