Latest / When Killers Get Caught with Brittany Ransom / Joseph James DeAngelo Part I: The Man and the Mayhem
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- 0:30Hey everybody. It's your killer country.
- 0:31My name is Brittany. Ransom.
- 0:33Hey, my name is Brian Twitter and this is when Killers get
- 0:36caught, a podcast of Otis deep dives into the Killer's.
- 0:38We love to learn about each week bride.
- 0:40And I discussed to True Crime Story that resonated with us and
- 0:43then I'll lead you down the dark path of learning about who a
- 0:45killer was how they grew up, how they killed and importantly, how
- 0:49they got caught. And when Brian ends our podcast
- 0:52with a touch of the Paranormal, a story about Cryptids or even
- 0:55the creepier side of life. Just want to say, thank you so
- 0:58much for listening to us. Normally, I'd say every week,
- 1:01but in general, thanks so much for listening while we've been
- 1:03gone. If you've been watching our Tech
- 1:05talk or any other time, you know, that I had a little bit of
- 1:07a people in my life and I need a couple weeks off, but now I'm in
- 1:10my new apartment and it's super awesome.
- 1:12I have a dedicated recording space and I'm very excited to be
- 1:15back creating for you on here and tick-tock, Anyway, I'm just
- 1:21and also a lot of work. Well, I mean, we do it together
- 1:25so I do want to make it always hang on you but Yeah, but if you
- 1:31do happen to hear any Echo, I am waiting on some soundproofing,
- 1:33so sorry about that y'all. But this is for all the people
- 1:36on Tick, Tock, who have been asking me for weeks, when's the
- 1:39next episode it's now. Now, this is listen.
- 1:46Now this week on True Crime I have an interesting story so
- 1:51this is the mystery of a mother who went to the ER and she
- 1:53vanished 32 years ago. Her name was Myrtle Brown and
- 1:58she went to the hospital in Brooklyn in 1998, was May and
- 2:02then her family never heard from her again.
- 2:08Interesting, interesting, so wait, so the ER, she just
- 2:12disappeared from, right? They like know what?
- 2:14Her family never heard from her ever again.
- 2:16So so weird to bring up Ebony Brown, who's her daughter
- 2:20because she was 13 years old, when her mom went missing.
- 2:23And so that may Myrtle Brown was in New York visiting her, best
- 2:29friend and her purse was stolen her purse.
- 2:32Had her epilepsy medication and all of her identification and
- 2:36she ended up telling her family. Like I don't feel Well, I'm
- 2:38going to go to the hospital, so they can give me epilepsy meds,
- 2:41and so I can get back home. So, she ended up going the Kings
- 2:44County Hospital in. Brooklyn to get a refill.
- 2:48Her daughter said that she went by herself and I was the last
- 2:51time they heard from her and four weeks like her grandparents
- 2:54and other family members went to all the local police in
- 2:56Brooklyn. They went to all of the
- 2:58hospitals in the area and never got any answer.
- 3:03Ebony her daughter said that she were as she wondered if maybe,
- 3:07you know, like her Mom just wanted a different path in life.
- 3:09You know, sometimes people do that especially back then when
- 3:13she said she's really confused and sad.
- 3:15But then 32 years later in April of this year Myrtle's brother,
- 3:20Robert Brown was watching, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
- 3:24and it aired a profile of the cold-case squad at New York
- 3:28City. It was the the it's run by the
- 3:31New York City office of chief medical examiner.
- 3:34That person is dr. Angela solar.
- 3:38And they had opened up something like 1250 unidentified persons
- 3:47cases, and most of them were from the 90s.
- 3:51Now in this report that Robert Brown was watching, he saw a
- 3:55picture of a facial reconstruction like it was a
- 3:59full statue like a clay model and he was like that could be my
- 4:05sister. Is that my sister and so he and
- 4:09his wife called the medical examiner's office and solar and
- 4:13her team are like we'll look into it and so they take out the
- 4:16record reconstruction and they're like, okay, this
- 4:19absolutely would be a middle-aged black woman.
- 4:22And it did match for all of the things, the family were telling
- 4:25her, you know, her age when she might have disappeared or died
- 4:29May of 1990. And for two months solar
- 4:34reviews, all of these records they're called unverified
- 4:38unknowns or missing. People with potential with a
- 4:41potential name that has not been verified or confirmed.
- 4:45She started her search on May 1st 1990 until she found who she
- 4:48thought was Myrtle Brown on May 17.
- 4:51T, but it turns out that that reconstruction wasn't Myrtle.
- 4:57essentially, the contextual information matched, she passed
- 5:01away in Brooklyn which matches with the family said, And so
- 5:07pretty much the brown family's like, oh, well, thanks for
- 5:10trying and but then they get a call from solar a couple more
- 5:14weeks later. And she's like, no, we found
- 5:17your sister. And and he's just like, she's
- 5:20like, I think we found your sister.
- 5:23The daughter was on the call and that even though that pick that
- 5:27statue wasn't there, their mom, they did still find her mom in
- 5:32the records. Okay, so yeah, they ended up
- 5:35sending a photograph of her deceased and it was a very, a
- 5:39perfect match. One of they would have taken at
- 5:41the morgue since she was unidentified Myrtle, so murder
- 5:49was 35. She didn't even get registered
- 5:52or admitted to Kings County Hospital the most.
- 5:55She hasn't been able to do before she had a seizure was
- 5:58walk up to the counter. Give them her name and date of
- 6:02birth and then she died in the like, emergency waiting room.
- 6:09Yeah. They were able to hold a virtual
- 6:12memorial for her because the families like not all the same
- 6:15place now, but All that solar says she hopes from this
- 6:21experience in the fact that they're talking about it now is
- 6:24that this will encourage other people to come forward because
- 6:27they are trying to do the work to find a lot of the missing
- 6:31people. And I'm just saying these are
- 6:32just the missing cases in Brooklyn.
- 6:36Those 1,200, I'm sure that there's literally, every
- 6:39Precinct has their own giant list in New York.
- 6:43It's a massive massive state, but you know, but solar said,
- 6:48Didn't end up being that individual with a recreation,
- 6:50was based off of this did help us resolve a case and it did
- 6:53make a difference and that's the point to get people to stop and
- 6:56think for a moment and follow through and give us a phone
- 6:58call. So in the end, it did have a
- 7:01good ending. There you go.
- 7:04There you go. You can so you Sounder who
- 7:06technical your technology. Yeah, if it's really copies, got
- 7:10to have the people to do the work because there's just so
- 7:12many cold cases across the entire country and that's a lot
- 7:17of money. And They got to get the funding
- 7:19and people have to find Value in it.
- 7:21So the more that they publicize, these cases of them actually
- 7:24closing them, I think they can get more funds and, and show
- 7:27that it is worth it to devote money too close to these cases
- 7:31and giving people some level of cousre.
- 7:36So what do you got for me? Brian.
- 7:38Okay, so remember that. God goodness gracious.
- 7:45What has happened? I don't know.
- 7:47We talked about A little bit of Courtney clanny.
- 7:51You remember her? Not by your name?
- 7:53What's up? Do you remember?
- 7:55Okay, well, she goes by and us her name is Courtney cause
- 7:59Courtney Taylor. She's a oh the only fans lady
- 8:04who killed the guy in Miami. There you go.
- 8:08Yeah yeah I don't know her name but I know her face.
- 8:11I have the picture of her sitting on her Little like the
- 8:16sitting outside of her apartment covered in blood and handcuffed
- 8:19on the floor and the dogs are around her.
- 8:22Yeah, I have that picture on my phone.
- 8:25Okay, so she is, there's no court hearing going on because
- 8:31she's been, you know, she's accused of murdering her
- 8:34boyfriend. Of course, she's being charged
- 8:36with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon and, you know,
- 8:40because as we should, I heard something I saw something about,
- 8:43like they had, she was trying to get these tapes that they had
- 8:48pulled from the apartment complex.
- 8:50Her lawyer was trying to get them.
- 8:53Cool. Some evidence.
- 8:54Hold firm evidence. Because it didn't happen that
- 8:56day and they're like, it doesn't matter if it happened that day.
- 8:59But I'm like, bro. It's a picture of her, picking a
- 9:01fight, and then, like, jumping on him, like the clips that they
- 9:04released of it. I'm like, she was real violent.
- 9:07Yeah, um. So there is something.
- 9:12Okay, so there's a lot of if they're more, is it worse?
- 9:16There's a ton of evidence like it just showing how abusive she
- 9:22was in this relationship. I mean that's what the friend
- 9:24said like her friends were like, I've never seen him do anything.
- 9:29I've only ever seen her. Do ya, do ya?
- 9:33Crazy shit, but no. Okay.
- 9:35So you're so, this is Corey, right?
- 9:37And guess the prosecutor. He's trying to get into evidence
- 9:41a? I guess I think it was through
- 9:43talking about some videotape. Yeah, it's a hallway outside.
- 9:47Their apartment is like I said, yeah.
- 9:54Teams fighting real hard because that's evidence that she's
- 9:56abusive. Yeah, it's like is this happened
- 10:00two months before his death? But it's like it shows a pattern
- 10:04like exactly. Like, yeah, this is what she
- 10:08does when she did this is actually pretty sure.
- 10:10Yeah, exactly. And it's funny because it says
- 10:15that not only do they have about 12,000 text messages between her
- 10:22and her kind of see Beyonce but they also have her only fans
- 10:30videos and photos are audio content from the social media
- 10:34Pages stuff like that is that shows that, you know, that's
- 10:39been recorded and that's how she acts.
- 10:41And that's the type of person that she is.
- 10:44And the, I guess the judge he's worried, is that so much
- 10:51evidence against this one person?
- 10:53Would make the process of getting a jury a lot harder
- 10:59because it's, it's gonna make the trial outlandish tyumen.
- 11:03One of the cases we cover didn't, I think it was.
- 11:07What's his name? The Dating Game Killer like
- 11:09Alcala their react hundreds upon hundreds, upon hundreds of pages
- 11:13of evidence. It's a lot and it's a lot to
- 11:17make a jury sit through. Yeah, I like, I get that but I'm
- 11:22like what? There's so much evidence that
- 11:25they have couldn't make it so much harder, it's it's a concept
- 11:31that's so weird to me because they got to go.
- 11:35Do you at all? That's the same.
- 11:36Yeah yeah I think there's a quote from her attorney.
- 11:40It's a says to vigorously defend my client.
- 11:44I'm not going to stand back and let her be a punching bag for
- 11:48the media. This case needs to be tried in
- 11:51this courtroom with Texans of a fair and impartial trial. and
- 11:58just like I like, okay I get they have a right to a fair and
- 12:03impartial trial but Known as evidence is stacked against, you
- 12:08know, it's just like, well, I will say this, I don't know if
- 12:11her only fans is really necessary right for her.
- 12:16Like, because I think that's just going to try and paint her
- 12:18in a negative way because she's a sex worker.
- 12:20Yeah. That's probably.
- 12:21That's what they did for. What's her freaking face Casey
- 12:25Anthony? Yeah, I don't really think we
- 12:27need that. But the absolutely the evidence
- 12:29of her in public in the building where they lived attacking him,
- 12:34not to mention that apparently you can hear.
- 12:36Saying in the background of the 911 call when she called it.
- 12:40Like he's still alive and he's like, I think I'm dying.
- 12:43So yes he it's it's sad. Yeah well we'll see what happens
- 12:54with that case. Hopefully you know hopefully we
- 12:58hear more about it and you know, it's there's a nice conclusion
- 13:03to this that everybody can agree on except for her.
- 13:07She hasn't got a nice conclusion.
- 13:08Yeah, exactly. That's why I got.
- 13:15All right. So I think Brian that most of us
- 13:19grew up hearing that cops were our friends.
- 13:23Would you would you say that's fair?
- 13:25Oh really? When you were little we're
- 13:28talking about little they I would say even some people refer
- 13:31to it as cop agam de many young children, very much love police
- 13:36officers. Okay.
- 13:38Yeah, and I guess yeah. So the media and American
- 13:43society, if you police officers with a certain level of
- 13:45reverence reserved for very few other entities, in our culture.
- 13:49I mean, I've seen people look a doctor in the face and be like,
- 13:51I know more than you. But definitely, there have been
- 13:57little cracks, like the glowing disdain for police brutality
- 13:59across the United States, the lack of action in The Case of
- 14:02the, you all be Massacre three months ago, but I think for me,
- 14:09probably the first thing that began destroy my belief and
- 14:11police was when I learned how many of them were Killers.
- 14:15Because remember, I started learning about True Crime when I
- 14:17was about 12 years old, and this isn't a uniquely American thing.
- 14:20Germany had normally pulk try. Had Zhang kg we covered the
- 14:26beasts of the Ukraine and episode 14, Mikhail popkov.
- 14:29And today we're going to be talking about one of the worst
- 14:31in the US History. Joseph, James DeAngelo, a serial
- 14:35rapist, killer burglar and police officer in California.
- 14:42He started robbing, and raping people in 1974.
- 14:45And I first knew about him on message boards, as EA are ons
- 14:52the East area, rapist, original Night Stalker, His others call
- 14:59them the pazzaglia ransack. ER but most of our followers
- 15:02know him as the Golden State killer, which is the name that
- 15:05stuck when the FBI reopened the investigation into finding him
- 15:09in 2016, he get caught in 2018 and finally Fleet guilty on June
- 15:1329th 2020. Yes, he was in court during
- 15:19quarantine my covid. Wait, what?
- 15:21Really? Yes.
- 15:23Oh, yeah. And and he, shucked and jived,
- 15:28but we're not going to talk about that yet.
- 15:29That'll be next week because I had to break this into two parts
- 15:32because this is, he's another one of these ones.
- 15:34Like Gary Ridgway who really lived and actual double life And
- 15:40so this week we're going to talk about mainly his upbringing, the
- 15:45the crimes and and his family life.
- 15:48And then next week, we will talk will go into much more detail
- 15:50because the task forks and things just like with Gary
- 15:54Ridgway these the people who are searching for him, searched for
- 15:58him for a very long time and some people never gave up.
- 16:03But before we get to how they caught him, let's start with
- 16:07where we always start the beginning.
- 16:09Joseph James, D'Angelo jr. Was born on November 8th 1945
- 16:13and Bath. New York to his mother Kathleen,
- 16:15Louise de Grote and Joseph D'Angelo singer, who was from
- 16:19Watkins, Glen New York, and Kathleen was a waitress, when
- 16:22they met, they got married, November 20th 1941 in New York,
- 16:27he had three other siblings, backe, Connie and John Now
- 16:31Joseph CR was a well-respected Airmen and their articles that
- 16:34date back to like 1944, the star Gazette that showed that he flew
- 16:38and raids across Europe. He had been given seven
- 16:41different Metals, his dad but Joseph senior in Kathleen didn't
- 16:46really make it even a decade before they split.
- 16:49We don't have the exact dates but sometime after Joseph
- 16:52Juniors brother John was born in 1949 the couple split up now,
- 16:57there are some interesting accounts about Okay, we got to
- 17:05pause the dogs freaking out. So I came across a few accounts
- 17:12from Joe's family about our interesting incident that they
- 17:15say might have shaped him in a tragic way.
- 17:19So with Joseph senior being in the military active duty,
- 17:23apparently they spend some time in German military bases when he
- 17:26was young and they're his sister Connie was apparently sexually
- 17:30assaulted by two men Now, the details are fuzzy at best, but
- 17:35essentially Connie son, told the process in recent news and the
- 17:41way you described it as it was kind of like one of those
- 17:43horrible family, stories that people only whisper about that
- 17:46Joe and his sister were playing an abandoned warehouse.
- 17:49The attack happened in front of him and of course, this has
- 17:53been. The only person who's talked
- 17:54about this is Connie son and Plenty of psychiatrist have
- 17:59waited on the story and think that, you know, seeing something
- 18:02like this when he was so young, might have explained.
- 18:04Why he grew up to have like a preoccupation with both law
- 18:07enforcement and also turn into a rapist himself.
- 18:10Connie is no longer alive so we can't really confirm if this
- 18:12really happened but it's just a detail and we're not sure if
- 18:15it's true or not. But regardless of that other
- 18:18story, what we do know for sure is that after traveling with
- 18:22Dad, they did put down roots in Rancho Cordova and a small tract
- 18:27house. I had to look up.
- 18:28Tract house was but tract. Housing is a Housing
- 18:30Development, built in an area that's been subdivided into
- 18:33different Lots. When I looked at pictures of
- 18:35them, it reminded me of like those Suburban neighborhoods
- 18:37where all the houses, look, the same and their rows and rows and
- 18:40rows of them. Yeah, though, I guess the
- 18:44correct term for those are tract houses.
- 18:47The interesting thing though was that the D'Angelo family was so
- 18:51poor that they heard, they owned virtually nothing in their home.
- 18:54Even the kids beds were all rented from like a run, a center
- 18:58type place. And I think that's poignant
- 19:00because when Joseph senior went to Korea and then Florida and
- 19:04never came back. All of the house and the items
- 19:08in the things that the kids own had to be given back to the bank
- 19:11and the lenders. Now, Joe's mom, eventually meets
- 19:15a traveling welder, who had a wife and kids of his own and
- 19:17says Southern California, and his name was Jack, the Sanko.
- 19:20And he'd been in the Navy, I'm sure this illicit relationship,
- 19:24didn't contribute to his divorce from his first wife, but in 1965
- 19:29Kathleen and Jack got married. The marriage came much later
- 19:32after the relationship because Jack moved, the family to till
- 19:35are California and the 50s which did not make Teenage Joseph,
- 19:39very happy mainly because he was suddenly responsible for helping
- 19:42the kids in the family. Lee not just his brother and
- 19:45sister. But also Jack's kids too because
- 19:47he was the oldest kid. And this caused a huge Rift in
- 19:49the relationship with his mother and the two.
- 19:51Got into a lot of very big fights about it.
- 19:55During this time when he was at Mills Junior High School, he
- 19:58made friends with a girl named Judy about 1959.
- 20:01And he started hanging out with Judy and her brothers who he
- 20:03also do from school. He started calling Judy's,
- 20:06parents Mom and Dad spent as much time as he could with them,
- 20:10Judy had a huge family and her parents treated Joe.
- 20:13Stuff, like he was kid. Number 10.
- 20:16Now Rancho Cordova was very much, a town, not even halfway
- 20:20built up at this point, it actually wasn't fully
- 20:22Incorporated until July 1st 2003.
- 20:25So, pretty much Judy's brothers and Joseph just ripped and ran
- 20:30through all these abandoned Vineyards in the area, the town
- 20:34got big or I guess, big and quotation marks after World War
- 20:37Two Soldiers, came back from war and they got their War money and
- 20:40start building homes there. But they spent their time, you
- 20:43know, Finding frogs bugs jumping in the car.
- 20:45Mal's occasionally beating up people who mess with their
- 20:47friends and we're gonna see Joseph's first relationship.
- 20:52Let down happens in Rancho Cordova, he could have been very
- 20:57old but apparently his schtick was that he liked to steal Jan,
- 21:00and work on cars in his teens. And at some point during that
- 21:03time, he met one of Judy's friends and he kind of fixated
- 21:06on her a little bit and he took her to a cabin in the woods in
- 21:09the area to drink and like hang out which seems like a very team
- 21:14thing to do. And then he asked her to marry
- 21:16him. And she was like, I barely know
- 21:20you. No thanks.
- 21:25He exactly like your teenagers. So Joe's, only real sexual
- 21:29information came from Judy's mom who one time sat down all of the
- 21:33Suns and had a talk with the boys about, you know, the birds
- 21:36and the bees. Now, Joseph lack of experience
- 21:40with the girls and a tendency to go too far too fast.
- 21:44When courting leads to a lot of heartbreak and not many
- 21:47girlfriends, which is why he started peeping.
- 21:50During this time, he even looked in Judy's window one night and
- 21:55it scared the absolute crap out of her but she didn't recognize
- 21:58him because he had a hood up. we can we can mark this as a
- 22:02checkmark and showing a predilection for deviancy in his
- 22:05teen years since his capture and conviction friends and family,
- 22:10have told the press that while Joseph was in high school at
- 22:12them at Folsom High School, he did commit some small burglaries
- 22:16and he was also known to harm animals, another checkmark in
- 22:20the MacDonald Triad Now, his time at Folsom, High Schools,
- 22:24pretty short-lived. He started in 1961 and by 1964.
- 22:28He dropped out got his GED and he joined the Navy.
- 22:31Judy's older brother, had done the same thing like the year
- 22:34before and the two are best friends.
- 22:36So maybe he just wanted to be like his buddy.
- 22:40Not his time in the Navy was as good as any persons time to be
- 22:44when you finished basic and immediately gets shipped off to
- 22:47Vietnam. He was called it was a damage
- 22:51controlman second class and he served on both the USS kambera
- 22:54and the USS Piedmont and he finished his time in the Navy in
- 22:57good standing after a 22-month tour and went back to normal
- 23:00civilian life. He always like to tell people
- 23:03that he lost part of his finger in the war, but it was literally
- 23:07like a machine accident. Like it wasn't because like
- 23:10anybody caught him, but he liked to let people think that it was
- 23:13more important than it was. Now, at this point his
- 23:18stepfather Jack is working at Sierra Crane and hoist as a
- 23:21welder. Joseph decided he was like, I'm
- 23:24gonna go to college and a lot of young men after Vietnam did that
- 23:28my dad did that. I mean at that point the, the GI
- 23:32bill was actually said in people to college and paying for their
- 23:35way to live. So he starts at Sierra College
- 23:38in Rocklin, California in 1968 and he gets his.
- 23:41So to go get his associates degree and political in police
- 23:44science. Which is a degree.
- 23:48I didn't know existed. And after finishing that he'd
- 23:51end up going to Sacramento State University and he begins his
- 23:54studies. There in 1971.
- 23:56I'm gonna say the First Line in the Sand that show that Joseph
- 23:59is not, a good guy starts in college in this gap.
- 24:02Before he starts school at Sacramento State, he met and
- 24:05started dating a girl named Bonnie.
- 24:06Jean Caldwell and Bonnie's parents were a high school
- 24:09principal in a former teacher. So they expected a lot of
- 24:12academic Excellence from Bonnie, she had three siblings who were
- 24:15all class president. They want School, Bonnie was the
- 24:17class Treasurer. She was a really good pianist
- 24:20who volunteered once a week with Vietnam vets.
- 24:23And when she was in high school, boys, didn't really care a lot
- 24:26for her. So when she needs Joe at Sierra
- 24:29College, she's in experience for a little hopeful.
- 24:33Now, he's presenting himself as this hardened vet.
- 24:38Who lost his finger in the war, Mind you he was like a carpenter
- 24:42on these ships but he did not correct anyone when they
- 24:47showered him with praise for a vet for being a Vietnam.
- 24:51Vet. They're like you were in the
- 24:52jungle and he's like, yeah, totally.
- 24:57That's what I did. So bodies.
- 25:00Excellent students. Thank you for your service
- 25:02honors cheated people work as a lab assistant, that's actually
- 25:05how the who's, right? So Joseph study in this like,
- 25:09you know, Science police science and she's working in a lab in
- 25:14the lab with animals. They have no reason to be in the
- 25:17same building at all, but he's there.
- 25:21And they meet, she likes him, he's into her.
- 25:24The two were an odd pairing though.
- 25:27Bonnie was bookish. And Joseph wasn't so, Bonnie,
- 25:33actually spent a lot of their relationship tutoring him.
- 25:35In school Bonnie's friends were like, he's old because remember,
- 25:42she's like 18, all her friends are 18, 19 year old freshman,
- 25:47and he's easily for years older than them to try and make up.
- 25:51I said he didn't want to be like, the weird old guy.
- 25:53He was always, Ultra, nice, try to be very funny.
- 25:57People study, gave off a James Dean Vibe, he wore like faded
- 26:00jeans t-shirts suede boots on Bonnie's.
- 26:04Father, stand Caldwell learned about the two of them dating.
- 26:08He was not into it. He didn't like the Joseph was
- 26:11older, but Bonnie was on her independent tip and she was
- 26:14like, I can do what I want with my life.
- 26:16You're not gonna stop me from beating somebody.
- 26:20Now when Stan got to meet Joseph and he learned that he was a
- 26:25Vietnam vet, he was like, okay, maybe he's not that bad because
- 26:29Dan was a World War, Two vet now, Bonnie had four younger
- 26:33brothers, who really likes Joseph and he had a blue Road,
- 26:37Runner with a Hemi engine and so, they were always very
- 26:40interesting. He take the younger brothers on
- 26:42trips to a drive-in, he'd offered to fix things for the
- 26:46boy, since he was good at that kind of thing.
- 26:48And even if he like fixed it, and And work well and it like
- 26:52broke or exploded. They all thought it was
- 26:54hilarious. So, Now, they're in this
- 26:58relationship and Joseph starts wearing Bonnie's class ring on
- 27:01his pinky finger and in Public Heath up gentlemen, but in
- 27:06private Bonnie finds his desires for sex to be overwhelming.
- 27:11She would later tell Sacramento prosecutors that while he was
- 27:14persistent he never forced her and always waited for her to
- 27:18say, yes, which I still really grating because I don't like it.
- 27:32Yeah. Yeah exactly.
- 27:35But she did also tell them that sex with Joe was like, being
- 27:38like just stop bugging me about it.
- 27:40She go alone Every time they had sex, a detail that would Connect
- 27:49into some of his victims later in life, shortly, after they
- 27:52started having sex, Joseph gives bonding a judgment ring, no
- 27:56proposal or a man's just like, here you go.
- 27:58You're mine now. Their engagement, even ran the
- 28:01local paper Bonnie's. Not sure she wants to marry this
- 28:05guy. She's 18 years old, but she's
- 28:08like, if I get married that, I don't have to go back home to my
- 28:10dad, so she's like, Okay. The stone bothered her too
- 28:15because he said he found it in Vietnam.
- 28:17It was huge and he had put it in this strange setting.
- 28:21It wasn't like shave down or anything so that when Bonnie was
- 28:24trying to do her like medical work as a nurse or in nursing
- 28:27training, she'd have to turn the ring to the inside of her Palm.
- 28:33She never got the chance to even tell him what she wanted for a
- 28:36ring and the longer they dated, the more she realized that he
- 28:40was just, it was weird addicted to breaking the rules and doing
- 28:43things that were against the law or dangerous from Tate like
- 28:48hopping having when they were on, the hike is motorcycle.
- 28:51He would take these like paths that were scary, and she would
- 28:54be on the motorcycle with him. So he was scaring the crap out
- 28:57of her or like he was like, you should learn how to hunt, you
- 29:00know, protect yourself and stuff and so then he would take her
- 29:03too. Places where it was illegal to
- 29:04hunt and then he would always be trespassing.
- 29:08All right, he would spear fish and Folsom Lake which is also
- 29:11illegal. He would go hunting for Animals
- 29:13outside of hunting season. So so the spring of 1971,
- 29:20they're pretty much Junior disappoint.
- 29:23Joseph asks body to cross a line, that's too much for her.
- 29:27He's failing abnormal psychology and he needs this class to pass
- 29:31for the the criminal justice. He asks her to cheat and
- 29:35Bonnie's like no. He even tried to do it without
- 29:40her permission because I guess they were in the same class and
- 29:43she's just like, no, I'm not letting you cheat off of me.
- 29:46He is livid and this becomes a major issue in their
- 29:48relationship for Joseph. He's just like, you owe it to
- 29:51me. We're going to get married one
- 29:52day. Once I make it onto the
- 29:54California Highway Patrol, So the night things, explode,
- 29:59Bonnie's that our parents living room and she calls them.
- 30:03And she's like, we need to talk and she breaks it off with him
- 30:06and he's like, what I love, you were meant to be together were
- 30:08perfect together and Bonnie's just like, we're not a good fit.
- 30:11I've already decided, she gives him back.
- 30:13The engagement ring, Joe is losing his shit.
- 30:18He actually throws the ring into the backyard in front of the
- 30:20family and Bonnie, and her brothers ended up looking for,
- 30:23but they never found it. They weren't even sure he
- 30:26actually really through it. Now a couple nights later,
- 30:31Bonnie wakes up and there is a tap tap, tap on her window.
- 30:35She moves the curtain and there is Joseph holding a gun against
- 30:41the glass. It is right in line with her
- 30:43face and he looks at her and he goes get dressed.
- 30:46We're going to Reno Bonnie, turns and runs straight into our
- 30:56families bedroom, and she's just like Joe's outside.
- 30:58He has a gun. He wants me to go to Reno and
- 31:00Miriam right now. And her dad's like going to the
- 31:03bathroom, lock the door, I'll come get you when I'm done.
- 31:07And the dad goes out to go talk to Joseph.
- 31:09The cops, never get called and Bonnie believes.
- 31:12The reason her dad didn't call the cops is because it would
- 31:15have ruined his future and becoming a police officer.
- 31:18But about two hours later. That knocks on the bathroom door
- 31:22and sees, like Joseph's gone. He never told her.
- 31:26What happened over those two hours, the rest of the family
- 31:28didn't even know what happened. Bonnie, so freaked out.
- 31:33She's dropped out of school for the rest of the summer and
- 31:35changes her major to lab Sciences.
- 31:38She gets married to an account in 1972, and she sees Joe one
- 31:42more time before she graduate before he graduates in 1973.
- 31:47At this point though, Bonnie is nine months pregnant and they're
- 31:50at the mall and she pulls her husband to the side and like
- 31:53hides from him. Nobody goes on to get me.
- 31:57She has a good life. She doesn't know anything about
- 32:01Joe's life until 2018. When her ex-husband the account
- 32:07she married in 1972 called her in 2018.
- 32:10And he said, what's the name of that guy?
- 32:13You dated before me and Bonnie's like Joseph D'Angelo And her
- 32:21ex-husband's. Like he just got arrested for
- 32:23being a rapist. She wasn't even in the u.s. she
- 32:27was in Italy with friends of hers.
- 32:29And she was running a successful travel blog and reporters
- 32:33started. Just stalking her and it didn't
- 32:36stop. When she got back to the US,
- 32:38people actually took her travel blog and her Facebook page and
- 32:42turn them into a book before the trial, even came out and sold on
- 32:46Amazon. Right.
- 32:49What really really messed up Bonnie's was when she heard that
- 32:52the thirty seventh victim. Wait, her Joe say, I hate you,
- 32:57Bonnie. After he raped her.
- 33:05And uncomfortable personal connection to his crimes.
- 33:10What's even worse is that in the time between their breakup and
- 33:13just graduation 1973? The reports of break-ins in
- 33:16Rancho Cordova, begin to start. Absolutely.
- 33:18Now, this is different than more move most burglaries though.
- 33:24He would show up outside of people's windows with no pants
- 33:26on. He would break in, he wouldn't
- 33:30steal anything, but he would like molest the person while
- 33:33they were sleeping and then run away when she broke up.
- 33:36He's like, maybe he would still coin our rang.
- 33:40He hit a few houses every night and he was known to also kill
- 33:43family dogs. now, coincidentally, remember I said
- 33:48that she saw Joe in the mall that day The woman that she saw
- 33:54him with was future wife, Sharon Marie, huddle, and Joseph met
- 34:00Sharon after he, and Bonnie split, Sharon was 17 and Joseph
- 34:06was 26. She was a freshman at American
- 34:10River College in North Sacramento studying law.
- 34:13And as We Know Joe is still analysis.
- 34:15Actually, you don't know, but he's now transferred to a new
- 34:20college and he's studying criminology So the future lawyer
- 34:25and the future cop match made in heaven, right?
- 34:30Very quickly. Like they start they start
- 34:32eating right? As soon as the semester starts
- 34:341971 and he she's like coming. Yeah sure summer of 1971,
- 34:40Sharon's older, brother James Huddle's there with both of the
- 34:42parents James was 20 and even though he didn't live with the
- 34:47family anymore they would still like come over and have like
- 34:49family dinners. Now, Joseph is all smiles and
- 34:53full of stories about he was in the Navy for two years.
- 34:55He was in Vietnam, Sharon's brother.
- 34:59James was in the Navy room. Nerves.
- 35:01That creates some kind of camaraderie Joseph's.
- 35:05Like, I'm looking for a place to stay since I just, you know,
- 35:07started at this new school and James is like, well, I have a
- 35:12friend like I live in a place and we have like an empty room.
- 35:15My friend who owns the house. It's in Citrus Heights.
- 35:19You want to talk to him? So, Joseph moves in and that
- 35:24friendly setup. Last barely any time, literally
- 35:27the, the guy who owns the house kicks.
- 35:29Joseph out in like two months and so as Joseph is leaving,
- 35:33he's just like you're going to be next buddy.
- 35:35And he was a wrong because apparently a month after that,
- 35:40the guy kicked James out for smoking.
- 35:43So maybe that guy just did want people to really live in his
- 35:45house like once you like invite people to live with you and then
- 35:48you realize like how roommates are like, maybe you just don't
- 35:52People to live with you, but regardless Joseph gets a
- 35:54two-bedroom and he's like, you want to live with me?
- 35:59It was an ideal pairing, both of them through the military have
- 36:02been trained to live neatly but nobody in the Huddle family
- 36:07really knows much about Joseph. Definitely not what happened
- 36:11with Bonnie or that he had a pension for killing animals.
- 36:15But those two years between 1971 and 73 are great for Joseph he
- 36:19and Sharon are doing great Joseph and James become best
- 36:23buddies. They fly together.
- 36:25Go dirt bike, riding other thrill-seeking stuff.
- 36:28And then come the cat burglar reports.
- 36:32For most of my life, I assume that a cat burglar was just an
- 36:35old timey term for burglary. But actually what it means is a
- 36:42skilled burglar who gets in and out when people are there.
- 36:47No. I didn't so Cordova's, well
- 36:52Cordova's cat Burgers, active from 1970 to 1973 and it's over,
- 36:56it's over 30 homes. During the time, he was usually
- 36:59do it. When the family was sleeping in
- 37:01one door and out another, there were other cities to and and
- 37:06their moments when there are gaps.
- 37:09In Cordova the Pete, Police noticed that he also hit Citrus,
- 37:13Heights and other cities all cities.
- 37:15It seems like Joe has a connection to He mainly just
- 37:19deals purses wallets, you know money, but the thing with the
- 37:25touching the ladies happens again and sometimes showing up
- 37:30with just penis out. Sometimes like he just like
- 37:38break-in and be standing next to the bed like Paranormal
- 37:41Activity, just staring at people and then he would like grab a
- 37:45lady's boob and then when she wakes up it just runs away.
- 37:50Yeah. One of the catcher and when she
- 37:55woke up he told her and I just stole a dollar off of your
- 37:58trusty. She I think she was just kind of
- 38:00in a weird like State. She was like what it back.
- 38:03He put $2 back on the counter and then walk down the hallway.
- 38:09Stopped to look at the woman 17 year old daughter sleeping and
- 38:11then picked off some money up. now, the connection here,
- 38:18between the original burglar and this one in Cordova, the Cordova
- 38:23cat burglar, is that He's killing dogs.
- 38:33Of course, the weirdness with sometimes burglarizing with no
- 38:37pants on. That was also a very clear
- 38:39connection between the two and some of these homes get hit
- 38:44again when the East area rapist becomes active and what it seems
- 38:49like on most is that he's stealing things that are
- 38:52unimportant but they're trophies to him but the like normally
- 38:57they commit a crime and then they take a trophy to remember.
- 39:00It's almost like he's Bring them first.
- 39:04And then he comes back years later and rapes, the person it's
- 39:07possible but we're not there yet a couple more years.
- 39:12Now, James huddle mind, you he's living with Joseph now and he
- 39:15remembers a lot of strange moments.
- 39:18What when they were roommates before he is sister and Joseph.
- 39:21Get married Joseph's very competitive when it comes to
- 39:25virtually everything. Even cars dirt bike so James
- 39:29gets a nice car. Joseph buys one slightly better
- 39:33Joseph by the dirt bike. I'm sorry.
- 39:36James buys a dirt bike. Joseph is like I'm gonna get
- 39:38one. Slightly better. now, there's
- 39:42what James calls it, his book, the road rage incident, Is a
- 39:48moment I think in history that James looked back on as a
- 39:51warning sign that he never realized it happens just before
- 39:55Joseph's College graduation in 1972.
- 39:59The two of them are driving on Route 40 in Sacramento Joseph.
- 40:03Very aggressively Burks the car into a lane in front of another
- 40:06driver James gives the guy the finger.
- 40:08That's what you do when you're the passenger and then when the
- 40:11car behind them gets close and tries to pass Joseph, like Yanks
- 40:15it, front of them again, just to be a jerk.
- 40:18So then the two cars, pull into a McDonald's parking.
- 40:20Lot. Joseph hops out of the car,
- 40:22opens the trunk and the other two guys are walking over.
- 40:25Joseph pulls a 357 Magnum on the other two dudes.
- 40:28Like you got a problem with us. Of course, the two men run away
- 40:34immediately. And James looks at Joseph.
- 40:37It is like you can't do that. Not if you want to be a cop, but
- 40:43Joseph kind of shrugged it off. Yeah.
- 40:46First time he sees his friend and roommate do something,
- 40:49that's actually scary and James decides to keep it to himself in
- 40:54his book. He refers to this as a little
- 40:55red flag and he says, and I quote little red flags can add
- 41:00up Graduation comes Joseph is in a prime position to be a great
- 41:06asset to any Police Department because in the 70s, it was not
- 41:09common for police officers to have bachelor's degrees even now
- 41:12only about 30% of them have like bachelor's degrees.
- 41:15So it was even lower back that he was a perfect candidate.
- 41:19He had a degree former military training.
- 41:21In fact, he was probably over qualified for the job that he
- 41:24really wanted James continues to be his roommate.
- 41:28Sharon contains data. It's early 1973.
- 41:32Joseph and James go on a Hunting Expedition, and James spins, do
- 41:35realize that this hunting is, it means something extra to Joseph.
- 41:40There's a situation where they were supposed to be hunting
- 41:43jack, rabbits and like Joseph gives him a gun that's entirely
- 41:46overpowered and he urges James to make the kill.
- 41:50And when they go, look at the body of little Jackrabbit, it's
- 41:54completely destroyed. Just obliterated and Joseph
- 41:59excited. Like, look at how this look at
- 42:01it. so, you know, and James is like This isn't why I was We
- 42:10were supposed to eat that again. Yeah, another little red flag.
- 42:18Just make the stripping burglary start in Cordova Meadow, the cat
- 42:25burglar of Rancho Cordova almost perfectly.
- 42:29This burglar is not stealing high-ticket items, he stealing
- 42:32nude pictures of women women's earrings.
- 42:36Car magnets, one time. He dumped that a bottle of
- 42:39codeine pills and stole just the pill bottle, he was now the one
- 42:44big ticket item he did still was, he was still guns.
- 42:49But his Mo was breaking into the kitchen door, open up a back
- 42:51bedroom, put the window screen on the back.
- 42:53I'm plugged the furnace move all the women's underwear into
- 42:56different rooms in the house. Trash the kitchen a few times.
- 42:59He left burnt matches on the floor it was very clear to
- 43:02police. These aren't motivated by
- 43:04financial gain. Which means for this burger is
- 43:06getting some kind of high from just wrecking people's houses.
- 43:11Touch it underwear. Much of this won't make sense
- 43:15for another year or two, but fucking are many of like I said,
- 43:18these, they call them, no loss, robberies, these all become
- 43:22future homes that are Target's for there for him when he's a
- 43:24rapist. Now, the police also think this
- 43:28strange burglar is responsible for hang-up calls that keep
- 43:31happening. He called us one teenage girl
- 43:34multiple times and told her I love you.
- 43:37I love you. And then the last time he called
- 43:39her, he said I love you. This is your last night to live
- 43:44The house where that girl lived was next door to a future
- 43:46murder. Now and may of 1973.
- 43:50Joseph becomes not just a police officer, but a burglary unit,
- 43:54police officer and Exeter California.
- 43:58Yep, he moves to Exeter for work the to.
- 44:02Now James and Sharon get married on September, mixing up the
- 44:09names because Joe and James are so close now.
- 44:11James gets married, on September 15th.
- 44:15And September 14th at 11 a.m. a 28 year old woman puts down her
- 44:20baby for a nap. When she hears a knock on the
- 44:22door, she ignores it, but grabs her gun.
- 44:24And then here's someone knocking at the back of the house.
- 44:27She catches a man breaking in and he runs away.
- 44:29She makes sure all the windows are locked and she calls her
- 44:31husband who I just left for work.
- 44:33The attacker forces, the door with such force that the nails
- 44:37holding the lock into the door. Break, the woman raises her gun
- 44:41at him and he walks away. She calls the police.
- 44:44He breaks it again and tries to steal the gun and it goes off.
- 44:49And this time, he runs away for good.
- 44:52So, literally the night of James rehearsal dinner.
- 44:57Joseph was trying to like rape a woman.
- 45:06Now, a few months later in November Sharon, and Joe get
- 45:09married, they move into this duplex.
- 45:11And Exeter Exeter is, a town that only has five thousand.
- 45:15Pretty much Sharon is prepping for law school.
- 45:18So she is spending all her time. Studying Joseph is over educated
- 45:22in a small Podunk town and honestly, Exeter is still small
- 45:25town. It has like maybe 50,000 people
- 45:26now. One of the things I found just
- 45:32really interesting is that Joseph takes issue with his
- 45:36fellow officers, fudging the reports.
- 45:39He complained to James about how he's like the other police
- 45:44officers, falsified police reports, and I'm not going to do
- 45:47that. I said, what an interesting look
- 45:50into the mind of a guy who can tell right from wrong, but it
- 45:52doesn't apply to him. Shortly after this move, Dexter
- 46:02the series boring. So, you guys in the fall of 1973
- 46:061975, 150 homes are broken into. The salya is a city.
- 46:12That is 12 miles from Exeter and of course, he's telling Sharon
- 46:17I'm working. That's why I'm out.
- 46:19So late every night, Again, never taking much of monetary
- 46:24value, a single earring, a wedding.
- 46:26Ring sub trading stamps, sometimes he steals guns, those
- 46:29are valuable. But you knew that it was the
- 46:32Visalia ransack. Or if you came home and your
- 46:34panties were all over the house, your family photo albums were
- 46:37destroyed and there's a mess on your bed.
- 46:40Sometimes he would take kids piggy banks, but it was never
- 46:42like a major amount of cash flow.
- 46:45My theory, right? You stole from a child.
- 46:50But my theory on this is that the cop, he would know how much
- 46:52he could steal and have it be deemed.
- 46:54Okay, that's still, that's so he banks, but still get the high
- 47:02off of making people in an area feeling safe.
- 47:05Now, here's the thing in 1975, he commits.
- 47:08Over 120 burglars, burglaries. Even and it really just that,
- 47:13that activity ramps up, There were several attempted sexual
- 47:18assault during this time, but never fully cross.
- 47:20That threshold value PD increased patrols, they put
- 47:23officers inside of houses, that hadn't been hit yet.
- 47:26But of course because Joseph is a cop and he has access to other
- 47:29cops. He could ask cops of the celje.
- 47:33Oh, where you put in people tonight?
- 47:36Sometimes he wears a face mask, sometimes he doesn't.
- 47:39There's a police sketch that was put out, but it really wasn't
- 47:42the best. If you look at all the police
- 47:44catches they do kind of look like him, but depending on the
- 47:50year, He was fluctuating pretty drastically and wait.
- 47:55So like sometimes he like a chubby face, And sometimes he
- 47:58looks very thin. And so if you were looking at
- 48:02though the sketch from, when he had a chubby face and now he's
- 48:06like thinner because he's been, you know, working out more.
- 48:09They don't connect anymore because unfortunately outside of
- 48:13that it just looks like a generic white guy.
- 48:18The, the sketches just look like generic white guy. now, the
- 48:23first murder in the strings of burglaries happens on September
- 48:2611th 1975, And this is a crime that has now been attributed to
- 48:31Joseph, but it wasn't originally at was Claude Snelling.
- 48:35And what the police believe happened is that the Visalia
- 48:37ransack or broke into the house and attempted to kidnap plot
- 48:41Snelling 16 year old daughter. Elizabeth quat was a journalism
- 48:45professor and when he woke up to the attack, he jumped to action.
- 48:50In fact, chasing Joseph out of the house.
- 48:57And getting fatally shot when they were somewhere in the
- 49:00distance. Police did find shoe inference
- 49:03that would connect him to the other ransack or houses and the
- 49:06gun that was used to kill. Claude was stolen from one of
- 49:08the other houses that have been hit but Joseph, couldn't be
- 49:12charged for this murder for another 40 years.
- 49:16Now, at this stage of their lives, Joseph and Sharon are
- 49:19doing pretty good, shared that is at McGeorge School of Law, in
- 49:22Sacramento and Joe decides that he wants to move up in life
- 49:27Exeter is too small for me. And so he takes a job with the
- 49:30Auburn Police to marbet. And that is when the East area
- 49:34rapists, assaults began Happening Now, Joe's escalation
- 49:39from burglar to rapist is quite abrupt but his methodology is
- 49:43precise, he still crying The doors or Windows of the houses,
- 49:47he's wearing a ski mask, he shines a flashlight into the eye
- 49:51of the victim ties them up with a.
- 49:53Not he learned in the military called a diamond.
- 49:55Not he rapes a woman of the house and when the sexual
- 49:58assaults over, he does exactly like he did before.
- 50:02Completely trashed the house, take small items like ranks,
- 50:05maybe some coins, small amounts of cash, he leaves but instead
- 50:09of going on the main road, he jumps through the neighbors
- 50:12backyards. Now, Joe only gets officially
- 50:15charged with 10 of these rapes, because many of them were past
- 50:18the statute of limitations in California.
- 50:20But there were a total of 50 attacks by the East are rapist
- 50:23from 1976 to 1979. All of these attacks were 20 to
- 50:2930 miles from where Joseph and Sharon lived.
- 50:33Many of the victims did not wish to share their names in any
- 50:38books about Joseph DeAngelo. So I will continue that process
- 50:43of an honorable death. The attacks of 1976 started.
- 50:47As I mentioned, There Were Ten of them from Junie teeth to
- 50:50December, 18th. And then things, escalated 1977.
- 50:54Brought 19 more. He would call these victims
- 50:57before hand hanging up on them or telling them like sexual
- 51:01things. Police are definitely aware that
- 51:03he seems to be casing. The houses to see who is there.
- 51:07I made sense, because there was a woman attacked and you were a
- 51:09teen who wasn't assaulted until her husband left to go to work.
- 51:14Like, almost like we're 15 minutes later, Joseph breaks
- 51:17into the house. There was another young woman
- 51:20who was attacked her January 24th and she had like, a
- 51:24gathering of all her friends. And as soon as all of her
- 51:27friends left the house he broke in So it was not even that like
- 51:34he was preparing this ahead of time but he was sitting waiting
- 51:38and watching to make sure that anybody who could be a witness
- 51:42was gone. There's even one where he waited
- 51:48like he waited and watched until like a teenage girl was
- 51:53essentially like her parents weren't there for a very brief
- 51:57moment and He sets it up, like, it was like 15 minutes and she's
- 52:05alone. He sets it up, he takes her out
- 52:08of the house and he makes it look like she left of her own
- 52:10accord, and then tries to assault her and the canals back
- 52:14behind her home. So these are very very
- 52:19premeditated. The thing is while he is
- 52:25meticulous and some ways. He's in other ways he's not so
- 52:31he's planning the, the assaults down to a to the like minutes.
- 52:38But if something happens that he's not prepared for, he just
- 52:41pulls out a gun and shoots a bystander.
- 52:45Yep. Or if someone shows up, he's not
- 52:47prepared for he grabs the victim's car keys and drives
- 52:50away. Drops the car off in another
- 52:52town without the key. Swings it out there that this is
- 52:55not going away. Now cost these hundred and fifty
- 52:59a sexual assaults, you have Rancho Cordova Carmichael,
- 53:02Citrus Heights, Sacramento arted arcade Orangevale, Parkway
- 53:07Stockton La, riviere Foot Hill, Farms, Modesto, Davis, conquered
- 53:12San Ramon, San Jose, Danville Fremont, Walnut Creek.
- 53:18These are all the towns. He hits during these two years
- 53:21and it wasn't like the police weren't up on it and we'll talk
- 53:25more about like the task force. Is that pop up.
- 53:27In this time period, when we talk about this next week,
- 53:29because it's a lot of details in there.
- 53:31Are some definite people who did some good work but were limited
- 53:36with with the science, they had at the time and the neighbors
- 53:40were trying to help too. They would call in reports of
- 53:43Prowlers, if there was anybody who was stopping their car,
- 53:46didn't recognize, they were calling them in, like, the
- 53:48neighbors are trying to help. Now, one of them ones are more
- 53:53bizarre. Rapes happens in September of
- 53:541977, when Joseph breaks into a woman's home ties up her
- 53:58husband, raped her twice and then spends another 90 minutes
- 54:02in the house, just doing nothing.
- 54:08It's like he's not even afraid of getting caught in any more.
- 54:12Yep. Yep.
- 54:14They're both tied up, husband and wife and he was just walking
- 54:17around checking the fridge, grab it, and just chilling there with
- 54:21her husband. Still tied up.
- 54:25Just an extra violation. And of course, like, this isn't,
- 54:30he's threatening them to I mean, because a lot of the people
- 54:32after he was gone or able to, like, get out of the knots, but
- 54:40it's if you move, I'm going to shoot you.
- 54:42If you move, you're not going to make it through the rest of the
- 54:44night. So and he has guns and he shows
- 54:50them so and he's not afraid to shoot people, we definitely know
- 54:53that because in the news, they're reporting that there are
- 54:56situations where this guy's running from a house and he
- 54:58shoots Bystanders. So people know that he seriously
- 55:00doesn't mind killing people. So I guess some of the victims
- 55:04are just like Let's not die. And the media were definitely on
- 55:12this case, they reported on every single case.
- 55:16He virtually has a connection to all of the city's he's hitting.
- 55:20Now, he avoids, the town, he's living in Auburn, but his sister
- 55:24still lives in Rancho Cordova still share, its parents live in
- 55:27Citrus Heights, Sharon's brother and his wife live in Orangevale
- 55:31all towns east of Sacramento, hence, the East area rapist.
- 55:36Joseph loves to talk to his family and co-workers about the
- 55:40East area. Rapist, he brings it up randomly
- 55:42when he visits James at his house.
- 55:49He even offers to check James's home security system.
- 55:53To make sure that James his wife Cindy is saying, of course she
- 55:57does, and it's so fake because of course, James is safe.
- 56:02Joseph was gonna break into their home and lot like, because
- 56:05didn't James would know, it was him, And, you know, James tells
- 56:11them what to look for and Joseph tells him what to look for in
- 56:14James trust his brother-in-law. Yeah, by the end of 1977, there
- 56:18are 29 rapes that shows no sign of stopping.
- 56:22At the end of December, though, someone claiming to be the
- 56:24easier. Rapist sends a poem called,
- 56:27excitements crave to the Sacramento Bee a newspaper, the
- 56:30mayor's office and the television station kvie because
- 56:34I had to hear this horrible poems.
- 56:36So do you? Let's listen to some horrible.
- 56:40Poetry from a rapist. Says all those Mortals surviving
- 56:46Bertha, post a signature, take inventory of their Worth to
- 56:50prevailing Society. Choosing values become a task
- 56:54oneself must seek satisfaction. The selected route will unmask
- 56:58character when plans take action accepting, some work to perform
- 57:02and fixed pay. But promise for more is the
- 57:05recognize social Norm as is decorum seeking more achieving
- 57:10While others lifting should be cause for deserving Fame lie.
- 57:14Attempts excitement-seeking, what's right and expected seems
- 57:17tame, Jesse James has been seen by all and Son of Sam has an
- 57:21author others. Now feel Temptations, call
- 57:24Sacramento, should make an offer to make a movie of my life that
- 57:29will pay for my planned Exile. Just now I'd like to add the
- 57:33wife of a mafia Lord to my file your East.
- 57:38I'm not done yet. You're East area.
- 57:40Rapist and deserving past. See you in the press or Or on
- 57:44TV. Oh my gosh.
- 57:50I feel like you would like it. Shut the fuck up.
- 57:59Indeed, indeed 1978. My it was terrible in.
- 58:05So just fucking the east. Rapist at family events 1978
- 58:17starts with an attack on two teen girls.
- 58:19Not far from the American River Community College, Sharon's
- 58:22alma, mater, alma mater. The parents find the two girls
- 58:26tied up when they come home. And the girls report that he
- 58:29wore a ski mask had a gun, and had a knife.
- 58:32His second murder happens in February 2nd 1978.
- 58:36That's husband and wife, Brian and Katie Mae.
- 58:38She or they were walking through Cordova Meadows with their dog.
- 58:42A neighbor reported seeing the attacker and the family running
- 58:46through a section of fencing that had been blown down in the
- 58:48storm. The neighbor actually witnessed
- 58:51a couple, get shot and called 911, but the measure is both
- 58:54died at the hospital. The police are looking at all of
- 58:58this and they are discovering that when you kind of look at
- 59:01the crimes, they all happen within a third mile, radius of
- 59:04each other. And so, the police began
- 59:07focusing on going through roughly, 30,000 crime reports to
- 59:12try and make sense of the murders.
- 59:16During this time, they also find that Cordova Meadows has dozens
- 59:19of reports of hang-up calls leading to that murder one
- 59:23woman. Got a call every night at 8 p.m.
- 59:26there are Prowler and Cat burglars like style calls being
- 59:31reported to by March the East area.
- 59:34Rapist is back in it again. There are 14 more rates that
- 59:36happen. This year, nine different police
- 59:39sketches are released to the public about half of them, look
- 59:42accurate. Now later in 1978, 15 of his
- 59:47victims, have a luncheon to discuss their experiences.
- 59:50And they are all surprised to see that they all look the same
- 59:54and they have similar backgrounds.
- 59:56Almost all the women were upper middle class and had dark hair
- 1:00:00who, and what you wonder who in Joseph's life is upper middle
- 1:00:03class and has dark hair. His wife.
- 1:00:12Now there's a different investigation happening
- 1:00:15virtually, every time he hits now during my evil which
- 1:00:19happened to be the 42nd rape, police get alerted to the
- 1:00:23strange car. Parked a neighborhood and they
- 1:00:25find these three notebook sheets.
- 1:00:26The first page is a homework essay about General Custer.
- 1:00:30The second sheet looks like a journal entry, describing a
- 1:00:33teacher, he million the offer when I read to you.
- 1:00:36It's weird but Matt is the word, the word that reminds me of
- 1:00:41sixth grade. I hated that Year.
- 1:00:43I wish I had known it was going to be going on during my sixth
- 1:00:46grade year. The last and worst year of
- 1:00:48Elementary School. Matt is the word that remains in
- 1:00:50my head about my Dreadful year as a sixth grader.
- 1:00:53My madness was one, that was caused by disappointments.
- 1:00:55That hurt me very much, the same point was, for my teacher, such
- 1:00:58as field trips that were planned than cancelled.
- 1:01:00And there are loads of misspellings here.
- 1:01:04That's a great teacher. Gave me a lot of disappointments
- 1:01:06which made me very mad and both state of hatred in my heart.
- 1:01:09No one ever let me down that hard before and I never hated
- 1:01:12anyone as much as I did him. It's equipment was the only
- 1:01:16reason that made me mad and sixth grade.
- 1:01:17Another was getting in trouble School especially talking,
- 1:01:20that's what really bugged me was writing sentences.
- 1:01:22Those awful sense is that my teacher made me, write, hours
- 1:01:25and hours. I'd sit and write 50, 100 150,
- 1:01:28sentence day, and night. I wrote those Dreadful
- 1:01:29paragraphs, which embarrass me and more important made me
- 1:01:32ashamed of myself. What you turn deep down made me
- 1:01:35realize that writing sentences wasn't fair.
- 1:01:37It wasn't fair to make me suffer like that.
- 1:01:39It just wasn't fair to make me sit and write until my bones
- 1:01:44ache. And so my hand felt horrid pain.
- 1:01:47I got madder and madder until I cried and I cried because I was
- 1:01:49ashamed that cried because I was disgusted.
- 1:01:52I cried, because I was mad. And I cried for myself, the kid
- 1:01:55kept on having the right this damn sentences.
- 1:01:58My angriness from 6th grade will scar my memory for life, and
- 1:02:01I'll be ashamed of my sixth grade year forever.
- 1:02:04And then the final page was a map of a neighborhood with the
- 1:02:07word punishment on it. Now, the map wasn't a perfect
- 1:02:12replica of Danville, but the cops determined, it looked like
- 1:02:14some sort of fantasy killing ground.
- 1:02:16And they do believe that this may have been written by Joseph,
- 1:02:21I don't know. But just another weird detail
- 1:02:25for you. At the beginning of 1979, there
- 1:02:29are no rapes and then they start again in March and six more
- 1:02:31happen until July and the rapes stopped Yeah and I think it's
- 1:02:37because in August Joseph got caught shoplifting dog repellent
- 1:02:41and a hammer from a pay and save these items only cost twenty
- 1:02:45dollars but the store cloak was a beast because he liked tackle
- 1:02:50Joseph and tied him to a chair. So in the Auburn PD showed up.
- 1:02:58They see one of their own tied to a chair by a civilian, he
- 1:03:02suspended immediately. In October a jury, finds him
- 1:03:11guilty of misdemeanor theft. He gets a hundred dollar fine on
- 1:03:14a six-month probation. He files an appeal in November
- 1:03:17but gonna fall through with it. Joseph told his family that he
- 1:03:20had put the items in his waistband just to see if they
- 1:03:22fit their not to steal them. But he is livid with auburn PD
- 1:03:27and expresses a desire with James to kill his bosses.
- 1:03:33Joseph told his family that in the end, there was some kind of
- 1:03:35settlement with auburn PD, but there's no record of that.
- 1:03:41And with this, the Eastern rapist stops.
- 1:03:45However, the emotional trauma of these events go on to haunt the
- 1:03:48victims. He was sadistic, sometimes he'd
- 1:03:52Force deliver the tie up their husbands.
- 1:03:54He would put a stack of dishes on the husband's body so that he
- 1:03:57struggled and knocked it over, he would know.
- 1:04:01Interestingly enough, some of the victims said that the actual
- 1:04:03rate part only lasted for a minute or so, but the rest of
- 1:04:06the time he would make these threats and then he would walk
- 1:04:08through the house for hours, just wrecking stuff.
- 1:04:11Like I said he'd get a beer he'd watch TV while they were tied
- 1:04:15up. There was one final attempt on
- 1:04:18October 1st 1979 a few weeks before his court date a couple
- 1:04:23and galleta California near Santa Barbara where attacked the
- 1:04:26woman said she heard the robber walking back and forth saying
- 1:04:29over and over I'm going to kill you and the woman ran for the
- 1:04:32door but he caught her. And when she screamed her
- 1:04:35husband jumped out of bed to help Joseph foot on a bike.
- 1:04:40I gotta take a regular bicycle. And the couple actually lived
- 1:04:45next door to an FDR officer who happened to be home when is it
- 1:04:48up chasing him in his own vehicle?
- 1:04:50But Joseph ditch the bike is her hopping fences.
- 1:04:56Now, December 30th 1979. The police think that Joseph
- 1:04:58killed again. The victims here are orthopedic
- 1:05:01surgeon, Robert Offerman, and his wife, Deborah Manning.
- 1:05:04They were found in their home and galleta, which is just like
- 1:05:07before near Santa Barbara. Both were bound naked and had
- 1:05:12been shot almost execution style, but Robert had two
- 1:05:15additional shots to the back. The bullets were off from 38
- 1:05:18caliber bullet, from a 38 caliber gun.
- 1:05:21Now, there have been burglaries in this area before the murder
- 1:05:25and 1979 showed a increase in homicides, in Santa Barbara
- 1:05:30which is usually a. It's a pretty quiet Beach.
- 1:05:32Town that had was known for its fitness and health businesses in
- 1:05:37the 70s. The beginning of 1980 brings
- 1:05:42change for Joseph and Sharon. They buy a house in Citrus
- 1:05:44Heights and Sharon finishes up her schooling and begins looking
- 1:05:47for a job as attorney. At one point, they're living in
- 1:05:50two homes, as Sharon is living and working in LA and Joe is
- 1:05:54staying in Citrus Heights. This is important because there
- 1:05:58are some crimes that happen near I'll lay, and it makes sense
- 1:06:03because he would have been traveling back and forth to
- 1:06:05visit her. So, that would be March 16. 1980
- 1:06:09Lyman Smith and his wife. Charlene are both executed in
- 1:06:12their home. They were found naked and bound
- 1:06:15this time. However, the attacker had used a
- 1:06:18log to beat the both of them to death.
- 1:06:21It was a pretty gruesome scene and even more horribly.
- 1:06:24They were found by Gary Smith. Lions 12 year old son, Gary
- 1:06:28lived with his mother and Charlene was his mother-in-law,
- 1:06:32and so he would come over like, on the weekends and he would mow
- 1:06:35his dad's lawn and he found his father's body.
- 1:06:38Maybe that's what he was doing. Just that interestingly enough,
- 1:06:43the houses aren't being trashed anymore.
- 1:06:46But one thing that he is leaving behind that he didn't leave
- 1:06:51behind really was for was the semen sample. which, Which we
- 1:07:00know will L be connected to Joseph.
- 1:07:03Now for people in California, the city of Ventura is 400-mile,
- 1:07:07cute little area. So we're talking about roughly
- 1:07:12what, like 30 in Cordova, another hundred and fifty in the
- 1:07:18Sacramento area. Now and now, 400 miles away.
- 1:07:28We have killings happening for the police.
- 1:07:31These don't make sense that they would be connected because they
- 1:07:33don't know that Sharon is working in LA.
- 1:07:37So he has reason to be in LA. And so that's why these crimes
- 1:07:42are happening here. But for people who didn't know,
- 1:07:45it was him, obviously. They didn't have any reason to
- 1:07:47assume that the person who they would name the original Night
- 1:07:51Stalker. Is the same person as the East
- 1:07:55area rapist. The next murder happened on
- 1:07:59August 21st, 1980 another couple Keith and Patrice Harrington.
- 1:08:04They are found in their home and Laguna Niguel California.
- 1:08:07They were in their beds and unlike the prior to they sure to
- 1:08:10home with Keith's older Father. Robert Keefe was a medical
- 1:08:14student at UC Irvine and Patrice was a nurse and just like with a
- 1:08:18Smith's. They were bludgeoned with a
- 1:08:19piece of wood and they had marks on their wrists showing.
- 1:08:21They've been bound at some point but he cut them loose when he
- 1:08:25was done. Patrice was sexually assaulted
- 1:08:29in the police. Did recover semen from her body?
- 1:08:31This crime took place an Engaged Community, which is definitely
- 1:08:35very alarming for the community. But she also got a think a game
- 1:08:38is only useful. If somebody is not intending to
- 1:08:41get around it, But what this is important for is that the people
- 1:08:49who Joseph are attacking our, what many people call low risk,
- 1:08:54okay. High-risk victims are people who
- 1:08:56work on the street live on the street homeless people runaways,
- 1:09:00usually the general victims in a lot of our cases, so the fact
- 1:09:05that he is specifically targeting people who should be
- 1:09:07safe is scary. He's taking nothing from the
- 1:09:13house and he is no longer getting his jollies for making
- 1:09:16people. Feel unsafe in their homes.
- 1:09:18He's escalated past the need to, to taunt his victims.
- 1:09:21After he rapes them, the new highest murder.
- 1:09:26The Killing stopped temporary from the fall of 1980.
- 1:09:28And to 1981, this is around the time period where Sharon moves
- 1:09:32back in with Joseph and she's pregnant with her first child.
- 1:09:36That first daughter is born, September 1981.
- 1:09:38Her name is Misha and Joseph would kill Manuela women in
- 1:09:44Irvine, California in February of 1981.
- 1:09:49Now Manuela was a teller for California, First National Bank
- 1:09:53and her husband was actually in the hospital and she was
- 1:09:55attacked. Another one that looks like he
- 1:09:59landed. She was found wearing her
- 1:10:01bathrobe and wrapped up partially in a sleeping bag.
- 1:10:04She had been hit in the back of the head, with a blunt object
- 1:10:07and had been tied up as well semen found at the scene as
- 1:10:09well. Interestingly enough Joseph
- 1:10:13tormented manuela's husband and his second wife for like another
- 1:10:17decade. He would call them and say he
- 1:10:21was going to kill them. Just heavy breathing on the
- 1:10:24phone. The couple actually ended up
- 1:10:26moving away from California. To get away from these phone
- 1:10:30calls and David wooden died in 2008.
- 1:10:35He actually did not get to ever learn who killed his first wife.
- 1:10:39Rhonda David's, second wife said that, when the feds showed like
- 1:10:44played those old voicemails again because they, they,
- 1:10:49they're a bunch of them from the 70s and to like 2001.
- 1:10:52But when they replayed them again, recently, she said she
- 1:10:56recognized them from the phone calls that she And David heard
- 1:11:01over the years. Now, July 27th, 1980 one.
- 1:11:07Another couple is killed and galleta again.
- 1:11:10So the third hit and galleta. Let's Greg Sanchez and Cherry
- 1:11:14Deming and Sherry Domingo. Now, Sherry was house-sitting a
- 1:11:18home. That were removed, the it
- 1:11:20belonged to a group of Errors who are putting up for sale,
- 1:11:23like one of their family members died, but they wanted somebody
- 1:11:26at the home so that it wouldn't be a target for thieves and
- 1:11:29usually Sherry had her daughter. Stay with her.
- 1:11:32When she was there at the, you know, these things.
- 1:11:34But Sherry's daughter was out with her friends, like at her
- 1:11:37friend's house, that night and more than likely, they think
- 1:11:41that Joseph saw this house because he saw a mother and
- 1:11:45daughter coming and going. Now, Greg was described in a lot
- 1:11:49of the news articles as Sheree's boyfriend.
- 1:11:51But according to family friends, the two had broken up and they
- 1:11:54had remained close friends. So I'm wondering if Greg was
- 1:11:57there because share a Sherry's daughter wasn't and it was kind
- 1:12:00of, you know, to protect them in this big.
- 1:12:02House. And fortunately, neither of them
- 1:12:05survived that night the following morning, a group of
- 1:12:08real estate agents arrive to do a home inspection and found
- 1:12:11their very battered remains. Greg was found completely naked
- 1:12:15face down partially in the bedroom closet, there was a
- 1:12:18gunshot from the back that went through his cheek, but that did
- 1:12:21not kill him. What did kill him was being hit
- 1:12:24in the back of the head 24 times.
- 1:12:27It looked like Joseph Blitz, attacked him and didn't even tie
- 1:12:30him up, Sherry was naked lying face down on the bed and her
- 1:12:34arms at some point have been bound behind her back.
- 1:12:37She was hit several times in the head as well.
- 1:12:42This is about the time that the police are like this, seems like
- 1:12:45a serial killer. And so, that's the media called
- 1:12:49him, the Night Stalker, and he is known as the original Night
- 1:12:52Stalker, eventually the acronym, EA are ons.
- 1:12:56Became what? Those of us who follow this case
- 1:12:59online called him, but that doesn't happen until the 2000s
- 1:13:02for now, the police think that the East area rapist is
- 1:13:04different guy in Sacramento, and the Night Stalker is a different
- 1:13:11guy. Like I said, Nisha, D'Angelo's
- 1:13:13born in September the whole huddle family rejoices.
- 1:13:16We have another grandchild because James already had two
- 1:13:19daughters Sharon's working for the National Labor Relations
- 1:13:22Board. And Joseph isn't really working
- 1:13:23at all. He in some kind of being a
- 1:13:26stay-at-home dad for a little bit.
- 1:13:29It's odd. Yeah it's obvious he's a primary
- 1:13:31parent because he's not really a touchy-feely kind of guy and he
- 1:13:34definitely tries to police all of his family's Behavior.
- 1:13:37Like oh how kind of bullying James to not like show affection
- 1:13:42to his own kids when they're all hanging out together which is
- 1:13:46weird and I yeah 1982 comes and official Sharon is officially
- 1:13:52added to the State Bar of California.
- 1:13:54This is a very exciting moment that Sheridan wish you would
- 1:13:57time. And working as a divorce
- 1:13:59attorney that same year and the police were at a loss because
- 1:14:03all the murders just stop. I wonder if this is like because
- 1:14:08Joseph is now responsible for a kid, pretty much all the time
- 1:14:13and he just doesn't have the time.
- 1:14:21Right. Yes, he's too busy.
- 1:14:26You put the child rearing? No, they usually don't.
- 1:14:30Well that does firstly. That's the first time I've heard
- 1:14:33like you know when he served Killers just like what part of
- 1:14:36me off the walls if his truck doesn't have to sustain him, I
- 1:14:39mean for children for a child. Yeah, they don't need to see
- 1:14:45James and his book tells a story about how one time he went over
- 1:14:49to Joseph house. And Joseph showed him this like
- 1:14:51big gold bar. And he's just like, where'd you
- 1:14:55get this? And he's like Vietnam.
- 1:14:58But what James thinks is that all those like gold earrings and
- 1:15:02rings that he stole from his victims, he melted them all
- 1:15:05down. And that gold bar is his trophy.
- 1:15:14Did she know you're no burglaries and assaults?
- 1:15:17No murders happen again until 1960 1986.
- 1:15:21So the stuff I stole just at the caring.
- 1:15:23Got hanging Oaks sharing briefly work for the state of
- 1:15:27California, but hated the politics and she open her own
- 1:15:30practice around this time. Sasha D'Angelo was born in
- 1:15:33November of 1986 and right before sponsors birth that final
- 1:15:36murder was committed that we know of It was one of the worst.
- 1:15:41The victim was Janelle Cruz. She was 18 years old and worked
- 1:15:44for a pizza place called Boeing goes.
- 1:15:45Pizza as a cashier. By now, I think a lot of people
- 1:15:50probably felt like it was safe. I've been for years, no rapes,
- 1:15:55no murders. But unfortunately, for Janelle,
- 1:15:59he just wasn't done on May 4th. She was home alone in Irvine and
- 1:16:03according to her sister, Michelle Crews, who had to
- 1:16:05identify her body. Her sister did have binding
- 1:16:08marks on her wrists. The police said, she'd been
- 1:16:10raped and Michelle said that she was being to the point of all
- 1:16:14recognition Jenelle's. Mother was on vacation and real
- 1:16:19estate agents who are praising their home discovered her body
- 1:16:22that following day. The police had all but forgotten
- 1:16:26about the EC, a rapist at this point and instead, they fixated
- 1:16:29on Gregory Gonzalez. Now Greg engine now.
- 1:16:32But both spent some time in rehab for drugs and that's how
- 1:16:35they knew each other and Greg told somebody.
- 1:16:40He killed his friend Janelle. And the police were like, hey,
- 1:16:45we got a confession, we're good. It wasn't until they begin cross
- 1:16:50testing these cases against the DNA.
- 1:16:53They eventually get in the system that they learn.
- 1:16:55That this was actually another Golden State killer.
- 1:16:59Now, James huddle, guess who he's divorced from his wife.
- 1:17:03After his wife has an affair and he moves a lot closer to the
- 1:17:07family and James, and Joseph, and Sharon all our spend a lot
- 1:17:12more time together. James has two daughters, Deanna,
- 1:17:14and Nicole, and Joseph has Sasha, and Misha, and the
- 1:17:17cousins get to play together. Joseph puts up, an above-ground
- 1:17:21pool, the kids play the men Grill Joseph, during this time,
- 1:17:25picked up building model boats and the men spend hours building
- 1:17:29delicate, you know, both models as his daughters grow up.
- 1:17:33Joseph teaches them how to shoot James, not really interested.
- 1:17:37In teaching his daughters had a whole guns.
- 1:17:41James says that he's not always the most stable during these
- 1:17:43years, he would lose his cool over very minor things and yell
- 1:17:47a lot of the girls Only once at all these family gatherings.
- 1:17:52However, did James really experienced Joseph as the Golden
- 1:17:55State killer, so the two families really liked horror
- 1:17:58movies and they would get together and watch all the scary
- 1:18:00movies and they watched all the grades pumpkin said Freddy
- 1:18:03Krueger Jason Chucky but one night.
- 1:18:05They're all sitting around watching Texas, Chainsaw
- 1:18:07Massacre. And James sees a little crack in
- 1:18:11the facade. He said that while they were
- 1:18:14watching the film Joseph's eyes, get wide and like, clenches his
- 1:18:18teeth. And he's talking through the
- 1:18:2010th clenched teeth, which is the same way he talked to his
- 1:18:24victims and he called them on the phone.
- 1:18:29Not really sure why watching that particular movie caused him
- 1:18:32to kind of relive something but it did interestingly enough.
- 1:18:36He discouraged his children from watching anything True Crime
- 1:18:40related. Repeatedly referred to True
- 1:18:44Crimes cases as junk and he would make them change the
- 1:18:48channel if he saw it and I'm like, was he scared that
- 1:18:51somebody might recognize him as? Yeah.
- 1:18:57Yeah. The FBI have released.
- 1:18:58Some of those phone calls that he made to the victims,
- 1:19:02interesting things jumper talking about.
- 1:19:04So yeah, house got burglarize, not much was stolen but it was
- 1:19:10traced to a guy living out of a motel.
- 1:19:12Ended up getting their things back, but the kids are scared
- 1:19:14and like Joseph took them around the house and showed them like
- 1:19:17all the security to like make sure the kids felt safe.
- 1:19:22Now, in terms of his General Life with his family, he's a
- 1:19:24strict guy. A lot of his military training
- 1:19:27is passed down into the kids cleanliness.
- 1:19:29Not eating or drinking too many sweets.
- 1:19:32We don't need the air. Conditioner on all day.
- 1:19:33We can handle it, not bullying, a cousin or a sister for being a
- 1:19:37bit chubby. He's actually really serious
- 1:19:40about that not being wasteful with your food.
- 1:19:43He wore a white shirt and white pants virtually every single
- 1:19:46day, perfectly ironed, he's meticulous and most of his daily
- 1:19:51activities. even his lawn was perfect to the point where his
- 1:19:54neighbor said that, like, he had these weird Boulders in the yard
- 1:19:57where he can't really get the weed whacker to close obviously.
- 1:20:02So he would cut the grass, knew the boulder to make sure it was
- 1:20:08perfect and aligned with the rest of the year.
- 1:20:11He insisted that the dishes always get done that.
- 1:20:13The doors are never left open. He was prone to yelling at kids
- 1:20:17for getting messy, but like, you can't stop kids from being
- 1:20:20messy. His behavior seems a little bit
- 1:20:24more erratic when you look at how his interpersonal
- 1:20:26relationship with kids. I doubt the children noticed it,
- 1:20:29but it was something I noticed in hindsight in his book.
- 1:20:32He said the first time that his eldest daughter went for a
- 1:20:35sleepover Joseph, made them sleep in separate rooms, which
- 1:20:38is not normally how sleepovers go.
- 1:20:42It was almost like he was worried that there was something
- 1:20:45inappropriate that would happen between the girls.
- 1:20:48Now, later on, he relaxes this restriction and puts up a tent
- 1:20:51for the girls in the living room, but like there are other
- 1:20:53situations that popped up like apparently like me show would
- 1:20:56like get out of the bath wet and like, you know, chase her cousin
- 1:21:00and he would get like really upset about that.
- 1:21:01Like put your clothes on right away.
- 1:21:05He didn't like, any of the kids playing inside the house and he
- 1:21:07insisted that they played outside in the grass of the
- 1:21:09driveway. It's weird.
- 1:21:11Because all in all he seems like a decent dab.
- 1:21:14A little bit neurotic what he did right by his own kids.
- 1:21:16At least some of the best thing I can say about him because
- 1:21:19apparently he wasn't the best husband and by 1999 1991, things
- 1:21:24are falling apart between him and share it.
- 1:21:26And when I'm researching this right, everybody was makes jokes
- 1:21:29about November babies Scorpios with the concept that We were
- 1:21:35all born. We were all conceived on
- 1:21:36Valentine's Day. So he has one November baby.
- 1:21:41He has another child that's born in September and his third,
- 1:21:43child is born in May and some try to figure out and they're
- 1:21:46like years ago part. So I'm wondering how frequent
- 1:21:49the love life between Sharon and Joseph was when he was
- 1:21:52assaulting women, virtually every weekend.
- 1:21:55Sometimes there were hits twice a night and if his kids were
- 1:22:00some of them conceived on major like, around major holidays or
- 1:22:03events. And here's the thing,
- 1:22:05apparently, Sharon told James that they slept Different beds
- 1:22:10and that it very well have may have started when she was
- 1:22:13studying for law school because she was getting done with her
- 1:22:16studying at like 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning.
- 1:22:19So like ripping and couple that virtually probably never really
- 1:22:24had a whole lot of sex. And it was probably just for
- 1:22:28procreation, and they never went back to the never slept in the
- 1:22:32same bed. Reminds me of somebody.
- 1:22:34Does it it? Do you remember a certain man in
- 1:22:38Ohio on Fox Hollow Farm, who never slept with his wife?
- 1:22:44Yeah, her but my sister did that too.
- 1:22:46He pretty much only slept with his wife for procreation
- 1:22:48purposes. My heart was closeted gay.
- 1:22:53I don't think in this situation are golden sake.
- 1:22:56You know, D'Angelo is. Closeted but I think he's
- 1:23:01getting his jollies elsewhere and more enjoyable than the
- 1:23:05actual sex is the terror that he is an active across these limit
- 1:23:10use. Yeah, no wonder if some of the
- 1:23:13disconnect and Sharon and James relationship has to be the fact
- 1:23:17that Sharon's wildly successful and Joseph rocks.
- 1:23:22The only thing he'd ever really cared about Maybe we know that
- 1:23:28just before he and Sharon separated Sharon's making
- 1:23:30National headlines. She's working with the National
- 1:23:33Coalition against sir is surrogacy to change the laws
- 1:23:36around surrogacy. I guess, in the past Pete there
- 1:23:39wasn't like any like now there's agencies and contracts.
- 1:23:44There weren't really contracts of the past and so people are
- 1:23:49just like here's 20 grand, have my baby and people would like
- 1:23:52Take the Money and Run. I says huge case that happened
- 1:23:55in New Jersey with the over a baby M, as she was called and
- 1:24:00baby, I'm got taken from her mother because my mother wanted
- 1:24:03to back out of the surrogacy and New Jersey was just like know
- 1:24:06this family paid you for that baby.
- 1:24:09So it was a big deal and this was a huge thing.
- 1:24:11There were lots of states that were abolishing Surrogacy as it
- 1:24:15was traditionally done and Cat, Sharon was working on it that in
- 1:24:19California. Also, the other thing here is
- 1:24:23that Sharon was very devoted to her clients.
- 1:24:27The Huddle's were exceptionally proud of Sharon for her work,
- 1:24:30but also she was breaking glass ceilings because law was
- 1:24:34downright hostile to women, when Sharon, decide to be an attorney
- 1:24:38in the 70s, she had endured and succeeded.
- 1:24:41So she was just pretty much a stellar lady.
- 1:24:46The to decide to separate. But live in the same house for
- 1:24:49the kids around 1991. She wanted her children to have
- 1:24:52their father and their life but Sharon confided in her brother
- 1:24:55that Joseph was very manipulative and neighbors would
- 1:24:58later, tell news, outlets of the couple had terrible fights like
- 1:25:02loud enough that everybody could hear.
- 1:25:04She never really spoke much about life with him.
- 1:25:08But by the 90s, Joseph is working at first, save
- 1:25:11supermarkets, as a truck mechanic at the Distribution
- 1:25:13Center. He get exceptionally good
- 1:25:15health, Share and share them was working for this huge nonprofit,
- 1:25:19the to kind of had an understanding Joseph gets to say
- 1:25:22my wife, the lawyer and Sharon has the peace of mind that if
- 1:25:25her or any other girls get horribly sick.
- 1:25:27They're going to be taken care of, interestingly enough, even
- 1:25:30when he was arrested sharing never dumped on him, she asked
- 1:25:34to be left alone. She didn't file for divorce
- 1:25:37until after his conviction as the Golden State killer because
- 1:25:42like the smart attorney that she is Sharon knew that if She filed
- 1:25:46before his trial. She could be forced to testify
- 1:25:49against him and honestly, she just didn't want to be a part of
- 1:25:52it. The media has still like the
- 1:25:56media continue to Hound her so she just decided like I don't
- 1:26:00want to be a part of this case and ultimately they didn't need
- 1:26:05her they would have called her in and demanded.
- 1:26:07She testify but they didn't need her to make the case against
- 1:26:10him. Now dial this back about two
- 1:26:14years, three years. Yeah, from 1989, Joseph gets in
- 1:26:17a filmmaking, his new passion, he has this good job, giving him
- 1:26:23money and benefits. His wife's doing great.
- 1:26:25The kids are doing great, he's not spending every waking moment
- 1:26:28moment, case in ladies houses to rate them.
- 1:26:30So he's got time for a new expensive Hobby.
- 1:26:35Of course, because Joseph is Joseph, he believes that his
- 1:26:37first film at the gate is going to be a banger.
- 1:26:40He makes a short film called into the dark 1989.
- 1:26:44When it doesn't do well, he spends three years working on a
- 1:26:51feature length. L called monster.
- 1:26:54He can't convince the studio to pick it up.
- 1:26:56He can't even get a VHS DVD release.
- 1:26:59And well, that's the end of that.
- 1:27:03He does get arrested in 1986 for not paying for gas, but those
- 1:27:07charges were dropped and they never typical example, when they
- 1:27:09arrested him because this was the beginning of DNA evidence.
- 1:27:12And it was a non-violent offense Joseph, actually sued the gas
- 1:27:16station and one, because he wasn't involved in the crime at
- 1:27:18all, but he got pulled into again.
- 1:27:22Listen, he knows his rights, right?
- 1:27:27And then time passed. He focused on his kids.
- 1:27:31I'm being a good friend to people in his life, his
- 1:27:33employees, right? Yeah.
- 1:27:34He was there for all of his children's, major Milestones, he
- 1:27:37began supporting his mother and father-in-law, and their elderly
- 1:27:40years. It was like, he'd put everything
- 1:27:43behind him except for an occasional need to leave a
- 1:27:46creepy phone call. He retired from Save Mart
- 1:27:49Distribution Center weeks before his arrest, his co-workers, and
- 1:27:55neighbors loved him and so did his children.
- 1:27:57But while Joseph is enjoying the spoils of his wonderful life.
- 1:28:02There are people behind the scenes who have been working on
- 1:28:04catching him for decades and he does not get to enjoy his
- 1:28:07retirement for too long and that is where I stop this week's
- 1:28:11podcast. When we come back next week
- 1:28:13we're going to go heavy into the investigative side of things.
- 1:28:17The original case reopening the cases and then connecting all
- 1:28:21the dots and what it takes to put this guy in prison, and I
- 1:28:25was going to tell you, he is a trip until the end.
- 1:28:34Even even when he was in the courtroom during covid, I
- 1:28:41believe it to that next week. I believe it's all for me.
- 1:28:54Goodness. Oh goodness, I can't wait, I
- 1:28:59can't, wait. I really can't.
- 1:29:02I want to hear all about it now, okay.
- 1:29:08So this week I have for you. All right.
- 1:29:14All right. I'm sorry about.
- 1:29:15Um so a little north of Gettysburg like five minutes
- 1:29:22outside of Gettysburg. Oh that's a nice.
- 1:29:24There is just a little town is called cashtown really.
- 1:29:28Even now do you know who you want to know why it's called
- 1:29:31cashtown, that's so interesting. Now they only accept cash.
- 1:29:40Yeah, I think it's just the the place we're talking about that
- 1:29:45only accepts cash but that's oh, wow.
- 1:29:50Look at the map and like where it is.
- 1:29:55It's so tiny. Yeah it's it's the God, it's
- 1:30:02like a step. Yeah, you can drive right
- 1:30:07through it. G.
- 1:30:15You know the names of nine of them?
- 1:30:16Yes, I know about I think not is a nice.
- 1:30:24I think I don't know nine. Yes.
- 1:30:31Goodness. Yeah, it's a Tiny Town.
- 1:30:33Like you go, you could drive right by it and just think
- 1:30:36you're in Gettysburg and I even believe that I.
- 1:30:39But anyway, I'm lucky. In the center of, I'm guessing
- 1:30:45is the center cashtown. Um, there is a hotel.
- 1:30:50So, is this like a ask you to talk about this cool, you know,
- 1:30:55someone who lives right next door and their pictures out.
- 1:31:02Yes. He is, I don't know.
- 1:31:07I don't like Gettysburg it really is.
- 1:31:11They're everywhere Park right next to it.
- 1:31:13Before I go down there, it's just so much.
- 1:31:17Like there's see this is exactly.
- 1:31:21Is this is the closest? I will get to talk here about
- 1:31:24Gettysburg and less Mmm. Yeah, unless we do like some
- 1:31:31type of like, I don't know, some filming thing and do like, you
- 1:31:35know what I mean. There might be like a ghost
- 1:31:36rolling down there. People keep doing that's as
- 1:31:39close as I get to talking. Gotta like, oh, fluff, up the
- 1:31:42energy, but of what happened? Like, Look, so apparently
- 1:31:56they're re-enactors that March down that street in front of the
- 1:32:00cashtown Inn. Like the mark shows to get you
- 1:32:06know, the Gettysburg Battlefield very intense.
- 1:32:17Okay. Oh goodness, gracious, not
- 1:32:21surprised. So, yeah, that's what I'm
- 1:32:24talking to. You have a friend Fran
- 1:32:26experience, haunt and it's apparently haunted.
- 1:32:29Nice, and yeah. And apparently, yeah, she's
- 1:32:38such, there's a little, there's a little kid that You see these
- 1:32:42walking down, not only her, but a lot of people who I don't like
- 1:32:46that, but I haven't seen them yet.
- 1:32:48But she has like another child is, but she seems to be but yes
- 1:32:55he just she sees them like I think she's like a small child,
- 1:33:01she's just really Gill and I'm going in the basement.
- 1:33:12Yes, especially because like the lines of, yes, look, as modern
- 1:33:18Time Has Come, they've chopped up this land.
- 1:33:21You know what I mean? Like, the same thing happened
- 1:33:24with, with Herb Baumeister, like he bought like what 18 acres and
- 1:33:27like, half of that has been sold off now.
- 1:33:30So, you like a farm and other places still like, How much was
- 1:33:37the cat? Like, you know, I'm like you
- 1:33:38look at like with the cash tenant cute little house but
- 1:33:39like how much of the area around that was also originally part of
- 1:33:43it. Yeah.
- 1:33:52Okay? So found out what you're able to
- 1:33:54do. That was part of it because I've
- 1:33:56seen pictures and it was just the cashtown Inn in the Rogue.
- 1:34:01Just straight up, dirt road, side of this has nothing to do
- 1:34:05with anything and I'm sure your friend will listen to what store
- 1:34:10across the street. I just want to know Let Brian
- 1:34:18know so I can now because I was raised in a city of like a hot
- 1:34:23million and a half. The she'll tell me it's so I
- 1:34:26don't understand why anybody would want to live somewhere
- 1:34:30where you can actually know everyone in town, sounds awful.
- 1:34:37I mean, Where I Live Now is the smallest town.
- 1:34:42I ever. I wouldn't I don't know.
- 1:34:44For me like a small town, actually, spit some tantric.
- 1:34:47That's probably the smallest. I'm just because I don't really
- 1:34:50sit and that's not cat. That's just in town.
- 1:34:53If you count the surrounding areas like the prettiest, like I
- 1:35:00need to see the light in the city.
- 1:35:02They think it's like 15, but if you count the surrounding areas
- 1:35:05because it's kind of smushed as well.
- 1:35:07Stay in the area you live in. I don't think I could go to
- 1:35:10Jessica crowded. Okay so this building I got this
- 1:35:27built in 1790 97 it is right whatever.
- 1:35:37Yeah so there So they had one Innkeeper.
- 1:35:50His name was Peter Micah Mark if it was that
- 1:36:12yes. Oh my God.
- 1:36:19But yeah, he's the one that coined it to be invisible again.
- 1:36:22Cash only, which has fallen asleep that everything you've
- 1:36:25cashed out Kevin at that meant they were accepting, like,
- 1:36:28silver, these cash? We just take cash here.
- 1:36:30Oh, it was good. I mean paper money so we
- 1:36:46definitely didn't. He want that southern money?
- 1:36:50Them. That can then be Confederate
- 1:36:54dollars. Don't count for nothing up here.
- 1:37:01I know he did. Actually never mind the federal
- 1:37:08dollars. Do count, Kesha Min was actually
- 1:37:12used for by Confederate soldiers.
- 1:37:15Like, mainly interesting. Yeah, he's like, they're like,
- 1:37:20yeah, give me that Confederate. Funny that your money is good.
- 1:37:22Here, please bring it here. Oh yeah, like a lot of
- 1:37:28Confederate soldiers officers, they stayed here at that job,
- 1:37:32man. Hey man, we don't support tree.
- 1:37:35And like a lot of famous Confederate name's Boba because
- 1:37:41my competitors here for the Confederacy, it's mainly because
- 1:37:49they it like the hotel if set, it's it's wrong, it's it's but
- 1:37:55it's set directly on the supply pipeline between Virginia and
- 1:37:59Gettysburg. So that's basically like that
- 1:38:04was like they're, they're stopping point right there for
- 1:38:08the Confederate soldiers. Um, know the seller in dust in
- 1:38:15it had, you know, different different things amenities for
- 1:38:20confederate. Guess they had be using Springs
- 1:38:24brick ovens if they wanted to like make bread.
- 1:38:29And it's like, it was, it was also used as a field hospital
- 1:38:35for soldiers who had wounds or who were dying out there as
- 1:38:40well. There's a little note.
- 1:38:47This is Laura, suggest that so many limbs were amputated.
- 1:38:52That the pile eclipse, the seller Windows preventing
- 1:38:55sunlight. Yeah.
- 1:39:02Yeah, well yeah, it's it has a very, very rich, has a rich
- 1:39:08history just like you had it. There are a lot of people that
- 1:39:11have seen her, also, in 1993, there's a, I don't know, there's
- 1:39:19a movie Gettysburg, There's a movie is called Gettysburg and a
- 1:39:25lot of the actors stayed at this hotel, too.
- 1:39:31It's just it's just, you know, your little side note looks like
- 1:39:33a lot of famous. Something many people stayed
- 1:39:36there. Hey, And also I read that, okay?
- 1:39:45It was featured in Ghost Hunters.
- 1:39:48That Ghost Adventures Ghost Hunters.
- 1:39:50So G. It is just is, just like the
- 1:39:56guys who, you know, who are risking their, they just okay,
- 1:40:00notice some things moving around and they caught some voices on
- 1:40:06the recording devices as well. Yeah, so there are there are a
- 1:40:15lot of ghost sightings are there a lot of?
- 1:40:19Yeah, I came across when accidentally while I was just
- 1:40:22looking at pictures a little bit.
- 1:40:25Sir. I know window.
- 1:40:27The middle window? Just a face in the middle
- 1:40:29window. Yeah.
- 1:40:31I don't like I don't like that but if you do, you guys have one
- 1:40:34with the guy upstairs in the window just looking down.
- 1:40:39Yes, yes. Oh okay, I'm here for it.
- 1:40:47Okay so I have a you know, since it's a hotel people read reviews
- 1:40:54about hotels I know, um, you and it's a, it's a, it's titled
- 1:41:03lovely in it really haunted and it's a five star review and it
- 1:41:10goes, I am my husband stayed. He's their vacation, we had
- 1:41:15taken a lot of peculiar pictures inside and out of this lovely in
- 1:41:18had a fantastic dinner there. Okay, first night, spent their
- 1:41:22Hertford steps, how in the hallway late at night from the
- 1:41:26That soldier who walks the Halls second night second night.
- 1:41:32Heard the footsteps. Again, they approached the door
- 1:41:35to our room and stopped and then a light knocking at the door.
- 1:41:41My husband and I were Sam and Anita vitamin knocking knocking.
- 1:41:47They heard footsteps inside our room.
- 1:41:51Listen, vampire rules do not apply a know.
- 1:41:55They say he's, I guess he's trying to be polite but he's
- 1:42:01like not see ghosts know Oh was the footsteps stopped?
- 1:42:10At the foot of our bed. Something began to lightly poke
- 1:42:15that mattress up and down, along with a light shaking of the
- 1:42:21mattress. I'm I, yeah.
- 1:42:25I and my husband were not doing this.
- 1:42:28We were laying perfectly still in a mattress, then the mattress
- 1:42:31began to Ripple. When you like when you drop a
- 1:42:35pedal, a pebble in a Then I began to feel someone lightly
- 1:42:40touched me on the shoulder and it was not my husband.
- 1:42:44We were not disappointed on the in dinner room nor haunting
- 1:42:50highly recommend this in PS. The pictures we took inside and
- 1:42:55in our room showed, several orbs and spirit seeing to Civil War
- 1:43:03July 1st, through 3rd. But yeah, that's it like you
- 1:43:17said, just knocking and just let yourself in and then jumped on
- 1:43:21the bed and everything. Click.
- 1:43:24No, this is my room. You guys are staying in my room.
- 1:43:29However, they were doing was jumping on the bed.
- 1:43:32Yes. Why it was wobbling.
- 1:43:34He's focused. I don't know what the Poke the
- 1:43:36bear was about. Oh no, we're not gonna talk
- 1:43:41about that. He was trying to do this this.
- 1:43:45So can I help you guys out to the oh my God.
- 1:44:04But yeah, I'm multiple multiple guests have reported coming back
- 1:44:07to the rooms to find out. Their suitcases have been packed
- 1:44:12and their television. I think it's a long turn it on
- 1:44:15and off and it will get out in the night.
- 1:44:18The stampeding sounds of army horses.
- 1:44:23And only after that is done. Don't worry about like dogs.
- 1:44:33Get out. Get out my room now.
- 1:44:37Since the owners themselves have witnessed shadowy apparitions.
- 1:44:48Disappear. Right from in front of their
- 1:44:51eyes. Now, like there it states on
- 1:45:00here that the like there's a lot of like ghost tours but the
- 1:45:03cashtown like there goes a lot of course is Gettysburg but like
- 1:45:07there are a lot of ghost tours in Gettysburg but the cashtown
- 1:45:10Inn isn't in the Gettysburg. Ghost tour route.
- 1:45:15So if you guys want to Ghost tour.
- 1:45:19That's not in Gettysburg. Cashtown Inn go there cuz
- 1:45:25Especially was a July 1st with somebody walking up and down the
- 1:45:28hall. Let me know what happens because
- 1:45:35I mean, I don't like that. Oh my God.
- 1:45:40That's all I'm saying. Like don't disturb my rest.
- 1:45:44That's I don't like it. There's like multiple pictures
- 1:45:53of that like, horrible face. No.
- 1:45:56Thank you. Please don't come in here and
- 1:46:00bug me like what you call it? Just thank you.
- 1:46:07It's the words for what it really is.
- 1:46:15Yeah it is. It's like it's like an an
- 1:46:20ultrasound photo. You know what I mean?
- 1:46:24Like a baby and it's just yeah. Now, when I look at TripAdvisor
- 1:46:31and but yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of activity there,
- 1:46:33if you're staying there and you probably won't be disappointed.
- 1:46:38Now, that one you at all? That's reset 2005.
- 1:46:43Very cool. Yeah, check him out.
- 1:46:45It's it's Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:46:55Because I mean, you travel for work so you're everywhere.
- 1:47:00It's another child. Oh yeah, I haven't been to any
- 1:47:11other old houses that were built around that time so and And she,
- 1:47:19I think she said her house is old as hell too.
- 1:47:21So I'm pretty sure that little boy, but a little child, that
- 1:47:25the people manage to make yourself or is being a part of
- 1:47:28being kind of commercial 2020 hotel.
- 1:47:32In this is a very small looking place that can't have that many
- 1:47:35rooms, you know, so they need that money.
- 1:47:45Okay well it's a so that's good that they made it.
- 1:47:48Yeah it's not only and I think it's a general store to is there
- 1:47:52is a story so you know other things.
- 1:47:55Yeah. So Your quest to talk about all
- 1:48:01of haunted. Pennsylvania.
- 1:48:03Oh that's that's basically that's all we got.
- 1:48:10Listen, if you want to be complete I am working on it.
- 1:48:13Like you eventually it all covering.
- 1:48:15I'm not touching Gettysburg everywhere else.
- 1:48:19Thanks so much for listening. We hope you had a good lesson
- 1:48:24this week with us and we will finish Next week conversation
- 1:48:30about the horrors of Joseph James.
- 1:48:34D'Angelo thanks for all the people who are constantly asking
- 1:48:37me when the next podcast would be.
- 1:48:38You don't understand, but it does make us feel like it's
- 1:48:41important to you. If you ask when we're gone, you
- 1:48:44know what I mean? Like, you care that we weren't
- 1:48:46here. And thank you so much for losing
- 1:48:55it. Really does.
- 1:48:58Yes, we love it. We love it here.