• With meticulous forensic analysis and relentless detective work, a multi-county task force forms to track down the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker.
  • "Original Night Stalker" redirects here. For the unrelated serial killer commonly known as the "Night Stalker", see Richard Ramirez. Joseph James DeAngelo.
  • Because the Original Night Stalker’s attacks weren’t all linked together until well after many of the other Night Stalker crimes had already been committed.
  • The Original Night Stalker's hiatus from 1981 to 1986 coincided with the birth of DeAngelo's first daughter, in 1981. His second daughter was born in 1986.
  • At that time, police didn’t realize that the crimes fit the pattern of the East Area Rapist. The killer became known as the Original Night Stalker.
  • It was well over a decade after the last murder before DNA confirmed the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker were one and the same.
  • As for the Original Night Stalker, at least 10 people were killed at his hands throughout his spree between 1979 and 1986.
  • Later that day, rapid DNA testing definitively linked DeAngelo to several East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker crimes.
  • That was one night for one victim of the Original Night Stalker, also known as the East Area Rapist and the Golden State Killer.
  • The name "Original Night Stalker" derives from that of a serial killer/rapist arrested in California after the crimes of this serial killer were committed.
  • Known alternately as the East Area Rapist, Golden State Killer and Original Night Stalker, his statistics are hard to fathom: at least 12 murders and 45 rapes...