Evil among us The Golden State killer.en-HI Subtitles

00:00:03,968 --> 00:00:06,[music]

00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:10,[Male Narrator] To those who knew him,

00:00:10,975 --> 00:00:13,he was a devoted family man,

00:00:13,277 --> 00:00:14,a reliable friend,

00:00:15,079 --> 00:00:17,and a proud police officer.

00:00:17,415 --> 00:00:19,[Brittany] His eldest daughter said he was a great man,

00:00:19,817 --> 00:00:23,helped raise his granddaughter.

00:00:23,354 --> 00:00:25,[Richard] We did a lot together, man.

00:00:25,123 --> 00:00:27,Fished, fixed poles, work on his boat.

00:00:28,059 --> 00:00:29,We kicked it.

00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,[Terry] He should have gone to the FBI.

00:00:31,295 --> 00:00:36,He was that much of a professional investigator.

00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:38,[Narrator] But he had another side,

00:00:38,669 --> 00:00:40,a secret side.

00:00:40,471 --> 00:00:42,[Mike] Fifty-plus rapes, murdered over a dozen people.

00:00:43,041 --> 00:00:46,He's this country's worst serial predator.

00:00:46,744 --> 00:00:50,[Narrator] Who dwelled among his victims for decades.

00:00:50,381 --> 00:00:52,[Kris] He lived about a one-minute drive from me.

00:00:53,017 --> 00:00:55,Was he the guy at McDonald's behind me?

00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,[Narrator] What fueled Joseph DeAngelo's dark desires?

00:01:00,058 --> 00:01:03,What he loved was the psychological terror.

00:01:08,132 --> 00:01:10,[Narrator] Were there any signs?

00:01:10,401 --> 00:01:12,[Richard] He told me it was a good thing he didn't get out

00:01:12,270 --> 00:01:13,of his car. I said, "Why?"

00:01:13,871 --> 00:01:16,He said "Cause I'd a tore his eyeballs out of the socket".

00:01:16,641 --> 00:01:19,[Narrator] And how did a revolutionary new scientific

00:01:19,177 --> 00:01:23,approach bring this crooked cop to justice

00:01:23,714 --> 00:01:26,after 40 years?

00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:28,[Ashley] They ran his DNA through a bunch of those

00:01:28,820 --> 00:01:34,genealogy sites and found a 100% match.

00:01:34,792 --> 00:01:38,No question. They had their Golden State Killer.

00:01:39,397 --> 00:01:41,[Richard] To find this out about him, it was just...

00:01:41,966 --> 00:01:44,Mind-blowing.

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00:01:59,650 --> 00:02:04,[Narrator] On April 24, 2018, police in Sacramento, California

00:02:04,689 --> 00:02:07,shocked the world when they suddenly closed one of the most

00:02:07,925 --> 00:02:13,horrific cold cases the nation has ever known.

00:02:13,464 --> 00:02:17,Police say after 30-plus years, they have their man.

00:02:17,635 --> 00:02:19,[Man] 72-year-old Joseph DeAngelo,

00:02:19,537 --> 00:02:21,he's behind bars here in Sacramento.

00:02:21,973 --> 00:02:24,Scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow.

00:02:24,442 --> 00:02:26,Known both as the Golden State Killer and the

00:02:26,677 --> 00:02:29,East Area Rapist, investigators say their suspect

00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:32,committed at least 12 murders and more than 50 rapes

00:02:32,617 --> 00:02:37,across California in the 1970s and 80s.

00:02:37,255 --> 00:02:42,[Narrator] For 40 long years, Joseph DeAngelo secretly raped,

00:02:42,493 --> 00:02:44,killed... [gunshot]

00:02:44,896 --> 00:02:47,And taunted his way across California

00:02:48,065 --> 00:02:51,without remorse or rebuke,

00:02:51,602 --> 00:02:55,holding the entire Golden State in abject terror

00:02:55,373 --> 00:02:57,as he roamed free.

00:02:57,775 --> 00:02:59,Once word g***t out that this was going on,

00:02:59,944 --> 00:03:01,people really took steps to protect themselves.

00:03:02,046 --> 00:03:04,They started locking their doors, going to the hardware

00:03:04,682 --> 00:03:09,store to get more secure locks. People were buying guns.

00:03:10,254 --> 00:03:14,[Narrator] But then, over four decades after his first attack,

00:03:14,559 --> 00:03:16,investigators utilize an extraordinary new

00:03:17,028 --> 00:03:22,crime-solving technique to bring this evil among us to ground.

00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,So the idea was, let's take DNA to the next level,

00:03:26,737 --> 00:03:32,which is, let's do this type of testing that doesn't give us,

00:03:33,377 --> 00:03:34,you know, like an inch of information,

00:03:34,845 --> 00:03:36,but gives us a mile.

00:03:36,781 --> 00:03:39,We looked at those cases that had biology,

00:03:39,483 --> 00:03:43,where we had the potential to render DNA profiles

00:03:43,421 --> 00:03:45,that belong to the killer and the rapist in

00:03:46,090 --> 00:03:47,those particular cases.

00:03:47,925 --> 00:03:50,You had databanks like ancestry.com and others

00:03:50,928 --> 00:03:54,that were through genealogy, helping people discover

00:03:54,665 --> 00:03:57,their lineage. And there was some belief that kind of

00:03:57,935 --> 00:04:02,technology could be applied to identifying the killer.

00:04:03,608 --> 00:04:06,[Narrator] Recently, genetic genealogy has helped

00:04:06,110 --> 00:04:09,crack such high-profile, cold cases as identifying

00:04:10,081 --> 00:04:15,a mysterious child found stuffed in a box in a Philadelphia woods

00:04:15,286 --> 00:04:18,65 years ago.

00:04:19,590 --> 00:04:23,The brutal 1983 murder of Joette Smith.

00:04:23,327 --> 00:04:29,Killed by Eric Drummond after she declined his advances.

00:04:29,133 --> 00:04:32,And the unconnected murders of two California women

00:04:32,870 --> 00:04:37,by Reuben Smith nearly 30 years after he took their lives.

00:04:38,776 --> 00:04:41,But before DeAngelo, DNA had rarely been used

00:04:42,046 --> 00:04:47,to identify an unknown killer through an ancestry database.

00:04:47,585 --> 00:04:49,[Amy] And it turns out that he was right here,

00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,a short distance from the district attorney's office

00:04:53,491 --> 00:04:56,living for decades at that point.

00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,That was the moment... Excuse my language, holy s***t!

00:05:00,398 --> 00:05:01,[Tristin] That's a very common thing.

00:05:01,766 --> 00:05:04,Is that what we see with serial killers,

00:05:04,502 --> 00:05:07,who we would call decent individuals.

00:05:07,938 --> 00:05:09,They're family men.

00:05:09,340 --> 00:05:10,They have a wife and they have kids.

00:05:11,042 --> 00:05:14,And someone like that cannot be doing something like this.

00:05:15,012 --> 00:05:17,It creates a threat to our sense of security

00:05:17,948 --> 00:05:21,if the guy next door is really the evil

00:05:21,252 --> 00:05:23,that lives among us.

00:05:26,023 --> 00:05:27,[Narrator] News of the predator's arrest

00:05:27,858 --> 00:05:31,and his shocking dual life as a cop and family man

00:05:32,029 --> 00:05:35,stuns his victims as well.

00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:41,Wow. You had all girls and a granddaughter. No boys.

00:05:41,739 --> 00:05:47,The best way I can explain it is I felt like every emotion

00:05:47,578 --> 00:05:51,I was capable of feeling, I felt at the same time.

00:05:51,816 --> 00:05:54,And it was very overwhelming.

00:05:54,819 --> 00:05:57,He lived about a one-minute drive from me

00:05:57,288 --> 00:05:59,for about three years.

00:05:59,357 --> 00:06:01,Was he the guy at McDonald's behind me?

00:06:01,192 --> 00:06:04,Was he at the restaurant? Was he at the same grocery line?

00:06:04,829 --> 00:06:08,So initially it was just shock.

00:06:08,666 --> 00:06:10,[Narrator] Although DeAngelo attacked Kris

00:06:10,701 --> 00:06:12,when she was just a teen,

00:06:12,870 --> 00:06:17,the memories are still fresh decades later.

00:06:19,076 --> 00:06:24,[Kris] It was December 18, 1976, 15 years old.

00:06:24,448 --> 00:06:26,And it was one week before Christmas.

00:06:26,851 --> 00:06:30,My parents had gone to a Christmas party.

00:06:30,287 --> 00:06:32,And my sister was at work,

00:06:32,757 --> 00:06:36,so I had a little frozen pizza, popped it in the oven,

00:06:36,727 --> 00:06:42,and went to go play the piano, waiting for the timer to go off.

00:06:44,468 --> 00:06:48,And I heard a, a noise.

00:06:51,509 --> 00:06:53,I stopped and I...

00:06:53,844 --> 00:06:56,I listened and it was silent.

00:06:57,081 --> 00:07:00,I was like, oh, must be okay. So I kept playing.

00:07:00,651 --> 00:07:04,[soft piano music]

00:07:04,188 --> 00:07:07,[Narrator] But the teenager is not alone.

00:07:07,191 --> 00:07:10,[Kris] There was a flash.

00:07:10,828 --> 00:07:14,And then all of a sudden there was a knife at my throat.

00:07:14,265 --> 00:07:16,[Narrator] Kris Pedretti will become the mysterious

00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,rapist's 10th victim.

00:07:20,004 --> 00:07:24,Police know they have a serial rapist in their midst,

00:07:24,208 --> 00:07:27,but they have no idea he actually began his campaign

00:07:27,244 --> 00:07:32,of terror one year earlier and 200 miles south.

00:07:35,252 --> 00:07:38,It's the fall of 1975.

00:07:38,255 --> 00:07:41,And the small town of Visalia is in the grip

00:07:41,492 --> 00:07:44,of an unusual crime spree.

00:07:44,562 --> 00:07:49,For the past 18 months, a thief known as the...