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Victims of Golden State Killer to finally confront him in court with stories of pain and survival

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One woman wants to show how she overcame and healed.

Another still searches for answers and reparation.

And another, unable to exact emotional revenge on her attacker, seeks to at least humble him.

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 got their say in court Tuesday, the beginning of three days of their impact statements before he is sentenced on Friday.

DeAngelo, 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

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