Golden State Killer Arrested?

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For those uninitiated into the world of true crime, the Golden State Killer, also known as the East Area Rapist, is allegedly responsible for 12 homicides, 45 rapes, and 120 home invasions in California in the 1970s and ‘80s.

The Daily Beast is reporting that a suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72-years-old, was arrested on two counts of murder early Wednesday morning, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

DeAngelo’s arrest was also huge news because he was the suspect named in the book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. The book was written by the late Michelle McNamara, who worked with investigators on the Golden State Killer case. When McNamara died the book was finished by Billy Jensen, researcher Paul Haynes, and McNamara’s husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt.


https://www.themarysue.com/golden-state-killer-case-michelle-mcnamara/

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If it's true, talk about the dumbest of luck. Would like to know how they got ahold of his DNA, or rather how it took them so long to come across it.

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Oh I don't have a doubt in my mind that they just went into his garbage and stole it.

The question is, how did they know to go looking for him in particular.

But then, I haven't read McNamara's book yet.
I only really know about this case because of her husband, Patton Oswalt. He came to town on the book tour promoting her book which was published posthumously.

One of the most chilling stories told at the talk was about the community meeting they had when the Golden State killer was merely a rapist who would break into your home in the middle of the night.

Understandably people were really freaked out, but this one man stood up, and called the other men in the room weak for allowing something like this to happen to their wives.

You see this guy would break into the house, startle you in your sleep, and then through Force tie the guy up in the kitchen and rape the woman in the bedroom.

Well, the gentleman who stood up at the meeting, he and his wife are the next victims.
So basically the Golden State killer was in the room at the time of this meeting, and no one had any idea.

UPDATE:
"So it looks like somebody wanting to know what percentage Irish or German or whatever their ancestors were led to the arrest of California’s most notorious unidentified serial killer"
(https://twitter.com/claudiakoerner/status/989613576800235520?s=12)

Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says (http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article209913514.html)

According to one reporter, the police glommed on to this guy being the killer because either he, or someone in his family, submitted a DNA sample to a genealogical site for sequencing, and they just...searched that database.

Daaaamn, that's an interesting twist to an already interesting case.