Forensic genealogy has helped investigators track down serial killers, now police are using it to try to identify Nancy ...

Few criminal cases have loomed larger in Sacramento’s history than that of Joseph James DeAngelo, one of the most notorious serial criminals in U.S. history. Known by many monikers — the Golden State ...

Joseph DeAngelo moved through California neighborhoods like a shadow. He stalked his victims for days, learning their routines before slipping into their homes in a mask to torture, rape and kill. At ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DeAngelo, who has been dubbed as the Golden State Killer, was behind serial rapes and murders that took place across California in ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. In an exclusive excerpt from 'The People vs The Golden State Killer' prosecutor Thien Ho goes behind the scenes of the interrogation of ...

On Monday, 45 years after the start of his decade-long reign of terror in California, the Golden State Killer appeared in a university ballroom-turned-courthouse to ...

Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho reveals how the GSK case nearly left local control. His new book exposes long battle to find DeAngelo, tensions among California prosecutors. From DNA link to a ...

He was a former police officer, serial rapist and killer who detectives had been hunting for more than 40 years, first as the Visalia Ransacker, then Sacramento’s East Area Rapist, later as the ...