Golden State Killer V3
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Cold Open: On Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, in what Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones called a "perfectly executed arrest," was taken into custody by local police and FBI agents when he stepped outside his Citrus Heights home, a quiet suburb of Sacramento. The man believed to be the East Area Rapist, also known as the Golden State Killer, the Visalia (“Vi-sail-ya) Ransacker, the Original Night Stalker and the Diamond Knot Killer had finally been captured, forty-four years after his crime spree began. He’d started ransacking over 100 Sacramento area homes in 1974. He’d progressed from burglary to rape by 1976, raping over 50 California women and girls. And he’s believed to have killed for the first time in 1975, killing 12 men and women by 1986. And then, after 13 years of home invasion, rape, and murder… the Golden State Killer, outside of a few possible harassing phone calls to victims years later, just seemingly vanished for 32 years. And then less than two months ago, a 72 year old man living with his daughter and granddaughter who’d recently retired after working for 27 years at a Savemart supermarket distribution warehouse in Roseville was arrested after DNA matches him to the crime scenes. And why did it take so many years to make that DNA match? Well, because Joseph was never on a short list of suspects. He was never on a long list of suspects. Police never came CLOSE to catching this sadistic piece of shit for decades. And then he was arrested thanks to some very innovative detective work - investigators uploaded DNA taken from one of the crimes to GED match dot com. Never heard of that website? Me either. GED Match dot com is similar to Ancestry dot com and 23 and me, although much less widely known. With a service like 23andMe or AncestryDNA, you provide a saliva sample for DNA testing and then the results are only given to you and only you. The results are private. Those companies don’t share your data with anyone else - which limits the amount of family tree investigation you can do, because your DNA is only matched against other DNA in that one company’s particular genetic database. So, recently, companies like GED match dot com have popped up so you can continue your search. You can make those previously private ancestry dot com or 23 and me dot come results public and possibly reach more relatives. What does that mean for law enforcement? It means they can compare crime scene DNA against your DNA and anyone else’s DNA that has been sent in to these sites and potentially find either the relative of a victim to assist them in body identification purposes, AND , they can run the DNA of whoever committed the crime through this public database in the hopes of either locating the suspect or the relative of a suspect, and then do some family tree detective work to find the actual suspect. Or, ideally, the suspect has done some family tree snooping themselves and the police can nail ‘em right away. Yep - it just got that much harder to get away with murder! We’re entering a new era of criminal investigation. And this new avenue for tracking down suspects led to the apprehension of Joseph James DeAngelo. One of his relatives happened to upload their Ancestry dot com results to GED Match dot com, that DNA proved to be a familial match to the Golden State Killer’s DNA, and from there detectives realized that one relative, Richard, was in the right places at the right times to have committed all the crimes. Police then swabbed the driver's side handle of Joseph’s car to collect a DNA sample from him, according to arrest and search warrants released just this past Friday. Authorities sent it in for testing and matched it to semen recovered at some of the Golden State Killer's crime scenes. And then they showed up at his home and surprised the cold-blooded son of bitch and brought him in. Amazing, right? Well, now that you know how part of Richard’s story ends, let’s find out how it began and where it will likely go from here, and how this new DNA matching technology has led to more arrests and will most likely lead to many more on this “fuck that guy we’re so finally glad they got him and we hope he rots in prison”, Golden State Killer edition, of Timesuck. PAUSE TIMESUCK INTRO I. Welcome: A. Happy Monday Timesuckers! You ready to learn some new shit? I hope so. I love how, even with a serial killer episode, we go after bonus peripheral knowledge - like how DNA investigative technology is taking a massive leap forward thanks to the new, massive DNA databases out there thanks to companies like ancestry.com and 23 and me. Knowledge - let’s grab as much as we can in the next 90 minutes or so. Well, Cult of the Curious member or interesting person swinging on by to see what this is all about, I am the Master Sucker, the Suck Master General, Dan Cummins, and you are listening to Timesuck. Hail Nimrod! If you’re a new listener and you want to know who Nimrod and the others characters are, listen to the last few minutes of the Edgar Allan Poe Suck from this past Friday. Nimrod, Lucifina, Chikatilo and more explained for all the new Timesuckers. Bit thank you for all the new reviews and ratings online - over 3900 on iTunes now. Closing in on 4,000. That helps so much. Ratings, reviews, and word of mouth spread the Suck like nothing else. B. Charity announcement: Big thanks to all of you Space Lizards who have signed up for the Secret Suck and more via Patreon. Because we’re at over $10,000 a month in support, we’re giving to a charity yet again and this time it is one recommended by a Marine, Timesucker, and Space Lizard. Space Lizard Ryan Chilson sent me a wonderful letter, t-shirt, patch, sticker, and challenge coin - all from a wonderful non-profit called the Mendleton Foundation. The Mendleton Foundation is unique among veterans’ support charities. It’s run entirely by retired and active duty service members, and is a community first and foremost. Their goal is to eliminate military suicide through community first, charity second. The Mendleton Foundation welcomes service members of all ethnicities, genders, and ages and their loved ones at their events, some of which are for service members only. And we’re helping them keep their community events going by donating $500 this month. Thank you Timesuckers for spreading the Suck, and thank you Space Lizards for keeping our show running and being able to do more than just be a podcast. If you’d like to also donate, go to M-E-N-D-L-E-T-O-N dot COM. Link into today’s episode description. https://www.mendleton.com/ C. Another thank you is owed to Greg Cox for his beautiful wood carving hanging in the Suck Dungeon! Looks amazing man! Thanks for sending it in to the Suck Dungeon. Mailing address in today’s episode description as well. And thank you to Gus Sungeon for sending some amazing cheese to the Suck Dungeon. And thanks to whoever invented lactaid pills for allowing me to eat it relatively pain free. Gonna try it later today. Thanks Gus! D. WhatPods AMA! Finding out tomorrow how funny What Pods Dot Com thinks Timesuck is. Apparently we’ll be on a list of the funniest podcasts of 2018. Will be on the bottom? Will be on the top? Will we be on top of your mom’s bottom? Find out this week! That AMA is coming up soon via WhatPods.com Soon as in tomorrow. Go to WhatPods.com, quickly create an account, and you can Ask Me Anything between 1:30 and 3PM PST, 4:30 - 6PM EST. That’s tomorrow, June 5th. How long does it take to create these episodes? What are my future plans for Timesuck? What other projects am i working on? What do I do in my free time? How heavy are my balls? Are they symmetrical? What episodes are my favorites? How big are my wife Lynze’s balls? Ask Me Anything! Link to my What Pods AMA In the episode description. https:// whatpods.com/podcasts/timesuck-with-dan-cummins/ E. Tour: Thanks to all the Phoenix Timesuckers who came out - thank you for the Samurai book Ted Samuels! Sorry I couldn’t hang for drinks. Gareth Reynolds from the Dollop Podcast was a fantastic human being and very funny man. Glad I got to work with him. Got to hang with Jimmie Whisman from Small Town Murder. Lynze and I had a great time. This weekend - more touring! Heading to our nation’s capitol! DC in D.C.! Flat Earth tour rolls into the DC Draft house June 8th and 9th. June 15-16th More Flat Earth mockery at the Des Moines, Iowa, Funny Bone. July 12-14th - Orlando Improv. Live podcast on the 15th. Comedy Store in La Jolla, California July 20-22nd. Dayton, Ohio Funnybone July 27-28th. Many more tour dates at www.dancummins.tv. F. And now, let’s head back to the unfortunately long life and horrible, disgusting times of the recently apprehended Golden State Killer. PAUSE TIMESUCK INTERLUDE II. Intro A.