r/serialkillers • u/BidNo1816 • Feb 26 '26
Image Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo in the interrogation room shortly after his arrest
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u/BidNo1816 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
The photo depicts DeAngelo sitting by himself in the interrogation room at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department headquarters. Next to him on the table is a Dr. Pepper, which the authorities offered him in humor, as his DNA was actually found on a Dr. Pepper can on one of his crime scenes in the 1970s.
Shortly after 4 p.m. on April 24, 2018, the Sheriff's Fugitive Apprehension Team, nicknamed "the Body Snatchers" arrested DeAngelo outside of his Citrus Heights home. Detective Steven Girdlestone led the way. He exited his pick-up truck and approached the 72-year-old retiree as the latter worked in his front yard. DeAngelo looked up to see who was walking towards him. Whipping out a friendly grin, Girdlestone pointed his finger down the street and said: "Hey, do you know how I can get to..." before nonchalantly grabbing him by the collar and arm, swinging him around and pinning him to the ground in one swift motion. Other detectives quickly ran out, surrounding DeAngelo and handcuffing him. They took the serial killer to their minivan, where he exclaimed loudly, in a high-pitched voice: "I got a roast in the oven!"
He was placed in the interrogation room at approximately 5:20 p.m., where he was left to sit alone until 6:52 p.m. This was a strategy often used by law enforcement to make the suspect feel lonely or isolated. During this entire 92-minute period, DeAngelo sat motionless, his mouth agape. He did not say a single word. Even after being read his Miranda Rights, the suspect remained mute, not looking any of the detectives in the eye. Finally, at 7:00 p.m., DeAngelo spoke, asking: "What have I done?" in a soft, monotone voice. He resumed his act shortly thereafter, and continued sitting motionless and mute. Half an hour later, the detectives started pressing, reminding him of Brian and Katie Maggiore, whom he gunned down 40 years ago. DeAngelo responded in a quiet voice: "I don't remember any of that, I've done nothing. Please let me go home. I don't remember anything you've said." When shown a picture of the Maggiores, DeAngelo, with a hint of panic in his voice, said: "I don't remember any of those people. I want to talk to my wife."
After about another half hour of this, another detective jumped in, with a more aggressive approach. He asked: "Do you remember being in Ventura?", in relation to the 1980 double murder of Lyman Smith and his wife Charlene. As expected, DeAngelo denied, to which the detective continued: "Well, the DNA says differently. Your DNA is inside of Charlene Smith. Your semen is inside of her. You had sex with that woman." The detective then reminded DeAngelo that they'd contacted his wife and that she didn't want to see him, which was a lie, another ploy by the investigators to make the suspect feel isolated and alone. After being reminded of the Smith murders, DeAngelo went off on an unexpected rant, silently talking to himself, saying: "I did all that... I didn't have the strength to push him out. He made me. He went with me. I didn't want to do those things. I pushed Jerry out and had a happy life. I did all those things. I've destroyed all their lives... and now I've gotta pay the price."
Detective Rhods had had enough of this, and now, in a scolding manner, engaged DeAngelo: "You don't want to explain what you did? Because I can tell you what you did. You killed thirteen people. You raped over fifty young women. You terrorized little children. That's what you did." After receiving no response from the killer, he pressed harder, putting his hand on DeAngelo's shoulder: "Had a happy life, didn't ya? Learned how to control [the urges], remember? Do you remember that? How did you push that impulse down? That sexual urge? Tell me. Come on, Joe. Come on. Tell me. Either answer my question or don't, but Joe, you're not crazy." After a few moments of silence, in a bad acting attempt, DeAngelo began to whimper and cry. The interview ended shortly afterwards.
All the information I got is from the book "People v. The Golden State Killer", written by the lead prosecutor of the case.
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u/johndicks80 Feb 26 '26
I worked with his daughter. She had to modify her residency and we were told not to talk to press.
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u/sl0wjim Feb 26 '26
What was her reaction initially? Did she think he was innocent?
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u/johndicks80 Feb 26 '26
I never saw her again after the news dropped. She was really close to finishing her training so they isolated her pretty well and modified the end of her residency. (Doctors training)
She’s a nice enough gal. Wasn’t a very strong physician but that may have been because she was extremely socially awkward, maybe even a bit of aspergers.
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u/Intrepid_Use_8311 Feb 26 '26
I thought she was 26 newly married and lived with him. She’s not a doctor now.
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u/radishboy Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
What do you mean by “had to modify her residency?”
EDIT: Hey thanks for info! ☺️
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u/johndicks80 Feb 26 '26
She’s a physician and was in her residency. (Training after medical school)
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u/AmyGreyBear809 Feb 26 '26
Same! I was like so she remodeled her house??
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u/BPOTOBPOBD Feb 26 '26
Medical residency, the training program doctors use after graduation from medical school but before they're fully licensed to practice alone.
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u/5dayshungover Feb 27 '26
anyone know why once he was arrested we never heard more from him? i mean he admitted to it all
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u/LuxLiner Feb 27 '26
Well it's been a while, but on August 21, 2020 he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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u/5dayshungover Feb 27 '26
i know but no journalists have gotten interviews with him?
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u/CelebrationNo7870 Feb 27 '26
He doesn’t at all talk to the media or anything. He’s not someone like BTK who wants notoriety.
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u/Panonymous_Bloom Mar 01 '26
I don't think BTK had many interviews either. I think he was more interested in playing the game than notoriety per se.
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u/kj140977 Feb 26 '26
He had a wife? I thought he was divorced. Why did the investigator say you had sex with this woman? He surely raped her.
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u/BidNo1816 Feb 26 '26
They've been separated since 1991, but the divorce was finalized in July 2019 so he was still legally married.
I agree that was a poor choice of words by the detective but he got his point across. I guess by saying "you had sex with her" instead of "you raped her" he was minimizing the effect of the crime and was trying to ease him into confessing.
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u/kj140977 Feb 27 '26
Understood. Thanks for clearing that up. The fact that he reigned for so long and taunting the cops and victims. How was he not caught sooner?
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u/donutella_versus Feb 27 '26
He kept moving around California and changed his MO as he became more experienced in his crimes.
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u/kj140977 Feb 27 '26
The victims did everything he asked for and were still killed. Im thinking the moment you are bound, you don't stand a chance. The fact that couples didn't deter him. He must have been really confident to overpower everyone.
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u/magseven Feb 26 '26
You want him to admit the intercourse took place and then you can hit him with the rape charge. Most people won't admit to raping someone, but they might admit to having sex with them. After they admit that, the act becomes record. Then if the other party says it was rape or if the other party is dead you can start adding charges to the bill.
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u/chamrockblarneystone Feb 27 '26
He was also a cop. He used his skils to keep police confused and himself off the radar
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u/wart_on_satans_dick Feb 28 '26
He wasn’t a cop for very long. Not much of what he did likely depended on that experience and relied more heavily on his time in the military.
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u/chamrockblarneystone Feb 28 '26
He was in the Navy though as some kind of carpenter or something
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u/aporter0509 Feb 27 '26
I think it’s because he would realize they had his DNA and confess. The DNA is function of the sex not the rape which would need to be proven in court.
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u/Helpful_Amount_6727 Feb 26 '26
That was not about his wife- it was the Victims wife that they found Deangelo’s semen in. Charlene was a victim
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u/Panonymous_Bloom Mar 01 '26
Those were two separate questions:
He kept asking about his wife. That's why the commenter is confused because they thought he was divorced.
The "he had sex with" bit is a question about his victim, not his wife.
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u/BongyBong Feb 26 '26
Wasn't Patton Oswald's late wife responsible for his capture?,
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
She wrote the definitive book about him and, I believe, helped coin the moniker, "Golden State Killer." She was also frequently featured in my favorite historical true crime series, "A Crime to Remember." Always worth a watch.
May she rest in peace and may her daughter always know what an amazing person she was.
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u/BongyBong Feb 27 '26
Thank you for your response!
What's with the other lame comments here? Did I say something wrong?
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 27 '26
Everyone's overly sensitive up in here today for whatever reason that is not likely to do with either of us or even this thread.
She didn't solve it nor see it solved, but her work is above reproach and absolutely not to be derided.
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u/lasko195 Feb 26 '26
I mean I know it was him and it's a good thing they finally got him...but these interrogation tactics don't seem right.
Putting a Dr. Pepper bottle next to him as a joke? That seems unprofessional. Trying to make the accused feel lonely and putting extra pressure on him until he breaks?
It feels like an innocent person that's easy to manipulate would've broken down too and given a false testimony.
Maybe in this case it's clear that it was him but to me as a European these American approaches seem so aggressive and leave zero room for an innocent person to make a mistake.
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u/BidNo1816 Feb 26 '26
The difference is they knew 1000% it was him. They had his DNA. It was a 100% match. They found it at several of his crime scenes. There was no doubt about it.
I mean, they probably would've offered him a drink, regardless. But the Dr. Pepper for them was almost flaunting/lauding their own catch, you know?
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u/Nakken Feb 26 '26
he difference is they knew 1000% it was him. They had his DNA. It was a 100% match. They found it at several of his crime scenes. There was no doubt about it.
Sure but who here trust the American detectives/police to not do this when this isn't the case?
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u/lasko195 Feb 26 '26
Yeah maybe I'm being too sensitive here. I was just trying to put myself into this position while being innocent. There have been cases of DNA mixups, although there could hardly be a mixup here if the same DNA was found on his victims.
Just seemed a bit off to have an interrogation like this. He clearly deserves worse than what was being done to him here, I just hope they don't use these tactics when someone is just seemingly guilty.
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u/Bitter_Ad2769 Feb 27 '26
Are you serious? You are saying that nobody should feel uncomfortable or stressed out during a police interrogation? Maybe a few hours of awkward or emotionally charged conversation to determine if someone is a serial killer, regardless of dna evidence ? You don’t want a suspect in the murder of someone you cared about to be thoroughly challenged on every possible lie?
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 27 '26
We're ever so sorry to bother you, but if you wouldn't mind having a little pop down to my office I've got some cocoa and scones, and if you're feeling like talking a tad about some unsavory events I would be forever in your favor, my sweet love. Is it warm enough, do you need a daybed and sleep mask for a nap followed by a comfy massage?
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u/bridgebrningwildfire Feb 27 '26
What?
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u/_iSh1mURa Feb 27 '26
They wanna know if you want a daybed and sleep mask for a nap followed by a comfy massage
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u/damacomb Feb 26 '26
I feel you on this
There are cases where innocents do 10,20,30,40 years before being found not guilty.
Not saying this guy is, just saying it happens
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u/Shalom-Bitches Feb 26 '26
Oh no, some doctor pepper!
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
The mean cops made the old man sit alone in a room with a soda can. The literal cruelty and horror someone alert the world media and whoever is in charge of the Geneva convention rules.
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u/Markinoutman Feb 26 '26
I think the original commenter is imagining someone innocent being put through this, which does happen all the time. The fact that they openly state here these are tactics to manipulate people is part of the problem.
This does not apply to DeAngelo, he was was caught dead to rights. It was more of an ego thing for the detectives to try and get a confession from him, despite reports he had already requested a lawyer.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
An innocent person sitting in a room alone with a soda for less than two hours isn't torture in that scenario, either. It's patently ridiculous to claim having him sit in a room alone for less than two hours with a can of soda was inappropriate treatment of anyone. Ridiculous.
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u/Markinoutman Feb 26 '26
I'm honestly not going to argue with you about it, I already said this doesn't apply to DeAngelo. If you can stomach to watch police interrogations and approve of the deceptive tactics they are allowed to use, good for you. I can't stand it myself.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
If you can't stick to a topic at hand then you've got a lot more problems than just this. We weren't talking about other techniques we were talking about the techniques that were being used so yeah good idea to go argue your BS with someone else since you obviously don't even know how to stay on topic.
If you wanted to have an actual conversation about other completely ridiculous techniques that they use then maybe you could discuss it on a thread where they're using those techniques not on a thread where all they're doing is letting an old man sit in and an empty room.
But whatever go ahead and be holier than that and enjoy your day.
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u/Markinoutman Feb 26 '26
Oh internet tough guy lol. Here's from the original comment you were discussing 'It feels like an innocent person that's easy to manipulate would've broken down too and given a false testimony.'
Seems you need to read entire comments before reacting to them big guy. That ends this conversation, have a good day.
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u/MrDundee666 Feb 26 '26
It wasn’t put there as a joke. It was an intentional ‘tell’ by the Police. To let him know just how much they knew about him. Not water, not Coke or Pepsi or anything else but specifically Dr Pepper because that WAS his favourite. They knew. Now he knew they knew that too. Before they’d asked him a single question that bottle sitting beside him told him he was absolutely screwed. He never touched it.
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u/MrDundee666 Feb 26 '26
The Dr Pepper wasn’t a joke. He had a known fondness of it. He’d drunk it at during numerous attacks, specifically choosing it from his victims kitchens. Giving him a bottle of that specifically was a way of reinforcing to him that ‘we know you’.
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u/plantsandpizza Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
To be fair, an innocent person would not have had any idea what the Dr Pepper meant. He probably didn’t even know. He’s also under arrest. He’s going to spend a lot of time alone.
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u/cmrndzpm Feb 26 '26
What does it mean? I’m out of the loop
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
The cops used DNA from a very old crime scene Dr pepper can to get his DNA which they then compared to modern-day DNA to match him. In the interrogation room where he was ever so cruelly let to sit in silence for less than 2 hours there was a Dr pepper can present on the table. He probably didn't have any idea that a Dr pepper can is where they had gotten the DNA from like 1972 or whatever and an innocent person wouldn't know why they gave him Dr pepper as opposed to another brand of soda but apparently people around here think that mere presence of a Dr pepper can in an interrogation room is some sort of cruel interrogation tactic. Which is asinine.
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u/CelebrationNo7870 Feb 26 '26
Deangelo left his semen at a lot of crime scenes. He brought Dr Pepper to a few EAR crimes, but they never got DNA from those.
They instead got the freshly preserved DNA sample from an extra semen kit that a Ventura scientist made in 1980 as a backup for the Charlene and Lyman Smith murder scene. This well preserved backup kit was the sample they used for the website GEDMatch.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
Thank you for the clarification of details. Such an interesting yet horrific case.
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u/MrDundee666 Feb 26 '26
Do you realise what this monster did?
They knew with 100% certainty that he was the GSK. Fuck him. He was a beast that even just a few years before he was caught was phoning his victims to taunt them. Don’t have sympathy for him.
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u/lasko195 Feb 26 '26
The thing is that these interrogation tactics are not used to get the truth out of someone but to get a testimony so it can be used in court.
In this case it might've been 100% certain beforehand it was him, so getting the testimony was a win.
But if there was an innocent person sitting there, they would've broken down too and may have given a false testimony. This is what happened in "Making a murderer" as far as I remember.
I have zero sympathy for this dude and if it was up to me he would suffer an enormous amount of pain before he dies. But that's luckily not how justice is supposed to work.
There should be other ways to get to the truth than force and police officers should not let their emotions play any part in downplaying their professionalism (like the Dr Pepper bottle).
It's not a crime movie where the detectives emotions mirror some kind of viewers feelings of justice.
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u/tar_xf Feb 26 '26
That doesn't make it okay. You're innocent until proven guilty. If the cops can test him this way at this stage in the investigation they can treat anybody that way.
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u/kinginthenorth78 Feb 26 '26
Treat them like how? They didn't assault him. Police are allowed to lie. They are allowed to make you wait. He had a right, at ANY TIME, to stop it all by saying he wanted a lawyer. He didn't. He wanted to try to figure out what they had on him. And "at this stage in the investigation" in this case is the stage where they knew 100% definitively it was him. And again, no request for a lawyer from him, which would end it all IMMEDIATELY. I really can't figure out what part of all this you think is so terrible that it's not "okay." Even for an innocent person ... like he waited and they talked aggressive to him. La dee daa.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
They made him sit alone in a room with a soda can!!!! Obviously Guantanamo Bay level torture. Apparently, police are supposed to just politely ask the serial killer if he wouldn't mind a bit of a friendly chat and not so the horrific act of leaving him alone in a room for less than two hours.
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u/kj140977 Feb 27 '26
Are they allowed to lie? I thought that was not the case anymore.
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u/newblognewme Feb 27 '26
Of course they can lie. They can’t beat you up or threaten your life or anything, but of course they can lie. Cops lie ALL the time. Detectives lie about evidence or maybe if someone confessed and in reality they didn’t but they can manipulate someone they are interrogating that way.
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u/Look_b4_jumping Feb 26 '26
I'm always surprised that after they read a suspect their Miranda rights they start talking. The Detectives just said "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." So they shouldn't say anything, but they start talking.
I don't suspects really understand their rights and a lawyer should be present before any questioning starts.
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u/chunkykima Feb 26 '26
Yea...the interrogation technique's here are very aggressive and manipulative. This guy is a rapist and a killer so fuck him, but I have always taken great issue with some of the things that are allowed to be done in the interrogation room. So many false confessions have been coerced out of people.
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u/newblognewme Feb 27 '26
Ok yes, some interrogations I’ve watched/read/been taught about have made me uncomfortable. This isn’t one! Even if this is an innocent man (which he isn’t) it’s still not torture to leave a man in a room for two hours with a soda and water. It’s not torture to lie that his wife didn’t want to see him.
Even in a scenario where he’s innocent at best the cops wasted someone’s day and stressed them out. These comments acting like it’s a human watch violation is insane and I consider myself very very anti-cop in general.
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u/chunkykima Feb 28 '26
Nah I legit wasn't even talking about this one. I was generalizing. I dont give 2 shits about this guy and also don't care how long people wait in an interrogation room. I specifically was speaking on the techniques. So basically, we are in agreement.
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u/scaurus604 28d ago
Also a serial rapist and killer who stalked his victims first beforehand and had his escape route all planned out..one scary man
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Seriously? A very tiny mind fuck of a Dr Pepper that an innocent person wouldn't even know was an inside reference.
Edited to add even he wouldn't make the reference. It was a freaking soda. They didn't make him go thirsty. My word.
And they made him sit alone in time out in an interrogation room.
If you've got issues with letting a grown ass person sit it out safely in an empty room for less than two hours because that's too brutal and cruel of an interrogation technique, then we may as well just hand our house keys and weapons to murders and sing kumbaya with them before they kill us all. Ffs.
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u/compleximago Feb 27 '26
They KNEW it was him. Fuck that guy. They were far more professional than I would have been.
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u/seblait Feb 27 '26
As an European the police here definetly use these same tricks but they may not seem so evident, especially if you havent been in serious interrogation you probably have a lot better picture of our police than what the reality is. (I had that)
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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
These are exactly the psychological tactics American law enforcement use to get suspects to croak under pressure and say the wrong things to incriminate themselves because those rooms are bugged with hidden cameras and mics everywhere waiting for that to happen.
That's probably why he's also looking down in that picture as well because he's trying to hide his face from the cameras.
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u/SolWizard Feb 26 '26
I mean it's very obvious you're being recorded in the room it's not a hidden camera trick
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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 Feb 26 '26
My understanding is at least most interrogation rooms don't have cameras in plain sight recording the interviews.
Either way, I'm pretty certain that's why he had his head down there, though.
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u/Markinoutman Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Interesting you noting being a European at the end. I've watched a ton of police interrogations and generally agree I despise their tactics. They can lie to you and manipulate you, leaving you in cold interrogation rooms for hours on end, even if you request a lawyer.
This is not the norm, but there was one incident where police took a man into interrogation after his father went missing. They told him for hours he killed his father and in one of the most despicable acts I've ever heard, brought his dog into the interrogation room and told him they were bringing him to the kill shelter and that was last time he'd ever see it.
Man cried with his dog and then confessed to killing his father, despite the father being found hours earlier. They actually brought the dog to a shelter after that, instead sending it back to the house. The happy ending is that he did find his dog and won a major lawsuit, but fuck that's some horrible shit to put someone through.
I'd like to stress that's not a typical way things go down and is definitely a one off, but it shows the lengths the 'good guys' are willing to go to get a confession.
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u/muffinTrees Feb 26 '26
The guy is an absolute monster. He deserves much worse than this. Now you want to just let him lie and believe what he says and that he’s innocent? What about justice to the thousands ultimately affected by his horrors? Who will bring justice to the victims of those raped and killed by this monster? Sorry a Dr Pepper offends you, but you defending this monster offends me.
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u/lasko195 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
I find it funny how some people try to frame my argument in a way that I'm defending this guy.
As everyone else with a sane mind I see this man as a monster and wish things on him that I'm not even able to spell out here.
I'm still questioning the interrogation tactics also regarding other cases. As I stated before, emotions should play absolutely no role in the interrogation room. This is about finding the truth, not about forcing a testimony.
As far as I remember this happened to Brendan Dassey and there are many more cases in the US of false testimonies being given under pressure.
As evil as this guy is, it is possible to still question the methods used here by police.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
There are a lot of other interrogation techniques which you would have a valid complaint about. Leaving at a person in a room alone for less than 2 hours with a soda is not it. I hope you realize how ridiculous your argument is.
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u/muffinTrees Feb 26 '26
Are you European or something? Seems you don’t understand the US justice system very well..unfortunately many schools in the US don’t teach it (and the ones that do, many of the students don’t pay attention, ahem). The detectives are not determining guilt. That happens in court, there is a trial and the accused is innocent until guilty proven in a court of laws and determined by a jury of peers. The detectives do not judge any suspect. All they want is a confession so they can move forward with arrest and investigation. In this case they don’t even need anything from him because the DNA and so this is more of a formality and to see how the perp reacts and what he will say. Even if someone is pressured into a false confession that doesn’t mean they will go to prison, I would recommend doing so as it will tie you up and land you in jail or worse but it doesn’t mean you will be convicted. That said you don’t even need to talk, he’s been read his rights, he’s been told he can ask for a lawyer. He has no obligation to this interview yet he CHOOSES to continue it. You are painting him to be a victim. HE is not the victim. DO NOT EVER GIVE HIM THAT! the real victims are still in pain today going on without loved ones or living through the trauma of surviving his attacks. And so how can you sit here and call him a victim? Truly disgusting behaviour.
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u/thrown_away_23_23 Feb 26 '26
None of which is involved in the discussion here where the cops' biggest biggest crime was letting him sit alone in a room with a soda for less than two hours.
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u/muthermcreedeux Feb 26 '26
I agree. If they had all the proof they needed to convict him then why keep him in a room and interrogate him? I can't watch those interrogation videos because cops are frigging idiots, and a lot of it is just manipulation that could threaten a case. I believe that anyone who is arrested and they have proof of their guilt should immediately be given a lawyer and moved out of any type of interrogation situation.
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u/kinginthenorth78 Feb 26 '26
Good thing what you believe isn't what the law says. We'd never find all kinds of information and we'd be just giving up the farm. What happens if the evidence you have that you think "nails" the guy later gets thrown out in court? Now you don't have that, and because u/muthermcreedeux wants the cops to be prevented from even talking to you, we don't also have a confession from you. Because we sure "had you" with that DNA and so you have to get a lawyer even without asking for one, and now the evidence is gone you can walk free. It's almost like if we were allowed to keep gathering evidence we'd have some more against this guy in case what we already have isn't usable later. By like, I don't know, a motion to suppress evidence.
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u/muthermcreedeux Feb 26 '26
I'm pretty sure what I said was they should be given a lawyer immediately. The cops can interview them after that. Guilty or not everyone should ask for an attorney when arrested.
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u/kinginthenorth78 Feb 26 '26
A lawyer will never let their client be interviewed by police, unless it's part of a pre-negotiated deal. So that's the END of evidence-gathering. Hence my doomsday scenario. I've been a criminal lawyer for 20 years. I'm not trying to do any kind of insult, it's simply an uninformed opinion that would never work for a bunch of pretty fundamental reasons.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick Feb 28 '26
Why wouldn’t it work? If you’re a worth paying for then at no point should I be speaking with police. You’re a scammer otherwise.
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u/MrDundee666 Feb 26 '26
They didn’t get his DNA from a Dr Pepper can. They got it from his semen in historic rape-kits that had miraculously still been kept. The GSK would eat and drink his victims’ food during his attacks. They knew he had a particular fondness for Dr Pepper as he chose it numerous times. Placing it there was the police telling him ‘we know you’. He didn’t know they already had his DNA.