DeAngelo was arrested in 1996 (unrelated), then released

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www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article227901874.html

Authorities arrested Joseph James DeAngelo last April as the Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist suspect, and they said the former police officer had never before been on their radar as a suspect.

But DeAngelo had been arrested 22 years earlier and held in the Sacramento County Jail for three and a half hours on unrelated charges before being released and sent on his way, The Sacramento Bee has learned.

DeAngelo, who was 50 at the time, was arrested in a sting operation on April 16, 1996, that targeted individuals with outstanding warrants and notified them that they had won free Super Bowl tickets they could pick up at an office in Sacramento. DeAngelo was one of the suspects who responded, and ended up jailed on allegations he had held up a gas station.

At the time, officials say, they would have had no way of knowing that one of the nation’s most sought-after criminal suspects was in their grasp. No DNA samples were routinely taken during bookings back then, and there was nothing out of the ordinary about the arrest, a Sacramento sheriff’s spokesman said.

“We had no way of knowing at the time who we actually had in our jail because the evidence wasn’t there, the technology wasn’t there,” Sgt. Shaun Hampton said Friday. “I don’t think there’s any way we could have known, there was no way for us to identify this person by him simply being in our jail for a few hours.”

DeAngelo, now 73 and being held without bail in the same jail downtown, faces 13 murder counts and 13 counts related to sexual assaults that authorities say were committed by a serial murderer and rapist who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s before dropping from sight.

He was arrested outside his Citrus Heights home last April after Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s office tied decades-old DNA samples from the crime scenes to DeAngelo, a former Auburn police officer, Navy veteran and truck mechanic.

At the time, DeAngelo’s only known brush with the law came in 1979, when he was fired from his job with the Auburn Police Department after he was charged with shoplifting a hammer and a can of dog repellent from a Citrus Heights drug store.

But newly unearthed court records from Placer County Superior Court and an interview with DeAngelo’s attorney at the time detail the nearly comical series of events that led to his 1996 arrest.

The court records, originally sought by The Bee on April 30 following DeAngelo’s arrest, were recently located and provided Friday.

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[Agent99 aka Sandia]

Wow, suddenterror, Thanks! This case just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

So busted in a sting operation for outstanding warrants and told he won super bowl tickets!

Also his story doesn't make sense. How does he pay too much for gas yet the clerk calls the cops and reports him for robbery of a gas station. It doesn't make sense that this happened because the clerk didn't speak English. Something isn't right with his story and I don't think he won the million dollar law suit against the gas station, right?

[Red909XMZ1]

I am with you, Sandia. This case does keep getting weirder and weirder. Life truly is stranger than fiction.

I speculate that JJD was extremely belligerent to the unsuspecting gas station operator, who did not speak English.

I can totally understand, knowing JJD's rageful personality, how Guzman could easily misinterpret that JJD was attempting to rob him.

The gas pump had initially failed to operate properly, and JJD had requested a refund. Guzman could not understand him because he did not speak English. After JJD went back to the pump and finished filling up his pre-paid amount into his vehicle, Guzman contacted the police.

I bet this was the last time JJD spewed his bilious rage upon an unsuspecting gas station operator who did not speak English.

[sammyt]

I think that throughout his life, JJD stole whenever he thought he could get away with it.

Shops, stores, restaurants, gas stations... if the opportunity is there, then some people cannot resist.

The shoplifting arrest, the gas station arrest, and the house full of stolen property all suggest a guy who stole anything that wasn't bolted down.

JJD was probably outrunning candy store and comic book owners twenty years before he was outrunning the cops as EAR.

[Red909XMZ1]

You are correct, Sandia. He did not win the million dollar lawsuit - thank God!

The court case was eventually dismissed, and there was a settlement in arbitration where both parties agreed to an amount of less than $5,000 for JJD. Ha!

Another failing in life for this low-life scumbag!

[goldrusher]

Mar 17, 2019 16:07:50 GMT sammyt said:

JJD was probably outrunning candy store and comic book owners twenty years before he was outrunning the cops as EAR.

I'm sure he was, sammyt. 

[Agent99 aka Sandia]

Mar 17, 2019 16:07:50 GMT sammyt said:

I think that throughout his life, JJD stole whenever he thought he could get away with it.

Shops, stores, restaurants, gas stations... if the opportunity is there, then some people cannot resist.

The shoplifting arrest, the gas station arrest, and the house full of stolen property all suggest a guy who stole anything that wasn't bolted down.

JJD was probably outrunning candy store and comic book owners twenty years before he was outrunning the cops as EAR.

Sammyt, I was thinking more about this incident, exactly as you were, the road rage incident, this gas station incident, the shop lifting incident where he lost his job....these things made me think as you do that somehow he never stopped some activities, such as stealing.  I recall hearing a neighbor that didn't get along with him coming out of his house and finding JJD in his driveway by his open garage door and JJD just quickly peddled away.  I had forgotten about how they found his house full of stolen property, this really indicates he never stopped stealing and pilfering now the question is did he ever really stop raping and murdering? 

One more thought.  We know he yells at people, I can only imagine what he hurled upon the poor gas station clerk.  I wonder if the pump shorted him a couple of cents and after complaining & getting no satisfaction,  if he grabbed a candy bar or some item without paying for it.   

[muggd]

I actually remember hearing about this on the news.

[zebra]

Mar 17, 2019 5:18:07 GMT Agent99 aka Sandia said:

Wow, suddenterror, Thanks! This case just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

So busted in a sting operation for outstanding warrants and told he won super bowl tickets!

Also his story doesn't make sense. How does he pay too much for gas yet the clerk calls the cops and reports him for robbery of a gas station. It doesn't make sense that this happened because the clerk didn't speak English. Something isn't right with his story and I don't think he won the million dollar law suit against the gas station, right?

If I understand the article correctly, JJD alleged that he pre-paid at the pump, which then malfunctioned before he got all the gas he paid for, so he went into the station to demand a refund, which the clerk refused. He then became angry (which sounds exactly consistent with JJD) and yelled at the clerk who interpreted the outburst as a threat and an unjustified demand for money and then called police.

I'm not surprised he didn't win a million dollars for this claim, but it appears that he got a small settlement.

The whole thing reinforces what a lot of people have said about his gruff demeanor and anger management issues, but I'm not surprised that nothing ever really came of it.   

    

[Agent99 aka Sandia]

Mar 17, 2019 16:23:19 GMT Red909XMZ1 said:

You are correct, Sandia. He did not win the million dollar lawsuit - thank God!

The court case was eventually dismissed, and there was a settlement in arbitration where both parties agreed to an amount of less than $5,000 for JJD. Ha!

Another failing in life for this low-life scumbag!

Thank you red, for the additional info.  I'm upset he got anything.  People settle lawsuits when they shouldn't because their lawyer tells them to.  The cost of going to court, lawyers and of course the chance of losing.  But practical to settle or not, it really grates on my sense of justice.  That scumbag (such an appropriate term for the low life, another appropriate term, LOL) invaded people's homes, raped, murdered, stole and then has the nerve to sue the gas station?  I can hardly stand it.  I'd seriously like to see him beaten to a pulp, not killed, that would be too good for him, just beaten to within an inch of his life and then thrown on his cell floor to think about it for the rest of his rotten life.  (I apparently have a violent streak.)

[eggirl]

When I heard this story a couple days ago, I couldn't believe that DeAngelo would risk filing a law suit with the horrendous crimes in his own background. Just like fighting his shoplifting case, it's not what the average person with a LOT to hide would do. But JJD seems to have a very compartmentalized brain--with his horrible crimes in a part that doesn't matter when he thinks he has been wronged in the SLIGHTEST way. Again it also shows a confidence that law enforcement would never identify him as EAR/GSK. --Sacramento Survivor

[arlington]

Unlikely someone would be giving Super Bowl tickets away in April 🏈

[kg]

Mar 17, 2019 21:42:21 GMT arlington said:

Unlikely someone would be giving Super Bowl tickets away in April 🏈

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That just makes the whole story that much more special! As Willick would say, ‘he lacked common sense’.

[Agent99 aka Sandia]

Mar 17, 2019 18:57:31 GMT eggirl said:

When I heard this story a couple days ago, I couldn't believe that DeAngelo would risk filing a law suit with the horrendous crimes in his own background. Just like fighting his shoplifting case, it's not what the average person with a LOT to hide would do. But JJD seems to have a very compartmentalized brain--with his horrible crimes in a part that doesn't matter when he thinks he has been wronged in the SLIGHTEST way. Again it also shows a confidence that law enforcement would never identify him as EAR/GSK. --Sacramento Survivor

It is hard to believe he would not be very careful to stay out of trouble, but this guy is not normal.  One big thing I find absolutely incredible is that he actually told his psychologist during the time after he was fired from the Auburn PD that he planned to kill the chief.  The psychologist told the chief and sure enough, the chief's daughter told him someone was at her window with a flashlight and the chief discovered shoe prints outside her window and all around his house.  I guess the story is that he didn't go through with it because he didn't know which was the chief's bedroom -- that makes no sense! I'm thinking he didn't go through with it because he knew he woke up the little girl that alerted her father.  Anyway, he told he was planning on killing the chief!  Absolutely incredible.


I just think all of this gives a good idea that this guy did not stop his crimes.  But to what extent.  Did he stop raping and murdering? but still peep, prowl and steal? or did he just change his MO, to say......kidnapping? 


I'm getting off the track but now that I mentioned kidnapping I'll go ahead and mention the case of Linda Sue Kuykendall of Carmichael, age 15, and Christine Riley of Rancho Cordova, age 16, and found in a secluded ravine 1 mi. north of community of Latrobe,  12-4-77. The girls had been staying at Riley’s residence at 10411 Ambassador Drive and were thought to possibly be hitchhiking to Carmichael. (DeAngelo’s sister lived 3 blocks from Christine on Ambassador in the early 70’s and 3 blocks further was an EAR attack, March 29, 1978, on Ambassador near Rossmoor Bar.

So in the case of Linda Sue and Christine, there was no tell tale MO, no home invasion, no reports of what he said, no eating in the kitchen, no dish trick, and only their skeletonized remains were found so no DNA.  It appears they were bludgeoned with a rock.  So just the location, the year and bludgeoning could possibly point to DeAngelo.  Was this him?  Are there others like this?  The hitchhikers  Paige Sinclair and Kimberly Best last seen alive 10/4/77 in Auburn later found murdered, neither sexually assaulted but one was shot and the other bludgeoned?

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