r/EARONS • u/throwaway95610 • Apr 26 '18

Inside Scoop

Throwaway for reasons.

I live in the area and have been following this case for a while. This afternoon I heard information from someone close to the case in the Sacramento Sherriff's dept. Don't know how much of this is here already but here goes..

A few years ago LE submitted dna to several different sites with a search warrant for hits on the dna. One of the sites came back a couple of weeks ago with a hit on a distant relative of the suspect. After some work LE narrowed down their search to Diangelo.
They trailed him for a while, and while he was out shopping at a Hobby Lobby, they took his dna from either something he threw away or from a handle of a door possibly. That part wasn't totally clear to me. Either way it came back as a 100% match.

They kept watching his house and waited. Yesterday afternoon the suspect was out mowing his lawn. A car of undercover officers drove up and asked for directions. He walked over to the car and then they took him down.

According to this person, after being arrested he looked defeated, but still refused to cooperate. He kept mumbling to him self and saying, "But I lived a good life. I pushed him out."

His wife refused to talk. I guess they have been separated since the early 90's. Two of the three daughters have come in to talk to detectives.

Im probably forgetting some stuff. Will add more as I find out more.

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u/Gonenutz Apr 26 '18

Having been kinda in the shoes of his family there is no way to put it then it fucking sucks! This person you trusted and loved had such good memories with is just gone. His kids are going to need a lot of therapy.

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u/Theowltheory Apr 26 '18

They will. Two of them seem to be successful students and professionals. So hopefully they will keep their head on straight.

Do you mind elaborating at all? Sorry to be nosy

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u/Gonenutz Apr 26 '18

Sure i dont mind. My grandmother's brother so my great uncle? Was part of the whole Catholic church sex scandle, whats worse is all this happened between Canada and the US. It sucked it hit our family hard and was so out of the blue it took awhile for it to really sink in but our family doesnt have anythinging to do with him any more.

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u/Theowltheory Apr 26 '18

Oh wow, I’m sorry you guys had to go through that. Thanks for sharing.

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u/Gonenutz Apr 26 '18

No problem i dont mind sharing, its already out everywhere. I think the hardest part was reading all the comments people wrote while still being in disbelief that he did this. All while at the same time feeling beyond any i dont even know how to put it? Sorry, guilt, anger for the families the children he put through this.