1 00:00:04,796 --> 00:00:11,302 ♪♪ 2 00:00:11,386 --> 00:00:13,430 Woman: Joe was so friendly with everybody. 3 00:00:13,513 --> 00:00:16,391 He was always smiling, always laughing. 4 00:00:16,516 --> 00:00:20,687 He was a hard worker and he was smart. 5 00:00:20,770 --> 00:00:24,024 His wife's name was Sharon and we called her "Sherry." 6 00:00:24,149 --> 00:00:27,193 They were very proud parents. 7 00:00:27,318 --> 00:00:29,863 He took good care of his daughters. 8 00:00:29,988 --> 00:00:32,323 Family was everything to him. 9 00:00:32,407 --> 00:00:34,784 But Joe went off the deep end, 10 00:00:34,868 --> 00:00:39,372 and if you want to see the devil at work, here's a good example. 11 00:00:39,456 --> 00:00:46,921 ♪♪ 12 00:00:47,047 --> 00:00:54,721 ♪♪ 13 00:00:54,804 --> 00:01:02,270 ♪♪ 14 00:01:02,395 --> 00:01:04,564 Welcome to "Very Scary People." 15 00:01:04,647 --> 00:01:06,191 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 16 00:01:06,274 --> 00:01:09,569 He terrorized California for more than 40 years, 17 00:01:09,652 --> 00:01:13,406 a super predator who stalked women in a blind rage. 18 00:01:13,490 --> 00:01:16,743 He appeared out of the darkness to torture and kill, 19 00:01:16,868 --> 00:01:18,620 then vanished into the night. 20 00:01:18,745 --> 00:01:20,789 He cornered his victims in their homes, 21 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:24,084 viciously attacked couples asleep in their beds, 22 00:01:24,167 --> 00:01:26,586 all to see the terror in their eyes. 23 00:01:26,670 --> 00:01:29,756 This serial rapist and murderer seemed to always be 24 00:01:29,839 --> 00:01:32,467 one step ahead of police detectives, 25 00:01:32,592 --> 00:01:35,762 but he left critical evidence behind at the crime scenes, 26 00:01:35,845 --> 00:01:39,265 and investigators were beginning to connect the dots. 27 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:42,852 This is Part Two of "The Golden State Killer." 28 00:01:42,936 --> 00:01:49,776 ♪♪ 29 00:01:49,859 --> 00:01:56,449 ♪♪ 30 00:01:56,574 --> 00:01:59,786 Back in the '70s, a new offender popped up. 31 00:01:59,911 --> 00:02:03,790 Crompton: The East Area Rapist was hitting in the Sacramento area. 32 00:02:03,915 --> 00:02:07,752 He's fearless. He's callous. He's cold-blooded. 33 00:02:07,836 --> 00:02:10,255 We need to do everything we can to stop him. 34 00:02:10,338 --> 00:02:11,715 Daly: Who was this guy? 35 00:02:11,798 --> 00:02:14,801 A very dangerous offender who's motivated by 36 00:02:14,884 --> 00:02:19,764 real or imagined wrongs that he has suffered. 37 00:02:19,848 --> 00:02:24,185 ♪♪ 38 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:27,313 Carson-Sandler: In 1976, I was 30 years old. 39 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:32,819 I was happily married, had a 3-year-old son. 40 00:02:32,944 --> 00:02:37,115 Holes: Early morning, 6:30 A.M., Jane is home with her son. 41 00:02:37,198 --> 00:02:39,701 Her husband had just left for work. 42 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:43,413 Carson-Sandler: My little 3-year-old had just climbed in bed with me 43 00:02:43,496 --> 00:02:45,582 for a nice snuggle. 44 00:02:45,665 --> 00:02:49,294 Minutes later, she hears somebody running down the hall 45 00:02:49,377 --> 00:02:51,129 towards her bedroom. 46 00:02:51,212 --> 00:02:54,924 Holes: Next thing she knows, she's looking at a masked man, 47 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:56,676 and he's shining the flashlight. 48 00:02:56,801 --> 00:02:58,678 Carson-Sandler: Holding a big knife. 49 00:02:58,803 --> 00:03:00,680 Jordan: She can hear him ripping up fabric 50 00:03:00,764 --> 00:03:03,350 even after she's been gagged and blindfolded. 51 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:04,768 Carson-Sandler: I'm thinking, "Oh, my God. 52 00:03:04,851 --> 00:03:06,186 Is he gonna hang us?" 53 00:03:06,311 --> 00:03:08,355 That was so scary. 54 00:03:08,438 --> 00:03:13,193 This man ends up taking her son away from her. 55 00:03:13,318 --> 00:03:14,861 Carson-Sandler: Then he untied my ankles, 56 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:19,449 and then I knew what he was there for. 57 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:23,495 After that, he kept going from the bedroom, 58 00:03:23,578 --> 00:03:27,457 telling us that if we moved, he would kill us, 59 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:29,376 and then he'd go back in the kitchen. 60 00:03:29,501 --> 00:03:32,462 He would actually stay in the house for hours. 61 00:03:32,545 --> 00:03:34,005 Holes: Not only does he possess the victims, 62 00:03:34,089 --> 00:03:37,676 he possesses their belongings, he possesses their house. 63 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:41,554 Eventually, her son was placed back into bed next to her. 64 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:48,853 After we thought he was gone, I was able to take my mask down. 65 00:03:48,937 --> 00:03:52,899 We had five cases that all had the same method of operation. 66 00:03:53,024 --> 00:03:55,735 Always confronting the victims in bed, 67 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:57,946 shining a flashlight in their eyes. 68 00:03:58,071 --> 00:04:01,491 Had a ski mask on, and he always had a weapon. 69 00:04:01,574 --> 00:04:05,787 Holes: He would turn the TV on and put the towel over it. 70 00:04:05,912 --> 00:04:10,667 I believe in part, he's doing that so he can see the woman, 71 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:14,087 but he could also see the terror in her face. 72 00:04:14,212 --> 00:04:16,548 It's a psychological torture. 73 00:04:16,631 --> 00:04:20,093 We've got a serial rapist, and this is a bad guy. 74 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:22,429 He was the boogeyman of the community. 75 00:04:22,512 --> 00:04:24,931 He was like a ghost. 76 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:28,810 Holes: The victims were very consistent 77 00:04:28,935 --> 00:04:34,315 in describing a white male somewhere between 5'8" to 5'10", 78 00:04:34,441 --> 00:04:39,029 reasonably athletic build, 160 to 180 pounds. 79 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:42,907 We knew he had a size 9 foot, from the footprints. 80 00:04:42,991 --> 00:04:47,704 We got all sorts of eye color -- blue, green, brown. 81 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:51,458 We didn't have that much to go on. 82 00:04:51,583 --> 00:04:52,917 Reporter: The problem is, no one knows 83 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,295 where or when he'll strike again. 84 00:04:55,420 --> 00:04:57,922 We know he went on to commit murder. 85 00:04:58,006 --> 00:05:01,801 His final murder and rape occurred in May of 1986 86 00:05:01,885 --> 00:05:04,679 with Janelle Cruz in Orange County. 87 00:05:06,473 --> 00:05:10,477 Janelle Cruz, my older sister by one year, 88 00:05:10,602 --> 00:05:14,356 she was 18 and I was 17. 89 00:05:14,481 --> 00:05:17,025 She was like Marilyn Monroe. 90 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:20,820 Holes: Janelle Cruz was this gorgeous 18-year-old girl 91 00:05:20,945 --> 00:05:23,656 that happened to be home alone. 92 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:26,326 This guy just sees Janelle and decides, 93 00:05:26,409 --> 00:05:27,994 "I'm gonna make her a victim." 94 00:05:28,078 --> 00:05:30,789 ♪♪ 95 00:05:30,872 --> 00:05:34,167 She had a friend, a male friend, over to the house. 96 00:05:34,292 --> 00:05:38,046 Michelle: They were listening to music. They did hear noises. 97 00:05:38,171 --> 00:05:41,341 Pool: Janelle said, "It must've been a cat." 98 00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:43,551 So they closed the shutters 99 00:05:43,677 --> 00:05:46,096 and continued listening to music. 100 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:50,892 He ends up getting into her house through a sliding door 101 00:05:51,017 --> 00:05:52,686 at the rear of the house. 102 00:05:54,688 --> 00:05:58,775 About 11:15 in the evening, the young man decided, 103 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:01,528 "It's getting late. I better leave." 104 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:06,241 Shortly after that, the offender entered the home 105 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:09,619 and attacked Janelle. 106 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:12,205 Ho: Hours later, the body of Janelle Cruz 107 00:06:12,288 --> 00:06:14,916 was found in her bedroom. 108 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:19,129 Holes: She had received blows to her head. 109 00:06:19,212 --> 00:06:20,880 She's the one bludgeoning victim 110 00:06:20,964 --> 00:06:24,300 where the offender hit her in the face. 111 00:06:24,384 --> 00:06:26,428 He had bludgeoned her in the forehead, 112 00:06:26,553 --> 00:06:28,680 across the bridge of her nose. 113 00:06:28,763 --> 00:06:31,599 O'Toole: What has caused that level of anger? 114 00:06:31,725 --> 00:06:34,686 Or has it actually been elevated to hatred? 115 00:06:34,769 --> 00:06:39,441 Because hatred and anger are not the same emotions. 116 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:42,402 There was so much fear in the community. 117 00:06:42,485 --> 00:06:44,320 I was pulled to help do community meetings. 118 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:47,949 One of the big questions that was asked here last night -- 119 00:06:48,074 --> 00:06:50,452 if we have a gun, could we shoot him? 120 00:06:50,577 --> 00:06:52,454 Knowing what I know about this man, 121 00:06:52,579 --> 00:06:55,081 if I had a gun, I definitely would shoot him. 122 00:06:55,165 --> 00:06:58,752 What I told them was, "If you're gonna shoot, shoot to kill," 123 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:00,378 because this was the only way this man 124 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:02,172 was going to be stopped. 125 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:06,259 Holes: The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office 126 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:09,304 is holding town hall meetings in the neighborhoods 127 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:11,890 where attacks were occurring. 128 00:07:11,973 --> 00:07:16,144 I think the East Area Rapist was at one of the meetings. 129 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:18,897 Police believe he came hunting for victims 130 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:22,275 and targeted a man who spoke up during the meeting. 131 00:07:22,359 --> 00:07:25,320 This was another challenge for him. 132 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:26,696 The gentleman stood up and he said, 133 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:29,407 "I don't understand how a man in the home 134 00:07:29,491 --> 00:07:31,951 wouldn't be able to defend his wife." 135 00:07:32,035 --> 00:07:35,580 Crompton: Now he was going to prove to everybody 136 00:07:35,663 --> 00:07:38,917 that he was the one in charge, 137 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,671 and his next attack was with a man in the house. 138 00:07:42,796 --> 00:07:44,714 Gagliano: Soon after the town hall meeting, 139 00:07:44,798 --> 00:07:47,967 that man and his wife became victims. 140 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:51,971 ♪♪ 141 00:07:52,055 --> 00:07:53,807 Daly: There were five people in the home 142 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:56,476 at the time that they were attacked. 143 00:07:56,601 --> 00:08:00,647 ♪♪ 144 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:03,566 The rapist was so quiet and so slick 145 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:07,654 in the darkness of the room. 146 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:11,074 Shining a flashlight and showing that he had a gun 147 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:13,535 and throwing shoestrings to the woman 148 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:16,830 and telling her to tie up her husband. 149 00:08:16,955 --> 00:08:18,665 Having him turn over on his stomach 150 00:08:18,748 --> 00:08:20,667 and tying his hands behind his back, 151 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:23,503 and then tying the victim up. 152 00:08:23,628 --> 00:08:27,340 The fear of that gun being pointed at you, 153 00:08:27,424 --> 00:08:32,012 that beam of light, and seeing the shadow of a face mask, 154 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:33,972 it was, "Do it or I'm going to kill you." 155 00:08:34,055 --> 00:08:37,308 It was like playing cat and mouse. 156 00:08:37,392 --> 00:08:39,144 Holes: This is dominance, 157 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:40,979 and there's nothing you can do about it. 158 00:08:41,062 --> 00:08:44,357 My heart really goes out to them. 159 00:08:44,441 --> 00:08:46,484 And then in 1986... 160 00:08:46,568 --> 00:08:48,028 He just sort of disappeared. 161 00:08:48,111 --> 00:08:51,448 Stopped murdering, stopped raping. 162 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:57,037 It's very emotionally taxing to go year after year of year 163 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,790 of putting so much effort into it and not solving it. 164 00:09:00,874 --> 00:09:03,376 And then all of a sudden, Paul calls me up and says, 165 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,045 "Hey, I got this idea." 166 00:09:05,170 --> 00:09:09,758 ♪♪ 167 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:16,222 Holes: The Golden State Killer was intelligent. 168 00:09:16,306 --> 00:09:17,724 He was sophisticated. 169 00:09:17,849 --> 00:09:19,726 We have a phrase that we use in the FBI. 170 00:09:19,809 --> 00:09:21,811 It's called "the mask of sanity." 171 00:09:21,895 --> 00:09:26,733 The reason this violent offender is able to not be captured 172 00:09:26,858 --> 00:09:29,736 is because they live such a normal life, 173 00:09:29,861 --> 00:09:31,905 at least on the surface. 174 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:33,865 You have the wife and the children 175 00:09:33,948 --> 00:09:36,201 and live in a nice house. 176 00:09:36,284 --> 00:09:37,660 Holes: Somebody that I thought was going to be 177 00:09:37,744 --> 00:09:40,455 reasonably successful, have a career. 178 00:09:40,580 --> 00:09:42,749 Blend in with society. 179 00:09:42,832 --> 00:09:44,209 O'Toole: A serial sexual killer 180 00:09:44,292 --> 00:09:47,921 would not want someone to see their traits, 181 00:09:48,046 --> 00:09:49,756 that they could be sexually aroused 182 00:09:49,839 --> 00:09:53,510 by kidnapping someone or murdering someone. 183 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:55,261 Fabulous. 184 00:09:55,387 --> 00:09:57,347 O'Toole: Because they don't want to be caught. 185 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:01,309 They want to be able to continue to maintain that secret life. 186 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:05,188 ♪♪ 187 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:08,858 Gagliano: Investigators wondered where the Golden State Killer was hiding, 188 00:10:08,942 --> 00:10:11,569 and Joseph DeAngelo was waging a lifelong battle 189 00:10:11,653 --> 00:10:16,449 between doing what was right and his secret, wild urges. 190 00:10:16,533 --> 00:10:19,703 Joe's house was directly behind ours. 191 00:10:19,786 --> 00:10:23,248 My family kind of referred to him as Mr. Mom, 192 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:25,500 because back in the '80s, 193 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:28,670 Joe had raised his three daughters. 194 00:10:28,795 --> 00:10:32,298 ♪♪ 195 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:37,512 In '73, he became a law enforcement officer in Exeter. 196 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:40,390 Holes: In Tulare County, California. 197 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:42,600 He rose to sergeant in Exeter. 198 00:10:42,684 --> 00:10:46,271 And in 1976, Mr. DeAngelo 199 00:10:46,354 --> 00:10:50,400 relocates to another Sacramento-area police agency, 200 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:52,110 the Auburn Police Department. 201 00:10:52,193 --> 00:10:56,906 And when he's in Auburn, he begins not only as a patrolman, 202 00:10:56,990 --> 00:10:58,283 but he's working split shifts. 203 00:10:58,366 --> 00:11:01,745 He's doing relief when people are on vacation. 204 00:11:04,039 --> 00:11:05,832 The Golden State Killer investigation 205 00:11:05,957 --> 00:11:08,168 had been a cold case for decades, 206 00:11:08,251 --> 00:11:12,255 but in 2018, the task force got a big break 207 00:11:12,339 --> 00:11:15,508 that might just finally crack the case. 208 00:11:15,633 --> 00:11:18,178 Schubert: Paul calls me up and says, "Hey, I got this idea. 209 00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:20,847 Investigative genetic genealogy." 210 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,557 Another revolution with DNA. 211 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:25,310 It is the greatest hope we had at solving this case. 212 00:11:25,393 --> 00:11:27,729 People upload their genetic profiles 213 00:11:27,854 --> 00:11:30,565 into publicly accessible websites. 214 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:35,236 GEDmatch, Ancestry.com, or 23andMe. 215 00:11:35,362 --> 00:11:38,323 Millions of people have submitted their DNA 216 00:11:38,406 --> 00:11:40,450 to genealogy websites. 217 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:44,829 So they can determine if they have half-cousins or siblings 218 00:11:44,913 --> 00:11:46,456 that they didn't know about. 219 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:51,378 The goal was to determine if there was a distant relative 220 00:11:51,461 --> 00:11:57,050 of the Golden State Killer on the genealogy websites. 221 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:58,468 Holes: I just uploaded that 222 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:02,222 Golden State Killer DNA profile into GEDmatch. 223 00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:04,891 The match report comes back with relatives 224 00:12:04,974 --> 00:12:07,310 of the Golden State Killer. 225 00:12:07,394 --> 00:12:09,979 Somebody within this pool of descendants 226 00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:13,066 that could potentially be your killer. 227 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:17,570 We were able to develop family trees, 228 00:12:17,696 --> 00:12:22,784 find common ancestors who were born back in the 1840s. 229 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:24,994 Let's say a great-great-grandparent. 230 00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:27,914 You got to understand that people born in the 1840s 231 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:29,290 would have 15 kids, 232 00:12:29,416 --> 00:12:31,751 and you have to identify all those children, 233 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:34,295 then you have to identify all their kids. 234 00:12:34,421 --> 00:12:38,967 In total, we probably had 10,000 entries or more 235 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:42,595 across all these trees. 236 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,391 Somewhere on this massive family tree is your suspect, 237 00:12:46,474 --> 00:12:48,059 is the killer. 238 00:12:48,143 --> 00:12:56,443 ♪♪ 239 00:12:56,568 --> 00:12:59,779 Mr. DeAngelo has a relationship 240 00:12:59,904 --> 00:13:04,576 with a girl that he meets in college, Bonnie. 241 00:13:04,659 --> 00:13:06,953 He seems fascinated by Bonnie. 242 00:13:07,078 --> 00:13:09,956 She's a brilliant, young student. 243 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,084 She tutors him in some of his classes. 244 00:13:13,168 --> 00:13:17,339 Eventually, we began dating each other. 245 00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:22,969 I saw Joe as a happy, engaged, fun-loving guy. 246 00:13:23,053 --> 00:13:26,139 He was accepted into and just kind of inserted himself 247 00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:27,349 into her family. 248 00:13:27,474 --> 00:13:30,977 Ueltzen: I have five brothers and sisters. 249 00:13:31,061 --> 00:13:36,983 Joe was very much interested in being included. 250 00:13:37,067 --> 00:13:40,987 A year after they meet, Joe proposes to Bonnie. 251 00:13:41,071 --> 00:13:44,032 Ueltzen: Nothing down on the knee, nothing like that. 252 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:47,702 I think it was more like ownership. 253 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,412 "We're going to marry." 254 00:13:49,496 --> 00:13:51,706 I belong to him. 255 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:54,167 And then one year after he proposed, 256 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:56,961 Bonnie gets fed up with Joe. 257 00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:59,839 Holes: He's doing things purposely to scare her. 258 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:03,301 She can tell he's excited by her fear. 259 00:14:03,385 --> 00:14:05,804 Holes: Later, they're taking a class together, 260 00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:08,056 Abnormal Psychology, and he's struggling. 261 00:14:08,181 --> 00:14:11,851 He basically demands that she help him cheat. 262 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:14,896 Jordan: Ethically, she doesn't want anything to do with this. 263 00:14:15,021 --> 00:14:16,898 Ueltzen: My father was a high school principal. 264 00:14:17,023 --> 00:14:19,609 My mother had been a teacher. 265 00:14:19,693 --> 00:14:22,112 I was just done. 266 00:14:22,195 --> 00:14:25,073 St. John: And that's when Joe repeats over and over, 267 00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:27,200 "You will do this. You will do this." 268 00:14:27,325 --> 00:14:31,329 And Bonnie stands up for herself with Joe. 269 00:14:31,413 --> 00:14:33,373 "You are not the man I'm going to marry. 270 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:37,127 We are not going to have a future together." 271 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:39,671 He's not very happy about that. 272 00:14:39,754 --> 00:14:43,425 Holes: And then a knock on the window, and she opens up the curtain. 273 00:14:43,550 --> 00:14:47,595 Ueltzen: Joe was outside the window, pointing a gun at me 274 00:14:47,721 --> 00:14:50,557 and telling me to get dressed. 275 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,308 We were going to Reno, 276 00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:55,311 that we were going to be married that night. 277 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:57,272 She goes and gets her father. 278 00:14:57,397 --> 00:15:01,735 Ueltzen: And he went out and talked to Joe for almost two hours. 279 00:15:01,818 --> 00:15:03,111 He just told me that Joe was gone 280 00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,696 and I could go back to bed, 281 00:15:04,779 --> 00:15:08,324 and never did he ever tell me what they talked about, 282 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:11,703 if they had any kind of an agreement. 283 00:15:11,786 --> 00:15:13,830 Holes: And that's literally the last interaction 284 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,540 that she had with DeAngelo. 285 00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:23,131 ♪♪ 286 00:15:27,177 --> 00:15:31,848 Gagliano: Investigators analyzing the genetic genealogy family trees 287 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,184 were dramatically narrowing their search 288 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:36,603 for the suspected Golden State Killer. 289 00:15:36,686 --> 00:15:39,939 And trying to just, one by one, eliminate subjects. 290 00:15:40,023 --> 00:15:41,524 Some people could be ruled out easily. 291 00:15:41,608 --> 00:15:44,611 Some people might be dead. Some people are female. 292 00:15:44,694 --> 00:15:47,489 And that's where we start narrowing in on 293 00:15:47,614 --> 00:15:51,493 males that potentially have a connection to California 294 00:15:51,618 --> 00:15:54,788 during the years in which the Golden State Killer was active. 295 00:15:54,871 --> 00:15:58,249 Gagliano: Names were popping up at different times. 296 00:15:58,333 --> 00:16:01,461 Then suddenly, the universe of family members 297 00:16:01,586 --> 00:16:03,254 narrowed to one man. 298 00:16:03,338 --> 00:16:05,131 Holes: There was a guy that popped up. 299 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:07,175 This could very well be the guy. 300 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:11,971 The person was Joseph James DeAngelo. 301 00:16:12,055 --> 00:16:15,350 "=Let's see what kind of headway I can make on this DeAngelo. 302 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:17,560 ♪♪ 303 00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:21,815 I saw a newspaper article about DeAngelo 304 00:16:21,898 --> 00:16:23,400 having been engaged to a Bonnie. 305 00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:26,903 I was like, "Well, that's interesting." 306 00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:30,657 Interesting because "Bonnie" was the name the Golden State Killer 307 00:16:30,782 --> 00:16:35,495 had shouted out in front of one of his victims in a 1978 attack. 308 00:16:35,578 --> 00:16:39,332 There were several instances in the East Area Rapist phase 309 00:16:39,416 --> 00:16:42,752 in which the victims report they'd hear him sobbing. 310 00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:45,505 He's crying while he's sexually assaulting her. 311 00:16:45,588 --> 00:16:47,173 This is where he's making the statement, 312 00:16:47,298 --> 00:16:50,135 "I hate you, Bonnie. I hate you, Bonnie." 313 00:16:50,218 --> 00:16:53,304 And that had always been a mystery to investigators. 314 00:16:53,388 --> 00:16:57,684 But now they learn Bonnie was the Joseph DeAngelo romance 315 00:16:57,809 --> 00:17:01,771 that ended in a disturbing broken engagement. 316 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:07,068 Maybe he still had some very deep-seated fury. 317 00:17:07,193 --> 00:17:09,195 Detectives were able to learn that he was 318 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:13,742 a former police officer, and that fit in with the profile 319 00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:16,453 and some of the early theories of the case. 320 00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:18,872 Daly: We really felt that it could've been somebody 321 00:17:18,997 --> 00:17:21,458 in either law enforcement or military. 322 00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:23,960 Detectives felt that way because of his M.O. 323 00:17:24,044 --> 00:17:26,212 at all the crime scenes. 324 00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:28,673 It's based off little things, things that he would say 325 00:17:28,757 --> 00:17:31,343 as far as putting their hands behind their back, 326 00:17:31,426 --> 00:17:34,346 not leaving fingerprints anywhere. 327 00:17:34,429 --> 00:17:37,307 He always had an escape route planned, 328 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:38,683 and I think, a lot of time, 329 00:17:38,767 --> 00:17:41,811 that is military and law-enforcement training. 330 00:17:44,314 --> 00:17:46,608 Jordan: The geography and the timeline of the attacks 331 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:50,737 coincided with the events in Joseph DeAngelo's life. 332 00:17:50,862 --> 00:17:54,157 The Visalia ransackings were happening at the same time 333 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,160 that DeAngelo was on the Exeter police force, 334 00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,080 just 10 miles away from Visalia. 335 00:18:00,163 --> 00:18:04,584 Hagan: In Exeter, he was in charge of the burglary program 336 00:18:04,709 --> 00:18:09,089 that was investigating the Visalia ransacking cases. 337 00:18:09,214 --> 00:18:12,759 He could control those investigations. 338 00:18:12,884 --> 00:18:16,262 Jordan: As DeAngelo was in training for the Auburn police department, 339 00:18:16,388 --> 00:18:19,766 he began the East Area rape attacks. 340 00:18:19,891 --> 00:18:25,271 I'm going, "God, this is awfully coincidental, right?" 341 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:27,440 Then detectives placed Joseph DeAngelo 342 00:18:27,524 --> 00:18:29,359 down in Southern California 343 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:32,612 during the Golden State Killer murders. 344 00:18:32,737 --> 00:18:35,281 He and his wife Sharon had moved to L.A. 345 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:36,783 Sharon gets a job with 346 00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:40,495 the National Labor Relations Board in Los Angeles. 347 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:42,288 That's when it was like, "You know what? 348 00:18:42,372 --> 00:18:46,668 This DeAngelo guy is adding up. We need to get his DNA." 349 00:18:46,793 --> 00:18:48,545 The law requires us to confirm... 350 00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:51,172 That Joseph DeAngelo was, in fact, 351 00:18:51,297 --> 00:18:53,008 the person who left the DNA behind 352 00:18:53,133 --> 00:18:54,634 at all of these crime scenes. 353 00:18:54,718 --> 00:18:58,805 We had him on surveillance for several days. 354 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:01,433 At that point, the decision was made that 355 00:19:01,516 --> 00:19:03,768 trash day was coming up in his neighborhood. 356 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:07,105 We ended up picking up his garbage from the street. 357 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:08,648 The sample was collected. 358 00:19:08,732 --> 00:19:12,110 A discarded tissue that he had used. 359 00:19:12,193 --> 00:19:14,779 [Cellphone buzzing] My phone lights up and the lab says they're excited. 360 00:19:14,863 --> 00:19:17,615 Jones: They were able to get an absolute positive identification 361 00:19:17,699 --> 00:19:21,786 between the suspect and Joseph DeAngelo. 362 00:19:21,870 --> 00:19:23,246 They were one and the same. 363 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:25,790 It's him. There's no question about it. 364 00:19:25,874 --> 00:19:28,209 That's a slam dunk. 365 00:19:28,335 --> 00:19:32,172 Okay, we've got our person. What next? 366 00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:39,220 ♪♪ 367 00:19:41,598 --> 00:19:46,144 ♪♪ 368 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:48,313 Welcome back to "Very Scary People." 369 00:19:48,396 --> 00:19:50,065 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 370 00:19:50,190 --> 00:19:52,067 After more than 40 years, 371 00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:54,194 advancements in genetic technology 372 00:19:54,277 --> 00:19:55,695 have caught up with the elusive predator 373 00:19:55,820 --> 00:19:58,865 police called the Golden State Killer. 374 00:19:58,948 --> 00:20:02,994 Now they know his real name -- Joseph James DeAngelo. 375 00:20:03,078 --> 00:20:06,873 Before they close in, they watch his every move, 376 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:08,625 and the phantom of darkness 377 00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:11,044 is about to be dragged into the light. 378 00:20:11,169 --> 00:20:14,214 ♪♪ 379 00:20:14,297 --> 00:20:16,341 St. John: Joseph DeAngelo starts killing 380 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:18,635 whenever he feels that he's under threat, 381 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:21,513 and a different side of him comes out. 382 00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:25,809 Something very cold, calculating, and determined, 383 00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:28,061 and cannot be swayed. 384 00:20:28,144 --> 00:20:31,523 Schubert: You have somebody that's a serial killer, clearly, 385 00:20:31,606 --> 00:20:34,192 who's gotten away with it for 40-plus years, 386 00:20:34,275 --> 00:20:35,402 but then you have the added fact 387 00:20:35,527 --> 00:20:38,071 that he's a former police officer. 388 00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:41,991 We did not want to go into his house to make an arrest. 389 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:44,703 We did not want to let him get into any place 390 00:20:44,786 --> 00:20:47,831 where he might have secreted a weapon 391 00:20:47,914 --> 00:20:51,418 or be able to execute some plan that we may not be aware of. 392 00:20:51,501 --> 00:20:53,878 There was a concern about his oldest daughter 393 00:20:53,962 --> 00:20:55,547 who was living with him. 394 00:20:55,630 --> 00:20:58,258 We don't want a hostage situation. 395 00:20:58,341 --> 00:21:01,469 I've had so many cases where the offender, 396 00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:04,764 if he thought he was going to be caught, 397 00:21:04,889 --> 00:21:08,268 says that if he had to kill his wife or his children, 398 00:21:08,393 --> 00:21:10,770 he would do that. 399 00:21:10,854 --> 00:21:12,939 Jones: We knew we wanted to catch him by surprise. 400 00:21:13,023 --> 00:21:18,403 On the day of his arrest, a number of sheriff's detectives 401 00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:21,031 were in a minivan, getting ready to arrest him. 402 00:21:21,114 --> 00:21:23,783 Joseph DeAngelo was outside, in front of his house. 403 00:21:23,867 --> 00:21:27,746 At that point, the sheriff detective stepped out 404 00:21:27,829 --> 00:21:31,833 and pretended to ask for directions. 405 00:21:31,958 --> 00:21:34,711 I'm back at the homicide station. 406 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:38,381 We're listening over a radio, and then it goes silent. 407 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:41,634 So now it's pins and needles, 408 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,347 because here's a guy that is a serial killer. 409 00:21:45,472 --> 00:21:48,308 Does he have a gun on him? 410 00:21:48,433 --> 00:21:50,852 Ho: And before Joseph DeAngelo knew it... 411 00:21:52,687 --> 00:21:57,484 he was in handcuffs in a minivan, under arrest 412 00:21:57,567 --> 00:21:59,694 for the series of murders and rapes 413 00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:03,114 that he committed throughout California. 414 00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:06,159 Jones: It went exactly as we hoped and expected, 415 00:22:06,284 --> 00:22:08,912 but we were ready for anything. 416 00:22:08,995 --> 00:22:12,207 Holes: The next statement that came over the radio is, 417 00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:14,501 "Subject in custody." 418 00:22:14,584 --> 00:22:16,503 Then it was just -- everybody is, you know, 419 00:22:16,628 --> 00:22:18,380 jumping out of their chairs. 420 00:22:18,505 --> 00:22:20,340 This is good. 421 00:22:20,423 --> 00:22:27,430 ♪♪ 422 00:22:27,514 --> 00:22:29,015 DeAngelo's brought in by the team 423 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:31,601 and he's placed in the interview room, 424 00:22:31,685 --> 00:22:33,687 and he goes catatonic. 425 00:22:33,812 --> 00:22:37,357 He literally is sitting like this for an hour 426 00:22:37,482 --> 00:22:40,026 without twitching a muscle. 427 00:22:40,110 --> 00:22:42,570 One of the female detectives is going, 428 00:22:42,696 --> 00:22:44,614 "That's what he was doing in the victims' backyards 429 00:22:44,698 --> 00:22:46,032 while he's watching them." 430 00:22:46,116 --> 00:22:48,868 He would go absolutely motionless in the shadows 431 00:22:48,952 --> 00:22:54,416 and just wait until the time was right for him to attack. 432 00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:56,543 Hutchcraft: It's 11:30 at night. 433 00:22:56,626 --> 00:23:00,922 I walk into the room where DeAngelo's being held, 434 00:23:01,047 --> 00:23:03,883 and it's about 10 degrees colder in that room. 435 00:23:04,009 --> 00:23:07,387 There's an immediate sense of evil in there. 436 00:23:07,512 --> 00:23:10,557 I've never felt like that before. 437 00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:13,059 So now I'm sitting across from DeAngelo. 438 00:23:13,143 --> 00:23:16,312 I noticed he was a big guy. 439 00:23:16,396 --> 00:23:18,273 215 pounds, at arrest. 440 00:23:18,398 --> 00:23:20,483 His hands were like bear paws. 441 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:26,281 Hutchcraft: He actually had broad shoulders and seemed naturally strong. 442 00:23:26,406 --> 00:23:27,991 He could one-arm reach over 443 00:23:28,074 --> 00:23:30,827 and, like, knock you to the ground, kind of guy. 444 00:23:30,910 --> 00:23:35,707 And that shocked me, because of his age. 445 00:23:35,790 --> 00:23:39,794 The way I talk to people is to try to humanize myself 446 00:23:39,919 --> 00:23:43,089 and the person I'm talking to, say things like, 447 00:23:43,173 --> 00:23:49,012 "There's never too late of a time to make anything better." 448 00:23:49,095 --> 00:23:52,766 I was coming up with questions and trying to pull him out. 449 00:23:52,891 --> 00:23:54,100 His eyes were going very fast, 450 00:23:54,184 --> 00:23:56,728 like he was trying to out-think me. 451 00:23:56,811 --> 00:24:02,859 I absolutely could feel a little bit of the terror 452 00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:06,363 the victim must've gone through with this guy. 453 00:24:06,446 --> 00:24:08,948 I kept on looking down to make sure he's cuffed to the floor. 454 00:24:09,032 --> 00:24:13,953 I'm feeling the evilness protruding from him. 455 00:24:14,037 --> 00:24:15,622 I try to appeal more to, 456 00:24:15,747 --> 00:24:17,165 "Would your daughters feel better about you, 457 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:20,627 knowing that you helped the investigation?" 458 00:24:20,710 --> 00:24:23,296 Holes: A couple of agents were talking to his daughters 459 00:24:23,421 --> 00:24:26,341 out in the lobby, kind of explaining what was going on. 460 00:24:26,466 --> 00:24:27,634 I did see them. 461 00:24:27,717 --> 00:24:30,178 They were distraught. They were crying. 462 00:24:30,303 --> 00:24:32,889 It would be as if your parents 463 00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:34,766 that you thought you knew all your life, 464 00:24:34,849 --> 00:24:39,729 that you were told today that your dad's a serial killer. 465 00:24:39,813 --> 00:24:43,900 And their heartbreak is so obvious. 466 00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:48,571 They're wailing, and his face crumples. 467 00:24:48,655 --> 00:24:50,907 You can see the pain in his face, 468 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,326 and his voice goes very soft. 469 00:24:53,410 --> 00:24:58,498 To the second daughter, he says, "Go away. Go away." 470 00:24:58,623 --> 00:25:01,126 And she leaves the room and they close the door, 471 00:25:01,209 --> 00:25:07,173 and he's whispering to himself, "Goodbye. Goodbye." 472 00:25:07,298 --> 00:25:09,718 Hutchcraft: He'd been offered water, Dr. Pepper, 473 00:25:09,843 --> 00:25:11,845 anything to eat or drink that he wanted, 474 00:25:11,928 --> 00:25:14,305 and he'd been declining all of it. 475 00:25:14,389 --> 00:25:17,517 And we realized, he thinks we're trying to get his DNA. 476 00:25:17,642 --> 00:25:18,810 Oh, it's so sad. 477 00:25:18,893 --> 00:25:20,937 He doesn't know we already have it. 478 00:25:21,021 --> 00:25:27,569 ♪♪ 479 00:25:30,238 --> 00:25:34,409 ♪♪ 480 00:25:34,534 --> 00:25:38,079 Tapia: One of the most notorious rapists, serial killers 481 00:25:38,204 --> 00:25:40,206 in California history was caught, 482 00:25:40,331 --> 00:25:44,961 and I happened to live next to him for almost 40 years. 483 00:25:45,045 --> 00:25:46,796 The morning Joe was arrested, 484 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,884 there's police tape on Joe's front yard 485 00:25:50,967 --> 00:25:54,888 and there's sheriffs everywhere. 486 00:25:55,013 --> 00:25:57,432 After so many years, I had this vision 487 00:25:57,557 --> 00:25:59,225 of what this guy would look like, 488 00:25:59,351 --> 00:26:00,560 how he was living. 489 00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:02,729 I considered reaching out to Sharon, 490 00:26:02,854 --> 00:26:04,898 but it was like, they have kids together. 491 00:26:05,023 --> 00:26:08,860 She potentially still has allegiance to him, 492 00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:12,614 and I opted not to talk to her. 493 00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:15,200 DeAngelo's property was immaculate. 494 00:26:15,283 --> 00:26:16,618 Beautifully painted. 495 00:26:16,743 --> 00:26:19,204 But the inside was a different story -- 496 00:26:19,287 --> 00:26:22,207 what I would call a semi-organized mess. 497 00:26:22,290 --> 00:26:24,042 But things did stand out. 498 00:26:24,125 --> 00:26:27,212 The big thing that I saw, going into his bedroom, 499 00:26:27,295 --> 00:26:28,588 was his computer, 500 00:26:28,713 --> 00:26:32,008 and then draped over the monitor was a towel. 501 00:26:32,092 --> 00:26:34,094 One of the things that the East Area Rapist would do 502 00:26:34,177 --> 00:26:35,804 is when he separated the woman out 503 00:26:35,929 --> 00:26:38,098 and got to where he was going to sexually assault them, 504 00:26:38,223 --> 00:26:40,892 he would frequently put a towel over the TV 505 00:26:40,975 --> 00:26:42,602 to get that soft glow. 506 00:26:42,727 --> 00:26:47,732 That, to me, was like, "Oh, East Area Rapist, right there." 507 00:26:47,816 --> 00:26:50,902 He's replicating what he was doing 508 00:26:50,985 --> 00:26:53,863 when he's attacking his female victims. 509 00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:57,450 He's still fantasizing, to this day. 510 00:26:57,575 --> 00:27:01,871 ♪♪ 511 00:27:01,955 --> 00:27:04,040 We fully expected to find something 512 00:27:04,124 --> 00:27:07,919 that tied him to the victims. 513 00:27:08,003 --> 00:27:11,047 The search we did was just exhaustive. 514 00:27:11,131 --> 00:27:13,133 At one point, there was a couple agents 515 00:27:13,216 --> 00:27:15,051 that were standing in the backyard, 516 00:27:15,135 --> 00:27:16,761 and they called up to me and they say, 517 00:27:16,845 --> 00:27:19,305 "Hey, you ever see him digging around here?" 518 00:27:19,389 --> 00:27:22,809 Serial sex offenders often keep trophies, 519 00:27:22,892 --> 00:27:25,145 things that remind them of their crime, 520 00:27:25,270 --> 00:27:29,399 so that they can relive those crimes over and over again. 521 00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:31,985 Holes: He took the female victims' driver's licenses. 522 00:27:32,110 --> 00:27:33,903 Has their picture, has their address. 523 00:27:33,987 --> 00:27:36,489 Select items of jewelry as souvenirs. 524 00:27:36,614 --> 00:27:39,743 Tapia: The next day, they started probing that hillside. 525 00:27:39,826 --> 00:27:42,662 They were using some kind of machine 526 00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:44,956 to look for stuff buried. 527 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,168 It looked like a gopher had gone through his entire yard, 528 00:27:48,293 --> 00:27:52,339 'cause there was a hole about every couple feet. 529 00:27:52,464 --> 00:27:54,549 Jones: We didn't want to leave any stone unturned. 530 00:27:54,674 --> 00:27:58,178 St. John: The backyard was dug up. The house was searched. 531 00:27:58,303 --> 00:28:01,848 The walls were even torn open by police. 532 00:28:01,931 --> 00:28:04,142 Jones: We also wanted to make sure there was nothing 533 00:28:04,225 --> 00:28:09,189 that we weren't expecting, like other homicide victims. 534 00:28:09,314 --> 00:28:10,690 They found nothing. 535 00:28:10,774 --> 00:28:16,154 It's impossible to know what happened to his treasure trove. 536 00:28:16,237 --> 00:28:20,033 Jones: Not only did he seemingly stop committing these crimes, 537 00:28:20,158 --> 00:28:21,993 but he got rid of everything 538 00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:25,246 that even reminded him of those crimes. 539 00:28:25,372 --> 00:28:28,375 With serial murderers, serial sex offenders, 540 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:33,171 it is a compulsion that they either can't or won't overcome, 541 00:28:33,254 --> 00:28:36,633 and so him getting rid of those reminders of those crimes 542 00:28:36,716 --> 00:28:40,136 is very unusual. 543 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:43,723 What was he doing for those 30 years that was substituting 544 00:28:43,807 --> 00:28:46,685 for his committing sexual assault and rapes? 545 00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:50,063 [ Phone ringing ] 546 00:28:54,984 --> 00:28:58,405 Making the phone calls certainly could've been a way 547 00:28:58,488 --> 00:29:02,492 that he could satisfy some of the urges. 548 00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:05,078 Schneider: When you think about the things that he did, 549 00:29:05,203 --> 00:29:08,331 you look at Ted Bundy or whoever, look at all of them. 550 00:29:08,415 --> 00:29:10,709 They were once somebody's new baby, 551 00:29:10,792 --> 00:29:13,169 somebody's loved, little child. 552 00:29:13,253 --> 00:29:15,338 They were not monsters all their life. 553 00:29:15,422 --> 00:29:18,883 Something happened and they snapped. 554 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:25,432 I've always wondered what created the monster. 555 00:29:25,557 --> 00:29:28,101 I would look much more deeply into what was going on 556 00:29:28,184 --> 00:29:32,230 when he was a young boy developing his sexuality. 557 00:29:32,313 --> 00:29:36,359 ♪♪ 558 00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:39,863 Schneider: We moved out here in Sacramento in '55. 559 00:29:39,946 --> 00:29:42,157 Maybe we'd been there a year or so 560 00:29:42,282 --> 00:29:44,993 when Joe's family moved in next door. 561 00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:47,829 Jordan: Joseph DeAngelo Sr. and his wife Kathleen, 562 00:29:47,954 --> 00:29:51,124 two daughters, Rebecca and Constance, 563 00:29:51,207 --> 00:29:56,546 and two sons, John and Joseph Jr. 564 00:29:56,629 --> 00:30:01,676 Joe DeAngelo's father was in the Air Force. 565 00:30:01,801 --> 00:30:05,096 And his mother was a waitress. 566 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:06,639 Schneider: Joe was 13 when we met. 567 00:30:06,723 --> 00:30:09,976 We became good friends. Joe was a typical teenager. 568 00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:12,812 He hung around with my brothers all the time, 569 00:30:12,937 --> 00:30:15,982 and the boys would go out and target practice 570 00:30:16,066 --> 00:30:19,110 and shoot rabbits. 571 00:30:19,194 --> 00:30:22,364 Pool: But he was a bit edgy as a juvenile. 572 00:30:22,489 --> 00:30:26,701 He certainly had trouble conforming with the rules. 573 00:30:26,826 --> 00:30:28,495 St. John: He was a chance-taker. 574 00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:31,790 A good friend of Joe's from high school, Jim, 575 00:30:31,873 --> 00:30:33,208 they're just wild boys. 576 00:30:33,333 --> 00:30:37,337 They're sneaking into places they shouldn't be. 577 00:30:37,462 --> 00:30:40,507 They also began breaking into homes. 578 00:30:40,632 --> 00:30:46,971 On one instance, they were attacked by a German shepherd, [ Dog barking ] 579 00:30:47,055 --> 00:30:50,975 And that's when Jim sees something come over Joe -- 580 00:30:51,059 --> 00:30:53,937 a reaction to threat. 581 00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:55,438 He reaches into his pocket 582 00:30:55,522 --> 00:30:58,817 and immediately starts lighting an M-80, a firecracker. 583 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:00,193 And Joe throws the firecracker. 584 00:31:00,318 --> 00:31:01,945 It lands right underneath the dog. 585 00:31:02,028 --> 00:31:03,405 [ Firecracker pops ] 586 00:31:03,530 --> 00:31:05,156 [ Dog yelps ] 587 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,950 It's not that he hated dogs. 588 00:31:07,033 --> 00:31:09,869 It's how he responded to threat. 589 00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:12,372 The different side of him comes out. 590 00:31:12,455 --> 00:31:16,209 ♪♪ 591 00:31:16,334 --> 00:31:17,877 Schneider: I remember him saying one time, 592 00:31:18,003 --> 00:31:19,921 "We had to move back here to the United States 593 00:31:20,046 --> 00:31:22,674 because my sister Connie was hurt," 594 00:31:22,757 --> 00:31:24,342 and that's all he'd said. 595 00:31:24,426 --> 00:31:27,929 Joe's sister Connie was molested at a young age. 596 00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:30,306 I was 12 or so, and she was just 597 00:31:30,390 --> 00:31:32,100 a couple years younger than I was. 598 00:31:32,225 --> 00:31:35,145 Connie made a reference to little girls being molested. 599 00:31:35,228 --> 00:31:36,730 She was talking about herself. 600 00:31:36,855 --> 00:31:39,399 That was about her. 601 00:31:39,524 --> 00:31:42,360 Joseph DeAngelo's nephew, in the HBO special 602 00:31:42,444 --> 00:31:45,572 "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," spoke about a childhood trauma 603 00:31:45,697 --> 00:31:49,784 that his sister underwent when they were stationed in Germany. 604 00:31:49,909 --> 00:31:55,540 My mother was, uh -- she was raped. 605 00:32:01,254 --> 00:32:04,341 In Germany, when she was 7 years old. 606 00:32:04,424 --> 00:32:07,427 ♪♪ 607 00:32:07,510 --> 00:32:14,934 By two military officers or men 608 00:32:15,018 --> 00:32:17,562 in an airplane hangar. 609 00:32:17,645 --> 00:32:22,567 ♪♪ 610 00:32:22,650 --> 00:32:24,402 Guess who was watching? 611 00:32:27,614 --> 00:32:30,158 Uncle Joe. 612 00:32:30,283 --> 00:32:35,038 Now all of a sudden, violence is crossed with sexuality. 613 00:32:35,121 --> 00:32:37,999 Holes: Would that create the serial predator? 614 00:32:38,124 --> 00:32:39,626 Is it a form of stimulation for somebody 615 00:32:39,709 --> 00:32:43,046 who's already fantasizing about committing violent acts? 616 00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:44,798 I think that's a possibility. 617 00:32:44,881 --> 00:32:48,635 ♪♪ 618 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,763 Pool: I think a "why" that satisfies us in any way 619 00:32:51,846 --> 00:32:52,972 will never come. 620 00:32:53,056 --> 00:32:55,475 It can't, 'cause what justifies 621 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,939 this kind of inflicting terror, pain, and suffering 622 00:33:01,022 --> 00:33:04,526 and power over another human being? 623 00:33:04,651 --> 00:33:07,821 St. John: This is obviously a conflicted person, 624 00:33:07,946 --> 00:33:11,324 someone who was compulsively driven. 625 00:33:11,449 --> 00:33:16,746 A very tragic, monstrous wreckage of a human being. 626 00:33:16,830 --> 00:33:23,378 ♪♪ 627 00:33:26,464 --> 00:33:28,800 Daly: For 44 years, every time I walked through 628 00:33:28,883 --> 00:33:30,885 the house at night and I'd look out the door, 629 00:33:31,011 --> 00:33:34,014 I always expected to see a shadowy figure. 630 00:33:34,139 --> 00:33:37,100 And that's the one thing I will always remember, 631 00:33:37,183 --> 00:33:39,102 is the fear. 632 00:33:40,729 --> 00:33:44,190 Daly: When I learned about DeAngelo's background 633 00:33:44,315 --> 00:33:46,484 and that he, in fact, was a police officer 634 00:33:46,568 --> 00:33:50,447 and had been in the military, it's really a sad day. 635 00:33:50,530 --> 00:33:55,744 The irony is that taxpayer money paid him to learn skills 636 00:33:55,869 --> 00:33:58,204 that helped him perfect himself 637 00:33:58,329 --> 00:34:00,957 to becoming a better serial predator. 638 00:34:01,041 --> 00:34:05,045 Hutchcraft: He has done it all, peeper, prowler, burglar. 639 00:34:05,128 --> 00:34:09,758 A sadist, a rapist, a serial killer. 640 00:34:09,883 --> 00:34:13,219 Kneeland: He always had an escape route planned. 641 00:34:13,303 --> 00:34:16,681 We're taught, always know how to escape. 642 00:34:16,765 --> 00:34:19,768 ♪♪ 643 00:34:19,893 --> 00:34:22,604 When I saw him the day after he was arrested, 644 00:34:22,729 --> 00:34:24,606 when they wheeled him into the courtroom... 645 00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:27,734 Schubert: You'd think that he was fresh out of a nursing home. 646 00:34:27,859 --> 00:34:30,362 I'm surprised he wasn't drooling, quite frankly. 647 00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:33,740 But when you know his history, two days before... 648 00:34:33,865 --> 00:34:37,619 Mangang: He was outside moving a boat up and down the driveway, 649 00:34:37,744 --> 00:34:41,498 moving boulders in his yard, cutting his lawn. 650 00:34:41,581 --> 00:34:43,833 Jones: He is not the man that people saw 651 00:34:43,917 --> 00:34:47,962 being wheeled helplessly into court every day. 652 00:34:48,088 --> 00:34:49,589 He's a master manipulator. 653 00:34:49,673 --> 00:34:52,342 Jones: We had video surveillance of him in the jail. 654 00:34:52,425 --> 00:34:56,846 He's walking around, pacing back and forth like a caged predator. 655 00:34:56,930 --> 00:34:59,307 Jumping up on his bunk, jumping up on his table, 656 00:34:59,432 --> 00:35:00,975 cleaning his lights. 657 00:35:01,101 --> 00:35:03,770 Ho: There's also an incident where he was watching 658 00:35:03,895 --> 00:35:09,359 a female worker in the jail and he started to masturbate. 659 00:35:09,442 --> 00:35:12,570 He's not a crippled old man at all. 660 00:35:12,654 --> 00:35:17,117 One last ploy by a serial sex offender and serial killer 661 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,786 to try and garner some sympathy. 662 00:35:19,911 --> 00:35:24,290 ♪♪ 663 00:35:24,374 --> 00:35:26,668 Ho: After 40 years of evading capture, 664 00:35:26,793 --> 00:35:30,797 the Golden State Killer was finally brought to justice. 665 00:35:30,922 --> 00:35:33,800 It was an electrifying moment 666 00:35:33,883 --> 00:35:36,636 where the victims were packed in the courtroom. 667 00:35:36,761 --> 00:35:41,891 ♪♪ 668 00:35:41,975 --> 00:35:44,519 St. John: I went into the victim impact statements, 669 00:35:44,644 --> 00:35:52,485 and what really struck me is the strength of human spirit 670 00:35:52,569 --> 00:35:54,988 and the resilience that I heard. 671 00:35:55,113 --> 00:35:57,907 ♪♪ 672 00:35:57,991 --> 00:36:00,660 [ Sighs ] 673 00:36:00,744 --> 00:36:03,329 Miyao: I was 28 years old at the time. 674 00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:06,166 I woke up to a flashlight in my eyes. 675 00:36:06,291 --> 00:36:08,501 There was a gun that he put to my head. 676 00:36:08,626 --> 00:36:11,171 Then he took me out of my bedroom 677 00:36:11,254 --> 00:36:14,215 into another room, where he raped me. 678 00:36:14,341 --> 00:36:17,510 Mr. DeAngelo, I want to tell you 679 00:36:17,594 --> 00:36:21,598 what I was constantly thinking during the rape itself. 680 00:36:21,681 --> 00:36:23,933 "You are not going to get me. 681 00:36:24,017 --> 00:36:25,352 You are not gonna get me. 682 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:27,479 You are not gonna get me." 683 00:36:27,562 --> 00:36:33,026 Carson-Sandler: This man standing in front of the bed with a ski mask on. 684 00:36:33,109 --> 00:36:35,695 He said, "Shh, shh, shut up! 685 00:36:35,779 --> 00:36:37,864 Shut up, shut up or I'll kill you." 686 00:36:37,947 --> 00:36:40,700 My heart was just pounding out of my chest. 687 00:36:40,784 --> 00:36:44,871 My name is Jane Carson-Sandler, and DeAngelo, 688 00:36:44,996 --> 00:36:46,664 I want you to look at me. 689 00:36:46,748 --> 00:36:49,209 I have a loving husband of 26 years 690 00:36:49,334 --> 00:36:52,629 and two amazing, successful sons, 691 00:36:52,712 --> 00:36:54,714 so you didn't destroy my life. 692 00:36:54,839 --> 00:36:57,550 McMullan: My mom, Cheri Domingo, and Greg Sanchez -- 693 00:36:57,634 --> 00:37:00,553 I always picture them dancing together. 694 00:37:00,637 --> 00:37:04,766 This monster, DeAngelo, he came in fully prepared, 695 00:37:04,891 --> 00:37:07,769 armed to the teeth, and I think about my mom. 696 00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:11,898 She must've just been absolutely petrified in those moments. 697 00:37:11,981 --> 00:37:17,529 My mom and Greg were killed together in 1981. 698 00:37:17,612 --> 00:37:23,410 Today, the devil loses and justice wins. 699 00:37:23,493 --> 00:37:26,788 Janelle Cruz is my sister. 700 00:37:26,913 --> 00:37:31,793 She was 18 and I was 17 when she was killed. 701 00:37:31,918 --> 00:37:34,921 Now I know who killed my sister Janelle. 702 00:37:35,046 --> 00:37:39,968 Joseph DeAngelo did, a vicious rapist and murderer 703 00:37:40,093 --> 00:37:41,219 and nothing more. 704 00:37:41,302 --> 00:37:42,887 I hope he rots. 705 00:37:42,971 --> 00:37:46,766 ♪♪ 706 00:37:46,850 --> 00:37:50,812 Carson-Sandler: Bonnie was his ex-fiancee years ago, 707 00:37:50,937 --> 00:37:53,898 and actually came to court with me. 708 00:37:53,982 --> 00:37:56,943 She was not able to give an impact statement 709 00:37:57,027 --> 00:38:00,947 because she was not one of his rape victims. 710 00:38:01,072 --> 00:38:05,285 I was able to read what Bonnie wanted to say to him. 711 00:38:05,410 --> 00:38:10,206 I had written, "Even with a gun pointed at my face, 712 00:38:10,290 --> 00:38:12,792 you could not make me choose you." 713 00:38:12,917 --> 00:38:17,881 And I never took my stare off of Joe. 714 00:38:17,964 --> 00:38:23,470 I didn't see a blink or any change whatsoever in Joe. 715 00:38:25,555 --> 00:38:28,725 St. John: After the three days of the impact statements, 716 00:38:28,808 --> 00:38:33,855 he is the one who insisted that he wanted to say something. 717 00:38:33,980 --> 00:38:37,817 And there was an audible gasp in the ballroom when he stood. 718 00:38:40,695 --> 00:38:47,243 I've listened to all your statements, each one of them. 719 00:38:47,327 --> 00:38:54,501 ♪♪ 720 00:38:54,626 --> 00:39:02,425 and I am truly sorry to everyone I've hurt. 721 00:39:04,678 --> 00:39:08,056 Thank you, Your Honor. 722 00:39:08,181 --> 00:39:10,183 It was a complete shock, 723 00:39:10,266 --> 00:39:12,644 but he stood up without any help. 724 00:39:12,727 --> 00:39:16,064 His voice was strong and audible, 725 00:39:16,189 --> 00:39:18,108 and this whispering person 726 00:39:18,191 --> 00:39:20,777 who seemed to be nodding off all the time, 727 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:23,530 who seemed totally disengaged, 728 00:39:23,613 --> 00:39:26,866 suddenly, all of that was an act. 729 00:39:28,576 --> 00:39:29,953 Carson-Sandler: As they were wheeling him out, 730 00:39:30,036 --> 00:39:33,790 I just walked back right up to the stage and I said, 731 00:39:33,873 --> 00:39:37,711 "DeAngelo, I just hope you rot in hell." 732 00:39:37,836 --> 00:39:40,588 Rot in hell! 733 00:39:40,714 --> 00:39:42,799 There was a policeman right there that was blocking me, 734 00:39:42,882 --> 00:39:44,884 'cause he thought I was gonna jump up on the stage 735 00:39:45,010 --> 00:39:47,721 and just rip him out of the wheelchair. 736 00:39:47,846 --> 00:39:50,098 I felt empowered, finally. 737 00:39:50,223 --> 00:39:51,391 We now have the control. 738 00:39:51,474 --> 00:39:54,144 We now have the power, you son of a gun, 739 00:39:54,227 --> 00:39:56,104 and I wanted him to know that. 740 00:39:56,229 --> 00:40:00,066 ♪♪ 741 00:40:00,150 --> 00:40:03,069 Joseph DeAngelo pled guilty to 13 counts of murder. 742 00:40:03,194 --> 00:40:06,948 Judge: Murder in the first degree. How do you plead? 743 00:40:07,073 --> 00:40:08,742 Guilty. 744 00:40:08,867 --> 00:40:12,078 Schubert: 13 other counts of kidnap for purposes of robbery. 745 00:40:12,203 --> 00:40:16,833 The rape charges, the statute of limitations had run long ago, 746 00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:21,046 but he ultimately admitted all the uncharged crimes, as well. 747 00:40:21,129 --> 00:40:22,422 Ho: In exchange for that, 748 00:40:22,547 --> 00:40:25,592 Joseph DeAngelo was sentenced to life in prison 749 00:40:25,675 --> 00:40:28,053 without the possibility of parole. 750 00:40:28,136 --> 00:40:29,929 He will die in prison. 751 00:40:30,013 --> 00:40:33,516 ♪♪ 752 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,102 Holes: I do know that Sharon divorced him 753 00:40:36,186 --> 00:40:37,604 and made a statement 754 00:40:37,729 --> 00:40:40,732 that she had no knowledge about his attacks 755 00:40:40,815 --> 00:40:44,736 and was wanting her privacy respected. 756 00:40:44,819 --> 00:40:47,989 Daly: Hundreds of people have been involved in this case 757 00:40:48,114 --> 00:40:52,160 and had an active part in trying to see it solved. 758 00:40:52,285 --> 00:40:54,496 One team would retire and another would come on 759 00:40:54,621 --> 00:40:56,956 and they would pick up this case. 760 00:40:57,082 --> 00:40:58,625 Hutchcraft: I think some of the greatest things 761 00:40:58,708 --> 00:41:00,085 to come out of this mayhem 762 00:41:00,168 --> 00:41:06,132 are the developments in DNA, the relationships. 763 00:41:06,257 --> 00:41:09,886 McMullan: The blessing of getting to know other survivors, 764 00:41:09,969 --> 00:41:11,763 and there are dozens and dozens of those 765 00:41:11,846 --> 00:41:13,640 who have meant so much to me. 766 00:41:13,765 --> 00:41:17,060 Carson-Sandler: We're not alone anymore, and that's what's so amazing, 767 00:41:17,143 --> 00:41:19,437 and I know it's hard for those women 768 00:41:19,521 --> 00:41:22,023 that have never been able to confront 769 00:41:22,148 --> 00:41:24,526 or see their perpetrator go to trial, 770 00:41:24,651 --> 00:41:28,029 so I hope we can speak for them. 771 00:41:28,154 --> 00:41:31,825 Never give up hope that if the man that assaulted you 772 00:41:31,908 --> 00:41:34,536 has not been caught, he will be someday. 773 00:41:34,661 --> 00:41:38,957 ♪♪ 774 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,167 Since the Golden State Killer case, 775 00:41:41,292 --> 00:41:43,837 genetic genealogy has been used to help solve 776 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,090 more than 100 cold cases throughout the country. 777 00:41:47,173 --> 00:41:49,968 Vicious criminals who remained anonymous and free 778 00:41:50,051 --> 00:41:54,055 are being identified and captured to face justice. 779 00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:57,517 And at long last, many survivors and their families 780 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,603 say they have finally found peace. 781 00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:02,022 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 782 00:42:02,147 --> 00:42:03,440 Thanks for watching. 783 00:42:03,523 --> 00:42:06,901 Goodnight.