The threats the East Area rapist made, worried psychologists. They warned detectives: the rapist really wanted to kill.
Santa Barbara County’s sheriff came up north to discuss a joint investigation. The departments could merge their resources.Sacramento’s top brass thought the city’s media had made a mess of the East Area Rapist case. Nothing good came of public hysteria. The sheriff’s department even ordered detectives to keep the existence of the last attack in Sacramento “quiet so the press will not overreact,” according to a case summary added to the file a day after the attack.
In the end, the sheriffs of Sacramento and Santa Barbara counties decided not to connect the rapes and murders. But before then, police focused on local suspects and filed charges against Smith’s former business partner. He wasn’t cleared until defense lawyers debunked the testimony of a witness against him. Even Smith’s teen daughter, Jennifer Carole, was asked questions while hooked to a polygraph. “I’m not sure for the life of me, what was the strategy?” she said decades later. “Even if it was a strategy not to talk about it, they shouldn’t have put me in a lie detector.
Those last Goleta killings signaled the apex of violence in the six-year string of bedroom invasions. The male victim was shot in the face, then bludgeoned 24 times in the head. His female companion was killed with a single crushing blow, then clubbed nine more times with what appeared to be a pipe wrench stolen from her tool shed.
An even more crippling blow to the case was to follow. The Santa Barbara County sheriff appointed a new head of major crimes who vowed he could close the Goleta case in two months. The investigation shifted to local vagrants and burglars. One such young troublemaker, a dope thief named Brett Glasby, became the prime suspect after his death in Mexico, though no physical evidence was ever found linking him to the multiple slayings.
The disgraced police officer dropped his work-related stress claim and left Auburn. He bought a ranch house in suburban Citrus Heights, miles from the prowling grounds of the EAR. He started work as a diesel mechanic for a grocery store chain. A few years later his wife left, taking their three daughters, but friends said DeAngelo was adamant about ferrying the girls to the usual lessons: music and riding.
After the storm of fury, DeAngelo would go inside, only to return minutes later to repeat the mad dialogue, sometimes hours past midnight.etectives had run the DNA of the serial killer through government databases of convicted felons since 1997, but found no matches.
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