The Golden State Killer

hey guys welcome back to my channel so today I am going to be finally covering a case that I have been really wanting to cover for a while now I was very nervous to do it because YouTube doesn't really like serial killer cases it turns out and this case is very very not advertiser friendly but I do have a sponsor for this episode so we are all good to go today I'm going to be telling you about the Golden State killer case it is a fascinating case that I'm sure a lot of you have heard of the crimes go all the way back to the 70s so this guy has been on the run for a really long time it's a super fascinating case I've done a podcast on it I've mentioned it a few times here on my channel and I really think when you guys hear this story especially about how they ended up touching him I think you're gonna find it really interesting so before we get started this video was kindly sponsored by audible it's no secret that I love audible I truly do I am a dyslexic person so using audiobooks is 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a big thanks to audible for sponsoring this video now let's go ahead and jump in alright so before the Golden State killer was known as the Golden State killer he was actually known as two different criminals in two different areas first this guy was known as the Visalia ransack er starting in April of 1974 there was a series of over 120 burglaries in people's homes in Visalia California this went on until December of 1975 and when the Visalia ran soccer was entering people's houses it was reported that he was going in rifling through belongings ransacking their stuff obviously like vandalizing things going into the women's underwear drawer scattering the underwear around the room and what was so weird about this burglar is that he wouldn't always take the highest-valued items in the house like sometimes he'd leave some really high priced items in the house fancy jewelry and stuff and he was known for taking like low value things like for example a regular pair of earrings not a diamond door gold or anything and he would sometimes just take one of them so it became clear to investigators that whoever was doing this was kind of in it for some type of thrill like they liked going into people's houses they would take personal belongings that maybe they could save and kind of show off every where they've been or like having us somewhat of a momento which a lot of criminals will do this and the Golden State killer definitely was one of them so nothing really violent happened during this time so at this point obviously the Golden State killer really wasn't a killer yet he was a ransack er but he was getting a lot of experience breaking and entering into people's homes but then in 1976 a bunch of rapes actually started happening in Sacramento and basically what he would do is stand outside take women out and stalk them like he would find specific women and just watch them from afar learn their routines and then he would break into their houses and rape them it's really really scary to talk about honestly I can't imagine how petrified he would be waking up to this basically women reported that when they would wake up and you know just a sound sleep they would see a man just standing there watching them at the end of their bed and sometimes he wouldn't even be wearing his clothes he would normally be holding some type of weapon to scare them there's cases of him doing this to women who are home alone when their husbands are gone or living alone or he would just straight up go in there while couples were sleeping while there was a male at home which is pretty risky and the way that he would deal with a couple is he'd actually show up in their room the middle and I have some type of weapon scare them and tell them you know you need to do everything I say to do or I'm going to kill you he would then have the women tie up their husbands and be really involved in the process making sure they were tying it the right way telling them to tie it tighter and stuff and then he would have the husbands lay down and then he would put a stack of plates on top of them and he would tell them don't move if I hear these plates jiggle at all which you know how easy that would be to make the plates jiggle would be really hard to stay still as it is but if I hear anything crazy I'm going to kill your wife or kill you and then he would take their wife into the room next door where their husbands can hear totally what's going on in if they can't hear it they they know what's going on and he would rape them I can't imagine how traumatic this would be for both people going through this I mean absolutely terrible to be stripped of your masculinity and watch this happen to your wife while you're just helpless laying there and then also going through the experience of being raped you know when there's nothing your husband can do to help you in your house and what is so weird about this guy is he was known for lingering in people's houses most the time when you break it enter into someone's house and commit a rape or something like that and you leave behind witnesses you don't want to touch anything you want to get out of there as quick as possible you know touch as little as possible but this guy wouldn't make himself at home even after or before he would do things to people where he would you know rape a woman several times in a few hours and he would take breaks and just go hang out in their house but he would go into people's houses and make a sandwich he would you know sit outside on their back patio furniture and enjoy the view he was really into rummaging through people's stuff like he would ransack their house and I'm sure he was getting so much DNA all over the house back then though it wasn't too much of a concern for criminals because there's only so much that could be done with DNA back then another thing that all of the victims reported is that this man would actually shine a really bright light in their eyes when they would first wake up to kind of stun them which that would do it he would yell at them not to look at his face if they ever tried to make eye contact with that he'd say don't look at me don't look at me and he also would wear a ski mask everyone reported he would wear a ski mask so this was kind of his thing and so no one really had a good description of what his face looked like but based on what the victims were saying police believed that he was about six feet tall had blondish brown hair and that he was a white guy he was described as being slender in pretty good shape and one other thing that all the victims reported is that this guy he had a small weenie so I mean there could be some motive behind that you know maybe he had some insecurity issues that was causing him to want to attack women and another really weird thing about this guy is not only would he linger in people's homes but sometimes he would actually stalk them to the point where he would break and enter into their home without them knowing like at times where they weren't home and he would stash supplies that he might need he plan it out for a really long time sometimes he would you know leave or sometimes he would actually just stay in the house and hide until I came home and then attack and it was very clear to law enforcement that this guy was pretty tactical that he knew what he was doing and knew how to not get caught and he was enjoying this this was something that brought him some type of thrill he would even harass his victims after he had already attacked them by calling them and talking so creepy okay I'm just gonna play it for you guys is that not the creepiest thing like if I got a phone call like that I would go to the police right away and the Sacramento community was so freaked out especially women in the community so police started hosting these town hall meetings for everyone who's concerned about what was going on where they could get together and kind of brainstorm and talk about it and shortly after they started these town hall meetings police actually got a call from a man who said I'm going to strike tonight watt Avenue so that night police went to the area of watt Avenue to look for him and they were patrolling around until they saw this guy wearing a ski mask crossover the watt Avenue Bridge but he was too fast for them he rode away before they were able to catch him and this is around the time that police started calling him the east area rapist teenaged girl was raped today in her home in Contra Costa County and though officials are not saying it was the work of the East Area rapist they do say the crime was committed in his style Betty Ann Bruno has more law enforcement officials from every police agency in Contra Costa County tonight are looking for the man who raped a 13 year old Walnut Creek girl early this morning the young victim was attacked in her rancho san miguel home police say she described her attacker as a white male six feet tall weighing 180 five pounds I was wearing some type of a mask or a hood I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt he would parently was in the residence for approximately 45 minutes we don't know how he gained entry she was bound he raped her he didn't bother anyone else in the residence and the young girl's father and older sister were inside the residence at the time were unaware of the attack Johnson said her assailant may be the east area rapist who is suspected of committing at least four other rapes in the same area or he may be an imitator police are urging everyone in the Concord Walnut Creek and San Ramon area to be on the lookout and to report strangers in their neighborhoods who seem to be just hanging around or displaying any other suspicious behavior this is Betty Ann Bruno and Walnut Creek for the 10 o'clock news but then in 1978 he started not only committing rapes but he started also committing MERS a couple named Brian and Kate were walking their dog in their neighborhood perfectly normal night everything and then someone came up behind them it was a man who was wearing a ski mask and holding a gun he ended up chasing them into a neighbor's backyard but in the past when he had attacked couples the man would normally cooperate because they're scared they're in their bed but they were outside and Brian decided to fight back and the east area rapist was not prepared for this at all freaked out and realized that the only way that he was going to get away was if he killed them so he ended up shooting them both because he knew he couldn't fight back and these are known as his first murders so people in the Sacramento area were super freaked out at the time everyone was on high alert they couldn't believe how many people were experiencing this and one thing that the Golden State killer did a lot was change up the area where he was committing his crimes so in 1979 when he was still known as the East Area rapist he started moving down into the southern areas of California and this is when he started his period as the original night stalker his third and fourth killings happened on December 3rd 1979 he entered Robert Offerman and Deborah Manning's house he got into the house by going through at this sliding glass door and the two of them were just sleeping in their bed at the time you know completely not suspecting this that's the last thing you're expecting when you're safe in your bed in your house you know and I don't want to get into too many details but he you know tied them up raped the woman and then killed them both March 13th 1980 so quite a little bit later the 5th and 6th murders happened this time the victims were Charlene and Lyman Smith in Ventura he did the same thing as he did to the people before however he actually killed these people with a log from the fireplace he beat them to death with a log so savage so one thing that the police started to notice with all these crimes is whoever was doing this the original Nightstalker as they were calling this person at the time definitely had some type of knowledge when it came to knots I mean maybe he was an Eagle Scout or something or maybe he had some involvement with the military and or the police the knots that he was using were really advanced and they looked like someone who had some type of experience people even called him the diamond knot killer for a little while because a lot of his knots would look kind of like diamonds so he had tons of different names but they were starting to think that maybe this person had some background in possibly even police at first Los Angeles police thought that the murder of a young woman last March was an isolated act of violence but since then they've come to believe it was connected to a wide-ranging series of assaults by a killer who's become known as the nightstalker a killer who apparently struck again during the weekend police today continued to search for any clues in the near fatal shooting of 29 year old William Karns and the rape of his girlfriend there apparently the latest victims of the night stalker thought to be responsible now for 34 brutal attacks 14 of them fatal these serial killings once confined to the near Los Angeles area are now spread over 500 miles from San Francisco to Orange County this community in jeopardy because it impedes our ability our ability to go forward fully with the investigation there's a total of $35,000 rewards has been offered including today a sixteen dollar donation from this group of Concerned schoolchildren today the search for California's Night Stalker continues and many residents sleep with their doors and windows bolted tight despite 100 degree temperatures then in August of 1980 he ended up killing another couple they were a younger couple named Keith and Patrice Harrington and this happened in Orange County then on February 6 1981 manolo with thon was also murdered by the original night stalker in her home on Monday July 27th of 1981 he killed Sharri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez in their home and then on Sunday May 4th 1986 he killed the Janelle Cruz she hadn't incredibly sad life her death was so tragic and it was actually the last known murder of the original night stalker or at the Golden State killer and after this the case goes cold there was no other activity from the Golden State killer so at this time they had not connected that the original night stalker the east area rapist and the visalia ran soccer were all the same person and they went for years before they were able to connect the dots but then finally in 2001 when DNA technology was starting to get a little better they actually figured out that the east area rapist and the original night stalker were indeed the same person so this is when Michelle McCann Americans into play I mentioned her at the beginning of the video Michelle was extremely obsessed with this case very very into trying to figure out who this person was and help all these victims and she ended up being a huge part in this case in fact she was the one who gave him the name Golden State killer in 2013 she wrote a article in LA magazine about it and the article that she wrote actually did so well that she got picked up for a book deal so she started working on the book and she worked on it for years she was super super into it it was a passion project for her and the writing in the book is incredible she's a really good writer just the way that she words things totally paints a picture for you you know for something that none of us were actually there to witness she really somehow captures what it must have been like to be those victims it's amazing and very well done and she was actually almost done riding the book when she suddenly passed away on April 21st of 2016 and it was really really devastating she was 46 years old at the time she passed away in her sleep and they ended up finding adderall xanax and fentanyl in her system so I think working on this project was you know very intense for her when Michelle passed away her husband patton oswalt who's a comedian he's really really awesome super nice guy and he wanted to finish the book so he ended up working with paul haynes and billy jensen and they work together with patton to finish the end of the book so in February of 2018 the book was published and it was on the New York Times bestseller list for 15 consecutive weeks and I have to say it is in my top three true crime books for sure and the book itself didn't really come out with anything necessarily groundbreaking for the case it did you know ignite a ton of public interest in the case and helped propel them to have more resources to solve it it's a brilliantly written book that is it's sometimes it's it's almost too brilliantly written because it's really scary yes you know I've had friends read it and say I was I read a few chapters and then we went over our security measures yeah we look at what do we have on the doors and windows wait a minute you know so I start listening to it when it dropped on audible last night yes and I have to tell you that as I was listening to it I was thinking yeah I want to check the doors yeah yeah because you suddenly realized you know you get lacks because you're not thinking about this kind of stuff on June 15 2016 MPI released a new composite sketch and a $50,000 reward so obviously as time has gone on since you know the 70s when this all started DNA testing has gotten insanely good so good that it's like a household thing for people it's it's in the hands of consumers a lot of people have taken tests with ancestry or 23andme you know one of those companies and gotten your DNA results and there's actually a public DNA database now called Jed match so detectives ended up uploading the Golden State killer's DNA from a rape kit back from Ventura County a long time ago they still had it on file so they uploaded it to jed match in the beginning of 2018 and the website actually found 10 to 20 different people who were matches for possible descendants of the Golden State killer in January of this year holls uploads the crime scene DNA and starts finding people who may be related to the killer now I'm talking you know third fourth fifth cousins he's very distantly related but it gives us a starting point holes and other investigators pore over the results working with a genetic genealogist using obituaries gravesite locators census records and DNA databases to build a family tree for the killer then they look for people believed to be about the same age as the suspect with ties to California and they kept narrowing it down narrowing it down and they came down to two suspects and one of them actually ended up being ruled out because they did a DNA test of a close relative and he figured out it was not him so this left one suspect Joseph James D'Angelo so the next step was to track down Joseph D'Angelo and get his DNA to confirm that he actually was the Golden State killer so they watched him for days waiting for him to throw something out and they ended up being able to swipe his door handle for his DNA from his hand and then they also were able to take a tissue that he a freshly like blown his nose or something and throw it in his trash can outside of his house they grabbed it literally out of his trash tested it and guess what it matched the exact DNA that was at the crime scene I actually really want to get your opinions on this do you guys think that this is ethical because there is so much controversy over them pulling his DNA out of JED match and taking out of his trash is this a major invasion of privacy should they be allowed to do this there's been so much debate over this that I'm really curious what you guys think has me personally I think that you know you really shouldn't have much privacy when you have committed all of these crimes so on April 24th 2018 they arrested Joseph D'Angelo and he was charged with eight counts of first degree murder then on may 10th the Santa Barbara District Attorney actually charged him with four more accounts of murder and unfortunately there was actually no DNA to tie him to the Visalia ransack er case all of the burglaries but police said that they are pretty confident that they have their guy they unfortunately can't charge him with any of the rapes or burglaries because the statue of limitations has expired which this type of stuff annoys me so [ __ ] much but law enforcement is still definitely coming on him as hard as possible he's been charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping it's estimated that he committed at least 50 rapes in California and over a hundred burglaries Joseph was arraigned in Sacramento on August 23rd 2018 and he had been living a very normal life so let's look at his past for a little bit so Joseph was actually born in New York and moved to California when he was young in 1964 he joined the US Navy and he actually served for two years during Vietnam after he got out of the Navy he went to Sierra College and graduated with an associate's degree in police science he was known as a really smart and good student and he actually ended up graduating with honors in 1971 he attended Sacramento State University and earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from May 1973 to August 1976 he actually was a burglary unit police officer which is insane so they were right that he had experience in military and police he was also a police officer in Auburn County California from August 1976 to July of 1979 but his career in law enforcement actually came to an end in 1979 because he got caught stealing a hammer and some dog repellent from his police station instead of you know trying to prove himself innocent he just admitted to it and was like okay I'll quit and that was it he was done with the police he probably didn't want them probing into him more and saying you know why are you taking these things not only was he fired from his job at the time but he was also sentenced to six months of probation around this time in 1980 he actually got married he married a woman named Sharon Murray huddled and they ended up purchasing a house in Citrus Heights California where he eventually was rested he and his wife ended up separating in 1991 actually and he actually worked for most of his life as a truck mechanic at save Mart supermarkets distribution center and he ended up retiring in 2017 only to be arrested a year later and one really interesting thing is his brother-in-law actually said that he would often bring up the East Area rapist over the years he would just like bring it up you know trying to figure out who it was and everything so he was totally into the fact that everyone was trying to figure it out and they had a name for him and everything I mean he thought he was like the bad Batman when they caught him he was living with his daughter and his granddaughter and he was living a really normal life although he did have some sketchy moments with people he was kind of known as a grumpy old man for sure he was a regular at this restaurant where they called him mr. happy and he totally creeped on one of the waitresses there multiple neighbors said that they witnessed him having like loud outbursts outside just yelling at nothing and one neighbor actually received a phone message that said that was from Joseph saying that he would deliver a load of death onto them because of their barking dogs he wasn't too neighborly so as of now the Golden State killer is in jail awaiting his trial it's going to be a long trial they are estimating it could last up to even 10 years so he may not even live to see the end of his trial not only that but it could cost taxpayers 20 million dollars to try him it's unreal on April 10th prosecutors said that they are going to be seeking the death penalty which was pretty much a given and they are going to allow cameras in the courtrooms during this so you can actually follow the trial and watch it live if you've always wanted to do that in an April 2018 HBO actually purchased rights to the book the I'll be gone in the dark book and they are going to be making a documentary series out of the whole thing eventually honestly this was a very skimmed over version of this story there's so much more detail so if you were interested in this story it's very long and there's so many more details that are really interesting I really recommend checking out those two books that I mentioned the link for your free audible trial is in the description below check it out listen to the books they are awesome and you know if you guys would like to see more serial killer content on my channel but that's it for me today guys I hope you're having a great day stay safe out there and I will talk to you next time [Music]

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Length: 26min 43sec (1603 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019