DaYUM! This Ex-Police Officer Was Just ID’d As a SERIAL KILLER in the 70’s! (Watch)

*Would it be safe assume this news does not help the already poor trust issues that the public harbors for police officers? 

A man who was hunted down in the 70’s as a serial killer; yet managed to avoid being captured, has turned out to be a former police officer who found on Tuesday by a K-9 officer, via discarded DNA.

Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested at his home on Tuesday. Suspected of at least 12 slayings and 50 rapes in 10 counties from Northern to Southern California in the 1970s, he was the Golden State Killer, a name coined by true crime writer Michelle McNamara.

Despite an outpouring of thousands of tips over the years, DeAngelo’s name had not been on the radar of law enforcement before last week, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.

“We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also knew that needle was there,” she said. “It was right here in Sacramento.”

Watch investigators talk on how he was captured at EURThisNthat.

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