Joseph James DeAngelo
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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is an American serial killer, serial rapist, and former police officer known as the Golden State Killer, the Original Night Stalker, the East Area Rapist, and the Visalia Ran
Mug shot of DeAngelo in 2018
Photograph released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office showing DeAngelo, who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973
A composite sketch of the Visalia Ransacker
Three sketches on which the FBI focused when it reopened the case in June 2016
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer is a true crime book by the American writer Michelle McNamara about the investigation of the Golden State Killer. The
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…throat and said to her, "Do what I say or I'll kill you and be gone in the dark," the phrase that would later serve as the title of Michelle McNamara's book on the case. For more than two hours, he raped her three times. According to Pedretti, "He alternated leaving me outside, naked in the winter cold, and bringing…
First edition cover