from outside department. he spent 27 years with the los angeles police department and could return there. >> new details on the chief's future which could be decided soon, vick? >> ama, we know police chief scott left on a trip to los angeles today. the same day the my yore of l.a. began holding what appears to be his final interviews. so far, chief scott has deflected all of the questions surrounding his possible departure. in early may, rumors began swirling that chief william scott may be a candidate for lapd's top job. this after its police chief, charlie beck, announced his retirement at the end of the year. scott is now reportedly one of the top three finalists. mayor eric garcetti says he's had several interviews with all three. on monday, he said he would decide soon. >> i want to do it right, not fast. but i expect in probably the next nine or ten days to announce a decision.

>> reporter: in december 2016, just after scott was introduced by mayor ed lee at city hall, he gave an exclusive television interview to abc 7 news. he told me he had no plans to go back to l.a. and apply for the top job there when then-chief beck retired. >> the mayor, the police commission, have put the confidence that i'm going to come here and give it my all. as long as they will have me here. that is my intent. >> reporter: now there is plenty of uncertainty for chief scott. mayor lee has passed. there will be an election in two weeks for a new mayor. the police union has a new president but the friction is still there. >> the members of the whole have not felt connected with this current chief or the current command staff. >> reporter: the makeup of the police commission has changed. there are now four salt lakekys on the seven-member commission that supported him. not even enough for a quorum to hold meetings. in the meantime, no one knows if chief scott will stay or leave.

supervisor safaii. >> so there's a lot of transition happening and it would be nice to have to believety at the head of our police department. >> reporter: we know from sources in the department that chief scott has been unhappy with developments, among them the way the supervisors handled the rejection of two long-time police commissioners, joe marshall, and sonia maloar, the two members mayor ferrell had reappointed to new terms. new at 6:00, we've learned the climb history fell to his death from half dome yesterday was 29-year-old asish benaganda from new jersey. he and another man were hiking when a thunderstorm rolled in and he slipped and fell, the first fatality at the cables in eight years. according to a gofundme page set up by friends his body will be transported to his family in india for his final rites. friends have donated more than $35,000 to help cover expenses.

two people were taken to the hospit after a double-decker tour bus caught fire in san francisco's north beach. sky 7 was over the scene at columbus and grant avenues. you can see the scorched bus there. the fire department says the two injured adults are expected to be okay. the fire was reported about 4:50, and officials say it was put out very quickly. it did cause some traffic delays along columbus. new information of a fire that damaged two buildings on parker avenue in the city's lone mountain neighborhood near usf. we're now being told that one adult -- suffered smoke inhall medication is in the hospital. four forced from their homes being assisted by the american red cross. crews received the call at about 4:30 today and were still dousing hot spots a few minutes ago. the wing of a plane hit a concrete post at sfo as the plane was being towed to a gate this afternoon. there were people on board the

airling gus flight that arrived from dublin, ireland. no injuries reported. the plane was scheduled to depart again 20 minutes ago but the flight has been delayed. no other airlines are affected. new developments in the case of a serial smash and grab burglar in san francisco. in just the last hour, sheriff's deputies say the man, seen breaking into this optometry store and grabbing sunglasses, is back in jail. benjamin chase facing over a dozen burglary and theft charges after police say he was caught on camera breaking into several stores over the last few days. deputies say chase had escaped a residential treatment program prior to these burglaries. one victim hopes chase's arrest ends a string of break-ins targeting eyeglass shops just like hers. >> i really hope that the judicial system helps to put him away so that he doesn't have to create any more victims. >> chase was arrested six months ago after a similar string of

thefts that also targeted op top tree stores and also caught on camera. the domestic violence charges against reuben foster has been dismissed by a judge. live outside the santa clara county hall of justice with the latest, chris? >> reporter: ama, a very big win for foster. he didn't take any questions from reporters as he left the courthouse today, but he did give a quick thumbs-up. now moving forward, foster will likely remain with the 49ers as a result of the judge's decision. but he's not in the clear just yet. 49ers linebacker reuben foster walked out of court breathing a sigh of relief after months of uncertainty. a judge in santa clara county dismissing the domestic violence charges brought against him earlier this year citing insufficient evidence. this after foster's ex-girlfriend, alisa ennis, initially told authorities he had dragged her, punched her eight to ten times in the head, and locked her out of his los

gatos home. ennis would recant her story and then admitted in court last week she made the story up as part of an extortion plot to get back at foster for breaking up with her. the santa clara county district attorney's office says it is disappointed in today's ruling but stands by the evidence the prosecutor presented to the court saying, in part, recantation is common among domestic violence victims. whatever the cause, we move forward when victims falsely recant, because we know if we don't, more victims will be hurt. our commitment to domestic violence survivors is unwavering. legal analyst steven clark says the ruling was based on the totality of the case. >> based on what miss ennis said and the other forensic evidence available to the court, there was not enough evidence and it was not consistent with what her initial statements were. >> reporter: foster still faces a misdemeanor weapons charge in connection to a rival that was found the morning police responded to his home. 49ers general manager john lynch released a statement immediately after the decision saying he

will have the opportunity to rejoin the team tomorrow. it has been made clear to ruben that his place on this team is one that must continue to be earned. we will continue to monitor the remaining misdemeanor charge. foster returns to court on june 6th. the nfl has decided to penalize teams if players kneel during the national anthem, which all started of course here in the bay area during the 2016 season. 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick started to kneel. he called it an act of social conscience to protest the killing of unarmed black men by police. critics called kneeling an insult to the flag and veterans of armed forces. the new nfl policy was approved by all of the teams except the niners. owner jed york abstained. >> i think there's so much more to it than just a player standing or a team employee standing. we want to take a broader approach. >> under new policy, any player

who comes onto the field during the anthem must stand, otherwise the team will be fined. players do have the option of staying in the locker room, however. happening tonight, students from heritage high school in brentwood plan to protest the transfer of this teacher who has kneeled while rotc students raised the campus flag. the teacher, tyler rust, says he's done this five to maybe as much as ten times, always before the start of his work day, to protest police brutality and the treatment of african-americans. the school district says transferring rust to minimize the potential of further disruption on campus. but students are upset. they started a petition to keep rust at heritage high and they're going to liberty union high school district's board meeting tonight in protest. in san francisco, there's a push to rename this playground ought the edge of presidio. it's named after former congressman julius khan who represented san francisco in the early 1900s and authored a ban on chinese immigration.

today the san francisco bored of supervisors public safety and neighborhood services committee approved a name change. the full board will vote on the matter early next month. in santa rosa today, police and park authorities served notice on a homeless encampment. people have to move. the question though is where are they going to go? as abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains, the answer, while unknown, is likely to be familiar. >> reporter: in santa rosa, like many california cities -- >> hello, park ranger, anyone in the tent? >> reporter: they have done this before, they'll do it again. >> you do have to vacate immediately. >> reporter: we're along the joe. redata jail, a homeless damp where residents received too much attention or too little, depending on their frame of mind. >> do you want to go back in? >> yeah, i want to go back in. >> reporter: it couldn't happen soon enough for residents like bill petty. last week, riding his bike, eight people block the path and one of them attacked him. >> it's a no-win situation.

this can't happen. >> reporter: this camp formed about a month ago when another camp closed. it is roughly one mile long. but hardly the last mile, based on previous experience. can you anticipate where they'll go next? >> i can't. >> reporter: we know only where they've been. scenes we've shown you before. from the remnants of homeless hill last august, to roseland in april, with others in between. the evictions begin to run together. >> they made everybody pack up, spend the rest of the money they had for somebody to move their stuff to the other side of town, then come find out they kied them out there and had to come back here, put them over there, come back here -- they don't know what they're doing. >> reporter: same faces, different places. amanda freedman, we met her last august, she's been in and out of shelters twice. we asked why she's back on the streets again. >> i've asked them to give me other options and they won't give me any other options than the shelter. >> reporter: she has a week to move again. a form of musical chairs to a

homeless theme. sometimes change takes time. in alameda, it's taken over two decades. >> the start of the transformation of the former alameda naval air station. we're anticipating a change in our weather pattern big-time. the accuweather forecast coming up. and coming up soon, abc 7's special presentation "chasing the golden state killer." after decades and dozens of crimes, watch previously unseen footage from the abc 7 archives. i'll host that program tonight at 6:30 immediately after abc 7 news.

marshall tuck will change that. in california, 3 million kids can't read at grlevel.

tuck turned around struggling schools, raising graduation rates over 60%. marshall tuck for state superintendent. marshall tuck. a new life for a former naval air base. today marked the ground-breaking for a billion-dollar development project at alameda point. the city of alameda hasn't seen new market rate multi-family housing for more than 40 years. this project includes hundreds of housing units plus shops, parks, and a new ferry terminal. >> reporter: alameda city

officials and developers broke ground today to begin a major development project on the former naval air station. >> 800 residential units and roughly 100,000 square feet of retail space. >> reporter: this will be mixed housing, including 130 units of affordable housing for low and very low-income households. it will be called alameda point. the entire alameda naval air base was officially closed in 1997. the economic impact of that closure was felt almost immediately. it took years for alameda to recover and just as long to come up with a plan to develop the site. the project will give alameda a much-needed tax revenue. >> we have thousands of square footage of commercial space also being developed, and that's going to allow for innovation and economic growth right in the heart of the bay. >> reporter: but the mayor herrera touch upon one of the biggest concerns, congestion. >> not sufficient.

we have to solve that problem. >> reporter: besides the tubes there are only a few options to get to and from alameda. the city and the developers say the only way to make this work is to create a less car dependant lifestyle. >> the city has a pretty robust strategy, including adding a third ferry terminal. and this development is paying $10 million towards that ferry terminal. putting into place transit service, bus service -- >> reporter: those shuttles will run every 15 minutes during peak time, dropping people off at the 12th street bart station. the ferry will be located at alameda point. the first residential units will be completed by late 2019. new at 6:00, a man who was involved in that charcoal barbecue dispute at lake merritt has been nominated to the city of oakland's parks and recreation advisory committee. video of the confrontation went viral showing a white woman calling police on a group of

black people with a charcoal barbecue just a few weeks ago. she said that using that type of grill at the location was not allowed. the bystand history filmed it said the woman was being racist. now oakland city councilwoman rebecca kaplan has nominated kensy smith to the advisory committee which makes recommendatis to the city council about parks and recreation policies. kaplan writes, quote, mr. smith has demonstrated his commitment to positive, unifying strategies in response to divisiveness and prejudice. the committee has 11 members and there is one vacancy right now. do you know which country has a population size most similar to lebanon? the answer made a boy from the east bay a national champion. 13-year-old convenientkat ranjan knows the answer, paraguay. that won him the national geographic bee today. he attends windermere middle school and the principal spoke

about his win. >> he's very excited about it. i learned from him that this is his fourth year competing, but this is the first time i think we've had someone win a national competition. i think it's a great thing for our school. >> ranjan beat out students from the fourth to eighth grades from over 10,000 schools across the country. cloudy skies, easy to find around the bay area today. you'reooking at santa cruz, the san mateo bridge in the middle, and emeryville cams. >> this morning abc 7 news was in san francisco's financial district just off market street. some commuters had their hoods up and the umbrellas up because of a light drizzle. more rain is in the forecast later this week. >> what is going on? abc 7 news weather anchor spencer christian? >> don't put away the hoods and umbrellas yet, you may need them. dreary conditions outside which introduced the drizzle today, to a live view from our emeryville

camera looking west. we have blue in the clouds. we can see the sky. watch it while we can. 58 at san francisco right now. 60 across the bay in oakland. 62 in mountain view. san jose 65. gilroy 62. 55 at half moon bay. a little higher and farther east, we present this view from the east bay hills camera. you can see more clouds in the sky. mid-level clouds. it's 59 at three locations, santa rosa, napa, novato. 62 fairfield. concord 61. 62 livermore. the view from our pier 39 camera, i have to compete with the sea lions for attention. these are our forecast features. drizzly pattern through thursday. chance of showers on friday, light showers. a warmup beginning over the holiday weend. overnight we'll see more dreary conditions, drizzle near the coast and bay, low clouds and fog, low temperatures, mainly in the low 50s, and tomorrow, similar sky condition to today with breezy conditions, also highs from 50th at the coast to low 60s around the bay, mid 60s inland. the storm is a light one ranking

only 1 on the storm impact scale producing scattered showers, rainfall totals generally just a few hunts of an inch. forecasts starting tomorrow evening, increase in clouds overnight, pockets of light showers moving through friday morning and afternoon. then the storm falls apart overnight friday night into saturday. speaking of saturday, as we look ahead to highs around theay area, slightly milder saturday with highs in the 60s, low 60s around the ba low to mid 70s inland. sunday, it warms up sharply to mid and upper 80s inland. memorial day we'll see low to mid 90s in our inland communities. so here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. cloudy and dreary tomorrow. spotty showers friday. beginning to warm up slightly on saturday. warming up more dramatically on sunday and monday, memorial day. and tuesday looks pretty much like monday as well with highs inland in the low to mid 90s and temperatures will moderate next wednesday. this is a real see-saw of temperatures here, up and down,

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good evening. warriors left for houston today still frustrated about the end of game four against the rockets, an epic fourth quarter meltdown. we may look back it as the beginning of the end of the season with andre iguodala hurt, steve kerr played his starters extended minutes. draymond green played the entire second half. steph curry, 39 minutes out of 48. easy lay-up he blows. final seconds, chaos. kevin durant went 43 minutes, gave it up to klay thompson who ended up being smothered in the

final seconds. this really felt like a game seven against the cavs back in 2016. here's that final sequence as steph -- wouldn't have counted. game five is tomorrow in houston. >> kind of pissed off. we know we let one slip away. so definitely guys are pissed of on. but encouraged as well. you know, like -- i love the way this team responds when our back is against the wall. it is what it is. i think we blew a golden opportunity. but it's not one that we can't get back. >> play a little bit more aggressive and angry. smart at the same time. channeling it in the right direction. we know that this team's tough to beat, especially at home. so look forward to going out here to see if we can get it done. >> as if things weren't frustrating enough, klay thompson listed as questionable tomorrow with knee strain. he injured the knee in the first half, came back in finished out the gameut was not that great. andre iguodala questionable with

knee contusion, his absence sorely felt in the loss. iguodala and thompson are the team's two best perimeter defenders. they're critical in trying to slow down james harden and chris paul. nba tonight, game five in boston. king james and the cavs trying to steal one in beantown. celtics came out strong. aron baynes throwing it down with two hands. 16-12 celtics. moments later, lebron, the big jump stop, scores, plus the foul. the celtics, they're very good at home. terrible on the road. but they're home tonight. marcus smart for three. right now the celtics leading 365, and they're in the second quarter. after the rockets snned the warriors, the giants had a chance to at lst exact a little revenge against the houston astros. reigning champs did do the bay area a favor by beating the dodgers in the world series, but that's little solace now. gore keys hernandez connects in the fourth off verlander, triple, he scored on a sac fly,

1-0. the popup to right. mccutcheon, he's too good for that to happen. carlos correa scores -- oh, i ain't got it. in the fifth, this is another giant mistake. jeff samardzija to george springer. that was smashed. 3-1 astros. verlander strikes out nine, gets hernandez look in the sixth. astros sweep the two-game miniseries 4-1 your final. a's will host the mariners tonight but oakland's without slugger chris davis for a while. he was placed on the 10-day disabled list because of a strained groin. davis leads the a's with 13 home runs, rank third in the american league with 38 runs batted in. the injury occurred in sunday's game. chris davis one of the top stars in major league baseball that doesn't get a lot of attention. warriors got to regroup. this is a tough loss. steve kerr said he did not sleep hardly at all last night,

replaying the game in his head over and over again. one call here, one call there. >> if he doesn't sleep, the players probably don't sleep so well. >> they do better than he does, actually. >> you look for them to come out swinging? >> they have to be the desperate team tomorrow. they have to try to steal one in houston. >> all right, thanks. join us at 9:00 on kofi-tv channel 13. the president sets sights on foreign car imports. the possible new tariff and how much more it might cost to buy a new toyota or bmw. at abc news at 11:00, secret addiction. rock bottom, whathim made ome clean, tonight at 11:00. we continue with our special presentation "chasing the golden state killer." investigators say the killer has attacked 29-year-old girls. >> raped while her husband had to listen. >> people had doors and windows open but the police are saying

lock up tight. >> every time the east area rapist strikes in a new city, the police switchboard lights up. >> some leads developed but a clear identification has not been made. >> it starts with a serial rain reignist and grew into a manhunt for a murderer that spanned 500 miles. hello, i'm dan ashley. welcome to a special abc 7 presentation, "chasing the golden state killer." joseph deangelo, the man police accused of 40 years of terror and torment, is now in jail charged with 12 murders. the case, the stuff of hollywood movies and real-life nightmares. as the investigation unfolds, we comb the abc 7 archives and document decades of fear. for the bay area it starts in the fall of 1978 when the community already had plenty of other reasons to be nervous and on edge. >> these are the first pictures out of guyana on the incredible

orgy of death that took place in the people's temple agricultural mission at zones town. >> dusch disturbing news made local headlines in 1978. over 900 followers of reverend jim jones committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced pie ton. two of san francisco's prominent politicians are assassinated. >> both mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. >> also making news, jerry brown is re-elected in the fall to his second term as governor. he is said to be still dating singer linda ronstadt. the 49ers are in a massive losing streak. and the raiders are playing their last season with john madden as coach. but fall also brings a predator into the bay area. it's a new hunting ground for a serial criminal already terrorizing sacramento. >> he came in had a ski mask on. jumped on the bed and had a knife. >> and there was a man shining this flashlight in my eyes with

a ski mask on, holding a large butcher knife. >> my husband was home. we went to bed. our bedroom door opens and all i see is a flashlight. >> leather gloves on, i could hear them, i could feel them. >> he told us with clenched teeth, "shut up or i'll kill you." >> he asked in a harsh whisper, "do you want to die? do you want me to kill your mother?" >> he untied my ankles, told me to follow him. i'm in a little teeny nightie. and i walked down the hallway. as i'm walking down the hallway, i'm saying, oh my god, i'm going to be raped. >> the first attacked on the east side of sacramento county. the suspect is dubbed the east area rapist. as the rapes continue, newspaper headlines describe a community in panic. in february 1978, katie and brian majore are shot to death in rancho cordova near sacramento on an evening walk with their dog. clues lead authorities to believe these are the east air

rapist's first murders. over the next few months the rapes continue in sacramento county and the central valley. then in october of 1978, the attacker moves into the bay area, striking twice in concord. >> he raped a 29-year-old housewife at 5:30 this morning. her husband was tied up nearby and had to listen. her 8-year-old daughter was locked in the bathroom. >> we dug into our abc 7 news film archives for a look back at the crimes that became a bay area obsession. >> he robbed and ransacked the home, tearing panties, bed sheets, and pillow cases. >> call him a rapist, which he certainly is. he's also a burglar. >> concord police responded to 200 phone calls in the first few hours after the word got out about it. >> people reporting prowler calls, suspicious circumstances. some people even turning in their neighbors. they think he might be the

workmanship rei rapist. >> over the next 10 months attacks in san ramon, san jose, walnut creek, quiet, suburban residences where peopleeel safe. >> the only thing we know about the east area rapist i he's a pro. he's been at this four years and nobody knows what he looks like. >> the crimes carefully planned. investigators believe the rain rapist is stalking specific victims. sometimes even entering their homes days before the actual attack. >> this lawn was wet and that means he left a trail of footprints. >> what's really horrible is the kids know about them. i was at the swim club. they had a sign saying, lock your homes, there's a prowler in the neighborhood. a 10-year-old boy said, oh, it's no a prowler, it's a rapist, why don't they say rapist? >> anxious residents buy guns and pack community meetings to learn how to protect themselves. >> okay, a gentleman asked if the telephone wires were cut, and it's affirmative, they were. from the inside.

>> it takes very little pressure to remove an entire window or even a sliding glass door. >> despite all their locked doors and bolted windows, they are all still very much afraid tonight of the east area rapist, and that makes them all in a sense his victims. >> adding to the terror, the rapist taunts his victims for years afterwards with phone calls. >> hello? [ heavy breathing ] >> i'm gonna kill you. i'm gonna kill you. >> 13-year-old mary berwert of walnut creek was one of the youngest rape victims. police believe the rapist watched mary from a play house in her yard. >> something new to worry about, their children. >> the rapist always wears a mask so victims don't know what he look like. over time, investigators come up with various sketches. they're based on neighbors' descriptions of suspicious men spotted in the days leading up

to the attacks. in july 1979, the mysterious man slips up during an assault on a danville couple. that's the predator's last known attack in northern california. the trail goes cold. but what no one realizes is that the brutal rapist and murderer has moved on to southern california. and he's amping up the violence. >> they were bludgeoned to death with a log that was from a stack of firewood they had outside their home. >> santa cruz resident jennifer carroll had just graduated high school when her father and stepmother were murdered in ventura in the spring 1980. wyman smith was about to be named a superior court judge. charlene smith an interior decorator. bloody bodies hidden under the bed covers. >> it was an extremely violent and intimate murder. you're close, the blood is getting on you, if you think about it, to bludgeon them. who had that much 18er? who was that mad at them?

>> six months later, the bodies of keith and patrice harrington found under the covers in their home in orange county. keith a medical student, patrice a pediatric nurse. they'd been beaten to death. >> when somebody described how they were killed, it was just shattering. >> these two murders have been just a long-running question mark in these communities for going back literally decades. >> the killer is dubbed the night stalker. then, the original night stalker. because another notorious murderer, richard ramirez, would end up claiming the first title. over the next six years, detectives say the original night stalker murders ten people in southern california. the killer's last known crime is in 1986. but despite tens of thousands of hours of investigation up and down the state, it's a cold case with no solid suspects and fading hope it will ever be solved. enter paul holtz. >> i was obsessed with this case, no question about it. >> early 1990s, holtz starts

work as a criminologist at the contra costa county sheriff's crime lab in martinez. he happens on a huge stash of cold case files abled "e.a.r.," east area rapist, a serial predator he's never heard of. he's looked. >> he committed 50 attacks in northern california. 25 of those attacks had men in them. so 50% of the time, he is choosing to enter a house where there's a man in there. >> this predator ties up the couples, then creates a unique alarm system with dishes. >> he would get the plates and literally stack them on the back of the man as he's laying face-down, bound. if he heard those plates move that meant the man was trying to get out of his bindings. >> the attacker often spends hours in the homes. >> he moves through that house like it was his. if there was beer inside the refrigerator, to take the cans and he'd go out into the back patio, sit on the lawn chair, be drinking beer while the victims are left invite the house.

>> the rapist ransacks the houses, taking cash and mementos. >> there is a fantasy component about these crimes. when he is stealing these items, he's wanting something later on to relive that fantasy. >> as holtz combs through evidence, dna technology is in its early stages at the contra costa county crime lab. holtz starts comparing dna samples from east area rapist cases with other crimes. at the same time, southern california investigators on the original night stalker cases are also creating dna profiles, but using different equipment. >> it took four years for the technology to mature to where both labs were doing the same. >> in 2001, they finally confirmed the east area rapist and the original night stalker are one and the same person. the serial sexual predator is renamed the golden state killer. but 15 more years go by, and still no suspect's dna matches samples found at the crime

scenes. frustrated investigators form a task force to generate new tips and offer a $50,000 reward. >> the answer's out there, we need a name. >> all the while, genetic technology keeps improving, making it possible for people to find long-lost relatives by uploading their own dna information onto a free website gedmatch. paul holts realizes that could be a key for law enforcement too. he tests his theory on dna profiles of his own family. >> uploading them to gedmatch, starting to learn how gedmatch worked, that's when i realized i can do this. >> january of this year, holtz uploads the crime scene dna and starts finding people who may be related to the killer. >> now i'm talking third, fourth, fifth cousins. very distantly related. but it gives us a starting point. >> holtz and other investigators pore over the results, working with a genetic genealogist, using obituaries, gravesite locaters, census records, and

dna databases, to build a family tree for the killer. then they look for people believed to be about the same age as the suspect, with ties to california. they narrow it down to five suspects, including joseph deangelo, a former police officer now living near sacramento. investigators follow deangelo for days, waiting for him to throw away something, anything, with his dna on it. >> when they discard their dna in a public place, we can law l lawfully grab that, test it, if it matches you have probable cause. >> investigators are not revealing exactly how they finally got deangelo's dna but they say it's a perfect match to the dna found at golden state killer crime scenes. >> we found the needle in the haystack. >> within hours of the test results, the 72-year-old deangelo is arrested at his home outside sacramento and detectives move in to comb the house for evidence. so who is joseph deangelo? >> this is someone's brother,

someone's ex-husband, someone's classmate -- >> also someone's co-worker. meet the man who had lunch with him nearly every day. and a woman who says she's been to hell and back, only now sharing her story. >> nobody wants to walk around with "hi, mary berwert,

"chasing the golden state killer."

>> as the east area rapist is physically raping that victim, he is sobbing and saying, "i hate you, bonnie." that told me that he had some significant female in his life named bonnie. and he had some anger. >> that anger from a man believed to have committed 12 murders and 50 rapes may be explained by this newspaper article. joseph deangelo, the man now accused of being the golden state killer, was engaged to a woman named bonnie in the early 1970s. they never married. bonnie has been identified now and is said to be talking with prosecutors. the last time we saw deangelo was in a sacramento court in a barred holding cage. he is charged with 12 counts of murder in four counties. he's yet to enter a plea, but some people have already made up their minds. and they're upset the suspect may have been living in citrus heights, one of the very communities where the golden state killer left his mark. >> i really had some somehow

rationalized he was dead. to find out he's been living and breathing in citrus heights? to find out he had a wife and children? >> josef deangelo married sharon huddle in 19 city. they have three daughters. some reports say they are separated. last year, deangelo retired from savemart where he worked as a truck mechanic for 27 years. gary griffin was his friend and co-worker. the two often had lunch together. >> i can't look at him in court because i picture the guy that i was standing next to at work. he was very, very afraid of being in trouble. never called in sick. he was proud of that. >> deangelo often ate at charlie's cafe in citrus heights. >> this is where he sat a week before his arrest. the second time i served him his tuna salad, he threwhe cheese on the table. i'm like, is everything okay? what's wrong? he's like, what are you trying to do, kill me? i can't eat cheese, you told you that before. >> his neighbors describe deangelo as a complicated man. >> always friendly with all the neighbors and stuff.

we called him a yeller. come to find out he was hard of hearing. >> he used to have tantrums out in the front. he would yell so loud. >> he was just an odd guy. kind of kept to himself. had a temper. >> deangelo went to middle school in rancho cordova, then folsom high, graduating with a degree in criminal justice from cal state, sacramento, then joined the navy before getting a job as a cop. >> he's an ex-officer in the exeter police department -- >> his hiring makes the local paper. so does his firing from his next police job in auburn. charged with stealing dog repellent and a hammer from a drugstore. there's speculation he may have been a commuter criminal. living in auburn, allegedly driving to the bay area to stalk his victims. >> very possibly he was committing the crimes during the time he was employed as a peace officer. obviously we'll be looking into whether he was actually on the job. >> now that investigators have named joseph deangelo a suspect, it adds credible toy a long-teld

theory the golden state killer is also a suspect in an earlier crime spree. those crimes happened at the same time deangelo was working as a police officer in the small town of exeter in the central valley. >> that was roughly during the time as the ransacker cases were occurring. >> visalia is 15 minutes from where deangelo lived and worked. the advice sale la ransacker is accused of murdering a local professor and terrorizing his family. by now the crime sounds familiar. >> a man waking me up, wearing a ski mask. pushed me down, shot my dad twice, then took off running. i loved my father dearly. he took him away from me. >> the visalia ransacker burglarized about 100 homes. one detective thought he spotted him and told him to freeze. the suspect begged the officer not to shoot. but then pulled out his own gun and fired. th blet hit the officer's flashlight. shards rec sheaing intoiseye.

>> i fell down on the impact, knocked me back. he continued to run. apparently attempted burglary. >> that was 1975. fast forward to the summer of 1979. a walnut creek teenager is looking forward to eighth grade when her innocence is taken. now she tells abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley she's taking it back. >> nobody wants to walk around with, you know, "hi, i'm mary berwert, rape victim." >> mary was one of the youngest victims when i first met her the day after the arrest, she was still in shock, wanted to remain anonymous. >> i just heard it on the news. i started crying. it's over. >> talking with close friends from high school changed her feelings. >> we just cried. and laughed. >> that empowered her, she said, to sit down on camera and tell

her story. >> that was such a crappy situation for so many years that i had to hide, and i didn't talk about it, so it was -- now it's -- it's out there. and i don't have to tell, i don't have to go one by one and tell this horrible story to everybody. you know, it's -- it's ripping the band-aid off. >> the attack happened right after her 13th birthday. a man entered her walnut creek bedroom in the middle of the night with a knife. >> the attacker was -- wore a mask. >> he tied my legs and tied my hands and gagged me with my training bra. >> she was sexually assaulted and feared her stalker would kill her father and sister, who were sleeping just down the hall. she says she slept with the light on for years. but she got through it on her own, no therapy back in those days. >> i wanted to get on being a cheerleader. doing my thing. but now knowing all of this stuff, it just makes me just

sick. >> he stalked you? >> stalk med. he stalked everybody. all of his victims, he was stalking. so how long did he stalk us? it hits your inner soul. sexuality is part of you. it's a very important part of you. and -- and to have that tarnished before i even had a chance to start experiencing it wasn't a good way to go. and he shouldn't have had the right to take it from me. >> in 1979, the same year berwert was assaulted, alameda county district attorney nancy o'mally was a volunteer who answered phones at a new rape crisis center. and even accompanied one of the east area rapist victims to the hospital. >> how it was then, we were just so ill equipped. the rape crisis center movement was just starting. >> the experience sparked o'mally's passion for pushing to get rape kits tested and

suspects like the golden state killer caught. but because of the statute of limitations on rape charges in the 1970s, berwert's case will not be prosecuted. that angers her. >> he's still here and i'm still here. so why should he not have to be accused? stand accused? pay the price. >> but there is a chance she and other rape victims could still face their alleged attacker in court. the d.a. says in some instances, victims of similar crimes believed to be by the same attacker can testify about a defendant's modus operandi or intent. >> for those women who woke up with him with a knife to their face or gun to their head, it's very possible that they could be ale to come and testify about their experience. >> berwert says she would love to testify against her attacker, whoever he may be. >> there's a whole lot of karma coming his way. a suspect may be in jail, but online detectives are still

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author michelle mcnamara in her bestseller "i'll be gone in the dark." >> it was like someone had figured out what is all our primal fears about someone that could come in the middle of the night? he wanted to play god. and he did. for a while. >> mcnamara's writing sparked a lot of people to become obsessed with the case. abc 7's deon lin introduces you to one of them. >> i wanted to know more. from there i ended up purchasing multiple books by retired detectives, purchased books by other true crime writers, i listened to podcasts, i also went online and read it. i ended up consuming all the information there is. >> san francisco's tom frawley is one of the many who share the fat nation. reddit's golden state killer board has over 20,000 registered users. with news of an arrest online forums went into overdrive, so did tom. >> i cleared my schedule. i literally read as much as i could about the potential, you

know -- the potential i guess -- criminal, you know, who was involved in this. >> so why exactly are people like tom so fascinated by this case? turns out it may be because we're conditioned to be fascinated from childhood. >> let's remind ourselves of those nursery rhymes from days gone by. i guess not the least of which could take the form of lizzy borden taking an ax, doing the worst things possible to her family members. >> san jose state professor greg woods believes criminologist skod bond's theory, humans are drawn to the rare and exotic like natural disasters. serial killers of the human equivalent. >> he associates serial killers and serial offenders and the appeal of this kind of deviant behavior to be likened to the same kind of appeal we might have by watching "shark week." >> undoubtedly reassuring tidbit for tom's wife, who may not find his enthusiasm for true crime so interesting. >> i wouldn't say she finds me obsessive, i would say she finds this the hobby a little bit

weird, a little bit unique. she also understands the need to kind of know, you know, who the killer ultimately is. >> joseph deangelo's public defender isreminding people he is innocent until proven guilty. defense attorney diane howard says she is preparing for what she believes will be the biggest trial in state history. she also says this case is far from over. you can follow the golden state killer case on abc7news.com or the abc 7 news app. i'm dan ashley. thanks for watching this abc special presentation, "chasing the golden state killer."

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