>Decades after the last case went cold, investigators announced in 2018 that DNA led them to a break in the case. Detectives submitted the killer's DNA to an op

>Decades after the last case went cold, investigators announced in 2018 that DNA led them to a break in the case. Detectives submitted the killer's DNA to an open-source genealogy website called GEDmatch, where it found a hit with a DeAngelo relative who used the service. Detectives were then able to narrow their list of suspects, eventually arresting DeAngelo after a covertly obtained sample from his trash matched the DNA that linked so many crime scenes. >Left alone in the interrogation room, Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Thienvu Ho said DeAngelo began to talk to himself. >"I did all that," he allegedly said. Annoying article headline makes it sound like he just turned himself in and confessed.. at least that's how I read it. But it was really a DNA match that they brought him in and THEN he confessed. Crazy to get that match 30 years later!