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How They Caught the Golden State Killer

Oct 11, 2026
How investigators caught the Golden State Killer after 40 years. Public-record timeline: the April 24, 2018 arrest, the genealogy match, and what the case files actually showed. 0:00 A Door in Citrus Heights 1:12 Forty Years of Names 2:35 What the Files Already Held 4:02 The Discarded Sample 5:28 GEDmatch and the Family Tree 7:05 The Mini-Case That Changed the Hunt 8:40 And It Gets Worse 10:15 What Did Not Happen Overnight 11:40 The Plea and the Record This is public-record reporting, not a how-to. No instructional methods. Estimates marked as about. #GoldenStateKiller #JosephDeAngelo #TrueCrime #DNAGenealogy #EastAreaRapist #OriginalNightStalker #ColdCase #LifeIsEasy Not legal advice. Gospel note at the end only. Visuals are original AI-generated stills. Audio may be synthetic. Not medical, legal, or financial advice.

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