Joseph DeAngelo, the 74-year-old former police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer, agreed on Monday to plead guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder
Joseph DeAngelo at his hearing at Cal State Sacramento. Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP/Shutterstock Joseph DeAngelo, the 74-year-old former police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer, agreed to plead guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder at a court appearance on Monday. DeAngelo, who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, is believed to have committed at least 13 murders and 50 rapes in ten counties across the state.
DeAngelo is believed to have attacked around 106 men, women, and children from 1973 to 1986. Over the years, he became known in the press as the Golden State Killer, as well as the East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, the Diamond Knot Killer. The hearing on Monday took place in the Union Ballroom of the Sacramento State University campus, a venue deemed big enough to accommodate social-distancing measures. The university is the same one from which DeAngelo received a criminal-justice degree in 1972, before going on to work as a police officer until 1979, when he was caught shoplifting.
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