![]() ![]() "I could hardly suck in a breath because I'm hearing what happened to the other families as it's clipping down to get to Dad and Charlene. "It was awful," Carole, 58, told Newsweek. She, along with other family members of victims, stood as the details of DeAngelo's horrific crimes were read out. ![]() Held in a ballroom at the Sacramento State University due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was part of a plea deal that will spare DeAngelo the death penalty and instead, hand him a life sentence without the possibility of parole.Ĭarole was there. Initially, police had considered the teenage Carole a suspect in the double murder until she passed a lie detector test.Ī day Carole and others thought they'd never see came last month when 74-year-old DeAngelo repeatedly uttered the words "guilty" to the charges against him and "I admit" to crimes too old to prosecute during a lengthy hearing. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.- the former police officer who terrorized vast swathes of California as a serial burglar, rapist and murderer in the 1970s and 80s-evaded capture for decades until DNA evidence linked him to the crimes in 2018.Ĭarole was 18 when her father, attorney Lyman Smith, and her stepmother, Charlene Smith, were bludgeoned to death in their home in Ventura in March 1980. Jennifer Carole is angry that the man known as the Golden State Killer has had a "friction-free" existence since his arrest two years ago. ![]()
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