Amateur Sleuth Identifies Golden State Killer—and Now He's Behind Bars

Meeting Bonnie

DeAngelo served in the Navy during the Vietnam War before enrolling in a California community college to study police science. There, he met Bonnie Colwell, to whom he proposed in 1970. She described him as sexually aggressive, often pushing her to do things that made her uncomfortable.

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The More You Know

  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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