An ex-policeman who terrorised California with a sickening string of murders and rapes over 11 years has begun admitting his crimes in court.
Joseph James DeAngelo began pleading guilty to a series of offences in a US court today as part of a plea deal to spare him the death penalty and the victims' families from having to suffer the ordeal of a trial.
The 74-year-old was was charged with 13 counts each of murder and kidnapping following his arrest in 2018. He was pushed into a makeshift court room in a Sacramento ballroom in a wheelchair while wearing a facemask to make his pleas.
After individual charges were read out in turn along with details of the horrific crimes, DeAngelo admitted his guilty. Ironically, it was the same hall in which
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