The Original Night Stalker – Unsolved Serial Criminal

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this Strange Matters Short, Sean presents the case of the Original Night Stalker, one of America’s most infamous and prolific unsolved serial criminals. The Original Night Stalker (ONS) was a serial killer in Southern California who targeted lone women and couples, breaking into their homes at night and sexually assaulting and killing those inside. Later DNA evidence proved that the ONS was also the East Area Rapist, a criminal responsible for over 50 rapes in Northern California. After linking these two series of crimes, police discovered that this one man was responsible for dozens of rapes, attacks, and deaths, making him the worst unsolved criminal in California history.
The Original Night Stalker was one of the most brutal and terrifying killers in recent times. Hundreds of police investigators and neighborhood watch patrols had no luck in finding or stopping this man, as he continued his attacks at will for several years. The ONS was cunning and meticulous in his planning, he was known to prowl his target’s neighborhoods for weeks beforehand, and on several times even sneaked into his victims home’s and unloaded any guns, leaving them defenseless against him.

Who the Original Night Stalker was is still unknown, no leads or suspects have ever been found that could be responsible for these crimes. It is not even known if the man behind these attacks is currently alive or not. Whether the identity of this criminal will ever be found, remains a complete mystery to this day.

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to the Strange Matters podcast.
0:25.0	Here are Strange Matters.
0:26.0	We discuss everything that is bizarre, mysterious, and unexplained.
0:30.0	I am Sean and I will be the host for this discussion.
0:34.0	In this episode I will be talking about a particularly brutal and notorious serra killer.
0:39.0	Now this man was infamous in his time for committing terrible acts of violence, but what makes this case even more disturbing is that whoever committed these crimes is still unknown to this day.
0:49.0	For this episode I will be talking about the original night stalker.
0:54.7	The original night stalker, also known as the Diamondock killer and the Golden State Killer,
0:59.7	is an unidentified serial killer and rapist who murdered at least 10 people in Southern California in the years spanning from 1979 to 1986
1:08.8	Now a few years before these murders In 2001, DNA testing proved that there was a link between the Northern California rapes to the murders in Southern California,
1:29.0	proving that the East Area rapists and the Knight Stalker were one in the same.
1:35.2	Despite carrying out so many crimes over a pretty long period of time,
1:39.7	the East Area Rapists and Original Night stalker was never apprehended.
1:43.3	And the few suspects linked to these crimes that the police came up with have all been
1:47.2	cleared through either DNA analysis or other investigative means.
1:51.4	The original night stalker case was actually the motivating factor in the
1:55.0	passing of legislation leading to the establishment of California's DNA database which
1:59.7	authorizes the collection of DNA of all accused and convicted felons in California.
2:04.4	Now if there's any good that can come out of this case is that this database has led to
2:08.2	the capture of many criminals, but unfortunately the original night stocker still remains a mystery.
2:14.0	The crimes attributed to this man spanned in total from 1976 to 1986, and affected communities
2:20.0	in both Northern and Southern California.
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