“A DNA match has tied a former police officer to some of the crimes attributed to a California serial killer believed to have been behind at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes in the 1970s and ’80s, police officials say.
“Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who was fired from the Auburn Police Department, was arrested after a DNA sample came back as a match to the ‘Golden State Killer’, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.
“He has been linked to a total of more than 175 crimes between 1976 and 1986.
“Officials said Mr DeAngelo had been arrested on suspicion of committing four killings in Sacramento and Ventura counties and charged with two counts of murder in the Ventura case.”
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