Joseph James DeAngelo, now 74, admitted to committing more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and '80s after investigators identified him as a suspect using public genealogy websites to trace his DNA.ДeAngelo pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges. The former police officer known as the Golden State Killer was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in prison. вЂњWeвЂ™re all props in his big story, where heвЂ™s always been a criminal underneath.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. Maybe his familyвЂ™s part of his cover,вЂќ Ueltzen said after DeAngelo was sentenced. Investigators have said one rape victimвЂ™s recollection that her assailant shouted вЂњI hate you, BonnieвЂќ helped lead them to DeAngelo. She broke off their teenage engagement when DeAngelo became abusive. вЂњHe has and always will be a sociopath in action.вЂќДЇormer fiance Bonnie Colwell Ueltzen said, вЂњI didnвЂ™t see a criminal in him, but I know now he was a burglar and a Peeping Tom before I ever knew him.вЂќ вЂњNo compassion, no empathy, no remorse,вЂќ Schubert said. His ex-wife, Sacramento attorney Sharon Huddle, said in her own court filing that she was fooled by his excuses of working nights, leaving for pheasant hunts and visiting his parents, though many victims have wondered aloud how she could not have known of her husbandвЂ™s double life. Prosecutors said they had found no evidence of abuse, but Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said they learned he was a teenager вЂњwho was blowing up animals, who was breaking into homes.вЂќ вЂњI personally feel that someone else is inside him who I do not know,вЂќ a niece said in a letter read by defense attorneys.ДeAngeloвЂ™s sister and a close friend each wrote that he was abused as a boy by an emotionally distant, disciplinarian father. He would place dishes on the manвЂ™s back, warning that he would kill them both if the dishes rattled.ДeAngeloвЂ™s relatives said that conflicted with their image of the man they loved. It led oldest brother Bruce Harrington to champion a ballot measure passed by California voters in 2004 that expanded the collection of DNA samples from prisoners and those arrested for felonies and has since led to more than 81,000 identifications.Д«owman told DeAngelo he was moved by the courage and strength of the victims and their family members - вЂњall qualities you clearly lackвЂќ - who told how they endured sadistic, hours-long assaults.ДeAngeloвЂ™s rapes and eventual murders followed the same pattern of binding couples he surprised while they slept and assaulting the woman as the man lay helpless. He probably, somehow in his mind, didnвЂ™t feel that he was committing these crimes - it was someone else, almost compartmentalized.вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s like he was living two completely different lives. вЂњOne hundred percent вЂJekyll & Hyde,вЂ™вЂќ added Jane Carson-Sandler, one of DeAngeloвЂ™s first rape victims. вЂњI think that he is truly diabolical and he is constantly masked, whether itвЂ™s a physical mask, a disguise in the voice, the role of a decent guy in the community and having people around him who love him,вЂќ said Debbi Domingo McMullanвЂЏ, the daughter of murder victim Cheri Domingo. He was finally unmasked in 2018 with a pioneering use of DNA tracing. Prosecutors and victims said it was more evidence of a manipulative and vicious criminal who fooled investigators and his own family until he finally admitted victimizing at least 87 people at 53 separate crime scenes spanning 11 California counties. вЂњI listened to all your statements, each one of them, and IвЂ™m truly sorry for everyone IвЂ™ve hurt,вЂќ he said, putting aside the weak, quavering voice he used to plead guilty and also admit to multiple other sexual assaults for which the statute of limitations had expired. The 74-year-old DeAngelo spoke for only a few seconds after rising from a wheelchair that newly released jail video shows he doesnвЂ™t need.

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