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A Most of us have submitted our DNA to one of those ancestry or genealogy companies.

They'll tell you if you're related to Vikings or Clint Eastwood.

Personally, I'm a little bit suspicious of those things because,

like, what are they even doing with my DNA? I mean, really? When they're finished with it,

do they just throw it away or will there be a Joe clone walking around of me out there somewhere?

Who knows? Well, today, the subject of our 10-minute murder was identified because of one of those

places.

And that's both kind of cool and kind of scary at the same time.

So let's talk about Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer.

A series of burglaries, over 120 of them in Vaisalaya, California, between April of 1974 and December of 1975, is where we begin.

These break-ins were perpetrated by someone they nicknamed the Visalia Ransacker.

He would rifle through things ransacking, looking for things to take.

Odd things, like a single earring, even though both were there for him to take.

Oftentimes, more expensive things would be passed over.

Investigators believed whoever was doing this was doing it for the thrill of it.

And I know what you're thinking.

It's usually serial killers that like to keep trophies of their wickedness.

But the Vizalia Ransacker had not yet become the original night stalker,

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