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BREAKING: Joseph DeAngelo pleads guilty, admits to killing 13, other uncharged rapes. He is officially the #GoldenStateKiller.

Expected to serve 11 life sentences w/ out parole, 15 more life sentences. He meekly responds “yes” to each judge’s question
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DeAngelo spoke to himself shortly after his arrest two years ago and said, among other things: “I didn’t want to do those things ... I did all those things” #GoldenStateKiller
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#BREAKING: Joseph DeAngelo pleads guilty to first charge of Visalia murder; tells judge “guilty” and “I admit” in croaky voice #GoldenStateKiller
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Prosecutors detail how DeAngelo before his arrest was active, riding motorcycle, lifting heavy objects, but quickly acted infirmed after arrest. Similar to his 1979 arrest when Auburn cop, he pretended to suffer heart attack & fought with cops who had to tie him down

Here’s an example of DeAngelo admitting guilt to a Goleta murder, this croaky voice is similar to each of his responses. No emotion. A brief exchange with his attorney each time judge asks question #GoldenStateKiller
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Family members of Cheri Domingo and her boyfriend Gregory Sanchez stand and listen as a prosecutor announces terrible details of DeAngelo’s murder of the couple; he tied her up, beat her in head 10x and raped her
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Very emotional as family members hear after four decades that Joseph DeAngelo is guilty of killing and raping their loved ones. Dabbing eyes with tissue and standing
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Victor Hayes, who DeAngelo tied up while he raped his then-girlfriend in their Sac home, said he has mixed feelings about plea deal. He says admission not same as getting crime as conviction. He believes DeAngelo was on duty as a cop when he raped his GF
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Court in recess. Joseph DeAngelo just wheeled out. Plenty more charges to come
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Court is back in session. They are still completing the 26 charges first. Then they will have him admit to 62 other uncharged crimes. Contra Costa now going

In 10/7/78 Contra Costa rape, after raping woman & placing dishes on husband’s back as sick alarm system, DeAngelo said he’d cut off her baby boy’s ear, who was sleeping in another room, if she didn’t orally copulate him

Just such brutal acts by DeAngelo. In Concord, on 10/13/78, he entered bedroom and as tying couple the young daughter runs into room crying. DeAngelo threw girl into bathroom and moved dresser in front of door to keep her from escaping. Then repeatedly raped her mom

Warning: The material described in this video is graphic and describes a rape and the moments before Joseph DeAngelo raped a Danville woman multiple times. This is not easy stuff to hear & each case is this horrible

Here’s shots of DeAngelo being wheeled out as we break for lunch
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DeAngelo said to himself after arrested 2 years ago (first time made public): “I did all that… I didn’t have the strength to push him out. He made me. He went with me. It was like, in my head, I mean, he’s a part of me. I didn’t want to do those things."
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He continued talking to himself in police custody: “I did all those things. I’ve destroyed all their lives … I
raped. So now I gotta pay the price.”
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In 1979, as Auburn cop DeAngelo arrested for shoplifting dog repellent & hammer. He pretended to have heart attack after captured. When deputies arrived he screamed incoherently. DeAngelo asked to speak privately telling them he was Auburn cop
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Large family presence standing & listening to brutal details of 18yo Janelle Cruz’s bludgeoning slaying and rape, she was final known #GoldenStateKiller victim in 1986 in Irvine
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Key part of the prosecution of DeAngelo was finding a way to charge him for not the rapes (because too much time had passed), but rather for kidnapping during a robbery. An odd charge all things considered, but the statute of limitations had not expired
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Victor Hayes stood to hear DeAngelo admit time tying him up & raping his girlfriend. He yelled out that he wants his name to be used, not John Doe. He was told he would get a chance to speak at sentencing

After #GoldenStateKiller admits to binding Victor Hayes and raping his girlfriend to judge, Hayes standing in ballroom yells out “Coward!”
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Crowd erupts in cheers after prosecutor describes how Jane Doe 20 described to police that Joseph DeAngelo had a “small penis”; relative in orange walked right up to DeAngelo during prosecutor’s description

We’re on break and rape victim Jane Carson-Sandler, Jane Doe 20, talks about walking up to her attacker to get eye contact. And the crowd’s reaction after prosecutor described what she told police decades ago that DeAngelo had “small penis”

Jane Doe 28 was only 6yo in 1977 when DeAngelo raped her mother. He stopped when he heard the little girl in room. Tied up little girl and threatened to cut her up if she made noise. Terrible
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In 1977, DeAngelo called police and told them: “I’m the East Area Rapist. I have my next victim stalked and you can’t catch me.”
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When he was a kid, DeAngelo set a German Shepherd on fire by blowing it up with M80 firework, prosecutor describes
#GoldenStateKiller
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Court has adjourned. DeAngelo will be sentenced in August. Thanks for following today’s proceedings

Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton speaks at press conference after #GoldenStateKiller plea hearing

Today’s front page
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And this @gabriellelurie front page photo of Joseph DeAngelo will haunt me
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Advances in DNA tech led me to cover this case last year where new genetic testing caught a murder suspect of elderly woman.

Was young man originally charged & jailed for years exonerated? Even w zero DNA evidence implicating him?

Nope.

Wild story:
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