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'Did his little penis drive him to be so angry all the time?' said Patti Cosper, delivering the impact statement for her mother, Patricia Murphy, who was 29 when she was attacked and repeatedly raped and sodomized in September 1976.ĭeAngelo's gaze briefly flickered at the insult.īut his countenance, largely hidden by a white cloth mask, mostly did not break. Others glared at him, and several hurled repeated insults about his anatomy. 'I would ask him, 'Do you feel any remorse for what you did to me? For the people whose lives you sadistically cut short, or to the years of pain for your victims and their families? Do you finally feel humiliated?'' she said. Like many others, Pedretti sought to make DeAngelo squirm, invoking images of his own family suffering similarly. 19, I woke up knowing I would never be a child again and, although I was truly grateful to be alive, I also felt that I had died.' I sang 'Jesus Loves Me' in my head as I waited to die. 'At three different times that night, I thought I was going to die. And he told me over and over again he would kill me, and I believed him,' she said. Kris Pedretti was 15 when DeAngelo raped her in December 1976. 'He deserves to spend the rest of his miserable life in prison. 'The roles have now been reversed,' Veilleux concluded. She described Henneman's years of anxiety and fear that followed her June 1976 rape. not knowing my life would change,' Veilleux read, halting for a moment to choke back sobs. With Henneman unable to attend because she is ill with cancer, her statement was read by her sister, Karen Veilleux. The hearing began with the first rape DeAngelo has admitted, that of Phyllis Henneman. Several said they've even found it in their hearts or their faith to forgive him. Some said they've long wondered why they were targeted, or how their lives may have turned out if they hadn't been.īut they also told of their recovery, how they had been able to summon the strength to serve and support others, to love their families fiercely and, ultimately, to confront their tormentor - still wearing a face mask in the courtroom but finally known to all. They recounted how the once-shadowy figure they called an evil monster, a boogeyman, a soulless sadist and the devil had shattered their sense of security - and how his brutality had followed them, and their families, throughout their lives. His plea deal includes 53 attacks on 87 victims in 11 counties, including 50 rapes, but leaves out two sexual attacks and a shooting that also have been blamed on him.Īs his victims rose to speak Tuesday, they again and again told of their pain. The victims of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the former police officer whose violent crimes through the 1970s and 1980s terrorized Californians across the state and earned him the moniker Golden State Killer, finally get their say in court with three days of impact statements that began Tuesday, leading up to his sentencing on Friday.ĭeAngelo, 74, has admitted to killing 13 people, starting with a Visalia college instructor seeking to thwart the abduction of his daughter in 1975, and ending with the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Orange County in 1986. Some still search for answers and reparation.Īnd others, unable to exact emotional revenge on their attacker, seek to humiliate him.

Some victims want to show how they overcame and healed. Thienvu Ho and Amy Holland victim Peggy Rex and Judge Michael Bowman.

flanked by public defenders Joe Cress and Alice Michel Sacramento County Deputy Dist. Clockwise from top left: Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.

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