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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Sinister Golden State serial killer walks among us, female victim who survived tells story

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Golden State Killer is a burglar, rapist serial killer who has terrorized California for decades starting in the 1970s. One man is believed to have committed as many as 50 sexual assaults and over 10 murders. Nancy Grace explores the case with Jane Carson-Sandler, the 5th victim and author of "Frozen in Fear: A True Story of Surviving the Shadows of Death," Michelle Cruz, sister of a murder victim, Billy Jenson, an investigative journalist who completed the raw chapters of victim Michelle McNamara’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” Paul Haynes, a researcher on McNamara’s book, and Cold Case Research Institute director Sheryl McCollum.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Golden State Killer is the most prolific serial predator in the nation.

0:19.1

I don't like to go out anymore.

0:20.7

I don't go out by myself at all anywhere.

0:23.0

He was the boogie man.

0:24.7

He was the man in the bushes that we didn't know who he was, and we didn't know when he

0:28.5

was going to strike again.

0:29.5

All I know is he raped 50 people and he killed 12.

0:33.5

And one of them was your sister.

0:34.5

One of them was my sister.

0:36.5

Shut up.

0:37.5

Shut up, we're all killing you.

0:41.5

A bump against the house.

0:44.5

Maybe the sound of a footstep,

0:47.5

shuffling along a fence outdoors.

0:50.5

Maybe nothing at all.

0:53.5

No warning whatsoever.

0:56.5

The trademark of the so-called Golden State Killer.

1:03.5

Who is he?

1:05.5

What do we know?

1:06.5

Now linked to at least 175 crimes and potentially 13 homicides.

1:17.5

The victims, their families still looking for him.

1:25.5

And what an MO.

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