Manuela Witthuhn's husband David suffered extreme grief, anxiety and depression for years, said his brother, Drew Witthuhn.ĭrew Witthuhn shared with the court a photo of Manuela's headstone, a place he said David often visited to be near her.įor years, Manuela's husband lived with "scrutiny and suspicion" that he may have been involved in the slaying, Drew Witthuhn said. 1981, 28-year-old Manuela Witthuhn was bound, raped and bludgeoned to death while home alone. I did not have to keep moving house to house - all the things that haunted my mind for 32 years." "No more thinking he would try and find and kill me, too. "I could stop looking over my shoulder with fears of him sneaking up on me," Cruz said. When DeAngelo was arrested, Cruz said she "cried and cried for hours." "I wonder if Joseph DeAngelo has any remorse."Īfter her death, "I lost my identity," Cruz said, and she devoted her life to finding her sister's killer. "My heart is racing," said Domingo's daughter, Debbi McMullan, as she began speaking in court Thursday. DeAngelo then bound 35-year-old Domingo, raped her and beat her in the head more than 10 times, prosecutors said. Sanchez, 27, was shot and bludgeoned in the head two dozen times, prosecutors said. In July 1981, Cheri Domingo and her boyfriend Gregory Sanchez were killed.
'If I had my way he would be shivering, blindfolded, naked and exposed' But we know of the unspeakable horror they suffered," she said. "I cannot allow myself to think of all they endured in death. When she and Lyman were taken, the world lost two amazing people, full of life and both with bright futures." "Charlene was so much more than beautiful and Lyman so much more than handsome.
"It's been a never-ending ache and sadness that does not go away," Charlene's best friend, Jill-Karen Morrill, said in court. "Joe spending the rest of his life in prison is not justice. "Joe sitting here with his blank face, to ignore what he's done to not validate his victims. "My father caught him twice peering in my bedroom window when he came home from teaching night school, and tried to chase him down but wasn't able to catch him," Elizabeth Snelling said in court Thursday. 11, 1975, DeAngelo, who was a police officer at the time, shot and killed journalism professor Claude Snelling in front of his daughter, Elizabeth, at their Visalia, California, home. And it was common for him to cover lights," said Ventura County District Attorney Gregory Totten. "Even now here in this courtroom he turns away from the light, and dare not face or look at his accusers, for fear that the truth of their testimonies might penetrate the deep darkness." 'I was the only living witness' "His crimes were always committed in the dark of night. On Thursday, DeAngelo was confronted by the family members of people he murdered decades ago. This week brought three days of victim and family impact statements, beginning Tuesday and Wednesday with powerful words from rape survivors and their relatives.
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