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The Badge and the Blood: How DNA Caught the Golden State Killer | The Missing Files
In this episode of The Missing Files, host Una Graham dissects the harrowing case of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer. This narrative explores how a decorated police officer used his badge to hunt monsters while secretly becoming one of them. We trace DeAngelo’s journey from a traumatic childhood in New York and Germany through his service in the Navy and his career as a burglary-unit officer in California. The episode details his reign of terror across multiple decades, beginning with the Visalia Ransacker burglaries, escalating to the East Area Rapist crimes in…
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