Joseph DeAngelo

Joseph DeAngelo, the former California police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, told his victims he was “truly sorry” for a string of rapes and murders before being sentenced to life in prison Friday.

Victims of serial rapist and murderer Joseph DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, shared their stories in court Tuesday ahead of DeAngelo’s sentencing Friday.

Victim after victim lined up to describe Joseph DeAngelo as a “sick monster,” “horrible man” and “subhuman” who changed their lives during a long reign of rape and murder that earned him the nickname Golden State Killer.

Nearly three dozen survivors and family members of victims plan to tell their stories before the man known as the Golden State Killer is formally sentenced to life in prison

A former police officer who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades pleaded guilty Monday to murders attributed to a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer.

A man accused of being the rapist and killer who terrorized California residents in the 1970s and 1980s has agreed to plead guilty to dozens of crimes in return for being spared the death penalty

California prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty if they convict the man suspected of being a notorious California serial killer who eluded capture for decades.

The trial of a former police officer suspected of being a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s could cost taxpayers more than $20 million.

A former police officer suspected of being California’s elusive Golden State Killer was arraigned Thursday on 13-new rape-related charges along with 13 slayings spanning five counties, a 15-minute-long recitation of offenses that one family member called “very, very intense.” The Sacramento County Superior Court hearing sets up a trial that prosecutors this week agreed will eventually be held in the...

Prosecutors in Northern California on Monday announced a new murder charge against a man suspected of being the notorious “Golden State Killer,” closing a murder case in Tulare County that has gone unsolved for more than four decades.

Court records show DNA from a tissue left in a trash can led authorities to arrest a former California police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer.

The man suspected of being the so-called “Golden State Killer” has been charged with more counts of first-degree murder, these for crimes committed in southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That brings to 12 the number of slayings with which Joseph Deangelo has been charged....
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley said Thursday that Deangelo, the 72-year-old...

A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can collect DNA, fingerprints and body photographs of the former policeman accused of being California’s Golden State Killer. Attorneys for Joseph DeAngelo, 72, had asked the court to halt the search, arguing the warrant it relied on should no longer be valid because it was granted before his arrest.