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.
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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”
The full episode
2 of 4Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault- 0:00Cosby found guilty on three charges of sexual assault
- 10:10How DNA testing brought down the Golden State KillerYou’re reading this
- 23:28EPA Chief Scott Pruitt and the undoing of environmental rules
- 35:28'The Rachel Divide' draws criticism before anyone's seen it