Before he was officially sentenced, DeAngelo rose briefly to speak.

“I’ve listened to all your statements, each of of them,” he said. “And I’m truly sorry to everyone I’ve hurt.”
But as the historic criminal case comes to an end, victims and prosecutors struggle with what constitutes justice after four decades of suffering and loss.
When @paigestjohn began investigating, she realized there was a thread that had nothing to do with the rapes and killings themselves.

In interviews, St. John found a striking lapse in how authorities treated victims of rape in the 1970s. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-man-in-the-window-qa-paige-stjohn-20190703-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/local/lan...
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