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[Applause] hello [Applause] [Music] victims lined up in a courtroom to confront joseph de angelo the
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so-called golden state killer my safety was shattered as a masked man d'angelo yielding a knife told me he would kill
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me if i didn't do what he demanded calling him the devil incarnate and a sick monster
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the golden state killer is the most prolific serial predator in the nation he attacked across the
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state from sacramento down to orange county across 15 different jurisdictions he was the boogeyman he was the man in
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the bushes that we didn't know who he was and we didn't know when he was going to
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strike again standing up in front of me was this man with a ski mask on holding a large
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butcher knife it was sheer terror my sister was the golden state killer's final victim
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what's fascinating to me about this case is rich with so many clues michelle mcnamara had a passion for true
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crime michelle was hot on the trail of the golden state killer she was writing a
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book about him and she was a mom and a wife to a comedian patton oswalt my wife is 10 times smarter than me she
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is thinking and operating on this way elevated level from where i am but she had a mind
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for the details of true crime the way that other people have for baseball or me for films
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she could recall the details of pretty much every late 20th and 21st century crime it was
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just in her head that's why i just don't think this is like pure sexual sadism i think there
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was something else she had such good insight and i think it's because other investigators had
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trusted her they told her things that weren't in some of the original files she was tenacious about investigating
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the case she thought she was getting real close to finding him we found the needle in the haystack
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d'angelo i want you to look at me i want you to look at me d'angelo and i want you to remember
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what i have to say in the early morning of july 17 1976 my life was changed forever i was 15 years old
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i was 16 years old at the time my god we were just high school kids he raped me stole my innocence
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my security threatened my life threatened the lives of my family i was 13 years old
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you hid in plain sight but you are now visible for everyone to despise close enough
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the devil can keep you company in your prison cell as he gnaws away at whatever soul you
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have left [Music] you