She’s Convinced That The Golden State Killer Tried To Break Into Her Home One Night, Since Her Dad’s Business Partner Was One Of His Victims
The Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., terrorized Californian residents from 1974 through 1986. He murdered a minimum of 13 people, burglarized homes, and did countless other horrific things to people.
One of the freakiest facts about him is that he worked as a police officer in Auburn from 1976 to 1979. He was finally arrested in 2018 after crime scene DNA was connected to his name through a genealogy database.
This young woman’s dad was a well-known surgeon whose business partner tragically ended up as a victim of the Golden State Killer.
“That had happened before I was born, and growing up, I never really knew of the story nor understood why he was such a paranoid helicopter dad,” she explained.
“I found out years later about it, and that he had several experiences which led him to believe he – like his business partner had been, was being stalked by Joseph James DeAngelo Jr.”
“Now, in retrospect, I believe what happened to me was one of them. Anyway, when I was five-years-old, my mom and I were home alone in a house we just moved into.”
“My dad was away on a business trip, I was in the kitchen watching Harry and the Hendersons, and my mom was in a room upstairs.”
Their kitchen was quite large, and their TV was located in the corner near an enormous window. That evening, she was seated on the floor, and if someone had looked through the window, they would not have seen her.
The door to their garage was on the other side of the kitchen, and as she was watching TV, she heard the handle on the garage door creak.
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She turned to look, and the handle was moving; someone was clearly trying to break into their home.
“I still get chills remembering being alone in that big dark room, illuminated only by the flickering of the TV and seeing that handle moving up and down by itself,” she added.
“As soon as it stopped, I lept up and sprinted up the stairs, screaming to my mom someone was trying to get into the house. She was upstairs with the windows open, and we both heard the crunching of feet running away on the driveway.”
Although her mom instantly called the cops, they couldn’t find evidence of the potential burglar anywhere.
They said to her mom that perhaps it was only a “prowler” out and about. Thankfully, that door to the garage was locked, and it’s chilling to think of what could have happened if it wasn’t.
To her, the scariest detail in all of this is that there were two different doors leading into the garage. One was unlocked, and one was locked.
“It was pure chance they tried the locked one first and got scared off before they could try the other,” she continued.
“I truly believe if whoever was there hadn’t heard me scream and run up the stairs in that moment, they would have made it inside. It now makes sense to me that we moved six times before I turned five.”
“Based on the fact that my dad had odd experiences of break-ins at two other homes in the same neighborhood (where nothing was taken, but someone had clearly forcefully entered the home), I think that it was a distinct possibility. He [the Golden State Killer] wasn’t caught until 2018.”
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