After searching for more than 40 years, authorities say an ex-cop is the Golden State KillerBy Ray Sanchez, Elizabeth I. Johnson and Alanne Orjoux, CNN
(CNN) A former California police officer has been identified as the so-called Golden State Killer believed to have committed 12 killings and at least 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s, authorities said Wednesday.
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested after investigators matched a discarded DNA sample from his home to evidence collected at some of the crimes, according to law enforcement officials at a news conference outside the crime lab where the key break in the case was uncovered.
"We all knew that we were looking for a needle in a haystack," Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.
"It is fitting that today is National DNA Day. We found the needle in the haystack and it was right here in Sacramento."
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