For more than a decade, the Golden State Killer terrorised California, committing at least thirteen murders and more than fifty rapes before vanishing without a trace. For forty years he had no name and no face, just a DNA profile that matched no one on earth. Then, in 2018, investigators uploaded that profile to a public genealogy website, traced his distant relatives through an enormous family tree, and finally unmasked him as Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer who had been hiding in plain sight the whole time. This is the story of the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the forensic breakthrough that changed cold case investigation forever. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Golden State Killer.
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