Convicted Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer who hid in plain sight for four decades, is facing his victims in court Wednesday. It was the second of three days of hearings before he is sentenced to jail for the rest of his life on Friday.

The scope of DeAngelo’s crimes “is simply staggering,” prosecutors said in a court summary released Monday: 13 known murders and nearly 50 rapes between 1975 and 1986.

DeAngelo in June pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges, but publicly admitted to dozens more because the statute of limitations for sexual assaults had expired.

DeAngelo has admitted to harming 87 victims in 53 separate crimes scenes spanning 11 California counties, in a plea deal that spares him the death penalty, prosecutors said.

That’s a larger number of victims than prosecutors cited after his admission in June to 161 crimes involving 48 people. Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said the higher number includes those who chose not to participate in having DeAngelo publicly admit to crimes in which he could not be formally

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