Authorities hold press conference on Golden State Killer | USA TODAY

A former police officer accused of terrorizing California as a serial burglar and rapist and killing more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades pleaded guilty.

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Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators only later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer pleaded guilty to being the elusive Golden State Killer.

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7 comments

    1. Of course, he was a cop; they’ve a difficult job so they can kill, rape, steal and do whatever they want!

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