killer suspect being charged with first-degree murder of a visalia man. this makes the 13th murder charge against joseph james deangelo. he is the man believed fob responsible for a string of murders and rapes up and down california in the 1970s and '80s. brian johnson from our sister station in fresno has details of the latest charge. >> reporter: investigators at the visalia police department have long believed that whoever burglarized 100 homes in the mid-'70s was also responsible for shooting and killing college of the sequoias journalism professor claude smelling in september of '75. throughout the years they also theorized that this is the same person as the golden state killer. monday chief jason salazar announced joseph deangelo is the sole suspect in the burglaries and snelling murder. deangelo has already been charged with other murders and is in custody in sacramento county. >> we are confident through the information obtained from victims and witnesses through thorough examination of modus operandi in the cases through the development of physical evidence and by linking a fire

during the time as the ransacker cases were occurring. >> visalia is 15 minutes from where deangelo lived and worked. the advice sale la ransacker is accused of murdering a local professor and terrorizing his family. by now the crime sounds familiar. >> a man waking me up, wearing a ski mask. pushed me down, shot my dad twice, then took off running. i loved my father dearly. he took him away from me. >> the visalia ransacker burglarized about 100 homes. one detective thought he spotted him and told him to freeze. the suspect begged the officer not to shoot. but then pulled out his own gun and fired. th blet hit the officer's flashlight. shards rec sheaing intoiseye. >> i fell down on the impact, knocked me back. he continued to run. apparently attempted burglary. >> that was 1975. fast forward to the summer of 1979. a walnut creek teenager is looking forward to eighth grade when her innocence is taken. now she tells abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley she's taking it back. >> nobody wants to walk around with, you know, "hi, i'm mary berwert, rape victim." >> mary was one of the youn