TIMELINE: A look back at the Golden State Killer's crime spree that lasted a decade
TIMELINE: A look back at the Golden State Killer's crime spree that lasted a decade
Joseph James DeAngelo is being charged with first-degree murder.
Authorities claim DeAngelo killed Snelling after DeAngelo attempted to abduct Snellings 16-year-old daughter. Our sister station Action News in Fresno spoke with the woman, Elizabeth Hupp, 40 years later who recalled that night saying she was awoken by a man in a ski mask saying he was going to abduct her.
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Hupp says after he took her out of the house, her father, Claude Snelling, walked into the kitchen and looked out the window.
"He couldn't believe what he was seeing and he just charged out the back door and the man pushed me down," she said. "And he shot my dad twice and then took off running."
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Snelling was a journalism professor at the College of Sequoias.
DeAngelo is in a Sacramento County jail accused of several other rapes and murders in Northern and Southern California in the late 1970's and 1980's.
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