Golden State Killer Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Possibility Of Parole

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Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after admitting to more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s.





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Golden State Killer Suspect Pleads Guilty To More Than A Dozen Murders

The string of long-unsolved murders made headlines in 2018 after law enforcement officers announced they identified DeAngelo as the suspect by using DNA from a no-frills genealogy website to crack the case.

Investigators used the DNA evidence from one of the murder scenes to create a profile of the killer, which they then uploaded to the genealogy website. That site linked the killer’s profile to a distant relative of DeAngelo. Law enforcement confirmed the link by collecting DeAngelo’s DNA from his car door and a discarded tissue.

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