Prosecutors confirmed:
"Numerous other crimes, including burglary and attempted murder of a peace officer allegedly committed by DeAngelo during the 1970s in Tulare County, cannot be filed due to the statute of limitations."Already charged with 12 killings: The 1978 deaths of Katie and Brian Maggiore. Police confirmed he committed a series of killings, rapes and other felony crimes credited to the so-called Golden State Killer or the East Area Rapist or Original Night Stalker.
Snelling was shot and killed while fighting a masked man who was trying to kidnap his daughter from his home.
"Science and DNA played less of a role than good old-fashioned, dedicated police work," said Tulare County District Attorney, Tim Ward.Authorities said Joseph DeAngelo was working as a police officer in the city of Exeter from May 1973 to August 1976, the period in which the Ransacker cases were occurring in Visalia and at the time of the Snelling homicide. The Visalia slayings ended a few months before the East Area Rapist crimes began. By then, officials said, DeAngelo had moved to the Sacramento area as an Auburn police officer.
Decades after the killings terrified communities throughout California, authorities tracked down DeAngelo using data from an ancestry website where people submit their DNA results in hopes of tracking down relatives and ancestors.
DNA from a crime scene was matched to genetic material from a relative who was registered on genealogy sites, and authorities later obtained a discarded sample of DeAngelo's DNA.
DeAngelo, a former police officer, Vietnam veteran and mechanic, was a reclusive neighbor in Citrus Heights, a town about 16 miles northeast of Sacramento, according to residents.
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