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The People vs. the Golden State Killer Cover Image Book

The People vs. the Golden State Killer

People versus the Golden State Killer (other title)
Ho, Thien (author., author).

Summary: In The People vs. the Golden State Killer, Thien Ho, Sacramento District Attorney, recounts the exhilarating and harrowing pursuit of Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer known by many names: the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and finally, the Golden State Killer. For over a decade, DeAngelo terrorized California communities. Then, for more than thirty years, he vanished-until a team led by Ho used a groundbreaking tool known as investigative genetic genealogy to uncover his identity and secure a life sentence. Unlike previous accounts that focused mainly on the killer, Ho centers the survivors and the law-enforcement teams who refused to give up their pursuit of the most prolific serial predator in California history. The book features hundreds of never-before-revealed details as well as the authorized voices of many of DeAngelo's courageous survivors who transformed their trauma into activism. A portion of the book's proceeds will benefit Phyllis's Garden, a victims' rights nonprofit founded in honor of a Golden State Killer survivor. Ho also shares his own remarkable story: A Vietnamese refugee who arrived in America not knowing a word of English, he rose through the ranks to become one of just ten Asian American district attorneys out of 2,400 nationwide.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798890130358
  • Physical Description: print
    303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Third State Books, 2025.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- The "Cho" -- The East Area Rapist -- American Riviera : new beginnings -- Ventura : the voices -- The "OC" -- The California Penal Code -- The team -- The monster behind the mask -- Connecting the dots -- The decision -- "I admit" -- Voices for victims -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected index -- About Thien Ho.

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Subject:
DeAngelo, Joseph James 1945-
Serial murders California Case studies
Serial rape investigation California Case studies
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Genre:
Case studies.
True crime stories.

Available copies

  • 7 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library 364.1523 HO (Text) 36015000760401 Adult New Nonfiction Checked out 07/25/2026
Swansboro Branch Library 364.1523 HO (Text) 36015000760468 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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