Golden State Killer former police officer says he will plead guilty to

Forty years after a suburban rapist terrorized California in a series of assaults and killings, a 74-year-old former police officer said he would plead guilty to being the elusive Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr on Monday told a judge in Sacramento he would plead guilty to 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges throughout California, and he would admit to dozens of sexual assaults that he could not be criminally charged with. The plea deal spares DeAngelo any chance of the death penalty. Prosecutors who had sought the death penalty cited the highly complicated case and the advancing age of many of the victims and witnesses in agreeing to consider the plea bargain