Nearly three-dozen victims or survivors are expected to tell their stories before the man known as the Golden State Killer is formally sentenced to life in prison this week.
FILE - In this July 12, 2018, file photo, Jane Carson-Sandler, of South Carolina, who was raped by the Golden State Killer in 1976, holds a sign with a message to her attacker in Sacramento, Calif. Carson-Sandler says she's served an effective life sentence in the more than four decades since she was among the first of dozens of rape victims of a one-time police officer who eventually became known as the Golden State Killer.
She can’t go skiing, for fear she’ll see someone in a ski mask like the one DeAngelo wore. The sound of a helicopter is another trigger, because “after the attack the helicopters would fly over every night with spotlights on the ground, looking for DeAngelo.” Kris Pedretti was 15 when DeAngelo attacked her in suburban Sacramento just before Christmas in 1976.She lost her friends, her once profound faith in God, switched schools three times, had two failed marriages, and “did a lot of self-medicating, a lot of poor coping mechanisms.”It wasn’t until DeAngelo’s arrest two years ago that she sought therapy and changed her life again.
He would tie up the man and pile dishes on his back, then threaten to kill both victims if he heard the plates rattle while he repeatedly raped the woman.“That’s been with me for 42 years now, and in my view that’s a long life sentence for someone to serve who didn’t deserve to serve it,” she said. “Not one of us, the survivors, deserved to have this kind of violence and hatred and desecration put upon them.
DeAngelo killed two more people in Sacramento — a couple out walking their dog — but committed most of his murders after he left the police force and moved to Southern California, where he was dubbed the Original Night Stalker. “I can never cause him the fear that he caused me during the attack, but I can humiliate him and that’s my goal,” she said. She plans to wear a new T-shirt that “starts with ‘Itsy-Bitsy.’”
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