Prior to joining PEOPLE, Westfall was a White House Correspondent for The Associated Press after beginning her career in Congress, where she wrote legislation on women's health, mental health, and domestic violence. Now a 74-year-old father and grandfather, DeAngelo was. Bush in 2000 and the hear-a-pin-drop silent moment in 2008 when Barack Obama, holding his mother-in-law's hand, took in the news that he would be America's first Black president). DeAngelo, who was a police officer from 1973 to 1979, committed 13 murders as well as multiple rapes and burglaries in the 1970s and 80s. She twice won the White House Correspondents' Association Merriman-Smith Award for excellence in presidential reporting under deadline pressure (for her inside-the-room election night exclusives on the "snippy" phone call between Al Gore and George W. Westfall joined PEOPLE in 2003 as Washington Bureau Chief and specializes in bringing readers inside the personal experience of political life. She also writes for and occasionally senior edits the magazine's Crime section and the brand's Let's Talk About It mental health series. “The only circumstances where that would make sense in terms of geographic profiling,” Haynes said, “is if he were a cop and didn’t want to offend in the jurisdiction where he worked.Sandra Sobieraj Westfall is the White House and National Political Correspondent for PEOPLE.
But, Haynes said, “the geographic profiles done on this offender were completely wrong.” That’s because, he speculates, DeAngelo had been a police officer for the Northern California cities of Exeter and Auburn from 1975, when his crime spree began, through 1979, when he was fired after being caught shoplifting a can of dog repellant and a hammer from a Sacramento drug store.* (How the Golden State Killer managed to fend off his victims’ pets has long been a subject of speculation.) The crimes were committed in other counties, unusually far away for this kind of criminal.
Some hoped that the geographic distribution of the crimes could be used to unearth potential suspects. But they could not find a match in any DNA database.
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Although the crimes were committed before forensic science employed DNA analysis, investigators in the 2000s used it to determine that the same man was responsible for both the East Area Rapist assaults and a series of home invasion rapes and murders in Southern California. The Golden State case has perplexed law enforcement for decades. “I knew that would be the case,” he said, “somebody on nobody’s radar who I never would have found.” He’s not chagrined to learn that DeAngelo was not on any of the myriad lists of suspects compiled by both law enforcement and civilian sleuths. He has made a study of the Golden State Killer case for the past seven years, four of them working with McNamara as her lead researcher. Joseph James DeAngelo apologizes to his victims and the families of the victims he killed more than four decades ago, Friday, Aug. “I’m exhilarated,” Haynes said in a phone call Wednesday afternoon. DeAngelo has lived in the house, which neighbors told local news reporters he shared with a woman and two teenagers, for 30 years. Schubert said that the investigation had come together over the past six days and that DeAngelo had been identified as the Golden State Killer (also known as the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker, or EAR/ONS) after investigators surveilling his home in the Citrus Heights district obtained discarded DNA evidence for analysis. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, joined by law enforcement officials and prosecutors from five California counties, led a press conference on the arrest Wednesday.
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