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Former Police Officer Is Arrested As Suspect In Decades-Old ‘Golden State Killer’ Case

Former Police Officer Is Arrested As Suspect In Decades-Old ‘Golden State Killer’ Case

Former Police Officer Is Arrested As Suspect In Decades-Old ‘Golden State Killer’ Case

According to multiple sources, police have arrested a former police officer who is suspected of being the “Golden State Killer,” one of California’s most famous serial killers and rapists. Local and federal task force apprehended the suspect late Tuesday evening. The “Golden State Killer” is believed to have killed at least 12 people, raped at least 45 people and committed multiple home burglaries in the 1970s and 1980s in crime sprees throughout California. The terror started with burglaries and rapes in the Sacramento suburbs in summer 1976. 72-year-old Citrus Heights resident, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held without bail, according to Sacramento County jail records.

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