12 Days of Updates (#12: The Original Night Stalker)

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Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This is an update for episodes #1-3 of the podcast, which detailed the crime spree of the infamous Golden State Killer, who has been also known by many other nicknames (Original Night Stalker, East Area Rapist, and the Visalia Ransacker). In April of 2018, police arrested 72-year-old Joseph James Deangelo and charged him with twelve murders. In the nearly two years since, Deangelo has been awaiting trial, which should be one of the biggest in California state history...

Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

This is Day #12 of my new holiday-themed series, the 12 Days of Updates. Today's episode wraps up this limited series, which has seen me catching up on some stories I've previously covered and detailing what we've learned in the months/years since.

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0:00.0	Well, I woke up to the sound of a man's voice in my ear.
0:05.7	Mary Burworth is 52 years old now, but she will never forget June 1979 when she was just
0:11.7	13 years old.
0:13.3	She had just made it onto a walnut creek cheer squad.
0:15.8	When a man then known as the East Area Rapist came into her walnut creek bedroom and put
0:21.0	a knife to her throat.
0:22.8	He tied my legs and tied my hands and gagged me with my training bra.
0:29.6	He told me he was going to kill my family if I made any noise.
0:33.6	And I just was as quiet as I could be.
0:38.2	I just stayed there quiet.
0:42.4	And he raped me.
0:43.5	Her sister was across the hall.
0:45.4	Burworth says she broke her feet loose after 45 minutes and ran down the hall to tell
0:50.3	her dad what happened.
0:52.0	And I just blurted it out.
0:55.1	He flew out of bed.
0:57.2	Look on his face was devastating.
1:01.8	The next day she says her dad tore down the playhouse by her bedroom window.
1:06.6	Because apparently that's where he was watching me or stalking me from your playhouse.
1:12.3	Laying on top of the playhouse, he could see right into my bedroom window.
1:15.6	He insinuated his filth and evil into our house and my life in our community and brought
1:24.6	terror.
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