Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How DNA testing brought down the Golden State Killer
DNA testing led to the arrest of a 72-year-old man believed to be the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo was living in Citrus Heights when he was arrested.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readDNA testing led to the arrest of a 72-year-old man believed to be the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo was living in Citrus Heights when he was arrested. He’s believed to be responsible for a dozen murders and more than 50 rapes in California during the 1970s and 1980s.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Gina Pollack
Producer
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Erin Murphy
Expert in DNA forensics and a law professor at NYU. She’s the author of the new book “Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA.”
Billy Jensen
Investigative journalist, co-author of “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer”