The People vs. the Golden State Killer with Sacramento District Attorney, Thien Ho!
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today’s MKD, we are joined by Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho to discuss his new book, The People vs. the Golden State Killer! We talk about the Golden State Killer's reign of terror, how the killer was caught decades later with DNA, and how Thien successfully sought justice for dozens of victims.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Mother Knows Death, starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria QK. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi everyone. Welcome to Mother Knows Death. |
| 0:31.8 | Today's guest played a crucial role in putting the Golden State Killer in prison for life. But before we talk with our guests, we're going to talk a little bit about |
| 0:35.9 | the Golden State Killer for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story. Let me tell you this episode is such an |
| 0:42.5 | honor for me in particular because this is one of my favorite true crime cases that got me |
| 0:46.8 | really interested in covering DNA and genetic genealogy. So I do a lot of that on the |
| 0:52.0 | gross room. But this story has really interesting facts behind it. |
| 0:56.8 | So for those of you unfamiliar with this case, from 1974 to 1986, there was this reign of |
| 1:02.6 | terror throughout California. So the crime started in 1974 with over 120 known burglaries |
| 1:09.3 | in Vaisalia, California. So that's just north of L.A. |
| 1:12.8 | And it eventually migrated to Sacramento and eventually Orange County, where over 50 women |
| 1:18.3 | and girls were raped and 13 people were brutally murdered. So what makes this case so interesting |
| 1:23.4 | is that throughout the years, they thought this perpetrator was different people in all |
| 1:27.4 | these different areas, and they eventually connected them to one. So, for a lot of them, thing is that throughout the years, they thought this perpetrator was different people in all these |
| 1:27.6 | different areas, and they eventually connected them to one. So first, it started with the |
| 1:33.0 | burglaries in Vysalia. So that started in 74. They referred to that perpetrator as the Vysalia |
| 1:39.8 | ransacker. Then when the sexual assault started in Sacramento, that suspect was known as the |
| 1:45.2 | East Area Rapist. And then the killings were attributed to the nickname the original Nightstalker |
| 1:50.3 | because this was before Richard Ramirez's time. As our YouTube live, people know we've talked |
| 1:54.9 | about him in the past, but these are different people. So by the early 2000s, there's advancements |
| 2:00.6 | in DNA and Detective |
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