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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