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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 Night He Was Watching: How One DNA Upload Ended 40 Years of Terror

    The Night He Was Watching: How One DNA Upload Ended 40 Years of Terror
    2026/09/09
    (00:00:00) The Night He Was Watching: How One DNA Upload Ended 40 Years of Terror
    (00:00:42) The Man Behind the Aliases
    (00:02:28) The East Area Rapist
    (00:04:00) The Original Night Stalker
    (00:05:03) The Case That Wouldn't Close
    (00:06:06) Four Months to a Name
    (00:07:09) The Parking Lot Confession
    (00:08:11) We Are Not Afraid of You Anymore
    (00:09:15) What This Case Changed

    For more than forty years, the man who called himself no name left no useful trace. In Visalia he ransacked homes and murdered a father in the night. In Sacramento he bound couples, balanced dishes on their backs, and disappeared into the dark more than fifty times. In Southern California's coastal counties he killed thirteen people and vanished again. Law enforcement in three regions hunted three different suspects — and the same man walked free through all of it.

    This episode follows the full arc of Joseph James DeAngelo's crimes — from the Visalia Ransacker burglaries of 1974 through his years as the East Area Rapist and finally as the Original Night Stalker. It examines how his career as a police officer gave him the knowledge to evade detection, how a catastrophic failure of communication between investigative teams bought him years of undetected operation, and how he retired to a quiet suburb in Citrus Heights while cold case investigators accumulated DNA evidence they couldn't match to a name.

    Then, in March 2018, retired investigator Paul Holes made one final move before leaving his department: he uploaded the Golden State Killer's DNA profile to GEDmatch, a free public genealogy database. Within days, a genealogist named Barbara Rae-Venter began building a family tree from distant cousin matches — a technique that had never been used to solve a case of this scale before.

    This is the episode where the wall finally breaks. The cold case DNA revolution that followed — reshaping law enforcement, ethics, and the meaning of genetic privacy — started here, with one upload and one name.

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    13 分
  • One Man, Three Names: How California's Counties Hunted the Wrong Suspects

    One Man, Three Names: How California's Counties Hunted the Wrong Suspects
    2026/09/08
    (00:00:00) One Man, Three Names: How California's Counties Hunted the Wrong Suspects
    (00:00:50) Three Names, One Man
    (00:02:25) The East Area Rapist
    (00:04:15) The Turn South
    (00:05:37) The Genealogy Breakthrough
    (00:07:06) A Parking Lot Confession
    (00:08:27) The Victims Speak
    (00:09:44) What This Case Changed
    (00:11:48) Closing

    For more than forty years, one of the most prolific serial offenders in American history moved through California's suburbs undetected. The reason wasn't bad luck. It was geography, institutional fragmentation, and a former police officer who understood exactly how investigations worked — and exploited every gap.

    This chapter traces the three criminal identities of Joseph James DeAngelo: the Visalia Ransacker, responsible for roughly one hundred burglaries in Tulare County and the murder of Claude Snelling in 1975; the East Area Rapist, who targeted suburban Sacramento and Contra Costa counties from 1976 to 1979, raping more than fifty women with the calculated discipline of someone who knew police procedure from the inside; and the Original Night Stalker, whose murders of thirteen people in Southern California between 1979 and 1986 went unlinked to the northern crimes for more than two decades.

    The through-line is stunning in retrospect. DNA connected the East Area Rapist to the Original Night Stalker crime scenes in 2001 — but the full picture of one man committing all three crime series took decades to emerge, partly because different county agencies refused to share intelligence and, in at least one case, openly dismissed a smaller jurisdiction's detectives who were right.

    This episode also examines the genealogy breakthrough that finally ended the manhunt: how a free public DNA database called GEDmatch, combined with investigative genetic genealogy, led detectives to DeAngelo's front door in Citrus Heights in April 2018. The cold case DNA revolution that followed — reshaping criminal investigations nationwide — started here.

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    14 分
  • Before and After: The Three Identities That Hid a Monster for Forty Years

    Before and After: The Three Identities That Hid a Monster for Forty Years
    2026/09/07
    (00:00:00) Before and After: The Three Identities That Hid a Monster for Forty Years
    (00:00:52) The Three Names
    (00:02:17) The East Area Rapist
    (00:04:06) The Original Night Stalker
    (00:05:26) Michelle McNamara and the Name That Stuck
    (00:06:32) GEDmatch and the Genealogy Breakthrough
    (00:07:52) Trash from the Curb
    (00:08:57) The Guilty Plea
    (00:10:00) The Victims Speak
    (00:11:11) The Cold Case Revolution

    Before April 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo was an unremarkable retired grandfather in a Sacramento suburb. After April 2018, the world understood he had committed fifty rapes, thirteen murders, and over a hundred burglaries across California — operating under three separate criminal identities for more than a decade while working as a police officer.

    This chapter of the Golden State Killer story traces the full arc of DeAngelo's crimes from the beginning. It starts in Visalia in 1974, where the Ransacker stole sentimental objects and violated the private worlds of his targets — not for profit, but for psychological domination. It follows him into Sacramento as the East Area Rapist, where investigators in six separate jurisdictions failed to share intelligence while he used police radio access to stay ahead of surveillance operations hunting him. And it tracks him south to Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Orange County, where the Original Night Stalker left thirteen people dead before the attacks stopped without explanation in 1986.

    The episode also examines the silence that followed: the cold case DNA profile sitting in CODIS with no match for decades, the careers that ended without resolution, and the obsession that drove crime writer Michelle McNamara to name him the Golden State Killer before her death in 2016. The genealogy breakthrough that finally closed the gap — a sample of DNA pulled from his curbside trash — transformed not just this case but the entire landscape of cold case true crime investigation. This is where that story begins.

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    13 分
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