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[Music] [Applause] hello [Applause] i'm gonna kill you [Music] victims lined up in a courtroom to
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confront joseph deangelo the so-called golden state killer my safety was shattered as a masked man
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the angela yielding a knife told me he would kill me if i didn't do it he demanded
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calling him the devil incarnate and a sick monster the golden state killer is the most
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prolific serial predator in the nation he attacked across the state from sacramento down to orange county
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across 15 different jurisdictions he was the boogeyman he was the man in the bushes that we didn't know who he
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was and we didn't know when he was gonna strike again standing up in front of me
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was this man with a ski mask on holding a large butcher knife it was sheer terror
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my sister was the golden state killer's final victim what's fascinating to me about this case
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is rich with so many clues michelle mcnamara had a passion for true crime michelle was hot on the trail the golden
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state killer she was writing a book about him and she was a mom and a wife to a comedian patton oswalt
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my wife is ten times smarter than me she is thinking and operating on this way elevated level from where i am but she
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had a mind for the details of true crime the way that other people have for baseball or
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me for films 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 trusted her they told
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her things that weren't in some of the original files she was tenacious about investigating the case she thought she
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was getting real close to finding him we found the needle in the haystack d'angelo i want you to look at me
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i want you to look at me deangelo and i want you to remember what i have to say in the early morning
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of july 17 1976 my life was changed forever i was 15 years old i was 16 years old at the time
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my god we were just high school kids he raped me stole my innocence my security threatened my life
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threatened the lives of my family i was 13 years old you hid in plain sight but you are now
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visible for everyone to despise clothes and poor the devil can keep you company in your
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prison cells as he nods away at whatever soul you have left [Applause] [Music] [Music]
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oh [Music] oh miss sperman you said you'd call me you bastard patton oswalt is a comedian and actor
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known to millions of fans she said i was inconsiderate condescending that that i look like a
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lesbian art teacher and a voice known to millions of kids scallops taste check spoons down
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good too much salt good yet he would tell you it was his first wife michelle mcnamara who was the true star of the
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family something patton sensed as soon as they began dating i've met someone who is so much
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so above my punching class in terms of intelligence and and wisdom and empathy i was done for
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she took a little bit of convincing but convince her he did in two thousand five it was just like oh
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this is amazing patton learned his new bride had some unique interests you know michelle was
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always a writer she had published short stories and poetry but she was also always just fascinated with
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people and just the messiness of a life michelle was captivated by true crime stories especially cold cases in 2006
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she started the blog true crime diary where she profiled both recent and long forgotten crimes
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when she started that blog you know she was just off to the races the pair welcomed daughter alice in 2009
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but even as motherhood took center stage michelle hunted for cases and clues once everyone was asleep she was on that
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laptop there is a breed of men and women that are just wired to pursue these people and
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keep going you know when other people would have gone i i gotta go live my life soon michelle's online quest brought her
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face to face with one of the worst villains she'd never heard of when you hear zodiac killer
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you know what it is you hear jack the ripper you know what it is billy jensen is a true crime journalist
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in southern california you hear east area rapist slash original night stalker nobody knows what that is the east area
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rapist original night stalker iran's for short not a very memorable name but he's
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one of the most prolific criminals california has ever seen she started looking at the devastation that this guy
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wrought you're taunting the police you're taunting the population and you you're never caught michelle mcnamara
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had found her nemesis paul haynes is a researcher who worked with michelle michelle called herself a citizen sleuth
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what does that mean a private citizen who's not in law enforcement and who's not a private
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investigator that that is drawn into a crime and does their own investigating based on you know the tools that are
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available to them michelle started hitting the message boards of fellow online sleuths hunting for everything
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she could learn about iran's over one horrific decade he'd covered a lot of ground starting as a rapist in the
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sacramento area in 1976. his immo typically is to break into a house in the middle of
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night and confront a sleeping couple by shining a flashlight into the eyes of the female insisting
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that she tie up the male then irons moved to southern california where he used the same mo to break in and rape
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but now he'd leave no witnesses all told over 50 women were raped and 13 people murdered before the attacker
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stopped in 1986 and seemingly vanished and she began working on a feature for los angeles magazine michelle wrote an
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article about iran's in 2013. she had details from bits of information she gleaned online and more explicit details
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from investigators on the case the odd acronym iran's was not a name many knew so michelle decided to rebrand him
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hoping to give him a higher profile working with our editor at los angeles magazine they said you know what this
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golden state killer it shows just the breadth of him having hit northern california southern california
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and then sort of right in the middle with that irons became the golden state killer and michelle would become a book
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author signing a deal to write about him patton says they sacrificed family time
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so michelle could travel extensively by herself to retrace the steps of the killer
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it's one thing to read it on a piece of paper but to actually walk it every day and see
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businesses and houses that were there that are still there you know changes the writing so i would go out of my way
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to try to give that to her so you were really the watson to her homes yeah except watson was way smarter than me i
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why if if i was to watch into her homes i was the kind of watson they just went and got like coffee or can you go get me
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a turkey burger please fine i'll get a turkey burger and even i would get that order wrong
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the obsession of hunting a serial killer took its toll on michelle and i'd go back in the in the back
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office and michelle would be there just like in tears because some road she had gone
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down had not panned out and then it's like i now have to start back again from zero and she did picking up new
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promising leads in her hunt for the golden state killer by april 2016 michelle had been driving herself hard
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hoping for a breakthrough on the night of the 20th she was exhausted from it all i just remember
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this so clearly saying you know tomorrow just sleep till you wake up the next day around mid-morning patton
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checked on michelle she was snoring i remember i was laughing like oh she's snoring
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and then i um i brought her i went and got an americano left it on her bedside by early afternoon when michelle still
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hadn't gotten up patton went to check on her again she had she was dead and i tried
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reviving her and it was just you know and then everything after everything after that to me is it just i remember
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it as like screaming and vomiting and emt guys and friends michelle mcnamara had died at the age of 46.
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it was it was april 21st the spring's coming it's all good and then literally within the space of three
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hours just annihilation like like you're this world that you're seeing in front of you
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is just you know cinders it's just all it just cinders i want to talk to her so badly
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i miss her so much and i'm just sad all the time when michelle died so suddenly her
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husband patton oswalt and seven-year-old daughter alice were devastated so when oswalt won an emmy for writing a variety
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special just five months later the moment was bittersweet i'm not trying to say that this is meaningless but it
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really does everything seems like the lights have been turned down 50 percent on
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everything since she's gone patton was still waiting for the la coroner's office to find the
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cause of michelle's death but he'd reached an important decision her book needed to be finished it so consumed her
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life and it was so much a part of her i thought she was one of the nicest people
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i had ever had the opportunity to meet larry crompton spent decades with the contra costa county sheriff's department
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michelle met with him in the hope of tapping into his wealth of knowledge about the monster she was chasing
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he would walk through the area just like a normal person so nobody would notice him crompton tells the story of a white
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man of average height and slim athletic build in his early 20s who stalked his victims before striking though they
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never knew it we'd go in the house when the people weren't there and set that house up and
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you would leave a window unlocked or a door unlocked so that he could go in michelle learned the rapist would also
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hide tools for his attack one thing that the rapist would do is leave shoelaces or whatever to tie the people up with
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when the rapist returned to attack he'd come armed with a knife or gun wearing a
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ski mask and gloves he would blindfold the victims and after tying them he would take a
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towel and tear it up and use that for a blindfold within a year the rapist crisscrossed northern california
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striking at least 22 times a few sketches were released based on brief glimpses by eyewitnesses on the street
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as he got away every time that knack for avoiding capture haunted michelle he struck so often he hit so many times
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it was so frequent today anne-marie schubert is the district attorney of sacramento county
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but back in 1976 she was just a local 12 year old i have very vivid memories of what
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what he did to this community each night they patrolled the neighborhoods of sacramento county's east side
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you have people who are scared this is a community where they want to lock their
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doors paul holes was a cold case investigator with the da's office in larry crompton's old county and now
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they're having locksmiths come out to install deadbolts people were going and buying guns
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michelle had flown to meet holes as well that first day we spent probably six hours in the car
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between you know in the car and getting out and looking at the various scenes that i took her to
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to catch him michelle had to understand him for the golden state killer it seemed to be about the notoriety
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he had complete control over this community and he thrived off that he thrived off the media attention i'm
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really scared in fact he took cues from the press initially he'd only attacked women who
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were alone but then the newspaper mentioned that he had never hit a place with a man in the
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house he was a challenge to him that was a challenge and that's when he started with the men
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immediately the rapist started targeting couples and he adjusted his mo as he went
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after waking the pair he'd insist the female tie up the male then he would bind the female and then
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reinforce the bindings in the mail he'd lull the couple into thinking he was just there to rob them he would ask the
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victims where the money was where the female's purse was he would ask the female to accompany him to show him
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where it was as soon as the couple was separated the rapist would set his true and terrifying
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plan in motion he would retie the female in the living room of the house he would return to the mail and stack
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dishes on the male's back and he would tell the male if you move i'll hear these dishes rattle and i'll kill
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everything in the house immobilized and emasculated the man was then forced to lie there listening to
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the rape occurring a room away how a man can deal with that knowing that he could be the reason for his family to
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die and then in his mind no but i can't do anything i have to shut up i can't save anybody for
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him to live with that very very very difficult the rapist toyed with his victims often
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breaking off mid-attack and wandering into the kitchen he would go in he would eat food in the house he would take
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things where that weren't necessarily worth a lot but they would be worth something to
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the individuals when it was over the rapist slipped out silently leaving his victims bound and
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blindfolded afraid to move for hours one victim remembers all too well what is he going to murder us is going
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to kill us what's he going to do to us find out about michelle's trips with paul holes to the various crime scenes
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on facebook at 48 hours [Music] the identity of the golden state killer is a mystery that kept true crime rider
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and amateur detective michelle mcnamara up all night you know she was filled with angst for
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the survivors for the families michelle had spoken to many survivors women like jane carson sandler
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she was the rapist's fifth victim you're always looking over your left shoulder always jane's horrifying ordeal began
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shortly before dawn in october 1976. her husband had just left for work leaving jane then a student nurse and
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air force reserve captain in their bed my son he was three years old he came and got in bed with me to snuggle and
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right after that i heard the garage door closed so i knew my husband was gone and within three minutes i heard someone
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running down the hall and they had a flashlight in their hand a man wearing a ski mask and black
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leather gloves burst into her room holding a large butcher knife what was going through your head
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what's he doing here hopefully he's just going to rob us and leave so i said take our
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money take whatever you want and the minute i started to say something he would say in his clenched teeth
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shut up or i will kill you he then proceeded to take shoelaces and tie our hands our wrists and our ankles
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and then he gagged us and blindfolded us both of us just fear fear when the intruder untied her ankles jane
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realized he was going to rape her but jane was focused on something else when i went to lean next to my
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three-year-old son he was gone he was gone so when the rape took place i wasn't paying any attention to it because all i
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was thinking about is where's my son after the rape the attacker kept going in and out of her bedroom
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and at one point i leaned again and my son was back next to me so we put him back
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and that was such a relief because i knew he was alive but the rapist wasn't gone jane could hear him in the kitchen
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rattling pots and pans and then he would come back in the bedroom and say don't you make a move or i'll come back
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in here and kill you finally after what seemed to jain like an eternity there was silence
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and i thought we've got to get out of here so hobbled around the backyard to the gate
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in the front of the house and then just screamed for a neighbor jane and her son survived but the
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carefree life her family had known did not i was afraid is he going to come back
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is he still stalking me you know as he lived down the street did you ever think that it would happen
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to you never ever my mom always said she's too old i was too young we wouldn't be victims but the rapist would
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prove them wrong in november 1977 13 year old margaret wardlow would become one of the rapists
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youngest victims i woke up to this flashlight in my face i saw him in a mask i had my hands tied behind my back
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the attacker left margaret's room but she soon heard him upstairs in their kitchen margaret knew from newspaper
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accounts that the rapist would use plates as an alarm system placing them on the backs of household members that
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were not his intended target i knew if he came into my room he was going to rape my mom
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and if he went into my mom's room he was going to rape me and he went into my mom's room
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the intruder raped margaret but in her youthful defiance she refused to give him what she thought he really wanted
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you didn't want to show him you were scared i didn't want to show him i was scared i knew he got off on
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scaring people and having the control of fear in fact the rapist would often call his
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victims after the attack investigators recorded one of his bone-chilling phone calls
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[Applause] in 1977 investigators held a series of town hall meetings and in one of those meetings a man stood
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up and said that if he ever comes to my house i'll kill him that he would protect his wife protect his family
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just months later that man and his wife were attacked the rapist was probably at
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that meeting disguised as just another concerned citizen desperate to capture him
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investigators literally chased down thousands of leads larry crompton went through the names of
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6 000 paroled rapists did you feel like you were constantly going down rabbit holes oh yes there
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were names that would come up that really looked good and you would work them and
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work them and work them and nothing the rapes in northern california stopped abruptly in 1979 with the attacker
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seemingly vanishing from the area but the nightmare was about to begin in southern california
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[Music] i definitely think there's something about the housing thing that seems very
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interesting and there did seem to be a lot of like new houses around where he hit um and a lot of
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houses for sale in july 1981 a realtor walked into a home in santa barbara county and made a
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grisly discovery inside were the bodies of sherry domingo and her boyfriend greg sanchez
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sherry had been bound and bludgeoned greg sanchez had been shot and beaten i've always had this
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this image in my head of what her last moments were like the fear the absolute terror that she had to be
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going through debbie domingo sheri's daughter was only 15 at the time to this day she lives with that painful
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image and with regrets and the last thing i said to her was why don't you just stay out of my life
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and i carried a lot of guilt for a long time because of the last things that i said
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to her debbie says their relationship had been turbulent in the weeks before the
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murders she and i were fighting just like you wouldn't believe she was doing her best
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to be a good mom she had never really dealt with a headstrong teenager and you were a headstrong teenager i was
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i was pushing the envelope pretty bad when her mom tried to lay down some house rules debbie decided to run away
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she'd been gone for about three weeks when she got a call from a neighbor and she said debbie you need to come home
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what were you told at the time about what happened to your mom and greg the best answer i ever got was
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someone broke into the house and killed them i resigned myself to never ever knowing
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what really happened debbie domingo had no way of knowing that her mother and greg's murders were
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the latest in a string of unsolved murders across southern california over the span of a year and a half three
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other couples and a woman were killed in their homes all in a strikingly similar
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brutal fashion in december 1979 dr robert offerman and his girlfriend deborah manning had been
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murdered in goleta in march 1980 lyman and charlene smith had been found dead in ventura
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five months later keith and patrice harrington had been killed in dana point and in february 1981 manuela withheld
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was found bludgeoned to death in irvine so you had a hunch that the southern california homicides were related to the
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east area rapist yes when larry crompton who'd investigated the rapes up north first heard about the
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murders he knew almost immediately it was the same suspect i had no proof but we looked at the reports and said it
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is the same the victims were treated the same way and tied up the same way crompton had always suspected the rapist
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would escalate to murder we knew that he wanted to kill but all he needed was the
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justification that came after two couples in a row managed to escape during an attack the assailant would
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never let that happen again the next time he murdered and that's what he did after that
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even though he was sure that southern california was now under attack by the same suspect crompton couldn't convince
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the different jurisdictions that their murders were all connected one of the problems we had back then is
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that law enforcement agencies did not work together and very little information went from
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one to the other michelle mcnamara believed the suspect used this to his advantage moving from county to county
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killing without mercy this was a crazed horrible psychopath he was just obviously
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very very angry the killer seemed to take a five-year hiatus after 1981 but in may 1986 he resurfaced again in
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irvine at another house that was for sale everybody always wants to know why you
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know why janelle michelle cruz's sister 18 year old janelle cruz was the killer's youngest
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and last known murder victim i got a phone call and it was one of my girlfriends and she
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said your sister was murdered michelle learned that janelle had asked a male friend to keep her company that
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night maybe she was scared because she felt like maybe somebody was watching her and
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he said that they heard noises they heard noises she said well maybe it's just you know a cat outside
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and they just went back to talking and where he ended up having to leave and go home for the night that noise that she
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heard that night is probably accurate he probably was in the side yard larry montgomery was the lead investigator on
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janelle's case back in 1986. what state was she in she had been bludgeoned badly
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on the face she was on her back in a position that looked like it's possible she had been tied up it looked like
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she'd been sexually assaulted montgomery's investigation into the murder was intense still it went nowhere
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but in 1996 the advent of dna technology provided a break in the cold case they were able to find dna and
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discovered that the dna from janelle cruz's case matches the dna in the whitun case five
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years earlier and then they started getting hits on other dna in ventura county santa barbara county a
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year later investigator paul holt's testing on the northern california rape kits connected the rapes to each other
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but the most important forensic discovery came in 2001 when the murders were finally connected to the rapes
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officially confirming what larry crompton had long suspected what was it like for you
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to get the confirmation that your hunch was right it settled a lot in my mind and i really
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had a feeling that yes now they're going to catch them what followed was a concerted effort among all jurisdictions
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to bring the violent rapist and killer to justice he could go right up against almost this
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house here that erica hutchcraft from the orange county da's sex crimes unit worked on the case for over a decade
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i thought when i first looked into the cases that it was like something you would study in a criminology course and
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it was horrifying but at the same time you think oh i can make a difference and contribute to the solving of the case
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erica became consumed by this case just like michelle i have never been the same since i
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started working in these cases it's like an obsession you know so it's it's overwhelming at times but it does
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change your life and this case has even changed the law in california since 2009 largely due to
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the efforts of bruce harrington the brother of one of the murder victims all adults arrested or charged with a felony
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in california must submit a dna sample for inclusion in the state database california maintains the third largest
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dna database in the world but investigators got no hits for the golden state killer it seemed he had managed to
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even elude technology but in 2018 that would all change i believe that it's time for his reign of terror
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to end [Music] [Music] the great tragedy of this case to me is that it's not better known and frankly
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it should be solved i mean it just should be in june 2016 two months after michelle
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mcnamara's death the fbi marked the 40th anniversary of the golden state killer's
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first attack by announcing a renewed investigation today we're going to launch a national campaign to help identify the
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east area rapist golden state killer all this attention now is is being um placed on this case
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isn't there a piece of you that says it's been 40 yes years oh yes why now right why now but i'm glad now
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after four decades police felt the pressure of time running out all the witnesses all the original
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investigators everybody's going to start passing away it's now or never they also still believed the killer's
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dna profile could be the key to unlocking this mystery there's nothing that you can do to change your dna it is
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the greatest tool of identification we've ever had i think they have his dna it's a needle in a haystack with the
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needle's in there somewhere and it's our job to find it we're all so dedicated and we work so
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much on this case and we um it becomes your life sorry it's okay why do you think it gets to you
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um because i care you know i care i don't want to ever stop caring if you stop caring then what good are you as a
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detective or a cop or a human being nine months after michelle mcnamara passed away the los angeles county
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coroner released the cause of her death a combination of powerful prescription drugs along with an undiagnosed heart
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condition once she had passed everything in me was dead except that was the one spark of like life force left in me of a
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moving forward life force is finish her book in february 2018 oswald saw all those years of michelle's hard work
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finally come to fruition with the release of her book now i'm optimistic i know that it sounds
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crazy to be optimistic but i am in your gut do you think he'll be caught in my gut i think he is going to be
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caught because of what michelle did and because of what all the cops did before her
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i hope then incredibly in april 2018 almost two years to the day after michelle's death
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there was stunning news from sacramento police in california believe they've cracked a 44 year old serial murder case
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the answer has always been in sacramento district attorney anne marie schubert for over 40 years
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countless victims have waited for justice joseph james deangelo 72 a cop in the 1970s was arrested at his
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home he'd been fired from the police force in 1979 after he was accused of shoplifting
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a hammer and dog repellent divorced his ex-wife is a lawyer he has three adult daughters
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he was never on any list that i'm aware of new technology was d'angelo's downfall
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the golden state killer's genetic profile had been plugged into the genealogical website
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gedmatch.com and it returned a link to genetic materials stored there by one of d'angelo's relatives
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we're dealing with distant relatives and we're literally having to follow trees looking and then find
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individuals within that pool of people that fit the criteria that we know about the offender roughly his age
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geographic locations at certain points and times because we know where the offender is when he's attacking
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physical aspects after painstaking work investigators landed on d'angelo as a likely suspect but still needed his dna
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to make a positive match they hit pay dirt after collecting a sample of deangelo's dna from something
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he discarded in public and at that point we knew we had our man and it turns out their man had been
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hiding in plain sight living in citrus heights the same city where jane carson sandler was attacked in the 1970s
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i'm so glad it's over i mean it is such a a relief to finally after all this time know that
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he's behind bars and that's where he belongs he needs to pay for his crimes he's just destroyed
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so many families for margaret wardlow d'angelo's arrest brought joy after a very long wait oh i was just so happy i
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haven't been able to wipe the smile off my face i called debbie domingo and she just couldn't believe it she was the
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first voice that that told me that they got him you thought you were so smart but you were
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wrong you're not getting away with this [Music] in june 2020 deangelo cut a deal
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appearing in court to plead guilty to 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping with robbery more than the
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first degree how do you plead in order to take the death penalty off the table he also admitted to over 160
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uncharged crimes a rape of jane doe 11 october 13 1978 including dozens of rapes
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you admit or deny sir i admit all right this week his rape victims and the survivors of those he murdered finally
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had their day in court [Music] my name is chris pedretti offering statements at d'angelo's
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sentencing hearing as the evening began on december 18 1976 i was a normal 15 year old kid
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he raped me repeatedly at three different times that night i thought i was going to die
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the next morning december 19 i woke up knowing i would never be a child again good morning your honor
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my name is peggy i never got over the thoughts that he might return that he may have kept track
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of me after 42 years i still sleep with two phones and the keys on the bed when my husband is away
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i still don't feel safe inside of a locked house your honor i'm gay hardwick as the court heard from the women
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deangelo attacked joe d'angelo attacked us while we were sleeping he kidnapped me from my bed the men
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deangelo victimized got their turn as well my name was robert hartwicken this is my beautiful wife gay
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tied me up in darth vader i could do nothing and i was a victim because i would have
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to live for the rest of my life knowing i was homeless d'angelo sat stone-faced throughout the
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statements my name is jane carson-sandler d'angelo i want you to look at me deliberately never glancing in the
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direction of his victims i may have been one of your victims d'angelo but you know what
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now i'm a survivor thriver and i've had a great life i put my fears aside i finished my nursing degree at cal
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state the same year of your attack and then i spent 30 years in the air force achieving the rank of colonel
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today i am in the room with the pathetic excuse of a man who will now finally be held accountable for
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his actions forty years in the making sherry domingo's daughter debbie finally got to
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express her hope for her mother's killer if i had my way he would be shivering blindfolded naked
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and exposed every moment from now on i'll settle for caged shackled humiliated michelle cruz's sister janelle was
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deangelo's final murder victim from now on while he is withering away in prison i'll be spending my days fishing on the
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river enjoying my family and grandchild eating out relaxing in the comfort of my
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home for free i will be free of the fear he took me through for so long i am patricia cosper
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joe raped my mom when i was seven the daughter of one of deangelo's victims had a special mention in her own
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statement for a certain author who was on a mission until the end michelle mcnamara
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crime rider didn't give up and law enforcement did not give up i see her as a survivor
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because she got him caught her spirit survived after all these weeks voices had finally
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fallen silent d'angelo himself found his i've listened all your statements each one of them
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and i'm really sorry everyone ever thank you as the book closes on the golden state
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killer a new chapter begins for the survivors and now finally the end of this trauma is here today
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right now i start my new journey today the devil loses and justice wins today i am not just a broken survivor of
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a cold case murder today i am a victor in the battle between good and evil we talk about our physical health she
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was just a little spitfire there are 17 impact wounds it's passionate it's premeditated it's cold
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must be some madman out there 48 hours next on cbs [Music]