text: A week ago, prosecutors in Tulare County charged DeAngelo with the murder of Claude Snelling in his Visalia backyard in 1975. Snelling’s daughter, Elizabeth Hupp, told police that she was sleeping when a man in a ski mask entered her bedroom and forced her to move in silence to the backyard. Snelling saw his daughter from the kitchen window and confronted the masked man, who shot him twice then ran off without the girl. ||||| SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors from six counties in California announced Tuesday that they were combining their cases against the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, joining forces on charges of 13 counts of murder against Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., who was arrested in a Sacramento suburb in April. 
   
   The case, which also includes multiple kidnapping and weapons charges, will be tried in Sacramento, the district attorneys announced. 
   
   “It is very fitting that this journey for justice that has been sought for over 40 years ends in Sacramento,” said Anne Marie Schubert, the district attorney for Sacramento County, at a media briefing held in Orange County. The trial, she said, would bring to an end “probably the most notorious unsolved serial-rape killing in California history.” ||||| The suspected "Golden State Killer," accused of murders across California, will be prosecuted in one combined trial in Sacramento, prosecutors announced Tuesday. 
   
   Joseph DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was arrested this April, following decades in which California law enforcement officers were stumped by what became known as the "Golden State Killer" case. 
   
   Sacramento Police Department 
   
   An amended complaint filed Tuesday morning in Sacramento alleges crimes including 13 counts of murder, spanning six jurisdictions in the northern, central and southern parts of the state, prosecutors said at Tuesday's news conference. 
   
   The unified prosecutors said they are committed to delivering justice for the victims and their loves ones in the single jurisdiction. 
   
   "We stand united" on "team justice," Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Tuesday. 
   
   DeAngelo is in custody in Sacramento County and has not entered a plea. 
   
   He will be arraigned on the amended complaint on Thursday, Schubert said. 
   
   The "Golden State Killer" was believed to have committed a string of murders, rapes and home burglaries throughout California in the 1970s and 1980s, with the last known crime in 1986. 
   
   But no arrest was made for decades. 
   
   Courtesy FBI 
   
   In the early 2000s, investigators obtained the unknown killer's DNA at one crime scene: The murders of Lyman and Charlene Smith, who were bludgeoned to death at their Ventura County home in 1980. 
   
   Investigators then started reviewing rape kits -- which contained DNA samples from victims -- in other jurisdictions, prosecutors said. 
   
   FBI via AP 
   
   This year, investigators plugged the mystery killer's DNA into a genealogy database. 
   
   Based on the pool of people on the genealogy website, investigators were then able to build a family tree of the unknown killer’s relatives, who had submitted their DNA to the database on their own. 
   
   Investigators narrowed the search based on age, location and other characteristics, leading them to DeAngelo. 
   
   Authorities conducted surveillance on DeAngelo and collected his DNA from a tissue left in a trash. Investigators plugged his discarded DNA back into the genealogy database and found a match, linking DeAngelo's DNA to evidence gathered at multiple crime scenes, prosecutors said.
target: – Charges are piling up for Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the suspected Golden State Killer. In addition to 13 counts of murder, DeAngelo will face 13 charges of kidnapping to commit robbery, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The 72-year-old will be tried in Sacramento County, the Los Angeles Times reports. The announcement of the new charges and trial venue were made during a press conference in Orange County. Prosecutors from Contra Costa, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura counties—all jurisdictions where DeAngelo allegedly committed crimes—were also on hand. DeAngelo, a former police officer, is believed to be responsible for a series of murders, rapes, and burglaries committed decades ago. He was arrested in April. The prosecutors from Northern, Central, and Southern California "stand united" on "team justice," Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert said, according to ABC. If convicted, DeAngelo, who is being held in Sacramento and has yet to enter a plea, is eligible for the death penalty, but prosecutors have not decided whether to pursue it, per the LA Times. He will be arraigned on all of the charges on Thursday, reports the New York Times, which notes that it is unusual for charges from so many jurisdictions to be tried at a single trial.