More than 40 years after the so-called “Golden State Killer” began terrorizing California, raping dozens of women and killing at least 12, authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, charging him with capital murder. Then a series of slayings involving couples in their homes in Southern California by the “Golden State Killer” lasted up into the mid-1980s. Investigators had said they thought the Golden State Killer may have had a law enforcement background, and DeAngelo fit that bill. Authorities said the same man raped someone again a few weeks later, then raped people again and again. After a year, two dozen women had been attacked in the Sacramento area.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2018 18:40 UTC