Friday, April 27, 2018

Genealogy sites helped nab a serial killer after a 40-year search


More than four decades ago, Joseph James DeAngelo was a US Navy veteran and a police officer in the Californian city of Exeter. He also held a dark secret: DeAngelo was the East Area Rapist, the terror of Sacramento county who made a name for himself by brutally sexually assaulting and killing scores of people in the area. But that was back in the days when there was no internet, no cellphones, and few ways to trace a killer who meticulously covered his tracks. Earlier this week, 72-year-old DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, found himself arrested in…

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