Overview
- Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho released The People vs. the Golden State Killer on Nov. 11, sharing new prosecutorial recollections from the case.
- Ho writes that detectives obtained a warrant for a full medical examination and photographed DeAngelo to document a feature victims had described.
- The book reports measurements as smaller than the circumference of a dime with a length equal to the tip of a pinky, and recounts a detective saying, “There’s nothing there.”
- Prosecutors treated the observation as circumstantial corroboration alongside the 2018 forensic genealogy work that identified DeAngelo from crime‑scene DNA and a discarded tissue.
- DeAngelo pleaded guilty in 2020 to 13 murders and other crimes and is serving multiple life sentences without parole at California State Prison, Corcoran.