Suspected 'Golden State Killer' identified as ex-cop decades after serial rapes, murders

By Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

April 25, 2018

A 72-year-old California man has been arrested after authorities said DNA tests pegged him as the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer and rapist who terrorized the state in the 1970s and 1980s.

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