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Deangelo is expected next in court on may 14th. stephanie elam, cnn, sacramento, california. >> wow. lets talk it over with paul. this story is unbelievable. i know you hunted for the golden state killer every single day for a decade. tell me about your emotions, your reaction when you first heard about this weeks big arrest. >> well, i was actually at sacramento sheriffs office when the arrest went down. i had found out about preliminary dna results the friday before and was absolutely stunned ...

Wheelchair, listening to the litany of charges in a haze. >> two counts of murder in a special circumstance. >> reporter: the 72-year-old facing cameras for the first time. a hush falling over a tense courtroom as the alleged serial killer was asked if he has an attorney. answering in a raspy voice. >> i have a lawyer. >> reporter: family members and victims in tears at the sight of the man they call a monster. >> i was 13 years old. i hope they find my buttons in his backyard to my pants. >> re...

She also had an expensive prada handbag and an iphone. could very well be a target of some opportunistic grab and run. >> at the point we find her vehicle, we have no clues, no leads, and we dont have any suspects identified. >> reporter: police did find a tiny drop of melissas blood in her car and on a tile in her house. but there were no fingerprints other than melissas in either place. dna testing would take longer. now the question is, wheres melissa? >> thats the million dollar question at ...

They surprised him. he spent years as a california police officer. hed been married. abcs whit johnson leads us off from california on the man dubbed the golden state killer. >> reporter: tonight, hiding in plain sight. police say one of the most elusive serial killers in american history has been captured outside his suburban home. >> we found the needle in the haystack and it was right here in sacramento. >> reporter: law enforcement now identifying 72-year-old joseph james deangelo as the gol...

Monitor where he could see james in the interview room. >> now hes got time to think, whats he telling these detectives. whats he talking about. >> detective arnold needed both suspects to admit they were in the house when the shootings went down. >> that would back up murder charges against both of them no matter who pulled the trigger. james was interviewed first. said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation grew on, he started blaming the man in the other room. but detective arn...

Were going to be critical. >> another shell casings. at the crime scene. they continued to sift through clues. more leads came into focus. a bloody. second one had an ash about an inch long. someone had left that cigarette and rushed out of there. >> detective ordered dna testing on the cigarette and cans. he was also learning about erin. the only one home the night of the shooting and ebony, the oldest at 16. >> instead of like mother and daughter, more like sisters. >> you were like friends, h...

Were convinced there must be a second campsite with possible evidence about the killing of shauna tiaffay. so detective miller went up with the police air unit to have a look around. >> those two pilots decided that they were going to fly that whole area for us, and they actually located the second campsite. and we entered and we found a citation in the name of noel stevens. so we were at the right place. >> reporter: so they spread out. kept looking. and pretty soon, one of them called out. >> ...

So he put the young man under surveillance, followed him to a local restaurant. >> reporter: and are you hidden somewhere in the restaurant? >> im kinda back in a corner, yeah. >> he watched the student have a few drinks, and when he left, the detective snagged the dirty beer mugs and sent them out for dna testing. the results would take weeks -- leaving a town full of young people on edge. >> dads and moms were telling their college-age kids, "be alert everywhere you go." go with people when yo...

>> but in the early 2000s, new legislation in california would grant kevin cooper the right to dna testing. >> all these years that my case was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. >> the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryens hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen stati...

A-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the t-shirt was only shown to have doug ryens blood on it. >> when the t-shirt was tested at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the t-shirt, across the chest that had not been noticed or photographed or even reported previous to this time. >> coopers defense argued that the new blood on the t-shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 could only h...