The woman whose name the suspected “Golden State Killer” Joseph DeAngelo uttered during a 1970s attack – his ex-fianis Bonnie – stood trial on Wednesday for the accused serious rapist and murderer, when she told him through a friend that “even pointing a gun at her face” was not enough for her to agree with him, according to several reports.
Victim after victim took the past two days to describe how DeAngelo, a now 74-year-old California man and former police officer, caused havoc on her life and the lives of her loved ones.
“Even pointing a gun at her face could not make her choose you.”
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman will formally sentence DeAngelo to successive life sentences on Friday in a lawsuit that will save him the death penalty.
Although Bonnie Ueltzen, 69, was not allowed to give her own statement in person, prosecutor Jane Carson-Sandler took the liberty to share some of Ueltzen’s words, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Bonnie Ueltzen looks at Joseph James DeAngelo, her former fiancée, during the second day of declaration for victims at the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse on August 19, 2020, in Sacramento, California. (SANTIAGO MEJIA / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
A video from inside the courtroom shared by KCRA News shows Carson-Sandler, who was raped in 1976, closing her own testimony, adding: ‘I also want to thank a friend who accompanies me today. That friend is Bonnie. ”
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Within moments, Ueltzen is seen standing, removing her mask, and appears to be looking directly at DeAngelo as he sits flanked by his lawyers on opposite sides.
“If Bonnie could talk, Joe, she would want you to know that, just like a teenager 50 years ago, her engagement to you broke down when she realized you had become manipulative and abusive,” Carson-Sandler said rudely. eight minutes into the news clip. “When you thought you could deprive her and force her to marry you, even a gun to her face could not make her choose you.”
DeAngelo seems to look straight ahead as Carson-Sandler continues, “When she saw who you really were, she was ready with you.”
Bonnie remained silent throughout the address.
Carson-Sandler was the fifth person raped by DeAngelo, then known as the East Area Rapist, the LA Times reported.
After a later attack – No. 37, in 1978 – a victim told police DeAngelo repeatedly gave the sentence: “I hate you, Bonnie,” according to several reports. Ueltzen’s identity was later revealed during an in-depth interview for HBO documentary series, “I’ll be Gone in the Dark.”
During the interview for the show, Ueltzen detailed how DeAngelo appeared one night after going to her bedroom with a gun, after she had broken off the engagement.
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“I can see ‘I hate you, Bonnie’ was a result of your frustration because you lost control of her, but she has none, and none of that responsibility for your violent choices,” Carson-Sandler said. at DeAngelo on Wednesday. “And we regard her as one of us – the sister survives your evil attacks.”
Joseph James DeAngelo, right, and Public Defender Joseph Cress speak together during the first day of testimony of victims in the Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, in Sacramento, California (Santiago Mejia / San Francisco Chronicle via AP, swimming pool)
‘If you’re off to begin your sentence,’ she concluded, ‘you will return to Bonnie’s life to that forgotten and unintended place – away from her life forever.’
In June, DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges between 1975 and 1986. He also publicly pleaded guilty to dozens of more sexual assaults for which the statute of limitations had expired.
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All told, prosecutors said he allowed 87 to injure 87 victims in 53 separate scenes of crime, spanning 11 California counties in the plea deal that saves him the death penalty.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
