Golden State Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole

“I have listened to all of your statements, each one of them, and I am truly sorry to everyone I have hurt,” he said in a Sacramento State University ballroom, where the court session was held to accommodate a large number of victims and allow for social distancing. “Thank you, your honor.”

Mr. DeAngelo was sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for 13 murders, an additional consecutive life term for 13 kidnappings, plus another eight years for weapons charges.

Judge Michael G. Bowman said that the sentence was the maximum the court could impose and meant that Mr. DeAngelo would spend the rest of his life and “ultimately meet his death” behind the walls of a state penitentiary.

“The defendant deserves no mercy,” the judge said, to applause from the courtroom.

Addressing Mr. DeAngelo, Judge Bowman said he was moved by the courage, grace and strength of the victims — “qualities you clearly lack.”

“A person who commits monstrous acts — they need to be locked away where they can never harm another innocent person,” he said.

Prosecutors said that Mr. DeAngelo admitted committing crimes against 87 victims at 53 separate crime scenes from 1975 to 1986. The final accounting of his crime spree included nearly 50 rapes that could not be charged in court because of the statute of limitations, prosecutors said.

At a news conference on Friday, Anne Marie Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney, showed video footage of Mr. DeAngelo, standing and waving his arms up and down and climbing up on his bunk in his jail cell, to demonstrate that he had “feigned feebleness” when he pleaded guilty from a wheelchair in June.