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Three Names, One Killer: The Crimes That Shook California

Three Names, One Killer: The Crimes That Shook California

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(00:00:00) Three Names, One Killer: The Crimes That Shook California
(00:00:35) Visalia, Nineteen Seventy-Four
(00:01:56) The Night Claude Snelling Died
(00:02:38) The East Area Rapist
(00:04:04) Six Counties, No Connection
(00:05:20) Michelle McNamara and the Cold Case That Wouldn't Let Go
(00:06:29) Paul Holes and the GEDmatch Upload
(00:07:46) The Arrest
(00:08:27) The Courthouse Parking Lot
(00:09:49) What Changed After

Joseph James DeAngelo hid in plain sight for more than forty years — a retired suburbanite in Citrus Heights who was also the most prolific unidentified serial offender in American history. This episode maps the full, devastating arc of his crimes across California: the intimate invasions of the Visalia Ransacker, the controlled terror of the East Area Rapist, and the murders attributed to the Original Night Stalker.

Beginning in Visalia in 1974, DeAngelo burglarized roughly one hundred homes — stealing single earrings, destroying family photographs, eating ice cream from victims' freezers. These were not crimes of profit. They were crimes of intrusion. And they were carried out by a serving police officer who monitored stakeouts on a scanner and knew exactly how investigators organized their searches.

By 1976, the crimes had escalated into sexual assault across Sacramento and Contra Costa counties. More than fifty attacks. Six counties. Three separate law enforcement jurisdictions — none of them systematically sharing information in a way that would have revealed the pattern. When Visalia investigators warned Sacramento that the East Area Rapist looked familiar, they were dismissed. That dismissal cost years.

By the time DeAngelo moved south to Santa Barbara and the attacks became murders, investigators were effectively hunting three different men. Thirteen victims died. He stopped in 1986 and went quiet.

This episode also examines how Michelle McNamara's book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" returned the case to public consciousness — and how her coining of the name "Golden State Killer" set the stage for the genealogy DNA breakthrough that would finally end the manhunt.

This episode includes AI-generated content.
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