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I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you.

Victims lined up in a courtroom to confront Joseph DeAngelo, the so-called Golden State Killer.

My safety was shattered as a mask man, the Angela,

killing her not to tell the me, to kill me, if I didn't do what he demanded.

Calling him the devil incarnate and a sick monster.

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

He attacked across the state from Sacramento down to Orange County across 15 different jurisdictions.

He was the boogie man. He was the man in the bushes that we didn't know who he was,

and we didn't know when he was gonna strike again.

Standing up in front of me was this man with a ski mask on holding a large butcher knife.

It was sheer terror.

My sister was the Golden State Killer's final victim.

What's fascinating to me about this case is rich with so many clues.

Michelle McNamara had a passion for true crime.

Michelle was hot in the trail of the Golden State Killer. She was writing a book about him.

And she was a mom and a wife to a comedian, Pat and Oswald.

My wife is 10 times smarter than me. She is thinking and operating on this way elevated level from where I am.

She had a mind for the details of true crime, the way that other people have for a baseball or me, for films.

She could recall the details of pretty much every late 20th and 21st century crime. It was just in her head.

That's why I just don't think this is pure sexual satism. I think there was something else.

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