CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST* #4

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Here is an interesting video with Paul Holes answers questions including about he familial DNA and the Golden State Killer case:

 
Thanks, I see that one was through familial DNA #2 from your list to be added to Niner's familial DNA list.

5 Big Cold Cases That Had Major Breaks in 2017


#1

Suzanne Bombardier

DNA was matched using the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System in 2017

CA - Suzanne Bombardier, 14, abducted & murdered, Antioch, 22 June 1980 *Arrest*

#2

Bree’Anna Guzman and Michelle Lozano

Los Angeles Police Department used a controversial type of DNA testing called familial DNA to allegedly connect a Torrance, California man named Geovanni Borjas with the crimes.

"In April 2011, the body of 17-year-old Michelle Lozano was found on the Golden State Freeway in California. She was naked, wrapped in plastic bags and had been stuffed in a plastic container. Her body was found just one day after she was last seen in front of her high school.

The following year, another young woman, Bree’Anna Guzman, 22, disappeared as she walked to Rite Aid for cough medicine. She lived less than a mile from Lozano; her body, too, was later found on the side of a highway.

Six years after the bodies were found, police got a DNA match on a sample they’d secretly collected when a suspect spit on the sidewalk. It was a stunning break in a case that had been cold for years, and the Los Angeles Police Department used a controversial type of DNA testing called familial DNA to allegedly connect a Torrance, California man named Geovanni Borjas with the crimes.

“With a familial search, we [scour] our criminal database for a relation to a person,” explains Giacalone. In other words, officials search their databases for relatives of the perpetrator, who share similar DNA because they’re related.

“It’s controversial because you’re targeting people that may not have done anything wrong,” Giacalone says. Still, he says he considers it “the greatest tool in cold cases since the discovery of DNA.”

Though familial DNA searches are still not widely used, the state of California has solved a number of crimes using this system, including the high-profile Grim Sleeper case.

In May, Borjas was charged with two counts each of murder and forcible rape and one count of kidnapping. He could receive the death penalty if convicted. He has not yet been tried."

CA - Michelle Lozano, 17, & Bree'Anna Guzman, 22, Los Angeles, 2011 *Arrest*

#3

Janie Landers

The officer ran Landers’ bloody shirt through the FBI’s DNA database again, and this time there was a hit. The match? A convicted rapist named Gerald Dunlap who had reportedly worked in the laundry room at the facility where Landers had lived.

No WS thread I could find from this 1978 case

#4

Teresa Broudreaux

In 2013, officials ran DNA from the scene through the database again. This time they got a match, but it wasn’t until 2017 that they had sufficient evidence to charge Robert Yniguez, 65.

CA - Teresa Broudreaux, 20, pregnant, murdered, Palos Verdes Estates, 4 March 1980

#5

Freddie Farah

Miller’s palm print—left on food items near the convenience store counter—matched a profile found in the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS).

No WS thread that I could find.
Hi. I’m linking this article to your number three.
- Janie Landers: I don’t know if you want to make a thread or I can if you want:

Prosecutors theorized that her small stature made her “the perfect target for a sexual predator like Gerald Dunlap.”

They added that Dunlap, then 43, likely offered Landers a ride then threatened her with a knife and attempted to sexually assault her.

“Janie‘s unexpected level of strength and resistance, however, would have both surprised and frustrated Dunlap who resorted to killing her when his sexual attack was thwarted,” prosecutors said.

Dunlap, 5-feet-10, 190-pounds, ultimately overpowered his victim. He stabbed Landers repeatedly and beat her to death.

She said the case never would‘ve been solved without the “persistence of a little sister who never forgot,” the dedicated work of detective and the courage of the 1996 victim to report her abuser and endure the trial.

“It is because of her that Dunlap could never hurt anyone again and, most importantly for this case, his DNA was on file,” Clarkson said.

On Monday, Hinkle was able to return Landers‘ belongings to her family. He presented Hooper, now 52, and her father Richard Landers, 84, with a pair of earrings and two small hair ties.

“It‘s not much. But it represents the end to this case,” Hinkle said. “We‘re grateful we could do this for Janie. We‘re hopeful her family can find closure to this horrific chapter of their lives.”
Detective solves 1979 cold case murder of Oregon teen | Stock Daily Dish
 
Of course LE are human and there are always going to be a few bad apples amongst them but you expect the vast majority to be honest and not commit crimes. Of course you have those medical professionals that also turn out to be killers:

But the man who could turn out to be California’s most notorious criminal cop is still awaiting trial: Joseph DeAngelo, suspected of being none other than the Golden State Killer, is charged in a dozen murders and more than 40 rapes — some during his time in the late 1970s as a cop for the Auburn Police Department near

California’s criminal police officers include 20 convicted of murder – Santa Cruz Sentinel
 
Just wondering, does anyone know if now since DiAngelo has been caught can we say for definite one way or another if he was in that picture at the emergency town meeting or whatever they called it...?

Others might know more than posters like us for instance Sacramento LE with their investigation into the case. I always think those at the coal face nearer the time are often closer right with their instincts and Detective Carol Daly thought he was there at the time and followed the male victim he attacked from the meeting and of course I believe Carol Daly was at the meeting. Cheers.
 
Just wondering, does anyone know if now since DiAngelo has been caught can we say for definite one way or another if he was in that picture at the emergency town meeting or whatever they called it...?
Welcome to Ws Cli, great question!
(Apologies for the unintended bolding)
"Golden State Killer Suspect Attended Town Hall Designed to Calm Residents"

Verify: Is suspected East Area Rapist connected to photo of 1977 meeting?
"People have asked whether DeAngelo is in the photo? Could that be what connected him to one of the first attacks on a couple?

To verify these claims, ABC10 spoke with two sources. First, is Shaun Hampton with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, and second, is Paul Haynes, an investigative researcher and contributor to Michelle McNamara's book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," which profiles the East Area Rapist and Golden State Killer case.

"We've had a lot of speculation as to that for the last 40 plus years, and it's something our investigators looked at then and it's something they are possibly looking at now," Hampton said.

Hampton can't verify if DeAngelo is in the photo or not, but said they are looking at all photos taken during that time period.

Carol Daly, one of the original investigators with the Sheriff's Department, also can't verify DeAngelo is seen in this photo.

The photo itself, dated Nov. 8, 1977, was printed in the Sacramento Bee newspaper Nov. 9, 1977.

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Source: Sacramento Bee via Paul Haynes
Paul Holes, one of the lead investigators out of Contra Costa County, obtained a copy of the newspaper clip and the negative of the photo, according to Haynes. He then gave copies to Michelle McNamara who wrote "I'll Be Gone in the Dark."

In her book, McNamara wrote about a connection between a community meeting and a victim of the East Area Rapist.

Haynes said victims in the 21st crime attended a community meeting at Del Dayo School on Nov. 3, 1976, where a man criticized the investigation. That man and his wife were later attacked May 17, 1977.

According to Haynes, the photo is not the same community meeting that connects a victim to the East Area Rapist. The photo was taken later.

People have also rumored the man who spoke out said something along the lines of, "How can anyone get away with raping a woman in front of her husband?"

Haynes pointed to the dates again. If the man spoke out at a meeting in 1976 and the East Area Rapist started attacking couples in 1977, then how would this man know the East Area Rapist was targeting couples. Haynes said the claim is just a rumor.

The Sheriff's Department said they'll continue to investigate every possible lead connecting their suspect DeAngelo to crimes that terrorized Northern California.

"We will definitely look at that angle and we will definitely look at all angles with this case because there are just so many," Hampton added."
 
Here is a video about the identification of the suspect Joseph DeAngelo that has recently been posted on You Tube:

 
Here if people are interesting is a report about the selling of the home where the Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo lived in his retirement with his family at the time of his arrest. As Paul Holes has said his retirement has gone much better after he identified him as the offender:

Northern California home of ‘Golden State Killer’ sold for $320,000 – East Bay Times

Here is another report about the sale of the home:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-killer-home-in-sacramento-area-sold-for-320k
 
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EAR/ONS was a very scary man who victimised many people and had an almost supernatural presence like a real life Michael Myers with the ability to put fear into victims and control them. There was no shame in being controlled by him and EAR/ONS of course did not fight fair but in my opinion there is no such thing as a fair fight it only exists in peoples minds. What is one mans fair fight is another mans bullying. Here is an interesting article about EAR/ONS male victims in the East Area Rapist cases and they deserve sympathy and compassion as they were the victims of very serious assaults and I feel at the time they were probably not treated with the same compassion as they are today. Saying this retired Detectives like Larry Crompton and others have always had a great deal of sympathy and time for them but I meant society in general in the 1970s expected them to man up to EAR/ONS in a 'fair fight' when in EAR/ONS world there was no such thing:

For men attacked by the Golden State Killer, victim is a hard word
 
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