Genealogy Websites Helped ID Golden State Killer Suspect
Prosecutors say they used online genealogical sites to find a DNA match for a California serial killing suspect.
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Prosecutors say they used online genealogical sites to find a DNA match for a California serial killing suspect.
A Los Angeles police officer has been charged with attempting to transport two people in the country illegally through an immigration checkpoint.
Joseph James DeAngelo's neighbors said he kept to himself and sometimes yelled at people who got too close to his fence or mowed their grass too early.
Santa Rosa police said a man was stabbed in the back Wednesday on a trail behind a former homeless camp.
Authorities expressed belief that former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, committed 12 killings and at least 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sonoma County sheriff's officials said Wednesday that a vehicle used by a Sebastopol murder suspect was found in west Santa Rosa Tuesday.
BART trains were not stopping at the West Oakland station Wednesday night due to police activity.
A man living in the U.S. illegally has been sentenced to the death penalty for the 2014 killing of a Northern California sheriff's deputy and a detective.
A shooting involving an officer inside the Hayward BART station led to the station's closure Wednesday evening.
A Bay Area woman whose family was torn apart by the Golden State Killer almost four decades ago talked about the relief she felt from Wednesday's news of Joseph James DeAngelo's arrest and why she doesn't want him on death row.
A former police officer has been arrested and accused being an elusive serial killer and rapist known as the "Golden State Killer," suspected in at least 12 murders, 51 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California in the 70s and 80s.
Santa Clara County officials and employees who work closely with sexual assault survivors held a news conference at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose Wednesday morning to discuss the potential of speeding up testing of evidence kits to solve the cases.
A family member of a couple who were victims of a California serial killer decades ago has been fighting for law enforcement to expand the use of DNA testing in crime investigations since the early 2000s.
The family had drawn the attention of child welfare authorities in both states after multiple reports that the kids were neglected and malnourished.
Two men in a van tried to lure a 10-year-old boy into their van in east Santa Rosa on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
