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This year she started a Facebook group for sexual assault survivors that now has more than 300 members. SheвЂ™s now happily married and described by other survivors as the вЂњden motherвЂќ who helps organize pot luck dinners after each of DeAngeloвЂ™s court appearances. It wasnвЂ™t until DeAngeloвЂ™s arrest that she sought therapy and changed her life. She said she lost her friends, her once profound faith in God, switched schools three times, had two failed marriages, and вЂњdid a lot of self-medicating, a lot of poor coping mechanisms.вЂќ

вЂњThis kid who liked to go shopping and do cartwheels on the lawn, that girl was gone,вЂќ she said about her life after the attack. Kris Pedretti was 15 when the Golden State Killer attacked her just before Christmas in 1976. Other rape victims will speak Wednesday, and family members of those murdered will speak Thursday before Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman formally sentences DeAngelo on Friday.

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Testimony from DeAngeloвЂ™s rape victims in Sacramento County alone will consume a full day. The higher figure includes victims of crimes that DeAngelo did not publicly admit, Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said. In a court filing made public Monday, they said he harmed 87 victims - an increase in the number of victims previously cited. Prosecutors said then that he acknowledged a total of 161 crimes involving 48 people.

His attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. The sound of a helicopter is another trigger, because вЂњafter the attack the helicopters would fly over every night with spotlights on the ground, looking for DeAngelo,вЂќ she recalled.ДeAngelo pleaded guilty in June to 13 counts of murder and admitted dozens of rapes that were too old to prosecute. She canвЂ™t go skiing, for fear sheвЂ™ll see someone in a ski mask like the one DeAngelo wore. вЂњOur wounds heal and our scars remain,вЂќ Carson-Sandler said.Д¬ertain things always trigger flashbacks of the night in 1976 when DeAngelo confronted Carson-Sandler with a butcher knife as she snuggled in bed with her 3-year-old son after her husband left for work at a nearby military base. His reign of terror mystified investigators until they used a new form of DNA tracking to arrest him in 2018. ItвЂ™s the culmination of a plea deal that will spare DeAngelo the death penalty for 13 murders and numerous sadistic rapes and burglaries that terrorized California for more than a decade. (AP) - Jane Carson-Sandler says she has served the equivalent of a life sentence in the more than four decades since she became one of the first rape victims of Joseph James DeAngelo - a one-time police officer who eventually became known as the Golden State Killer.Д¬arson-Sandler will be among nearly three dozen survivors and family members of victims who plan to confront DeAngelo during an extraordinary four days of court hearings before the 74-year-old is sentenced to life in prison.Д«eginning Tuesday, some plan to tell of their pain, others of their healing.

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