>> HYA BRIAN: THIS WAS THE EFFECT OF THE EAST AREA RAPIST.
>> DEADBOLTS, AND WE PUT UP TH TAPE, AND THEN THE SECURITY ALARMS.
I FEEL FAIRLY SECURE, I PUT A DEADBOLT ON MY BEDROOM DOOR.
BRIA SELF DEFENSE CLASSES, PEOPLE WITH NO IDEA HOW TO SHOOT BUYING GUNS, FROM JU UNTIL 1976 -- UNTIL DECEMBER OF 1976, 1 MAN RAPED TEN WOMEN IN RANCHO, CITRUS HEIGHTS, AND CARMICHAEL.
REGULAR PRESS CONFERENCES WARNED THE PUBLIC OF THE DANGER.
IF HE WAS CONTACTED ON THE STREET HE WOULD BE COMPLACENT, , COOPERATIVE, HOWEVER IF HE WAS PUT IN A THREATENING POSITION HE COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS.
BRIAN: INVESTIGATORS DISPLAYED MAPS OF TARGETED AREAS.
ALL THE WHILE THE EAST AREA RAPIST GREW MORE AND MORE WILD.
>> HE TOLD THE FEMALE VICTIM IN EFFECT THAT IF HE SAW ANYTHING ON THE NEWSPAPERS OR ON TELEVISION OR HEARD IT ON TH RADIO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ATTACK HE WOULD KILL TWO PEOPLE
TONIGH BRIAN: A THIS IN AN AREA WHEN A SACRAMENTO POLICE DISPATCH HAD AN ACTUAL SWITCHBOARD.
A RECENT VICTIMS HAD SECONDS TO DIAL FOR HELP, SHE DOUBT OPERATOR.
UNFORTUNATELY THE OPERATOR DID NOT COME IN ON THE LIN EVEN WHEN THE VICTIM CALLED A LOCAL SHERIFF’S OFFICE ALL THE CIRCUITS WERE TIED UP AND THE NUMBER STILL GOES TO AN ANNEX
AND CANNOT BE HEARD OR ANSWERED UNTIL A LINE CLEARS.
BRIAN: BY THE TIME KCRA SPOKE WITH DETECTIVE CAROL DALY SHE HAD JOINED THE EAR TASK FORC AND INVERVIEWED MANY OF THE VICTIMS.
THEY HAD AN ARTIST’S RENDERIN OF A SUSPECT AND AN MO.
>> A LIGHT IS USUALLY SHINING IN THE EYES.
THE WOMAN IS USUALLY THE FIRST ONE TO AWAKEN.
AND THE ONLY THING THAT IS VISIBLE IS THE ROUND LIGHT AND THE SHADOW OF A GUN BEING POINTED DIRECTLY AT HER.
BRIA 1977 SAW 16 MORE RAPES.
REPORTS WERE THE MAN WOULD LOOK FOR WOMEN IN SINGLE STORY HOMES.
>> MOST RAPISTS WILL ATTACK IMPULSE SO YOU WILL HAVE N PREDETERMINED POINT OF ATTACK, THERE IS NO WAY TO CALCULATE A PATTER OR NO PARTY WILL STRIKE NEXT.
BRIAN: WHEN THE RAPIST FOUND A HOME WITH A COUPLE IN IT HE WOULD TIE UP THE MAN AND PLACE DISHES ON HIS BACK.
HE TOLD THE COUPLE IF HE HEARD A SINGLE DISH BREAK HE’D KILL THEM BOTH.
HE’D THEN RAPE THE WOMAN.
>> THE RAPIST STRUCK IN NORTH MODESTO ABOUT 3:00 MONDAY MORNING.
BRIAN: AS TIME MOVED FROM 1978 TO 1979 MORE THAN FORTY WOMEN WERE RAPED AND TWO PEOPLE HAD BEEN MURDERED.
HE ADDED MODESTO STOCKTON DAVIS CONCORD SAN RAMON SAN JO DANVILLE AND WALNUT CREEK TO HIS TERRITORY.
AND THEN THE RAPES ABRUPTLY STOPPED.
>> THERE ARE TWO THINGS UNKNOWN ABOUT THE RAPIST CURRENTLY TERRORIZING SACRAMENTO.
BRIAN: THE LEGACY OF THIS VIOLENT STREAK LASTS SO LONG YOU CAN SEE THE PASSAGE OF TIME IN SINGLE REPORTER, KCRA’S MIKE BOYD THROUGH THE YEARS SEARCHING FOR THE EAST AREA RAPIST.
>> IN 1998 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SUBMITTED ITS DNA EVIDENCE TO ORANGE COUNTY.
BRIAN: AND INTO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHEN DNA TECHNOLOGY MA A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EAST AREA RAPES AND A MURDER SPREE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
>> AS I SAT AND THOUGHT ABOUT IT, I REALIZED THIS IS POTENTIALLY A BIG DEAL.
BRIAN: BY THIS POINT ANOTHER NAME GOLDEN STATE KILLER HAD , BEEN GIVEN TO THE MAN.
THEY ADDED TEN MURDERS IN GOLETA, VENTURA COUNTY, DANA POINT, AND IRVINE TO HIS LIS INVESTIGATORS HAD HOPE THAT NEW DNA CONNECTION WOULD TAKE DOWN THE KILLER.
>> IT’S EITHER IN A DATABASE SOMEWHERE OR IT’S WAITING TO BE PUT INTO A DATABASE AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS THEN THERE WILL BE THE HIT.
BRIAN: BUT BY 2016 FORTY YEARS AFTER THE FIRST RAPE NO HITS THE FBI ANNOUNCED A REWARD.
BUT NEW PUBLICITY AND A DNA MATCH LED TO TODAY’ ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ARREST OF JOSEPH DEANGELO.
AND IT’S POSSIBLE THE GRIP OF ONE MAN’S RAPE AND MURDER SPREE MIGHT BE AT AN