California's alleged Golden State Killer set to plead guilty A 74-year-old former police officer is tentatively set to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State KillerSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer is expected to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer. The deal will spare Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. any chance of the death penalty for 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges spanning six counties. Yet nothing is certain until he actually speaks in a Sacramento State University ballroom pressed into use as a courtroom to provide for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. The death penalty was never realistic anyway, she said, given DeAngelo's age and Gov. “He certainly does deserve to die, in my view, so I am seeing that he is trading the death penalty for death in prison," she said.

Source: ABC News June 28, 2020 15:07 UTC