DeAngelo, 72, was accused Wednesday of being the Golden State Killer who terrorized suburban neighbourhoods in a spate of brutal rapes and slayings in the 1970s and ’80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for decades. Authorities said he was responsible for a dozen slayings and some 50 rapes and that other charges could be filed. “It all changed,” said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who was 12 at the time of the crimes. “We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also knew that needle was there,” Schubert said. For 27 years, he worked in a cavernous Save Mart Supermarkets distribution warehouse in Roseville, a Sacramento suburb, before retiring last year, company spokeswoman Victoria Castro said.

Source: National Post April 26, 2018 06:22 UTC