Old-age serial KILLERS
Sep 15, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: ANNA MATHESON.
When Joseph DeAngelo appeared in a court in Sacramento, USA, in an orange jumpsuit, liver spots visible through his face shield, his skin paper-thin and with wisps of grey hair, he looked all of his 74 years. Yet, as the former police officer admitted to a string of murders and rapes carried out in the 1970s and 80s, there was no mistaking the monster within the frail shell.
Victims called him the ‘devil incarnate’
His case is rare, even for serial killers. Most notorious murderers, including American Ted Bundy and the UK’s
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