Post by elir on Jul 2, 2020 2:41:14 GMT
Here is a link from reddit of the transcript from the first two hours of the hearing. More may be forth coming.
The member of the subreddit, Airplant, should be commended for taking this on.
This is from Prosecutor Ho's opening statement, excuse the length, but it is, in my opinion, a very good summary :
The scope of Joseph DeAngelo’s crimes spree is simply staggering. Encompassing 13 known murders and almost 50 rapes between 1975 and 1986. His monikers reflect the sweeping geographical impact of his crimes. The Visalia Ransacker, The East Area Rapist, The Original Night Stalker, and the Golden State Killer. Each time he escaped, slipping away silently into the night, leaving communities terrified for years.
For over 40 years the biggest question remained unanswered: who was this serial killer and rapist?
Detectives from counties throughout the state poured endless resources into answering that one question. Even after retiring detectives continue to investigate the case that haunted them. Generations of law enforcement never gave up and neither did the prosecutors from those counties.
In June of 2016 the Sacramento Sheriff’s department partnered with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and offered a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the location of this person. This announcement came at a press conference held 40 years after the first known rape in Sacramento. After that press conference Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert convened a meeting of all involved counties including the elected District Attorneys asking each to dedicate more resources to answer that question. Those DAs offices responded — Ventura, Orange, Santa Barbara, Tulare, Alameda, Contra Costa, Stanislaw, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, and Sacramento answered the call.
In the Fall of 2017 Contra Costa Assistant Chief Investigator Paul Holes asked District Attorney Schubert to assist in using a new DNA tool: investigative genetic genealogy - IGG. It possibly developed a lead in the case. Investigator Holes collaborated with the Ventura county District Attorneys office which had located an unopened sexual assault kit collected from the homicides of Lyman and Charlene Smith, in which Charlene was sexually assaulted.
In January of 2018 semen from the vaginal sample in Charlene’s kit was used to develop a specialized DNA profile intended for investigative generic genealogy. The DNA profile can be uploaded to a publicly available genetic genealogy database for a list of names of potential relatives of the killer. No DNA and no other genetic information from these potential relatives was shared with law enforcement.
A working group consisted of Paul Holes, Steve Kramer - Division Counsel for the LA field office of the FBI, Genealogist Barbara Rae Venter, and Sacramento District Attorney’s Office LT. Kurt Campbell, and investigative assistant Monica Durkowski (?) began the laborious process of building a family tree.
On March 18th 2018 Sacramento DA Investigative Assistant Durkowski(?) notified the team, “we just found another guy”. And the answer to that one question that has gone un-answered for over 40 years revealed itself.
This investigation uncovered the following about Joseph DeAngelo:
He grew up in Rancho Cordova.
He served in the military.
He was engaged to woman named Bonnie, a name uttered during an EAR sexual assault in Yolo county.
He was employed as a police officer near Visalia during the ransacking series.
He left Tulare county after the officer McGowen shooting, and then he worked as an Auburn police officer during the same time period as the East Area Rapist series, but was fired for shoplifting dog repellent.
DeAngelo then moves to Southern California before returning to Sacramento.
The Sacramento Sheriff’s department began following Joseph DeAngelo. On April 23rd 2018, using an empty garbage truck, detectives collected trash discarded by Joseph DeAngelo from the garbage can which was placed on the public street for collection. The Sacramento county DA crime lab tested a tissue found in that trash and developed a profile that matched not only the defendant, but also matched the DNA profile of the perpetrator in 3 Contra Costa rapes, and 8 murders in Southern California.
On April the 24th 2018 Joseph DeAngelo was arrested while standing on the driveway of his residence in Citrus Heights.
Detectives interviewed the defendant after his arrest, confronting him with he sexual assaults in the rapist series and the murder of Brian and Katie Maggiore. They mentioned the overwhelming DNA evidence against him regarding the murder of the Smiths in Ventura and Cheri Domingo and Greg Sanchez in Santa Barbara.
Just a few hours before the interview, detectives observed DeAngelo vigorously working on his yard — jumping in and out of his truck and lifting heavy objects. Just the week before he was seen racing his motorcycle on the freeway at high rates of speed, weaving in and out of traffic and performing sophisticated counter surveillance maneuvers. Now, sitting in the interview room he feigned feeble incoherence.
It wasn’t the first time he did so.
When store security detained DeAngelo in 1979 for shoplifting dog repellent and a hammer he pretended to suffer a heart attack and then fought with them to the point where they had to tie him down to a chair. When the deputies arrived he rolled around in his chair talking in circles and screaming incoherently. Later that day DeAngelo admitted to the deputies that he just pretended to act crazy to avoid getting in trouble.
A short while later while sitting alone in the interview room on April 24th 2018, Joseph DeAngelo began to talk to himself. And among other things, said “I did all that. I didn't;’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. I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life. I did all those things. I’ve destroyed all their lives. So now I gotta pay the price.”
So today, 45 years after it first started, both the people and the defendant are prepared to proceed to a resolution in these cases.
