Survivors of Joseph DeAngelo, the man now known as the 'Golden State Killer,' are addressing him directly in court this week in powerful and emotional victim impact statements.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Survivors of Joseph DeAngelo, the man now known as the "Golden State Killer," addressed him directly in court on Tuesday in powerful and emotional victim impact statements.
"I wonder why he picked me to be one of his rape victims? Did he know my name?" she said."He punched me in the face and broke my nose. I had a concussion from falling backwards ... it soon became clear that he and his knife had complete control over me for the next two hours."Joseph DeAngelo returns to Sacramento Superior Court in Sacramento, April 10, 2019."The lump on my nose [from the punch] never went away," her statement said.
Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the Golden State Killer, arrives for the first day of victim impact statements at the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 18, 2020.On Oct. 18, 1976, Winnie Schultz, a wife and mother of two, was raped in her home. Pete Schultz said his mother, now a breast cancer survivor and grandmother of four, is still married to his father after 55 years.On Dec. 18, 1976, Kris Pedretti was 15 years old when she raped by a knife-wielding man who said he would kill her if she did not obey him.
Kris Pedretti reads her victim impact statement as Joseph James DeAngelo is in the court room the Sacramento County Courthouse, in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 18, 2020.Pedretti said she thought she was going to die at three different times that night.Kris Pedretti reads her victim impact statement as Joseph James DeAngelo is in the court room the Sacramento County Courthouse, in Sacramento, Calif. , Aug. 18, 2020.
"Your secrets have been exposed. Your double life is over. The world, and I mean the entire world, knows who you are and what you did," Pedretti said."You will forever be known as a repulsive coward who hid behind a mask of evil. The devil can keep you company in your prison cell, as he gnaws away at whatever soul you have left.”
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