CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. (CBS13/AP) – A law enforcement official has identified a former police officer living in Citrus Heights as the infamous East Area Rapist, the AP reports.
Law enforcement personnel, including FBI agents, have converged at a Citrus Heights home where the suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, has been living. He arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail early Wednesday morning on two counts of murder in Ventura County, according to jail records.
Deangelo, a military veteran, and his wife bought the home in 1980.
The East Area Rapist, also known as the Golden State Killer, has been tied to 12 homicides, 45 rapes, and dozens of burglaries across the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
He has not been granted bail. He is being housed in the psychiatric area of the jail.
Jane Carson-Sandler, one of dozens of women raped by the elusive serial killer, says she received an email Wednesday from a retired detective who worked on the case telling her they identified the man and have him in custody.
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