Brad Hunter

But yeah, he pleaded guilty to escape a potential death penalty.

Well, for money, but...

I, uh, no, I, I, uh, I decided that there was, you know, I was intrigued by, uh, D'Angelo and, you know, that era as well.

What I also tried to do was I tried to, uh, build around the era, how, because the era was completely different.

And it's, as it's turned out, I've written books on, you know, John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson as well.

And it's kind of,

in the same sort of era.

And you can see all these people, not so much with D'Angelo, but with the others, all these very vulnerable, naive young people who think wearing a flowered shirt and carrying beads is going to protect you from the monsters hiding in the shadows.

And they don't.

And so D'Angelo was, in a way, a man of his times.

He'd served in the military.

And, you know, he came home, and it was in bright, you know, post-war time.

Now, I don't have the answer to, you know, those profound questions, but, you know, I mean, you got to think, California, 1970s, you know, sounds like a lot of fun, but apparently not for Joseph James D'Angelo.

I mean, obviously, the man has...

Serious demons.

What makes him tick?

You know, there's the rape of the sister.

There's, you know, the home that was a mess.

I mean, his father left his mother, started a new family in Korea where he is in the military.

And he named the kids the same names as D'Angelo and his siblings.