A plea deal will spare DeAngelo any chance of the death penalty for 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges throughout California. A guilty plea and life sentence avoids a trial or even the planned weeks-long preliminary hearing. He was arrested in 2018 after authorities used DNA to track him through a popular genealogy website. A prosecutor said Monday that DeAngelo Jr. made incriminating statements after his arrest and indicated he was driven by an internal force he couldn't control. "The scope of Joseph DeAngelo's crimes is simply staggering," Ho said, of the spree, which included nearly 50 rapes.

Source: Fox News June 29, 2020 19:40 UTC