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Today's story is a very hot

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one. It's been very requested. We're

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gonna talk about the Golden State killer, AKA

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the east area rapist, AKA

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the visellia ransacker,

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visellia. Sure. AKA

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the original night stalker?

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AKA I'm sorry. He has

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a lot of names. His real name is Joseph

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D'Angelo. Okay? don't think there really

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has ever been another serial killer with

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so many freaking nicknames, but this guy,

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he's the winner. This one is very interesting

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team because this man Joseph, he got away

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with a lot. And he was really smart.

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He was really tricky. That his

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crimes were thought to have been done by

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three different people. rather than one

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guy. And he got away with everything for

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about forty five years. Forty

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five years. But when he

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was finally arrested, he just seemed

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like this old frail grandpa.

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He kinda looked like a toad, like you're like him,

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that toad? that toad. Many

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people were like, could this guy really be

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guilty of so many rapes and murders?

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But aside from all of that, the publicity

1:41

surrounding this case it's

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exciting to talk about. don't know if exciting

1:46

is the right word. It's interesting to talk about because

1:48

it kind of gives us hope that even when you

1:50

think a case has gone cold, we can

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eventually, hopefully, one day get justice.

1:54

Technology is changing and evolving and

1:57

moving forward every day and it's like,

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hopefully,

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the shithead murderers out there can't

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hide forever in a perfect

2:04

world, you know.

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I try and stay positive. Okay.

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So who is Joseph James

2:10

Deangelo junior? Wow. That

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is a name. He was born November eighth.

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Ew. He was

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born today.

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Ew. That's creepy.

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god. Well, he was born

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November eighth nineteen forty five

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in Bath, New York. He was

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Joseph and Kathleen's first child and

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he was the oldest of

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four kids.

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He had two younger sisters and also

2:37

younger brother. His father was

2:40

a sergeant in the US army so

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they ended up moving around a lot. At

2:44

one point when Joseph Junior was a young

2:46

child, they were stationed in West Germany.

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That's when he witnessed his seven year old

2:51

sister being raped by two airmen

2:53

in a warehouse. I don't know, like, the

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follow-up, like, did he scream or say anything?

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I don't I don't know. But this was mentioned

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because it

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obviously had a very lasting impact

3:03

on him, and it was pretty traumatic

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thing for his sister experience. First

3:08

of all, and for him to to witness.

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So it just kind of had this imprint

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on his brain. It's so sad.

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This world is so gross. But

3:16

unfortunately, that wasn't the

3:18

only case of abuse in the

3:19

family. One of his sisters

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claimed later on like in an interview that

3:24

Joseph was abused by his father while

3:26

he was growing up. But Joseph never

3:29

said that, but yeah.

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So pretty much not a

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great upbringing to sad.

3:35

poor kids. So later the family

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moved back to the United States and from nineteen

3:39

fifty nine

3:40

to nineteen sixty,

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Joseph went to school in

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Rancho, Cordova, California.

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In nineteen sixty one, he was in high

3:48

school and he was on the school's

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junior varsity baseball team and

3:53

In addition to, like, doing whatever

3:54

normal teenagers did

3:55

in the nineteen sixties, Joseph also

3:58

had some less less than ideal

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hobbies. Oh, I

4:02

forgot to mention the beginning. We're gonna

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mention everything today, like

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animals,

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abuse, murder.

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rape. Okay. Just slow

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FYI. Most kids

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who are a little off usually

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start with

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doing weird shit with animals. Right?

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That's what Joseph was doing. Okay.

4:23

He was in high

4:25

school and he was committing robberies,

4:27

which was weird because he'd break into

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people's houses and just steal random shit.

4:31

And then he would just kill a bunch of animals

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by blowing them up.

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stream.

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Cheese will wheeze. All of these

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are not great signs that he

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will be a contributing member of society.

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I

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don't know if his parents noticed or what

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because apparently not apparently not because

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we wanna be here right now if his parents noticed.

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So he would go on to get his

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GED in nineteen sixty four.

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And after that, Joseph joined

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the Navy.

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And he would end up serving

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for twenty two months during the Vietnam

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War when he was like a damage control

5:05

man, which was basically like an emergency

5:08

repairman. He would come home

5:10

like a very decorated veteran he

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earned a national defense service

5:14

medal, a Vietnam service medal, and

5:16

Vietnam campaign medal. Well

5:18

respected, and also this

5:21

is just an opinion, but he was probably

5:23

super messed up from seeing some shit that went

5:25

down during that war. I mean, a lot of them

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were,

5:27

you know, so sad. In

5:29

nineteen sixty eight, Joseph

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decided that he wanted to be a cop.

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Oh, no.

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Yes. He did. He's like, I wanna be a

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police officer. So he ends up going

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back to school, and he got his associate's degree

5:41

in in Police Science, and

5:43

then he even graduated with honors. So

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then from there, he went to Sacramento State

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University to get his bachelor's degree in

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criminal justice before going

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to another college for a police training.

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So, like, great. You

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know, the smart ones are the scariest.

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He would go on to complete his thirty

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two week police internship.

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and he would go on working in the burglary

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unit. I can't say burglary. burglary?

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I it just sounds so cartoony when I

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see it. Maybe not. Anyways, Everyone

6:15

seemed to really like this guy. Of course, they did.

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Right? That's how always goes. Everyone's like,

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wow. He's such a great guy. He's like,

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serving the community and

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he was great at his job.

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He seemed to love it. So

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on the surface of it, it kind of

6:30

seems like the robberies, he

6:32

committed as a kid, maybe influenced

6:34

him to stop other criminals because

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he had the mind of a criminal, you know, and

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he's like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna stop

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them and make this

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community a better place. Like, he's getting

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on the straight and narrow. But once again,

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we're here. So of course, that's not the case. But

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actually, it might have been more

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about learning how to better commit a

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So at first, Joseph's love life

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seemed pretty normal. Right?

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Okay. In May of nineteen seventy,

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he got engaged. He was his college

8:28

girlfriend, Bonnie. As time goes

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on, Bonnie realizes that this Joseph

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guy her fiancee, he's

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not as great as she thought

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he was. As time is going on, she's noticing

8:38

that he's

8:39

more controlling and he becomes

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abusive. There was one time when they

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went hunting together. Technically, it was

8:44

like an illegal area where you're not supposed to hunt,

8:46

but I guess why didn't know that? But they

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rode on Joseph's motorcycle.

8:50

out into the area. Right?

8:52

The two of them.

8:53

Right? So when they were ready to leave, the

8:55

two hopped back onto the motorcycle and

8:57

they headed out. Well, guess at this time,

8:59

like, a dog came out someone's

9:02

dog came out of the area and, like, started chasing

9:04

them, started chasing them on the motorcycle. So Joseph

9:07

ends up kicking the dog but

9:09

kicks him until, like, the dog

9:11

dies. And Bonnie was like, what the fuck

9:13

was that? If she's never seen this

9:15

side of him and she was completely shocked,

9:17

But I guess the straw that broke the camel's

9:19

back was when he asked her to help him

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cheat on an exam he was taking, and

9:24

that's when she decided to break off the engagement

9:26

I feel like the dog situation.

9:28

Uh-uh. That's enough. The

9:30

break. That's uh-uh.

9:31

But

9:33

at least she got out. She saw the red

9:35

flags and she's like,

9:37

I'm not here. Of course, leaving isn't

9:39

that easy when you're stuck in these

9:41

awful relationships. Bonnie

9:43

tries to end their engagement, but Joseph

9:45

is threatening her with a gun, saying, like,

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you're not going anywhere.

9:48

We're gonna get married. And Bonnie's

9:50

like, no, this is not happening. And luckily,

9:53

she holds her ground.

9:54

and she ends the relationship. She

9:56

packs her stuff and she gets the hell out

9:58

of there. Good for her. And after the

9:59

breakup, Joseph shows up outside

10:01

Bonnie's home and her dad is there.

10:04

and he tells Bonnie, her dad tells

10:06

Bonnie like, go lock yourself in the bathroom

10:08

while I

10:08

go deal with this creep.

10:10

And to this day, nobody knows what

10:12

Bonnie's dad's set to him to make him

10:14

leave. But after that, he never bothered

10:16

Bonnie again. So

10:18

though Thank

10:20

God for him. Later, people

10:22

reported that Joseph would say,

10:24

quote, I hate you Bonnie while

10:27

carrying out his attacks.

10:29

a dick. Well, Joseph

10:31

would end up moving on from his heartbreak

10:33

and he would get married to a woman named Sharon

10:36

Sharon Huddle in nineteen seventy three.

10:38

So in addition to being a newly wed,

10:40

Joseph was over here just being super

10:42

busy. You had a lot going on between nine in

10:45

seventy three and nineteen eighty six. So

10:47

in

10:47

order to kinda keep things organized,

10:49

we're gonna talk about his

10:50

crimes in batches of three. kinda

10:52

just helps a little bit, I think, because he did a lot.

10:55

He did a lot. We

10:56

we'd be here for hours. My god,

10:58

this man.

10:59

Because in May of nineteen seventy three,

11:01

There was a spree of crimes happening in

11:03

the San Joaquin Valley,

11:06

and this was credited to a killer given

11:08

the name Cordova cat burglar.

11:10

which may or may not have been Joseph.

11:12

Many think the Cordova cat

11:15

burglar was Joseph, but

11:18

it was like the very first case recorded for

11:20

the Vasilia Vasiliya

11:22

ransacker. But the

11:24

ransacker guy, the v ransacker,

11:26

that was indeed Joseph. and that happened

11:28

in

11:29

the same area on March nineteenth

11:31

nineteen seventy four. Now at first,

11:33

the attacks were super random

11:35

because, okay, Joseph would break into a house,

11:38

and he would steal like fifty dollars in coins

11:40

from a piggy bank. That was his first hit.

11:43

And in fact, for the most part,

11:45

all of Joseph's burglaries

11:48

committed during this ransacker phase

11:51

was maybe just practice like

11:53

he ignored large amounts of money

11:56

in these homes that he's robbing

11:58

and he ignored high valued

12:01

items that were playing around the house. So

12:03

it seemed like it wasn't necessarily for

12:06

money. He was just doing it for the thrill,

12:08

maybe, or practice. But what

12:10

he did do was cause

12:12

just a lot of chaos. He would break into houses.

12:15

He would go digging through everyone's drawers.

12:17

He would break people's stuff. he

12:19

would shove stuff off of,

12:21

like, the shelves and stuff. He would throw

12:23

women's lingerie and underwear around

12:26

he would move different things to different parts

12:28

of the house, to where they didn't

12:30

belong before. And then he

12:32

would steal low value things.

12:35

He would empty piggy banks in coin

12:37

jars. He would steal, like, historic

12:40

foreign

12:40

coins. And

12:41

he would grab random things like

12:43

a single earring or a cuff link

12:46

in addition to rings and whatnot.

12:48

Just like one of them. Just one earring

12:51

He also stole something called

12:53

blue chip stamps, which were essentially

12:56

like a loyalty program for the local

12:58

grocery store. or pharmacy. These stamps

13:00

would get you discounts on stuff at the store.

13:02

So he would steal those. I

13:05

guess he'd love to bargain. I don't know. A

13:07

couple of times he did steal some weapons

13:09

or ammunition, but it, like, was

13:11

rare. So when he committed these crimes,

13:13

he would stash his car somewhere, and

13:16

then he would take, like, different routes,

13:18

like, of the parks, ditches, trails,

13:22

that he knew pretty well, which would

13:24

allow for a faster getaway if

13:26

he had to run from police. you

13:29

know, because you can't like on a street in a car,

13:31

but he could on foot. He would also pry

13:33

open multiple points of entry and take

13:35

off any window screens he found leading

13:37

multiple points of escape, open

13:40

when he needed to get out quick. During

13:42

his attacks, he also wore gloves

13:44

because he didn't wanna leave fingerprints. And

13:47

then he often set up a warning system

13:49

to let him know if someone was coming. So

13:51

this would be like dishes or bottles

13:53

placed up against the door. or like

13:55

on the door handle, so it would crash

13:58

and just make a bunch of noise letting him

14:00

know it was time to skidaddle right out

14:02

of there. someone like is coming.

14:04

Over the course of twenty months, Joseph

14:06

committed a hundred and twenty burglaries. So

14:09

that's a lot. I think that's safe

14:10

to say twenty months. Let me see. Yeah.

14:13

If you think about that, yeah, that's a lot.

14:15

Skys are little fucking

14:16

creepy.

14:17

Okay? Okay. Joseph

14:19

put in a lot of effort

14:21

to not get caught, and he didn't really

14:23

steal much. He just basically

14:25

trashed these places, and, like, took a couple

14:28

of things. He was like, cool. Thanks. Hi.

14:30

And when he was twenty eight, that's when he

14:32

started doing these burglaries.

14:34

So maybe he just enjoyed the thrill

14:36

or the adrenaline,

14:38

the chaos, the control

14:39

of it all. What many wanna know

14:42

is how in the world this man

14:43

did so much sneaking

14:46

around, staying out late, and

14:48

his wife didn't have any idea.

14:51

Well, I mean, she he could say he's working

14:53

as a police officer, and I like,

14:55

that's long nights and stuff. So I

14:57

could see where the wife might not

14:59

suspect

14:59

anything, but I don't

15:01

know. So Joseph decides

15:03

to take it up and not she's a little bored.

15:05

September eleventh nineteen seventy five.

15:08

Joseph goes out around two

15:10

AM. Okay. He breaks into this home,

15:13

beautiful home, great. He finds a sixteen

15:15

year old girl. Her name's Beth. She's sleeping

15:17

in her room. and he decides, I'm

15:19

gonna kidnap her.

15:20

Okay? So he has a flashlight with him

15:23

and he shines the flashlight in her face.

15:25

to kind of like wake her up. And then

15:27

he's like, I'm gonna shoot you or stab

15:29

you if you don't come with me. One or the

15:31

other. Those are your options. Usually,

15:34

Joseph was very planned, planned

15:36

everything very detailed. But this

15:38

time, he was not ready or

15:40

he

15:40

was gonna think this all the way through. because

15:43

the girl, her dad was

15:45

home. Okay? And he was asleep

15:47

in the next room. And he he just

15:49

is hearing some weird noises going on.

15:51

So the dad gets up and he notices that

15:54

the back door is open. So he's like, oh,

15:56

wonderful. And he runs out and then

15:58

finds that Joe sive. Well, his nose shows

15:59

up, but he finds a man wearing a

16:02

ski mask in the carport with

16:04

his daughter. Okay? So

16:07

he's yelling after him. Joseph

16:09

shoots him twice and then,

16:11

sadly, her dad passes away.

16:13

This

16:13

really freaked Joseph out

16:15

he ends up letting her go, he kicks

16:17

her in the face, he hops on a bicycle,

16:20

then he just paddles

16:22

away and leaves Beth behind. So

16:24

that didn't go

16:25

well for him, which sadly

16:27

that guy died. Anyway, so he ends

16:29

up ditching the bicycle not far

16:31

from the house. cops come out. They find

16:34

the stolen bike. It's like literally not that

16:36

far. He drops it. Joseph runs. He

16:38

gets away. Because someone was

16:40

killed, cops increased the task force

16:42

working on

16:42

catching this ram cracker.

16:44

They would also post a four thousand dollar

16:47

reward for the capture of whoever this

16:49

man was. And just for comparison

16:51

sake, four thousand dollars back

16:53

in nineteen seventy five would be like nineteen

16:55

thousand today. it's like a good amount

16:57

of money. They just want this guy caught because

17:00

first he's doing a lot of burglaries

17:01

and now he's upping to murdering

17:03

someone.

17:03

The police also start doing a

17:06

nightly steak out where Joseph

17:08

had previously hit the the house.

17:11

they're thinking that he might return to the same area,

17:13

but Joseph's not dumb and he's like, I'm not

17:15

going back there. I know what they're doing. He knows

17:16

what they're doing because he's working with them. One

17:19

of the last of his crimes

17:20

in this area was on December

17:22

twelfth nineteen seventy five at

17:24

eight thirty PM, Joseph

17:26

put on a mask

17:27

and he entered the backyard of a house

17:29

that wasn't too far from the neighborhood that

17:32

he normally hit. There actually was

17:34

a police officer stake out

17:36

in the garage. Again, the cop

17:38

saw Joseph or he saw a man

17:40

and tried to detain him. And he also

17:42

fired a warning shot at him, but Joseph

17:44

shouted and removed his mask, holding

17:47

it in his right hand and pretended to give

17:49

himself up and surrender. But then

17:51

he pulled out his his gun. and

17:53

he ended up shooting

17:54

the officer

17:56

near the face. I guess it just

17:58

shattered the cops' flashlight.

17:59

So then Joseph fleece the

18:02

scene and he left behind some tennis

18:04

shoe prints in the mud, and

18:06

his loot, which again was like some blue

18:08

chip stamps and also a blue sock

18:10

full of coins. So in

18:13

nineteen seventy six, Joseph

18:15

gets a job working for the Auburn

18:17

Police Department So he and

18:19

his wife move to Sacramento, this

18:22

Sacramento area, and this

18:24

will end his time as the

18:26

the v randsucker. Just because he

18:28

moved though, doesn't mean his crime stopped. No.

18:31

Starting

18:31

in June of nineteen seventy six,

18:33

he would be giving the name the East area

18:36

rapist. so he absent a

18:38

notch. Sometimes he would spend his

18:40

time just around stacking closets and

18:42

drawers, eating food in the kitchen or drinking

18:44

their beers. he would steal people's personal

18:47

objects or items, stuff that

18:49

had, like, little or no value to it. It's just

18:51

kinda like whatever he found interesting

18:53

or something. I don't know when he was doing. I don't know. If

18:55

he found cash, he would take that. But again,

18:57

it was kind of like stuff that really wasn't

18:59

that valuable. But for the most

19:02

part, the focus of his breaking and entering

19:04

was now to just rape

19:06

the woman who lived there. Joseph would

19:09

stock neighborhoods looking

19:11

for women who lived in like a middle class neighborhood.

19:13

He would specifically look for women who lived

19:16

alone

19:16

in a one storey house usually

19:19

near a school

19:19

or a creek or like something next to

19:21

a trail and open space that

19:24

would allow him to make a quick

19:26

escape

19:26

while staying off of the street. The

19:28

night before this person's house would be attacked.

19:30

They would report hearing something

19:33

in the bushes. Like, someone was kinda lurking

19:35

around or something, and then that

19:38

night, her house would be attacked. Often,

19:41

this Joseph dude, he would call

19:43

his future victims. Sometimes for

19:45

months, he would call them trying to figure out, like,

19:47

what was their routine? When were they home?

19:49

When were they not home? he would also

19:51

prep the house in advance before breaking

19:54

in. So when they were gone,

19:56

he would break in and unlock

19:58

windows, unload

19:59

guns, stashed,

20:01

like, things

20:02

to tie women up with around the

20:04

house. That way, when he broke in

20:06

and did his attack, it would be a lot easier

20:08

because he knew the situation

20:11

was controlled.

20:12

Creepy? Well, when

20:14

the night finally came, he would

20:16

then break in through a window or finding

20:19

glass door, sneak into the bedroom,

20:21

he would wake up his victim, threaten

20:24

them, like hold a flashlight in the face, threaten

20:26

them with a hand gun, he

20:28

would then tie her up with either shoelaces

20:31

or something he he brought with them,

20:33

and then blindfold

20:34

and gag them. In

20:36

the beginning, Joseph preferred single

20:38

women, although sometimes they would have

20:40

kids. But then an article mentioned

20:43

that this mysterious raper was

20:45

in the area. Right? And this person

20:48

never seemed to attack a house that had a man

20:50

in it. Well, I guess Joseph was

20:52

reading this article And he's like,

20:54

hey, that's interesting. I'll take

20:56

the physical challenge. So he

20:58

decides you know what? I'm gonna switch

21:00

gears a little bit. And now I'm going to

21:02

attack couples. Oh, yes.

21:04

They think I can't do it. I'm gonna do it now. So

21:06

he took that as a literal

21:08

challenge.

21:09

Great. So

21:10

he sees this as a challenge and he

21:12

decides to switch gears. Now he's

21:14

like, I'm gonna break into houses

21:16

that have you know, a man had

21:18

a woman. So Joseph, he

21:20

would do that, and then he would

21:22

wake both of them up, force

21:24

the victim to tie their partner up

21:26

and then Joseph would tie

21:28

up the other one, the husband and wife.

21:30

After the couple was tied up

21:32

before leaving the bedroom, he would turn

21:35

the guy on his stomach or make

21:37

the guy lay on his stomach, place

21:39

a stack of dishes on the guy's back

21:42

And this was again kind of like an alarm system

21:44

setup. And he would say,

21:46

he would tell the guy, like, listen if I hear any

21:48

noises come from these dishes. I'll come back

21:50

and I'll kill everybody

21:51

in this house. So of course, like,

21:54

terrified, they're

21:55

not gonna move. And then after

21:58

that, he would take the woman into the living

21:59

room and then

22:02

rape her knowing that, like, the poor guys

22:04

listening in the other room and it's just

22:06

all sorts of disturbing.

22:08

so

22:09

gross. So once

22:11

Joseph was done, he would then sneak

22:13

out quietly and

22:15

his victims, they would still be, like, tied up and

22:17

stuff, and they wouldn't know if he left or not. And

22:19

they were too afraid to move thinking, what

22:22

if he still in the house and he hears like the dishes

22:24

move, he's gonna come back and kill us.

22:26

So a lot of them would just lay there for hours,

22:28

not knowing if he was still in the house

22:30

or not, just

22:32

torture. torture. But

22:34

when he did leave, Joseph

22:36

usually would, like, leave on foot,

22:39

or he would bring a bicycle

22:41

or steal a bicycle. I just think of like

22:43

the wicked witch, but that's not the

22:45

point. But he just always

22:46

stayed off the street. Like,

22:50

a bicycle. This

22:51

crazy murderer on a bicycle.

22:53

It just is

22:55

you know, it just doesn't sound right.

22:57

There was a couple of times where Joseph was

22:59

spotted, and someone tried to shoot him, but

23:01

he always got away. He always got

23:04

away. Well,

23:04

obviously, because this guy is well

23:06

trained. He's like a freaking police officer

23:08

and shit. So word is getting

23:10

out on the street or within the community that

23:12

there's a serial rapists going around,

23:15

and obviously a lot of people

23:17

are concerned, so they end up

23:19

holding a town hall meeting. During

23:21

this meeting, a guy stood up and he's like,

23:23

if he comes to my house, I'll kill him.

23:25

Well, I guess, Joseph must have been at the

23:27

meeting, like hiding in plain sight.

23:29

because that man in his family were the next

23:32

victims of

23:33

the east area rapist. Fucking

23:35

a man.

23:36

So on March eight, nineteenth nineteen

23:38

seventy seven, the Sacramento County

23:41

Sheriff's Office

23:41

received three phone calls from a guy

23:43

claiming to be the East area rapist.

23:45

The first two calls were, like, fifteen

23:47

minutes apart. One was at four

23:50

fifteen and the next was at, like, four

23:52

thirty PM. And on the call,

23:54

the man was just laughing and then hung

23:56

up. And then on his third call, which was

23:58

at five o'clock PM,

23:59

whoever was on the phone was like, I'm the

24:02

East I'm the East Side Ray Best

24:04

and, like, I have my next victim

24:06

already stocked and you guys can't catch

24:08

me. Just a total loser.

24:11

wanting attention. What

24:13

is he doing? Now, unfortunately,

24:15

no one recorded

24:17

these calls. Okay? And they were never

24:19

confirmed to be Joseph

24:20

on the other end of

24:22

the call, but many thing it was. But

24:24

that very night that the phone calls happened at like

24:27

ten forty five PM, another

24:29

woman was attacked.

24:30

So maybe Joseph

24:32

was just feeling bold and maybe he

24:34

was trying to make his crimes little

24:36

bit more exciting for him. I don't know what

24:38

his he's obviously not alright

24:41

in the noggin. So

24:43

twenty three of the fifty

24:45

rapes Joseph committed as the

24:47

east area rapist were between June

24:49

of nineteen seventy six in

24:51

May of nineteen seventy seven. Eight

24:53

of them happened after

24:55

those phone calls, then

24:58

oddly enough for some reason no one knows

25:00

why. Joseph took a three month

25:02

break before starting up again in September.

25:05

Maybe he him and his wife went on like a

25:07

vacation, yeah, summer vacation

25:09

or something, or maybe

25:12

he was trying to lay low. Who

25:14

knows, but he disappeared for like three months.

25:16

When Joseph did

25:17

start back up again, he

25:19

mostly stayed in Sacramento, but then in

25:21

March of nineteen seventy eight, he started

25:23

to hit like neighboring counties. He

25:25

would hit like Stockton in

25:28

Modesto, California just to mix things

25:30

up a bit. His pattern seemed to be changing

25:33

consistent instantly, and it was

25:35

just making it harder for police

25:37

to know, like, where the sky is gonna hit next.

25:39

December second nineteen seventy

25:41

seven, a man claiming

25:43

to be the east area rapist called

25:45

the Sacramento Police Department saying

25:47

something along the lines of you're never

25:49

gonna catch me. I'm the East

25:52

area rapist. You dumb fuck. I'm

25:54

gonna fuck again tonight. You should be careful.

25:56

That's what he said. Not me. That's

25:58

what he said. And He did

25:59

just that at eleven

26:00

thirty pm. He struck again.

26:03

He

26:03

was busy than shortly

26:05

before ten pm on December tenth

26:07

nineteen seventy seven. Authorities received

26:09

two

26:10

identical phone calls, where the guy

26:12

on the other end of the line was like,

26:14

I'm gonna hit tonight, Watts Avenue.

26:17

Fortunately, cops were able to record

26:19

both of these calls.

26:20

Great. They confirmed

26:21

that the caller was the same person from

26:24

the December second call.

26:26

Finally, making a little progress here.

26:28

Now, there was no record of an attack

26:30

that night, but at two thirty AM,

26:33

police were patrolling and

26:35

spotted a masked man riding

26:37

a bicycle on the Watt Avenue Bridge.

26:39

So at four thirty AM, they saw the

26:41

same person again But this

26:44

time, he didn't have a bicycle. He was like

26:46

running. He was just running away. So

26:48

despite the increased patrol,

26:51

cops still couldn't catch the sky if

26:53

it was Joseph, but

26:55

maybe they were at least able to stop

26:57

him from attacking that night trying to stay positive

27:00

here. But, yeah, they see him and they

27:02

couldn't get him. Like, that's They

27:04

see him twice

27:06

and they weren't able to get him.

27:08

The police department in the sheriff's

27:10

office, they weren't the only ones

27:12

that were in contact with someone claiming

27:14

to be the East area rapist, oh,

27:16

nay nay. Of course not.

27:18

This man wants attention. If

27:21

you see what happened is in

27:23

December of nineteen seventy seven, a

27:25

poem titled quote, excitement's

27:28

crave, end quote, was sent to

27:30

the mayor's office, the local

27:32

news

27:32

station, and the daily

27:34

newspaper. a Sacramento b.

27:37

And honestly, it's not very

27:38

poetic. So he was

27:40

writing now poetry about his

27:42

work and he's now a poet

27:45

and we didn't even know it.

27:47

Not only is he a rapist, he's

27:50

also into poetry.

27:52

So then some of

27:55

Joseph's victims that he already

27:57

attacked, they would they were getting

27:59

phone calls.

27:59

Okay?

28:00

So on December ninth, the night

28:02

before he called to tell the cops

28:04

that he

28:04

was gonna attack someone on Walk

28:06

Avenue, someone reached out to the previous

28:08

victim

28:09

saying, Merry Christmas. It's me

28:11

again. It was him. He, like, called

28:13

one of his previous victims to

28:15

tell them Merry Christmas just to freaking

28:17

torture them. Special kind

28:19

of fuck. So now he's just

28:21

torturing his previous victims,

28:23

like, could you imagine?

28:24

No. No.

28:25

But he did this with a couple of his

28:27

previous victims. I guess when he

28:30

he would call these victims, he would like,

28:32

his voice was very low. who'd be

28:34

whispering and it was just super creepy.

28:36

Yeah, especially if you were just attacked, I'm sure

28:38

it's super creepy. You've

28:39

been what the fuck?

28:41

You just attacked me. Now you're harassing

28:43

me. Get a goddamn life.

28:46

Great. So that's what he's showing. He's calling

28:48

people up because he's bored.

28:49

Okay. Remember, he's married?

28:51

Joseph, he's married. Does his wife

28:53

not suspect something? Does

28:56

he seem a little bit more agitated, angry?

28:59

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29:01

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29:03

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29:08

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29:19

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Well, on January sixth, a phone

32:48

call comes in again claiming to be the East

32:50

area rapist. and he

32:52

calls into the, it's a good counseling

32:54

hotline, where they help

32:56

people

32:58

who need some counseling. So this person calls in

33:00

and says, I'm the East area rapist, hides

33:02

me, and tells the person on the other

33:04

end, like, I have a problem and I need help

33:06

because I don't wanna do this anymore. And

33:09

then after the short conversation, this

33:12

caller just randomly said, I think you're

33:14

tracing this call and then hung up. If

33:16

it was Joseph, maybe the fear of being

33:19

caught outweigh desire to get help,

33:21

maybe he was drunk, maybe he

33:23

was actually feeling some kind of remorse

33:25

over choice as he was making. I guess

33:27

we'll never know really. So during

33:29

his spree as the east

33:31

area rafest, he did

33:33

end up killing

33:34

two people, which was rare.

33:36

Okay? because he was only raping people.

33:38

But now he had ended up killing

33:40

two people. It was like February second

33:42

nineteen seventy eight. There was young couple

33:45

out walking their dog, and

33:47

it was like an area that Joseph had

33:49

hit five different times. So they're

33:51

walking their dog and they run into Joseph.

33:53

And I guess there's some kind of confrontation. Not

33:56

sure what was said, what was done, whatever. But

33:58

the couple, they try to run

33:59

and then they were shot to death.

34:02

Investigators suspected it had been Joseph

34:05

who killed them based on the location and

34:07

the fact that some shoelaces had been

34:09

found at the scene, but

34:11

it wasn't really announced that he was

34:13

their main suspect until June fifteenth

34:16

twenty six teen. Yeah. A freaking long

34:18

time leader. And then it was confirmed

34:20

they were murdered by Joseph

34:22

on June twenty ninth twenty twenty.

34:24

Yeah,

34:24

bitch. What? On

34:26

December ninth nineteen

34:29

seventy

34:29

eight, Joseph attacked a house

34:31

at two AM

34:32

in a town called Danville

34:34

in contra Costa, California.

34:37

k.

34:37

Cops are investigating the

34:39

area where a suspicious vehicle had been

34:42

parked. when they find three

34:44

pieces of paper. So they see this suspicious

34:46

looking vehicle. They're looking inside the vehicle

34:49

and they find these three pieces of paper.

34:51

The first piece of paper looked like it was

34:53

homework. Okay? It looked like school

34:55

homework.

34:56

Weird. And it seemed

34:58

like it was an essay of some

35:00

sorts And then on the second page, there

35:02

seemed to be a journal entry about how much

35:04

this person who was writing on this paper

35:07

hated their sixth grade teacher.

35:09

They're like, wow, the skin really hates this feature.

35:11

Then on the third page is what in like

35:13

intrigued the most. On

35:16

one side of the page, the word punishment

35:18

was written in a kind of sloppy handwriting.

35:21

And on the other side was a drawing

35:23

of, like, a map of the neighborhood.

35:26

You know? And the police, they couldn't

35:29

figure out what neighborhood it

35:31

was, but they felt like it

35:33

was a map that represented the rapist

35:35

desired hunting ground and somehow

35:38

held clues that they couldn't

35:40

seem to unlock. Oh my god. What if it was

35:42

just like some kid like making a map

35:45

or something because they never figured out like what

35:47

the map was of like what area

35:49

it was, but they they thought it was

35:51

they thought it was what's his name Joseph. But

35:54

now that it makes sense here thinking about it, what if it was

35:56

just like some kids shit and they were like,

35:58

you know, kids like to

35:59

No. Punishment? I don't know,

36:01

Bailey. You

36:03

know what? Stocks? Like, without

36:05

DNA, I don't know how they were solving mysteries.

36:07

Well, obviously, they weren't solving mysteries. I

36:09

mean, this is a different game. It's like, how do you figure

36:12

their shenanigans out? Anyhow, so

36:14

after they discover these pages

36:17

that they believe is linked to Joseph, he

36:19

would attack seven more times.

36:22

And not long after the rape he committed

36:24

on July fifth nineteen seventy nine,

36:26

Joseph, he had, like, a little

36:28

slip up that could have derailed his

36:31

whole double life and everything he had

36:33

going on. Oh, yes. A little slip up.

36:35

Nobody's perfect. and he was getting

36:37

a

36:37

little cocky, I think. I'm

36:39

not sure.

36:40

Okay. So Joseph, yeah, here's here's

36:42

where he messes up. he shoplifts,

36:45

and he ends up getting caught. So Lee gets

36:47

arrested for shoplifting.

36:48

Right? Great. He gets caught

36:50

shoplifting a hammer and

36:52

dog repellent.

36:53

That in itself should hold him

36:56

longer than just shoplifting, but

36:58

seemed like if anything,

36:59

he was get about to murder a damn animal.

37:01

anyways,

37:02

so he gets arrested. Like, why are you

37:04

stealing the stuff you wear it out? Joseph got

37:06

off pretty easy. He was only sentenced

37:08

to six months probation. Mhmm.

37:11

But they had them. They had them.

37:13

So I guess the police department didn't wanna

37:15

have a criminal on their

37:17

force. and

37:18

he ended up getting fired in October

37:20

of nineteen seventy nine. Now,

37:22

Joseph, he was not too thrilled about being

37:24

fired. That was not in his plan. So

37:27

then he gets fired and he threatens to kill

37:29

the police chief. Okay? He's

37:31

like, I'm gonna fucking kill you. And

37:34

he ends up stalking the police

37:36

chief. his home, the area,

37:38

and just like being real creep about

37:40

it. Okay? You would think this kind of behavior

37:42

suggests that maybe someone should like, looked into

37:44

him a little bit better because he's obviously not

37:47

well, but they didn't. He's just

37:49

like, wow, that guy's weird. He needs to let it

37:51

go. He keeps stalking me. Weird.

37:54

You think that would have set off some red flags?

37:56

I'm sorry. We ask too much. Don't

37:58

we? Yeah. know.

37:59

So

38:00

Joseph loses his job. He's like,

38:02

when? I lost

38:03

my job. So he decides, okay,

38:06

we need to pick up a move again. So him and

38:08

his wife, they moved down to Southern California

38:10

to get a new start. So with this new start,

38:13

Scott, new start with crime. Great.

38:15

He's excited. New area.

38:18

Joseph's final crime spree

38:20

happened in Sara Barbara,

38:22

Ventura, and the Orange County

38:24

area, which earned him the name the

38:26

original nightstalker. Yeah.

38:29

So at first he was known as just the Night Stalker,

38:31

but as you may remember from, like, my

38:33

I did a previous story, Ricardo Ramirez.

38:36

He was also given the name the nightstalker

38:38

from his crime spree in nineteen eighty

38:40

four and nineteen eighty

38:41

five because of the mix up happening.

38:44

Right? Joseph's Night

38:46

Stalker, CrimeSbury, was then

38:48

nicknamed the original

38:50

Night Stalker. they can't

38:52

think of anything else. They're like, that's all we caught.

38:55

How about original night

38:58

stock? Right? So,

39:01

okay, not to get confused with NICE talker.

39:03

You know, this is the original NICE

39:06

Stalker. Great. Mhmm. October

39:09

nineteen

39:09

seventy nine. Joseph

39:12

was back at it this time In

39:14

Southern California, he wasn't just regularizing

39:17

and raping people. Now he was just

39:19

straight up murdering people too, so it just really

39:21

progressed. His first two victims would

39:23

end up surviving his attacks, but

39:25

the many others were not

39:28

so lucky. Joseph's first

39:30

attack as the original night stalker

39:32

was on October first, and

39:34

he broke into a home, he tied

39:37

the couple up, he's telling them, like, I'm gonna

39:39

kill you. I'll kill them. And,

39:42

of course, the couple is freaking out. Who

39:44

won it? Great.

39:45

you understand. And as soon as Joseph

39:47

leaves the room, I guess the woman,

39:49

she's trying to, like,

39:50

escape. She's realizing she can't. and then

39:52

she starts screaming at the top of her

39:54

lungs and she's really hoping to alert

39:56

one of her neighbors. Now normally,

39:59

Joseph's

39:59

victims didn't scream like

40:02

that. No one had actually tried him like

40:04

that, and he was like, oh, shit.

40:06

She's

40:06

screaming, you

40:07

know? So he knows that this is gonna

40:09

mean trouble for him. And at

40:11

that point, after she's screaming, he decides

40:13

to just bail so he hops on his bicycle

40:15

and he just pedals away. the woman is

40:17

screaming. Right? Joseph is peddling

40:19

away. Well, guess what? The neighbor

40:22

that's hearing the woman scream. he ends

40:24

up being an FBI agent and

40:26

he runs outside. He spots

40:28

Joseph trying to make his get away on the bicycle.

40:30

and this guy starts

40:32

to chase after him. For some reason,

40:34

Joseph thinks he he's got better chance

40:37

avoiding getting caught by just getting

40:40

off the bike and running on foot.

40:43

So he does just that and

40:45

he's able to get away from him. he

40:47

almost gets caught so many different times.

40:49

It's like, current. His second

40:51

attack as the original night

40:54

stalker was a bit more

40:56

successful.

40:58

Yeah.

40:58

I guess, you could see. On December

41:01

thirtieth, Joseph breaks into the home

41:03

of a couple named Robert and Debra.

41:06

and he kills them

41:07

before stealing a bike from the apartment

41:09

next door and then making his getaway.

41:11

The couple was found to shop to death,

41:13

but Robert binding were untied,

41:15

which suggests to investigators that

41:18

he attempted some sort of attack on

41:20

Joseph

41:21

like maybe he was able to get out or something.

41:23

Police found stolen bike abandoned

41:25

not too far from the apartment. They

41:27

also found large dog prints

41:30

at the scene, which made them think like,

41:32

did Joseph bring a dog with him?

41:34

That was new. That was a new move.

41:37

There had never been evidence of a dog at the crime

41:39

scene before. But also, he

41:42

remembered he stole dog repellent So

41:44

maybe it was someone else's dog, and Joseph,

41:47

like, scared it away. Maybe it was their dog.

41:49

On March thirteenth, nineteen eighty,

41:51

Joseph attacks again. This time

41:54

attacking like a a couple. He

41:56

breaks in, he ties their wrists and ankles

41:58

with the drapery cord

41:59

before he

42:01

rapes. the woman and in

42:03

blood against them both to death with a log

42:05

taken from the wood pile on the side of their

42:07

house. Now, police find something

42:10

unique about this attack Okay?

42:13

An unusual Chinese knot

42:15

called a diamond knot was used

42:17

to bind the woman's wrist. This

42:19

is the same knot that was used on

42:21

at least one of the confirmed victims

42:24

of the East area rapist. So this

42:26

is the first time that they're making the connection

42:28

that these could be linked together. So

42:30

Joseph was given another name, which

42:32

I don't think I mentioned at the beginning, the diamond

42:35

not killer. Why they spend more

42:37

time naming the killers than they do

42:39

try to solve the crime. Like, what

42:41

should we name this time? Diamond

42:44

knot, you guys? Yeah. Let's

42:47

do that. Joseph's next victims

42:49

were a newly wed couple One

42:52

of them was a student at UC Irvine,

42:55

and the other was a nurse.

42:57

They had been married for, like, just a

42:59

couple They have to just a couple

43:01

of months, and they lived in a really nice

43:03

catered

43:03

community out in Dana Point,

43:05

California. So on August nineteenth,

43:07

Just three months after the wedding,

43:10

Joseph broke into their apartment, tied

43:12

the both up, raped the woman

43:15

before bludgeoning both of them to death.

43:17

This time, Joseph didn't leave

43:19

a murder weapon behind, and he actually

43:21

even took whatever he tied their

43:23

hands and wrist with, which was different because

43:26

he would normally leave it behind. What

43:28

Joseph didn't realize he

43:30

left behind was a really

43:32

angry rich brother. which

43:34

will get to that later

43:35

the cause

43:37

shit's coming to you bro. At

43:39

some point during nineteen eighty, Joseph

43:41

and his wife Sharon by a house in Citrus

43:43

Heights, California, but that doesn't seem

43:45

to, like, stop him from attacking

43:48

two more times in nineteen eighty one. On

43:50

February six, nineteen eighty one, Joseph

43:52

entered the home of a twenty eight year

43:54

old woman. He tied her up,

43:56

once again, raped her and then bludgeoned her

43:58

to death. And like

43:59

the crime scene at the home of

44:02

the previous couple, he didn't leave

44:04

behind the murder weapon or whatever he tied

44:06

her up with. and he did

44:08

move a television outside in the

44:10

backyard. I don't know. Maybe he was trying to

44:12

make it look like it was a failed robbery and

44:14

like keep the police office trail, but

44:17

maybe he wanted the TV.

44:19

I don't know. On

44:20

July twenty seventh, Joseph

44:23

decided to turned to his old stomping

44:25

ground and he went back to an area

44:27

that was only a few blocks away from the

44:29

neighborhood he first visited as the

44:31

original night stalker, and Joseph, he enters

44:33

the house through a small bathroom

44:36

window. And that's when he

44:38

runs until, like, the

44:39

guy who lives there. Okay? Now this

44:41

guy, he's like twenty seven years old.

44:43

And police believe that this guy, he

44:45

must have tried to attack Joseph,

44:48

because he had no

44:50

marks on him suggesting that he had been tied

44:52

up. They found his head covered with clothes

44:55

that seemed to have been pulled from the closet.

44:57

with a gunshot wound in the cheek

45:00

and evidence that he was killed with a

45:02

garden tool. And then there's a woman in

45:04

the house also and she was found

45:06

with bruises on her wrist and ankles that

45:08

suggested she had been tied

45:10

up and then she was raped and

45:12

bludgeoned to death. While there were straints

45:15

were missing from her body. Cops did

45:17

find

45:17

a piece of shipping twine near the

45:19

bed and there were fibers all over

45:21

her body that they couldn't identify.

45:24

Cops thought maybe the attacker worked

45:26

as a painter or a similar type

45:28

of job at like the shopping center

45:30

nearby. but

45:32

they weren't sure. They're

45:33

like, we have theories, but that's

45:35

about it. Joseph's final attack

45:37

was on May fourth nineteen eighty six

45:40

he breaks into a home where there's like a

45:42

teenager. She's home alone. Her

45:44

family's away on vacation and

45:47

she's got left behind.

45:50

maybe she wanted to. Either way,

45:52

Joseph enters her home. He

45:55

bludged her to death and then raped her. There

45:57

was a pipe wrench that was missing from the

45:59

house and police

45:59

believed that that was the murder weapon. And

46:02

then that

46:03

was it. Forty one year old Joseph

46:05

thirteen year crime spree

46:08

came to an end. It's

46:10

unclear what Joseph was up to in

46:12

terms of work during the nineteen eighties.

46:14

but starting in in the nineteen nineties.

46:17

He worked as a truck mechanic in California,

46:19

and then he retired in twenty seventeen.

46:21

There's really not much

46:23

known about his personal life,

46:25

other than he and his wife, Sharon, have

46:27

three daughters together, and then they ended

46:29

up separating in nineteen ninety one, unclear

46:32

why they separated.

46:33

I would bet he probably

46:34

stopped killing when she had

46:36

children. I don't know. That's

46:38

just my theory that I have I just don't know.

46:41

I don't know. So over the years, the different

46:43

police departments investigated their crime

46:45

sprees separately, pursue pursuing

46:48

all the cases as individual crimes and

46:50

not as like one person. sin. And

46:52

no one thought that the Southern California murders

46:55

were connected to the ones up

46:57

north. There was one detective up in

46:59

Clemento, who thought that the east area rapist

47:01

had committed the same crimes down

47:03

south. But the Santa Barbara Sheriff's

47:05

Department insisted it was work of a local

47:08

criminal criminal, they had

47:10

their eye on. But

47:11

this guy that they had their eye on, he ended

47:13

up getting murdered, so that

47:15

guy was out. Finally, in two thousand

47:17

one, DNA from several

47:19

of the east area rapist cases were

47:22

connected to DNA found at crimes

47:24

committed by the original nightstalker officially

47:28

linking

47:28

the two crime sprees.

47:31

Finally.

47:33

Your DNA was such a game changer?

47:35

Thank god for DNA.

47:37

You can't DNA doesn't lie.

47:39

DNA

47:39

doesn't

47:40

lie. So they

47:43

finally link the two, then they give

47:45

them another name They

47:47

combine them to Eran's,

47:49

EAR0NS which,

47:51

again, it's just like they're spending too much time

47:53

on the names I feel like. Put whatever.

47:56

Yeah. So he gets another freaking name. So

47:58

this case just really went cold

47:59

for a very long time.

48:01

Now at the time, there was a crime

48:03

writer and a citizen sleuth.

48:04

Michelle McNamora was

48:07

also pursuing the case. Now she wanted

48:09

to help figure out who this monster was.

48:11

And I think she just overall, like,

48:14

got obsessed with this

48:16

story.

48:17

Who was this guy? Why was he never

48:19

caught? She just wanted know everything. So

48:21

Michelle gave him another name, The

48:23

Golden State and she ended up writing

48:25

a book. You should read it. It's called Albe

48:28

Gon in the Dark and it came out in twenty

48:30

thirteen.

48:30

I believe there's also a

48:32

is it on HBO? Oh.

48:35

Oh.

48:35

What's it on? It's there's like a Netflix series

48:37

maybe about her

48:40

book. Of course, the book is always better. So

48:42

I would suggest you check it out, but she saw

48:44

Joseph as like her nemesis and

48:46

she was actively pursuing him.

48:49

She was following his crime. She was making

48:51

links that nobody else was making. She

48:53

was like bringing this case to life

48:55

because they had gone cold for so

48:58

long. And then, sadly, Michelle

49:01

died she died in twenty sixteen,

49:03

and she died before her book was

49:05

finished. but her husband, at

49:07

the time, Patton Oswald, he helped

49:10

get the book finished and published it for

49:12

her, and then it became published

49:14

in twenty eighteen.

49:15

and it became a best seller. She,

49:18

like, mysteriously died. Someone

49:20

tell me what she died of. I always thought

49:22

that was just a little odd.

49:25

little weird. I

49:27

bring that up because she's the one

49:29

who really think brought this story back to light

49:31

for sure.

49:32

She was opening the doors, having conversations

49:34

about it, bringing his

49:36

name back into the media, her

49:39

book, amazing. So this isn't directly

49:41

related to Joseph, but

49:43

remember that the there was a young

49:45

newlywared couple who was murdered in nineteen eighty

49:47

and I said, like, the brother was rich or whatever.

49:50

So the rich brother ends

49:52

up spending two million dollars supporting

49:54

California Proposition sixty nine,

49:57

which authorized DNA collection

49:59

from all

49:59

California felons

50:01

and other criminals. So he backed this

50:03

thing up and put lots of money into it. Right?

50:05

The proposition passed in two thousand four,

50:07

which helped establish the California

50:09

DNA database which collects DNA

50:11

from all accused and convicted felons

50:14

in California. Making California the

50:16

third largest database in the world.

50:18

and the effectiveness for

50:20

solving cold cases is incredible,

50:23

with California coming second to only Virginia

50:26

in the country. Hell yeah.

50:28

So with that being said, this is not good

50:30

for criminals because

50:32

their DNA will be in the

50:34

system. Also, it's a very, like,

50:36

controversial topic. Some people

50:38

have very mixed feelings about it, but we'll talk

50:40

about that in a minute. On June

50:42

fifteenth

50:42

twenty sixteen, The

50:44

FBI released new crime details

50:47

and some new sketches of who they

50:49

thought this suspect was. They also

50:51

announced that there was a fifty thousand dollar reward

50:54

They were just really hoping to kind of, you know,

50:56

figure out who did this. Finally,

50:59

in January of twenty eighteen,

51:01

they had, like, a serious breakthrough.

51:04

I know. Twenty

51:05

eighteen, though. Damn. Investigators use

51:07

this thing called GED Match,

51:10

which is an online service that compares DNA

51:12

files from different genetic testing companies.

51:14

Investigators knew that the DNA from the different

51:17

crime scenes

51:17

mashed one another, so they were able to

51:19

upload

51:20

the DNA found in the rate kit

51:22

from the nineteen eighty Ventura County

51:24

Murder

51:24

into the system. So

51:27

the DNA allowed them to identify a

51:29

very distant relative of Joseph's

51:32

from the eighteen hundreds.

51:33

Very distant

51:35

relative to say the least

51:38

This relative, however, was

51:40

connected to about twenty five different

51:42

Danjalou family trees, large

51:44

trees, and these trees had

51:47

thousands of people on them. But least

51:49

they had at least they had somewhere to start

51:51

with, at least they had a plan. Using

51:54

other clues, investigators had,

51:56

like, age, sex, place of

51:58

possible residents during the crimes, they

52:00

were able to slowly narrow down

52:02

the list of subjects. But then

52:04

in twenty eighteen, there was

52:06

a lady who was working on, like, helping

52:09

upload DNA into

52:12

the system. She ends up finding

52:14

a closer match to

52:17

the killer's DNA. then they can

52:19

narrow it down even more and they're using

52:20

ancestry dot com to

52:22

really kind of

52:24

pinpoint

52:25

who this person is. So,

52:27

okay, they get it narrowed down all

52:29

the way to six possible suspects.

52:32

They're getting close. they are kidding

52:34

fucking. Yes. And they had gotten

52:36

it narrowed down until Joseph

52:38

and one other family member remained.

52:41

Now that person was ruled out of

52:43

the DNA test leaving Joseph as

52:45

the

52:45

only remaining suspect.

52:48

Shit. That must have been so exciting. like

52:50

we fucking gotta bitch.

52:51

So then on April eighteenth, a DNA sample

52:54

was

52:54

carefully and secretly

52:56

collected off of Joseph

52:59

car door handle. I guess he went shopping at

53:01

Hobby Lobby. Great. They got

53:03

some DNA off of his car thing

53:05

when he was gone. Someone else also

53:07

dug through Joseph's garbage

53:09

can outside and got a used tissue.

53:12

Great. Both were DNA matched

53:14

for the Golden State killer crimes.

53:17

Yeah. You wanna celebrate, but at the same

53:18

time, it's like, oh, god. This

53:20

guy's nasty. He thought he

53:22

could run forever.

53:23

Naynee Bitch. Nay

53:26

Nay.

53:26

Gotcha.

53:29

So on April twenty fourth twenty

53:31

eighteen, police finally arrested.

53:34

Seventy two year old,

53:36

Joseph. Yep. And guess what? He lived

53:38

in his little house in citrus

53:40

hides. when he was living with his daughter,

53:43

Inc. granddaughter. Must

53:46

have been so sad for them.

53:48

he got to live his whole life

53:50

first of all. Okay.

53:52

So they arrive at his house to

53:54

arrest him right, and they're like, Joseph

53:56

Deangelo, you're under your red. You're

53:59

under arrest or whatever

53:59

they say all dramatically, you know. And

54:02

Joseph's first response was,

54:04

quote, but I have a roast in

54:06

the oven.

54:09

He's very concerned about his roast.

54:12

That

54:12

was his response. Okay. Great.

54:14

I guess

54:15

it's like what do you expect?

54:16

What do you think he's gonna say? You

54:18

got me? You

54:20

did it. Congratulations. You

54:22

found me.

54:23

Well, during the time of the initial

54:25

arrest, Joseph was charged with eight

54:27

counts of her degree murder attributed to

54:29

the Golden State killer. And then on May

54:31

tenth, the Santa Barbara District Attorney's

54:34

Office charged him with four additional accounts

54:36

of first degree murder. Good.

54:38

Well, there was no DNA linking

54:41

linking Jozzo to the Central Valley cases,

54:43

the very beginning ones. the police.

54:46

The chief of police stated that, like, he was

54:48

a hundred percent confident. It was him.

54:50

Shortly after his arrest, Joseph

54:52

made a very weird statement that he was

54:55

I mean, that was almost like a confession.

54:57

He mentioned that he had this

54:59

inner personality named Jerry who

55:01

was forcing him to commit crimes. And

55:04

according to the prosecution, Joseph

55:06

said the following while hanging

55:08

out in the police

55:09

interrogation room alone. He said,

55:12

quote, I didn't have the strength to push him out.

55:14

He went with me. It was like

55:16

in my head, I mean, he's a part of

55:18

me. I didn't want to do those things.

55:20

I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life.

55:22

I did all those things. I destroyed all their lives.

55:25

So now I've got to pay

55:26

the price. So

55:27

he said that in the confession room, which essentially

55:29

is right? He's admitting. Yeah.

55:31

So Jerry made him do it whatever.

55:34

You did it though.

55:35

Joseph.

55:36

People said that there were warning signs

55:38

over the years, which is so refreshing because,

55:40

of course, people say that after the fact.

55:43

but no one wants to say it when

55:44

it's happening. Right? For

55:46

Chicken Shits. Anyways, Joseph's

55:48

brother-in-law claimed that Joseph had

55:50

casually brought up the east area

55:52

rapist during a conversation one

55:55

time

55:55

around when the original crimes

55:57

were

55:57

happening, but no one thought much of

55:59

it,

55:59

but it gave him a weird feel His

56:02

coworkers at the supermarket said

56:04

he was just a regular guy except

56:06

he never smiles. His

56:08

neighbors did not like him at

56:10

all. Okay? They called him

56:13

a unlikable carmagine who

56:15

would frequently have these loud

56:17

profane outburst. So

56:19

now that's some flags. Right? At

56:21

one time, a neighbor even

56:22

got a voicemail where Joseph threatened

56:25

to deliver a load of death. because

56:27

Joseph didn't like that their dog was

56:28

barking, like, all night or something.

56:31

Well, in July twenty

56:32

eighteen, his estranged wife

56:34

Sharon finally files

56:36

for divorce, which was finalized

56:39

in twenty nineteen. And during their

56:41

divorce proceedings, She does

56:43

say that

56:44

she was fooled

56:44

by him. Okay?

56:47

He would have tons of excuses working

56:49

late nights He

56:51

was visiting his parents. He was

56:53

working. He was always working. She said she

56:55

had no idea because many people were like, how did

56:57

she not know? I think it's possible to

56:59

not know.

56:59

I don't think I even people assume

57:02

that they always know. I

57:03

don't know. So she was saying

57:05

that she was a victim to him as well. She had

57:07

no idea. Many people found it hard to

57:09

believe that she didn't think he had some kind of

57:11

double life going on because he did

57:13

so much. But

57:16

Yeah. She said that she has lost her ability

57:18

to

57:18

trust people. Don't blame her. Okay.

57:20

We don't blame

57:21

her. However, this part was a little

57:23

up setting. There

57:24

were other family members who were riding layers

57:26

to the judge telling him that the man

57:28

that they were prosecuting. This man that

57:30

was being considered a monster was actually

57:32

the polar opposite. One of his nieces

57:35

described him as a loving father figure

57:37

while another said that he was her hero

57:40

who took her camping and fishing, his

57:42

daughter described how he would be a good

57:44

listener.

57:45

Sorry.

57:46

She said, like, the father I know and

57:49

love is a good person. It's not this

57:51

man.

57:52

Sorry. Sorry.

57:54

Surprise, spot twist, your dad,

57:57

your uncle, your relative

57:59

is

57:59

a piece of shit. Sorry about it. You know,

58:02

like accept it. You

58:04

have to chill. He could be two things,

58:06

a piece of shit, and a good father. It's

58:08

very rare, but, yeah,

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they just wanted them

58:12

to have mercy on him. It's like, ILLA.

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he ruined so many people's lives.

58:17

Did you guys watch it? because you could watch the

58:19

court hearing and it happened because it was during COVID.

58:22

So he had on that, like, face mask thing.

58:24

Many victims and the family, so the victims

58:26

spoke out at the hearing as well, saying

58:28

now that they were able to closure, and

58:31

then others took

58:32

the stand with a way more angry approach,

58:34

which is totally

58:34

valid and fine. One woman

58:36

wore a shirt that was bedazzled that

58:39

said, Rotten Hell. love that.

58:41

Great. When his victims got up

58:43

to speak one by one, Joseph remained

58:46

stone faced the entire time refusing

58:49

to look at any of them. It must have been

58:51

nice for those victims and

58:52

the families to, like, be able to say what

58:54

they've been wanting to say. You know?

58:57

Most

58:57

people don't get that. Between nineteen

58:59

seventy three and nineteen eighty six, the three

59:01

crime sprees resulted in thirteen

59:03

murders. fifty rapes and

59:05

a hundred and twenty burglaries across

59:08

California. But

59:09

due to the statute of

59:11

limitations, Joseph was

59:13

not able to be

59:14

charged with any of the rapes or burglaries.

59:17

He was able to be charged with thirteen counts

59:19

of murder and thirteen counts of kidnapping.

59:22

Great. On June

59:23

twenty ninth twenty twenty, Joseph plead

59:25

guilty to all thirteen

59:26

counts of first degree murder and special

59:29

circumstances.

59:29

which included murder committed

59:31

during grapes and burglaries, as well

59:34

as thirteen counts of kidnapping. And

59:36

then on July twenty one, twenty twenty,

59:39

Joseph DeAngelo multiple

59:41

consecutive life sentences without the

59:43

possibility of parole, and

59:45

he did stand up and offer a brief apology

59:48

after listening to the days of

59:51

the victim impact statements. He stood

59:54

up and said, I listened to all of your

59:56

statements each one of them.

59:58

And I'm truly sorry for the

59:59

everyone I've hurt. I

1:00:01

would be the lady with the bedazzled shirt,

1:00:04

you know.

1:00:05

Yeah.

1:00:06

What a journey? What a long

1:00:08

journey? Can't believe he got caught. Right?

1:00:10

Good. He is currently incarcerated. at

1:00:13

a California

1:00:13

state prison in California.

1:00:16

Great. This story is wild. Right?

1:00:18

It sucks that the sky got to live like majority

1:00:21

of us life just normal, happy, and

1:00:23

free.

1:00:24

But at least the victims

1:00:26

and the victims

1:00:26

family got to say what they've been wanting to

1:00:28

say and he will die in prison. that's

1:00:31

something I guess. So

1:00:32

that's the really complicated awful

1:00:34

story of the Golden State killer, AKA,

1:00:37

all the other names he had. I'm losing my

1:00:39

voice. This man

1:00:41

was absolutely disgusting. I hope

1:00:43

he has a miserable time in prison.

1:00:46

Yeah. Not

1:00:47

sorry about it. I mean,

1:00:49

he did so much more. I would suggest reading

1:00:51

that book. And,

1:00:53

yeah, there's just a lot to it, but I

1:00:55

felt like this was very long because it was.

1:00:57

Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today.

1:01:00

I hope you have a wonderful rest of

1:01:01

your day. Please be safe out there.

1:01:04

maker choices. I'll be seeing you guys

1:01:06

later.