Joseph James DeAngelo, the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, was shopping at a Hobby Lobby near his California home when police swabbed his car door handle for DNA that linked him to a decadelong crime spree in the 1970s and ’80s. Two days later, a Sacramento County crime lab returned a match. DeAngelo’s DNA coincided with DNA left at Golden State Killer crime scenes. Genetic material on a piece of tissue taken the following day from a trash can left outside his suburban home in Citrus Heights, California, also returned a match. According to the arrest warrant, DeAngelo is “47.5 septillion times” more likely to be the Golden State Killer than any other, unrelated person.

Source: Huffington Post June 02, 2018 21:11 UTC