Disturbing sex life of accused Golden State Killer revealed
The former fiancee of alleged Golden State Killer has shared bizarre details of their love life, calling his sexual appetite “insatiable”.
WARNING: Confronting
The former fiancee of the man accused of being the Golden State Killer has spoken out about their disturbing sex life.
Bonnie Ueltzen told theLos Angeles Times about the bizarre love life she shared with Joseph James DeAngelo in the early 70s.
Then named Bonnie Jean Colwell, she detailed how her fiance had an “insatiable” sexual appetite, despite being a virgin when they met and having “little point of reference”.
She also described how DeAngelo wanted sex that lasted for several hours, telling police it was “exhausting” and often “painful”.
Just as he was climaxing, she said he would break away from her, then return minutes later and resume intercourse. He repeated the pattern four or five times over a three-hour period.
Despite Colwell telling police she never felt forced or coerced, she said he seemed oblivious to her pain during the lengthy sexual interactions and boasted that he “trained himself” to have mastery over his body.
She said every time they had sex, it was always with 1960s psychedelic rock group, The Doors, blaring in the background.
DeAngelo, now 73, is suspected of being one of California’s most elusive serial killers, the so-called Golden State Killer who terrorised residents of six counties during the 1970s and ’80s. He was arrested in April 2018 after authorities linked him to the cold case homicides using DNA and charged with 12 counts of murder.
DeAngelo met Colwell when they were both students at Sierra College in Rocklin, California, 20 miles from Sacramento, theNY Post reported in April.
The couple announced their engagement in the May 14, 1970 edition of Bonnie’s hometown newspaper, the Auburn Journal, which at the time wrote: “No definite date has been set for the wedding.”
However she broke it off and went on to marry a wealthy accountant, the Daily Mail reported.
When a surviving rape victim told police her attacker had cursed the name after attacking her, it helped lead detectives to alleged killer DeAngelo.
“I hate you. I hate you. I hate you, Bonnie,” the man is said to have wailed while lying down next to the woman he had just raped.
“Most certainly if he’s making the statement, ‘I hate you Bonnie,’ while he’s attacking another female, he is what we call a retaliatory rapist,” Paul Holes, a retired Contra Costa investigator who helped crack the case told the Mercury News.
“You’ve got to think Bonnie dumped him, he’s not happy about that, he still had feelings for her, who knows? But something along those lines must have happened,” he added.
The crime spree is now also being documented in Wondery podcast, Man In The Window, which details how it began with home invasion, rape and robbery and escalated to murder.
These are the signature three periods of terror Californian police believe DeAngelo committed over more than a decade.
While DeAngelo has been arraigned on two murders since last year, detectives are piecing together his likely culpability in chillingly similar crimes committed by the so-called Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker.
A day after police arrested DeAngelo, 911 audio of the killer’s voice emerged.
In one tape, a man police believe to be Mr DeAngelo phoned a female victim. It was 1977, and he had not yet graduated from rape to murder.
“Gonna kill you,” he said between fits of loud breathing. “Gonna kill you. Gonna kill you. B**ch. B**ch. Whore.”
Currently, DeAngelo sits on suicide watch in the psychiatric ward of Sacramento county jail, reportedly talking constantly to himself, investigators are delving further into his background for clues.
Prosecutors haven’t yet decided whether they will pursue the death penalty against DeAngelo.
He’s next due to appear in court on August 22, according to documents shared on goldenstatekillertrial.com.
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