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Dec 2023
39m 25s

REOPENED: The Golden State Killer

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About this episode

It began with a string of burglaries in the 1970s. Then, a series of sexual assaults. And finally, a dozen murders or more. At least three different crime sprees in California over the course of two decades have now been attributed to one suspect. The Golden State Killer.

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