I’m going to Be Gone in the DarkHBO’s new docuseries based on the book of the same name, takes an in depth look at the quest for the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer prominent throughout California in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the case is not yet completely resolved, the authorities have a suspect in custody who is awaiting trial and a possible conviction if they are convicted: Jose James DeAngelo Jr.
Michelle McNamara, the late writer who wrote the original book, he spent years of his life, linking to the serial killers and the major crimes in California the East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, and the Visalia Ransacker. McNamara was able to link and called the only culprit of the Golden State Killer. During the decades of 1970 and 1980, the Golden State Killer committed rapes, assaults, robberies, murders, and up and down California before going dormant. According to The New York Times, “Its victims include women who were alone in the house and some of those who were home with their husbands. Sometimes, the husband and wife were killed. He is also believed to have stolen more than 120 households.”
McNamara to work on the case and followed the trail until she died in the year 2016. In 2018, after Comparison of DNA had become more advancedthe authorities were able to tie the DNA of some of the crimes, decades before the DNA is in the system of DeAngelo Jr., The former police officer from northern California, was accused of 13 counts of murder and several kidnapping and weapons charges. Your accusations cross several counties in California, and many of them are seeking the death penalty. Prosecutors have called the “Golden State” Murderer in the case that the “majority of the notorious unsolved series-the violation of the massacre in the history of California.”
DeAngelo Jr. still awaiting trial and sentencing, if convicted, but The New York Times reported that from the beginning of March, was planning to plead guilty in exchange for being sentenced to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. Their public defenders pointed out that as he is currently 74 years of age, he wanted to take the life of prayer and “offered to plead guilty because criminal cases often take years to resolve and that the testing process is very stressful for the victims and their families” The New York Times write.
From now on, DeAngelo Jr. the trial has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so that it is not clear what is your guilty plea and sentencing may be. You can see all the history of the Golden State Killer and McNamara’s quest to find him in the HBO series I’m going to Be Gone in the Dark starting from the 28th of June.
