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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. (born November 8, 1945) is an American serial killer known as the Golden State Killer, the Original Night Stalker, and the East Area Rapist, who committed at least 13 murders and numerous rapes and burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986. The crimes began in northern California where DeAngelo committed a minimum of 120 burglaries and one murder in the San Joaquin Valley before moving to Sacramento County, where he committed at least 51 rapes and two more murders from 1976 to 1979. In southern California, DeAngelo murdered at least ten people from 1979 until 1986 before going dormant. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Golden State Killer is the 17th most popular extremist (up from 164th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,762nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Golden State Killer ranks 17 out of 283. Before him are Amon Göth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Frederick Trump, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, and Leon Czolgosz. After him are Ayman al-Zawahiri, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ramón Mercader, Patrizia Reggiani, Andrei Chikatilo, and Mehmet Ali Ağca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Golden State Killer ranks 25. Before him are Daniel Ortega, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Patrick Modiano, Helen Mirren, Björn Ulvaeus, and Hasan Akhund. After him are Robert Sarah, Ritchie Blackmore, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rod Stewart, George Miller, and Richard Henderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Golden State Killer ranks 347 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Clay (1777), John Cage (1912), Tom Petty (1950), Zachary Taylor (1784), John Howard Northrop (1891), and Clinton Davisson (1881). After him are Jay Leno (1950), Allen Dulles (1893), Buzz Aldrin (1930), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Maria Branyas (1907), and Leonard Bernstein (1918).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Golden State Killer ranks 7. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838), Charles Manson (1934), Zodiac Killer (1940), Ted Bundy (1946), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), and Leon Czolgosz (1873). After him are Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Ted Kaczynski (1942), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), and Machine Gun Kelly (1895).

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