Immediately following the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo in the East Area Rapist / Golden State Killer case, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert and Major Crimes Bureau Assistant Chief Deputy DA Rod Norgaard filed felony complaints against DeAngelo for the murders of Brian and Katie Maggiore. The crimes, which took place on or about February 2nd, 1978, carry the special circumstance of “multiple murders.”
The complaint document can be seen here.
I grew up 3 miles from where DeAngelo lived (in a house a stone’s throw from a canal in one direction, and Interstate 80 in the other). In 1976, my beautiful, my two older sisters and I lived alone. I was 10, my sisters were 12 and 14, and my mom was 34. My grandpa brought over a sawed off shotgun for her to keep in the house. One night, she saw a man in a ski mask who was unscrewing a window off the hinges in our dining room. He heard the sound of the shotgun being racked and took off. Shortly thereafter, we became aware of the EAR. Years later, in about 1989, I had a stalker who scared the crap out of me. At the time, I was a 19 year old who had been a graveyard shift waitress at two different Denny’s (one in Citrus Heights, and one in Rancho Cordova) and served all manner of weirdos. Whenever I was home alone at night, I’d hear a guy whispering outside my house from the shadows “come outside and talk to me, Kim”. One night, I got the same shotgun, went out on the front porch, and tried to look as tough and menacing as I could while I glared into the darkness, saying “Talk to THIS, mother*ucker”. About an hour later, the song “Girls With Guns” by Styx started playing very faintly in the night on a repeating loop. I never heard from my stalker again. I have to wonder, knowing now that DeAngelo was literally less than 10 minutes from me (Canyon Oak Drive to Oak Spring Way), if he’d kept an eye on the home of the pretty woman who had thwarted him years before and her three daughters as they grew up. 1989 was the period where he fell off the radar. The stalker episode terrified me and spurred me to join the military to gain control over my fear. I never associated him with the East Area Rapist until DeAngelo was captured and I realized the proximity to where I lived, as well as his neighbors’ accounts of him skulking around the neighborhood at night. I feel in my bones that DeAngelo was the man my mom ran off with the shotgun, and could very well be the stalker I had as a teen girl. Thanks for listening!
I grew up 3 miles from where DeAngelo lived (in a house a stone’s throw from a canal in one direction, and Interstate 80 in the other). In 1976, my beautiful, my two older sisters and I lived alone. I was 10, my sisters were 12 and 14, and my mom was 34. My grandpa brought over a sawed off shotgun for her to keep in the house. One night, she saw a man in a ski mask who was unscrewing a window off the hinges in our dining room. He heard the sound of the shotgun being racked and took off. Shortly thereafter, we became aware of the EAR. Years later, in about 1989, I had a stalker who scared the crap out of me. At the time, I was a 19 year old who had been a graveyard shift waitress at two different Denny’s (one in Citrus Heights, and one in Rancho Cordova) and served all manner of weirdos. Whenever I was home alone at night, I’d hear a guy whispering outside my house from the shadows “come outside and talk to me, Kim”. One night, I got the same shotgun, went out on the front porch, and tried to look as tough and menacing as I could while I glared into the darkness, saying “Talk to THIS, mother*ucker”. About an hour later, the song “Girls With Guns” by Styx started playing very faintly in the night on a repeating loop. I never heard from my stalker again. I have to wonder, knowing now that DeAngelo was literally less than 10 minutes from me (Canyon Oak Drive to Oak Spring Way), if he’d kept an eye on the home of the pretty woman who had thwarted him years before and her three daughters as they grew up. 1989 was the period where he fell off the radar. The stalker episode terrified me and spurred me to join the military to gain control over my fear. I never associated him with the East Area Rapist until DeAngelo was captured and I realized the proximity to where I lived, as well as his neighbors’ accounts of him skulking around the neighborhood at night. I feel in my bones that DeAngelo was the man my mom ran off with the shotgun, and could very well be the stalker I had as a teen girl. Thanks for listening!