Another day and another Trump supporter in jail. When Will trump supporters learn they are not above the law?
Golden State Killer Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo arrested
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS) - A former police officer and current Trump fundraiser is suspected of being an elusive serial killer who police say committed at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California in the 1970s and 1980s, officials announced Wednesday. 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested Tuesday, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones announced.
Sacramento County jail records show DeAngelo was arrested overnight. The FBI says it has a team gathering evidence at a Sacramento- area home linked to DeAngelo.
DeAngelo was employed as a police officer by two different departments, in Exeter, Calif. from 1973 to 1976 and in Auburn from 1976 to 1979, when he was fired, Jones said. Jones said it's possible DeAngelo committed the crimes during the time he was employed by the departments, but authorities are still looking into whether he committed any crimes while on duty.
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the case forever altered a time of innocence in the community.
"For anyone that lived here in this community in Sacramento, the memories are very vivid," Schubert said. "You can ask everyone who grew up here -- everyone has a story."
In the last six days, DNA analysts at the crime lab offered up a break in the case, and a warrant was issued for two 1978 murders in Sacramento County, Schubert said. She said the "answer was always going to be in the DNA," and the connection came in the slayings of Brian and Katie Maggiore.
"We all knew as part of this team that we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also all knew that the needle was there," Schubert said. "...We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento."