Golden State Killer: former police officer pleads guilty to string of murders

Joseph James DeAngelo admits to 13 murders, 13 kidnapping-related charges and dozens of sexual assaults

Forty years after a suburban rapist terrorized California in a series of assaults and killings, a 74-year-old former police officer has pleaded guilty to being the elusive Golden State Killer.

Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty on Monday to a wave of crimes stretching back to the 1970s, including 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges throughout California, and admitted to dozens of sexual assaults that he could not be criminally charged with.

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