A FORMER POLICE officer who terrorised California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades has pleaded guilty to murders attributed to a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer.
“I didn’t have the strength to push him out,” DeAngelo said. “He made me. He went with me. It was like in my head, I mean, he’s a part of me. I didn’t want to do those things. I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life. I did all those things. I destroyed all their lives. So now I’ve got to pay the price.”
Temperatures were taken of everyone in the room and even the judge wore a mask at times when he was not speaking.DeAngelo, who wore orange jail overalls and a plastic face shield to prevent possible spread of the virus, leaned to one side and his mouth appeared agape as prosecutors read graphic details of crimes where he raped and killed and then snacked before leaving.
The retired truck mechanic was arrested at his home in the Sacramento suburbs — the same area he terrorised in the mid-1970s, earning the title East Area Rapist.
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