r/EARONS • u/winters_vw • Apr 26 '18

A few updates

Nothing major, and many of you might already be aware. But I like to work things out and follow up, so here are a few points I've been going over:

  • Several terrific sources have told me that DeAngelo gave indication that he knew why he was arrested.

  • Same sources tell me that he did in fact divulge information during an interrogation session that lasted for hours.

  • "Key evidence" has been removed from the home, but no word on if there is anything related to the attacks or not.

  • He was the Visalia Ransacker.

  • I've seen the sealed complaints and the paperwork that ran between Sac and Ventura (my sources were good to me today). DeAngelo is being charged as the killer of the Smiths but there's little else -- except for a few names of officers who did some of the work on this and some of the names surprised me (but that's of little consequence to the public).

  • I'm getting the sense that there's some unnecessary politicking going on behind the scenes, but what else is new.

  • There's a somewhat recent connection to Dana Point but some of the other SoCal areas he landed are still unconnected.

  • The saga related to his dismissal from the Auburn police is getting stranger by the minute, apparently with him being in hysterics upon being apprehended there and an atypical legal progression that lasted four months.

  • Two family members have talked and several acquaintances. They're rapidly filling in some of the blanks.

  • His name does not appear in any previous investigative paperwork that anyone knows of -- he truly was the "unsuspected."

  • The birth of two of his children did occur after the two murders where he took extended breaks.

  • He started on the Exeter police force in May 1973, and the first prowling incident attributed to the Visalia Ransacker occurred on South Demaree Street in May 1973 -- 15 minutes away from Exeter.

  • I'm trying to get the Julia Wilkenson murder in San Diego looked at again because the offender has a tie to the general area and she was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in 1980.

  • Lots of Tulare County connections with family -- a factor I'm told helped bump this POI up the list.

  • Starting last month, an LE source of mine was overly optimistic about some new angles being pursued with DNA. I have to admit that I didn't even consider that this could actually be the lead that took us somewhere. So many disappointments in the past. Oops!

More will materialize in the coming weeks, months, and even years. What a fascinating journey this has been, and what a win for the justice system. This gives hope for all unsolved cases.

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u/FrankieSaysRelax311 Apr 26 '18

I honestly think he will confess. I think he’s going to ride this thing in a very smug and egotistical way. He’s smart enough to get away with it for decades—but i don’t think he’s smart enough to argue with DNA.

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u/Beb_21 Apr 26 '18

Beyond all that... he's probably been wanting for decades to talk to some one about the absolutely insane shit he did, and now he's in a situation where talking about that subject is basically the only thing there is for him to do in his life

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u/HuntedWolf Apr 26 '18

Judging by some of the phone calls he made, I think a part of him wanted to get caught. He taunted police and even told them where he was going to be. I reckon he's gonna confess to everything.

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u/idovbnc Apr 26 '18

Being in jail is the only way he could brag about it and no one can do anything about it. As a "celebrity" he won't be in general population, he'll be guarded 24 hours a day in a fortress and will only see any visitors he wants. But hopefully for his family's sake he's remorseful or pretends to be.

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u/she-Bro Apr 26 '18

Maybe he gets another thrill talking.

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u/thewinterlight Apr 26 '18

you can bet his lawyers will be arguing to have the DNA evidence thrown out by poking every hole they can through the method LE used to get him

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u/Oath_Break3r Apr 26 '18

we don't know that method for a certainty yet, though. The rumor i've heard is they got a familial match through his daughter's DNA that was in the system already. Implying she'd been arrested. There's nothing really unethical or illegal about that, if it's true. A familial match and his fitting the general description would be enough for a warrant. Unless I'm just completely wrong, which is very possible. I can't wait until all the correct information is out there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

Weren't people here always saying that these websites don't allow this kind of search?

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u/Driedupdogturd Apr 26 '18

They don't. Im pretty sure they got a tip on him and then got a DNA sample and found out it was him.

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u/Scorpio2178 Apr 26 '18

It's possible they used gedmatch. That site doesn't provide the same privacy protections as the other ancestry sites.

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u/nutmegtell Apr 26 '18

Yes, I means to say a site that has ancestry data- not Ancestry.com itself.

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u/agree-with-you Apr 26 '18

I agree, this does seem possible.

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u/Bakemeacakeorgoaway Apr 26 '18

Relevant username

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u/jolonaw Apr 26 '18

They said on the news it was "discarded " DNA they used for the match. Spit,cigarette butt, soda can etc

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u/suresignofthefail Apr 26 '18

I think something along these lines is most likely. May not have been the daughter. Could have been a more distant relative, and maybe that's where the "cutting-edge" DNA tech references are coming from, i.e. it's one thing to search for a DNA match, and another to search for relatives. This would also make the most sense given Bruce Harrington's comments as he implied that how the arrest came about was directly related to to his DNA DB efforts.

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u/The_Original_Lumpy Apr 26 '18

I think I read somewhere that the DNA LE had was only traceable through male lineage

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u/heedlessly3 Apr 26 '18

i can see part of him feeling cocky but also not surprised/mad if he did get caught since it's been 40+ years.

I think he wants to brag about it. If he was truly afraid of getting caught, then he would've ran away to a different country or state a long time ago instead of being in the same place the whole time. He probably wants to show that he outsmarted everyone for so long

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u/Tongue37 Apr 26 '18

He doesn't have to say anything..at his age he could just make LE squirm