For more than 90 minutes after his arrest in April 2018, serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo sat motionless and silent in an interrogation room inside the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
He had been read his Miranda rights, offered his favorite drink — Dr Pepper — and asked whether he knew why he was being detained.
“For an entire hour and a half, he sat motionless, his mouth agape, periodically taking in loud gulps of air but otherwise never moving an inch or even looking around,” prosecutor Thien Ho recalled…