'He truly is an evil monster with no soul.” Surviving victims and their loved ones lined up inside a California courtroom to confront Joseph DeAngelo, the so-called Golden State Killer and East Area Rapist.
In her own statement, Murphy's daughter said DeAngelo “can go straight to hell.”Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Thien Ho previously said the scope of DeAngelo's crime spree is"simply staggering, encompassing 13 known murders and almost 50 rapes between 1975 and 1986."
Among them was Pete Schultze, who was 11 years old when he was tied to a bedpost so tightly that his hands turned blue while DeAngelo"performed horrific acts" against his mother. He called DeAngelo a"sick monster" with an"inadequate penis," a recurring theme from several of the victims. According to prosecutors, DeAngelo's crime spree started in 1975 while he was working as a police officer in Exeter, a northern California community in the San Joaquin Valley near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Over the years, his crimes escalated from peeping through windows to stalking to rape and serial murder.
For decades, the blood trail had gone cold, but using genetic geneology, Sacramento authorities identified DeAngelo in 2018 as the person responsible for the heinous acts.
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