Golden State Killer Biography
Joseph James DeAngelo Known as The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist, and burglar who committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in California from 1974 to 1986.
Between 1959 and 1960 he attended Mills Junior High School in Rancho Cordova. Beginning in 1961, he attended Folsom High School, from which he received a GED certificate in 1964. He played on the school’s junior varsity baseball team. DeAngelo joined the U.S. Navy in September 1964 and served for 22 months during the Vietnam War as a damage control man on the cruiser USS Canberra and USS Piedmont. Beginning August 1968, DeAngelo attended Sierra College in Rocklin; in June 1970, he graduated with an associate degree in police science, with honors.
In May 1970, DeAngelo became engaged to Bonnie Jean Colwell, a classmate at Sierra College, but she reportedly broke off the relationship. Investigators believe this might be connected to the offender’s saying, “I hate you, Bonnie!”, during one of the EAR attacks. In 1971, he attended Sacramento State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. He later took post-graduate courses and further police training at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, then completed a 32-week police internship at the Roseville Police Department.
From May 1973 to August 1976, he was a burglary unit police officer in Exeter (a town of about 5,000 people near Visalia), having relocated from Citrus Heights. By 1976, DeAngelo had been promoted to sergeant and was in charge of the Exeter Police Department’s “Joint Attack on Burglary” program. He then served in Auburn from August 1976 to July 1979, when he was arrested for shoplifting a hammer and dog repellent; he was sentenced to six months probation and fired that October.
Golden State Killer Age
He was born on 8 November 1945, Bath, New York, United States. He is 73 years old of age.
Golden State Killer Family
He was born to Joseph James DeAngelo, Sr. and Kathleen Bolano. He has two younger sisters and a younger brother. At 9 or 10 years old, he is said to have witnessed his 7-year-old sister being raped by two men in a warehouse.
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In April 2018, California investigators finally arrested Joseph James DeAngelo – the suspected “Golden State Killer” who committed at least 50 rapes and 13 murders in the 70s and 80s. The decades-old case was solved using GEDmatch, the genealogy website that hosts a free database of users’ DNA. Now, that avenue to crime-solving is no longer available. On Saturday, GEDmatch updated its terms of service to exclude all 1.2 million users’ DNA kits from being compared to those uploaded by law enforcement unless users were specifically opt-in.
Golden State Killer Wife
The killer had a wife who was called Sharon Marie got married in 1973 and divorced in 1991. Huddle was also an attorney. Sharon Huddle and Joseph DeAngelo have three children, all daughters, together, according to a family member’s obituary. His first daughter was born in September 1981, his second daughter was born in November 1986 and his third daughter was born in May 1989.
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Golden State Killer Crimes
The cases he’s charged in are the 1978 murders of Brian Maggiore and his wife, Katie, and the 1980 deaths of Charlene and Lyman Smith. It’s believed the serial killer also slew Alexandria Manning, Dr. Robert Offerman, Patrice Harrington, Keith Harrington, Manuela Witthuhn, Cheri Domingo, Gregory Sanchez, Janelle Cruz, and possibly Claude Snelling.
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Golden State Killer Novel
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
The novel Talks about One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Killer is a true crime book by Michelle McNamara about the Killer. The book was released posthumously on February 27, 2018, nearly two years after McNamara’s death, by HarperCollins’ HarperLuxe imprint.
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