How They Were Caught: The Golden State Killer

After 44 years of being unidentified, DNA technology would finally put an infamous monster behind bars.
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Arraignment Held For Alleged "Golden State Killer" Joseph DeAngelo Jr
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Arraignment Held For Alleged "Golden State Killer" Joseph DeAngelo Jr
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Sacaramento DA Makes Major Announcement On Golden State Killer Case
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Sacaramento DA Makes Major Announcement On Golden State Killer Case
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Notice of Lawsuit
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Man Arrested In Decades-Old 'Golden State Killer' Cases
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VIDEO
Suspect gives a folder to detective and he reads it and turns pages
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Specialized criminalistic police performs hematological analysis with forensic test kit in a murder in a crime lab
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Burgled Home - Shattered Glass Strewn on Floor with Police Vehicle Lighting
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Homicide CSI Crime Scene Photography - Bloodied Weapons, Investigator, Victim
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Forensics Police Evidence Bag Moving Shot
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View from the side of the camera, a ray of light from a lamp, a room in a country house
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The fence with barbed wire and grass on the background of a cloudy red-blue sky.
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Police woman wearing handcuffs on dangerous criminal, putting him in car, arrest
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Modest single family bungalow house with a US Mail box out front
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Spooky man in balaclava and hood looking into camera, member of gangster group
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Tracking inside a long dark gloomy corridor.
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Research on microscope samples found at the crime scene
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Scientist testing in laboratory.analyte blue DNA sequence
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Unknown burglar shining flashlight in shop window, examining alarm system
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Man Kicks in Door (Phantom 4k)
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Ancestry DNA testing deoxyribonucleic acid test genes expression
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Microscope close-up shot in the laboratory
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Micro Film Reel
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masked burglars breaking is a house
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masked burglars breaking is a house
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Capital building of Califprnia
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Family Tree HD Video
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Idyllic Sunset with Silhouette of Lonely Solitary Tree
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Editing text by hand - old style (close-up)
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Crime Scene
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Raking The Leaves In Autumn
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Graveyard.
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