The Cop Who Terrorized California for 12 Years — And Lived Next Door
He broke into homes while you slept. He bound couples. He killed 13 people. Then he vanished for 32 years — and mowed his lawn in a Sacramento suburb.
Joseph James DeAngelo was a police officer. He was also the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the Golden State Killer. For more than a decade he moved across California. Then DNA from a discarded tissue and a family tree on a genealogy site finally put a name on the mask.
Alexander Lawson tells the full path: the badge, the nights, the cold case, and the 2018 arrest that ended one of America’s longest…
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