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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A family member of a couple who were victims of a California serial killer decades ago said the arrest of a suspect has brought closure.
Bruce Harrington, whose brother and sister-in-law were killed in 1980 in Orange County, told reporters Wednesday that it’s time for victims’ families to grieve and “bring closure to the anguish that we all suffered for the last 40 odd years.”
He cheered the work of law enforcement, who said they arrested Joseph James DeAngelo on Wednesday after DNA helped solve the case.
Prosecutors say Harrington’s brother, 24-year-old Keith Harrington and his wife, 27-year-old Patrice Harrington, were killed in 1980 in their home.
DeAngelo has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the 1980 killings of a couple in Ventura County.
An attacker who became known as the “The Golden State Killer, “The Visalia Ransacker and the “East Area Rapist” is accused of at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California.
