FRESNO, Calif. (KRON) – “Golden State Killer” Joseph DeAngelo,75, has transferred to a state prison facility.
According to public jail records, DeAngelo is currently serving multiple life terms at Corcoran State Prison. He transferred on Jan. 26, 2021.
DeAngelo was previously admitted to North Kern State Prison, a reception center, on Nov. 3, 2020. And before that, he was serving time at Sacramento County Jail.
He is currently housed in the Protective Housing Unit which is known for housing inmates whose safety would be endangered by general population housing.
CDCR’s Reception Center process is used to make housing determinations based on an offender’s classification score and in accordance with security, medical, psychiatric, and program needs.
DeAngelo was sentenced in August last year to multiple consecutive life prison sentences after he pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges stemming from crimes in the 1970s and 1980s under a plea deal that spares him the death penalty.
DeAngelo was sentenced in August last year to multiple consecutive life prison sentences after he pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges stemming from crimes in the 1970s and 1980s under a plea deal that spares him the death penalty.
He was identified through investigative genetic genealogy in 2018, prosecutors in Contra Costa County said.
Uncharged crimes occurred in Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare and Yolo counties.
DeAngelo was also nicknamed the Visalia Ransacker, the Original Night Stalker and the East Area Rapist.
Bay City News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.