An example of how the high level of competitive feeling in the U.S. harms us.
Dani Anguiano
Sun 16 Aug 2020 01.00 EDT
Last modified on Sun 16 Aug 2020 01.01 EDT
She had waited decades for the call.
There had been a time when chasing the trail of the Golden State Killer had dominated Carol Daly’s life. But by April 2018, Daly, a 79-year-old former detective with the Sacramento county sheriff’s department, had long ago forced herself to step away, determined to spend time with her husband and grandchildren instead.
She had kept in touch with old colleagues, of course, and was in regular contact with some of the serial killer’s survivors. Over the years, she had spoken to dozens of them, first in hospitals, then in their homes and at gatherings across the Sacramento region.
When the Sacramento county sheriff on the other end of the line told her authorities believed they had finally identified a suspect, a 72-year-old former police officer named Joseph James DeAngelo, in the string of rapes and murders, Daly thought of those victims first.
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Daly joined a taskforce that would work to solve the case for several
years. But progress in the investigation was slow, hindered by the wide
geographic spread of the crimes and jurisdictions’ unwillingness to work
together. “Nobody wanted to share information because they all wanted
to be the one that solved the case,” Daly recalled.
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