Claude Snelling woke in the night 42 years ago to find a man in the backyard trying to abduct his 16-year-old daughter. He tried to stop him and was fatally shot.
Tulare County prosecutors on Monday filed a murder charge against Joseph DeAngelo, 72, bringing to 13 the killings he is accused of and resolving four decades of police disagreement over whether the Visalia attacker was the same person suspected of killing a Sacramento suburban couple and later raping and slaying 10 people in Southern California.
Without DNA evidence to tie the killing to DeAngelo, Visalia detectives built their murder case on “good old tenacious police work,” Dist. Atty. Tim Ward said.
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