'I woke up to find the Golden State Killer at side of my bed when I was 13'

mirror.co.uk:

Margaret Wardlow was just 13 when she was woken with a torch in her face by a man in a ski mask, black and white lumberjack shirt, jeans, boots and gloves.

At first, she thought it was a joke, but eventually realised the man she had been reading “every word” about in the local papers was now before her. “He snarled at me several times in a harsh whisper, ‘This isn’t a joke’,” says Margaret, now aged 56. “Then, in my mind, bam, I knew it was him.” For more than 40 years, former police officer Joseph DeAngelo terrified California.

From Sacramento to Los Angeles, the sadistic predator violated peaceful communities with countless rapes and killings. He started in 1974 as a burglar, but escalated to rape and then murder.