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Golden State Killer: 40-Year Manhunt

Golden State Killer: 40-Year Manhunt

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The Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker. Fifty rapes and thirteen murders across California between 1974 and 1986. Michelle McNamara's obsession and posthumous book. The GEDmatch genealogy breakthrough in April 2018. Joseph James DeAngelo, former police officer, hiding in Citrus Heights. The 2020 guilty plea in a courtroom parking lot. The victims' impact statements. The cold case DNA revolution that started here. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai ノンフィクション犯罪 社会科学
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  • The Man Nobody Caught: How DeAngelo Hid in Plain Sight for Forty Years

    The Man Nobody Caught: How DeAngelo Hid in Plain Sight for Forty Years
    2026/09/01
    (00:00:00) The Man Nobody Caught: How DeAngelo Hid in Plain Sight for Forty Years
    (00:00:32) Where It Started
    (00:02:13) The East Area Rapist
    (00:03:38) Moving South
    (00:04:56) The Years That Passed
    (00:05:54) Michelle McNamara and the Name That Wouldn't Come
    (00:06:48) The GEDmatch Breakthrough
    (00:08:18) The Arrest
    (00:08:58) The Courtroom Parking Lot
    (00:09:46) The Victims Speak
    (00:10:48) What This Case Built

    For twelve years, Joseph James DeAngelo committed some of the most brutal crimes in California history — while working as a sworn police officer. In this chapter of the Golden State Killer story, we follow the full arc of his crimes from their disturbing origins in Visalia's Central Valley to the coordinated sexual assaults that paralyzed Sacramento, and finally to the murder spree that terrorized Southern California under a third name: the Original Night Stalker.

    DeAngelo didn't just evade investigators. He had a radio. He knew how stakeouts worked. He knew how police thought — because he was one. When Visalia detectives tried to warn Sacramento that their East Area Rapist and the Visalia Ransacker were the same man, they were dismissed as small-town cops chasing shadows. That decision cost years and lives.

    This episode examines the structural failures that let one predator move across six jurisdictions undetected: the siloed investigations, the agencies that didn't share, the DNA evidence that sat in databases for decades with no match. It's a story about how institutional blind spots can shield the most dangerous people in a community — and how a former police officer became California's most prolific violent criminal hiding in a Sacramento suburb called Citrus Heights.

    From the first murder in Visalia in 1975 to the cold case DNA revolution that finally ended the manhunt, this is the chapter that explains not just what DeAngelo did — but how he got away with it for so long.

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    14 分
  • GEDmatch, Genealogy, and the Arrest That Changed Cold Cases Forever

    GEDmatch, Genealogy, and the Arrest That Changed Cold Cases Forever
    2026/08/31
    (00:00:00) GEDmatch, Genealogy, and the Arrest That Changed Cold Cases Forever
    (00:01:38) The East Area Rapist
    (00:03:10) The Original Night Stalker
    (00:04:48) Michelle McNamara and the Long Obsession
    (00:05:48) The GEDmatch Breakthrough
    (00:07:22) The Guilty Plea and the Victims' Words
    (00:09:14) What This Case Changed

    One arrest changed how law enforcement solves cold cases everywhere. In April 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo — a former police officer hiding in plain sight in Citrus Heights — was identified as the Golden State Killer through a landmark DNA genealogy match on GEDmatch. It was the moment that closed a forty-year manhunt and opened a new era of criminal investigation.

    This episode follows the full arc of the crimes: from the obsessive, unsettling burglaries of the Visalia Ransacker in 1974, through the fifty rapes attributed to the East Area Rapist across Sacramento and Contra Costa counties, to the murders carried out under the name the Original Night Stalker in Southern California. Three separate investigations. Three separate names. One man — and decades lost because detectives from different jurisdictions refused to share what they knew.

    We examine why the case resisted solution for so long: the failure of inter-agency cooperation, DeAngelo's insider knowledge as a working cop in the burglary unit, and the absence of any investigative tool capable of connecting the dots. Then we trace what finally changed — Paul Holes's relentless pursuit after retirement, Michelle McNamara's posthumous book I'll Be Gone in the Dark, and the GEDmatch genealogy database that gave investigators the lead they needed.

    DeAngelo pleaded guilty in 2020. The victims' impact statements that followed are among the most powerful in the history of American true crime. This is the case that proved genetic genealogy works — and made clear it was only the beginning.

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    12 分
  • The East Area Rapist: Inside the Crimes That Paralyzed Sacramento

    The East Area Rapist: Inside the Crimes That Paralyzed Sacramento
    2026/08/30
    (00:00:00) The East Area Rapist: Inside the Crimes That Paralyzed Sacramento
    (00:00:58) The East Area Rapist
    (00:03:03) The Warning Nobody Took Seriously
    (00:04:18) He Moves South
    (00:05:58) The Man in Citrus Heights
    (00:06:59) Paul Holes and the GEDmatch Breakthrough
    (00:08:53) The Plea and the Reckoning
    (00:10:12) What This Case Changed

    In 1976, a masked man began moving through Sacramento's eastern suburbs with a discipline that stunned investigators. He cut phone lines. He brought his own bindings. He studied neighborhood routines for weeks before striking. Between 1976 and 1979, the man who would later be identified as Joseph James DeAngelo — the Golden State Killer — raped more than fifty women across Sacramento and Contra Costa counties, leaving behind a trail of psychological devastation as calculated as any physical crime.

    This chapter of the story reveals the machinery behind the attacks: how DeAngelo used his background in law enforcement to monitor police radio, anticipate stakeouts, and exploit the boundaries between rival jurisdictions. Detectives from Visalia recognised his signature and warned Sacramento investigators. Those warnings were dismissed. Six separate district attorney offices were eventually connected to his crimes, each working in isolation — and the gaps between them became his greatest protection.

    By 1979, the East Area Rapist went silent in Northern California. He hadn't stopped. He'd moved three hundred miles south to Goleta and Santa Barbara County, where the rapes gave way to murders. Thirteen people killed. The Original Night Stalker, as he was then known, was treated as an entirely different unknown subject — a separate case, a separate file, a separate mystery. Without DNA technology and without cross-jurisdictional communication, he remained invisible for decades.

    This episode examines the structural failures — institutional, geographic, and technological — that allowed one of America's most prolific violent criminals to operate across California for more than a decade without being caught.

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    13 分
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