Updated at 2:47 p.m. ET
The former police officer known as the Golden State Killer was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Joseph James DeAngelo, now 74, admitted to committing more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s after investigators identified him as a suspect using public genealogy websites to trace his DNA.
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