DeAngelo is charged with eight counts of murder after being linked to the crimes through his DNA. Authorities said he was responsible for a dozen slayings and some 50 rapes and that other charges could be filed. Most of the crimes occurred in the three years he was an Auburn police officer in the Sierra foothills outside Sacramento. Law enforcement refocused their attention on the case two years ago on the 40th anniversary of the first known attack. Detectives were able to get a sample of DNA from something DeAngelo discarded. The genetic material was not a match, but there were enough similarities that investigators got a second sample, which proved conclusive. |