Joseph DeAngelo, the former cop suspected of being the Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist and Visalia Ransacker, was caught because a relative of his sent their own DNA swab for testing
at a genealogy website.
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website is managed by Cate Pearce, a genealogist specialising in DNA applications to family history, and the convenor of the DNA Special Interest Group
at the Western Australian
Genealogy Society.