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One of the few known photos of Sharon Marie Huddle, the wife of Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo from 1973 to 2019.In 1973, a young California woman named Sharon Marie Huddle married a man named Joseph James DeAngelo. They would remain married for the next 46 years during which time he committed a vicious series of rapes and murders that now make him one of the worst serial killers in American history.During the 1970s and 80s, DeAngelo raped at least 51 women and murdered at least 13 people across California, ultimately earning him the nickname the Golden State Killer. All the while, the Golden State Killers wife Sharon Marie Huddle lived with him and helped raise their three children.Reportedly, the couple grew distant as early as the 1970s and remained somewhat estranged even before separating in 1991. Nevertheless, Sharon Marie Huddle didnt divorce Joseph James DeAngelo until 2019, one year after he was finally captured. To this day, questions remain about how much Huddle may have known about DeAngelos crimes.My thoughts and prayers are for the victims and their families, Huddle said after his capture. The press has relentlessly pursued interviews of me. I will not be giving any interviews for the foreseeable future. I ask the press to please respect my privacy and that of my children.This statement is virtually everything that Sharon Marie Huddle has publicly said about her ex-husband, who received a combined 12 life sentences in August 2020. Years afterward, much remains unknown about her life alongside one of historys most chilling predators.This is the harrowing story of Sharon Marie Huddle, the wife of the Golden State Killer.Sharon Marie Huddles Early Life Before The Murders Of The Golden State Killer BeganPublic DomainThroughout Sharon Marie Huddles 45-year marriage to Joseph DeAngelo, she had no idea he was living a double life as the Golden State Killer.Not much is known about Sharon Marie Huddle, other than her being born in 1953 and practicing family law as an adult. A quick internet search yields critical reviews of her law firm and complaints about her allegedly cruel interpersonal behaviors. Objectively, one is left with only the facts.As a student at California State Sacramento, Huddle laid the academic foundation of her career in family law. It was here that the 20-year-old aspiring attorney met her future husband, a dashing Vietnam veteran and former Navy officer studying criminal justice named Joseph James DeAngelo.HBOBetween Sharon Huddles marriage to Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo in 1973 and their separation in 1991, he raped and murdered dozens of women.Sharon Huddle and Joseph DeAngelo tied the knot in 1973, the same year he joined the Exeter police force. The Sacramento Bee profiled him as a promising new police hire, and cheerfully announced his fall wedding at Auburn First Congregational Church.It only took a year for unsolved burglaries in Visalia, a town 11 miles from Exeter, to start terrorizing the people who lived in the area. And the marriage between Joseph James DeAngelo and Sharon Marie Huddle had only just begun.The Disturbing Crimes Of Joseph James DeAngelo BeginSanta Barbara County Sheriffs OfficeSharon Marie Huddle married Joseph DeAngelo in 1973, the year he joined the Exeter Police Department.Dubbed the Visalia Ransacker, the criminal robbed about 100 homes in Northern California from 1974 to 1975. The following year, a meticulous criminal nicknamed the East Area Rapist used similar methods to break into suburban homes to rape 50 women across a three-year period.As his crimes escalated to murder in Southern California, so did the confusion amongst authorities. The serial killer was dubbed the Original Night Stalker as well as the Golden State Killer as he targeted couples, tied them up with ligatures, and often raped the women before shooting or bludgeoning his victims.Since the burglaries, rapes, and murders were spread out geographically, authorities attributed the varying crime sprees to different people. But it was one person all along and Sharon Huddle was living with him.Inside Sharon Huddles Life As The Wife Of The Golden State KillerWikimedia CommonsA sketch of the Original Night Stalker released by the FBI.DeAngelo was, by all accounts, a trustworthy and reliable man. Hed been awarded numerous medals for his 22-month service in Vietnam, where he purportedly lost a finger. He was educated and respected authority, as evidenced by his job as a cop.Sharon Marie Huddle didnt know it, but investigators and true-crime author Michelle McNamara always reckoned the killer was a police officer.Public DomainSize-nine shoe prints were commonly found at the Golden State Killer crime scenes.It was a lot more than a hunch, said Wendell Phillips, a former Sacramento sheriffs deputy involved in the case. There was no doubt he was either military or law enforcement or both.By the time the couples first daughter was born in September 1981, the East Area Rapist had already committed 50 rapes and the Original Night Stalker was steadily racking up his body count. Hed terrorize Southern California until 1986.Sharon Huddles husband began working for the Save Mart grocery chain in 1989, and held the job for 27 years. The FBI publicly announced its renewed efforts of tracking the Golden State Killer in 2016.He was a mechanic, said a Save Mart company spokeswoman. None of his actions in the workplace would have led us to suspect any connection to crimes being attributed to him.Johanna VosslerVisalia Police Captain Terry Ommen reviewing evidence in the Snelling murder case in 1996.Sharon Marie Huddle and her husband reportedly slept in separate bedrooms by the 1970s and separated in 1991, though they remained technically married for years. Huddle had apparently purchased a second home in Roseville, but the pair appeared to share parenting duties amicably.Today, one of their three daughters is an emergency room physician, while another daughter is a graduate student at University of California in Davis. The third daughter and Sharon Huddles granddaughter were both living with DeAngelo when he was arrested.What Happened To Sharon Marie Huddle After Joseph James DeAngelos ArrestJoseph James DeAngelo reportedly told officers raiding his home on April 18, 2018 that he had a roast in his oven before he was taken into custody. Prior to the arrest, investigators had used DNA from his car door handle and discarded tissues to match him to the crimes using an online genealogy database.Sacramento County Sheriffs OfficeSharon M. Huddle divorced her husband one year after his 2018 arrest.McNamaras true-crime book Ill Be Gone In the Dark, which has since been made into an HBO documentary, posited accurately that DNA would help crack the case. Sharon Marie Huddle, meanwhile, either remained unconvinced of her husbands guilt or made a curious decision not to divorce him until a year after his arrest.The DAs office can subpoena her, said attorney Mark Reichel, explaining that dissolving the marriage union rids Huddle of previous legal rights. She loses her right to say no. She cant talk about communications but she can talk about observations. He wasnt home this night. This night he came home with these clothes.'She can really be a domestic diary of daily activities of this person.DeAngelos sister described him as the kindest, gentlest man with his children, and said she was shocked and in disbelief, hopeful investigators were wrong about him. His neighbors, meanwhile, had long thought of the man as cantankerous, with some even dubbing him Freak for his outbursts.Sharon Marie Huddle, however, long remained silent even after DeAngelo was arrested. She only truly broke her silence after DeAngelo pleaded guilty in June 2020.The Golden State Killers Ex-Wife Breaks Her SilenceFor the subsequent sentencing hearings in August, Sharon Marie Huddle submitted a written statement:I will never be the same person. I now live everyday with the knowledge of how he attacked and severely damaged hundreds of innocent peoples lives and murdered 13 innocent people who were loved and have now been missed for 40 years or more.But not once during the statement did she refer to DeAngelo by name. Surely, even after decades, Sharon Marie Huddle cant bring herself to fully confront the terrifying things her husband did.After learning about Sharon Marie Huddle, the woman who was married to the Golden State Killer, read about Paul Holes, the man who helped catch this elusive murderer. Then, learn about 11 prolific serial killers most people have never heard of.The post The Story Of Sharon Huddle, The Lawyer Who Was Married To The Golden State Killer appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Michelle Shelly Knotek appeared to lead a charmed life. She had a caring husband by her side and was raising her three daughters in a home in rural Raymond, Washington. The couple were known for their selflessness and invited struggling friends and relatives to live with them. But then, those guests began to disappear.Thomas & Mercer PublishingSerial killer Shelly Knotek was caught after her daughters Nikki, Tori, and Sami turned her in.The first person to vanish while in Shelly Knoteks care was her old friend, Kathy Loreno. They had lived together in Knoteks home for five years before she disappeared in 1994. Knotek assured anyone who asked that Loreno had simply started a new life elsewhere. She said this when two other people vanished from her home as well.Finally, Shelly Knoteks three daughters bravely came forward with a harrowing tale. All three of them had been physically abused by their parents and their houseguests had been killed. They said Knotek had starved, drugged, and tortured her victims, forced guests to jump off the roof, drenched their open wounds in bleach, and made them drink urine.And while Shelly Knotek was soon caught and sent to prison in 2004, she served just 18 years before being released in November 2022 leaving her daughters terrified about what could happen next.Shelly Knoteks Tortured Early LifeBorn on April 15, 1954, Michelle Shelly Knotek never strayed too far from her hometown of Raymond, Washington. Not even her 18-year prison stint years later took her further than two hours north of where she was born.According to The New York Times journalist Gregg Olsen, who published a tell-all on Shelly Knotek in 2019 titled If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, the killers early life was riddled with trauma.The oldest of three siblings, Knotek and her brothers lived with their mentally ill, alcoholic mother, Sharon, during their early years. Along with her propensity for alcohol, Sharon had gotten involved in a dangerous lifestyle, with some family members believing she may have been a prostitute.In any case, the home was far from stable. Then, when Shelly was six, their mother seemingly abandoned them. Rather than caring for her younger brothers, however, she tormented them.The children then went to live with their father, Les Watson, and his new wife, Laura Stallings. Olsen described Watson as a charismatic, successful business owner; Stallings as a stunning beauty representative of 1950s America.Shelly did not care for Stallings, and frequently told her stepmother how much she hated her.When Shelly was 13, Sharon Todd Watson died. As Les Watson described, Sharon was living with a man at the time. They were homeless. Drunks. Living on skid row. She was beaten to death.[Shelly] never once asked about her mother, Stallings recalled.Instead, she continued to torment her brothers, blaming them for missing homework or picking frequent fights. It didnt help that her brother Paul couldnt control his impulses and lacked social skills. Her other brother, Chuck, never spoke for himself Shelly did all the talking.But it went beyond mere childhood bickering, Stallings later said. She used to chop up bits of glass and put them in the bottom of [the kids] boots and shoes. What kind of person does something like that?Shelly Knotek Wasnt A Victim, But She Played The PartIn March 1969, 14-year-old Shelly showed what she was truly capable of. She didnt come home from school. Panicked, Stallings and Watson called the school and were told that Shelly was at a juvenile detention center. Their worst fears, however, didnt come close to the reality.Gregg Olsen/Thomas & Mercer PublishingDavid and Michelle Knotek.Shelly Knotek was not in trouble she had accused her father of rape. Stallings later discovered a dog-eared copy of True Confessions in Shellys room with a bold headline on the front reading, I WAS RAPED AT 15 BY MY DAD!A doctors examination later confirmed Stallings suspicion Shelly lied about the rape.She was taken to multiple sessions with a psychologist, both on her own and with her family, but they proved to be unsuccessful. Shelly refused to accept that she was anything but innocent.Eventually, she went to live with Stallings parents, but, unfortunately, she continued to try and ruin the lives of those around her. Her tantrums continued; she offered to babysit the neighbors children only to barricade them in their rooms with heavy furniture. She even falsely accused her grandfather of abuse.Her pattern of manipulation and abuse continued into adulthood, through two marriages, the birth of two daughters, Nikki and Sami, and all the way up to the spring of 1982, when she met a construction worker and Navy veteran named David Knotek. Five years later, in 1987, the couple married.The next year, Shelly Knotek welcomed her first victim into their home.Growing Up In The Knotek Household And Suffering Frequent, Brutal AbuseShelly Knoteks first victim moved into her home in 1988. He was her 13-year-old nephew, Shane Watson. Shanes father, a member in a biker gang, was in jail; his mother was destitute, unable care for him.Knotek took to torturing Watson almost immediately. She dubbed her style of reprimanding him as wallowing, which she employed for things as negligible as going to the bathroom without asking. Wallowing involved ordering the boy and her daughters, for that matter to stand outside naked in the cold while she dumped water on him.Gregg Olsen/Thomas & Mercer PublishingKnotek sisters Tori, Nikki, and Sami, with their cousin, Shane Watson.Shelly took additional pleasure in humiliating her eldest daughters, Nikki and Sami, by ordering them to give her handfuls of their pubic hair. Their wallowing also frequently included being caged in a dog kennel.Once, Shelly shoved Nikkis head through a glass door.Look what you made me do, she said to her daughter.The only person in the home that Shelly didnt torture, at the time, was her infant daughter Tori. Unfortunately, that would later change.Meanwhile, she forced her nephew and Nikki to dance nakedly together as she laughed. After torturing her children and nephew, she would drop love bombs of utter affection on them.Thomas and Mercer PublishingLoreno lost 100 pounds and most of her teeth over the course of her stay.In December of 1988, only a few months after Shane moved into the home, Shelly opened her doors for another person in need: Kathy Loreno, an old friend who had lost her job. Shelly greeted her longtime friend as she greeted most people in life, warmly and positively. But Loreno would soon discover, as many others had before her, that Michelle Knoteks mask was quick to come off.Loreno quickly became another of Shellys victims, but with nowhere else to go, she acquiesced to performing forced labor in the nude, being fed nightly sedatives, and sleeping next to the basement boiler.Then, in 1994, Shelly Knotek graduated to murder.How Shelly Knotek Murdered Three People Who Were All Close To HerBy this time, Loreno had lost more than 100 pounds. Her body was covered in bruises, cuts, and sores. After one particularly brutal beating, she was left unconscious in the basement. Shelly had gone, but David heard guttural noises coming from the laundry room.He found Kathy choking on her own vomit, her eyes rolled back in her head. David flipped her onto her side, started scooping the vomit out of her mouth with his fingers, but it was no use. After five minutes of CPR, there was no denying that Kathy Loreno was dead.I know I should have called 911, David later recalled, but with everything that had been going on I didnt want the cops there. I didnt want Shell in trouble. Or the kids to go through that trauma I didnt want this to ruin their lives or our family. I just freaked out. I really did. I didnt know what to do.When Michelle learned of Lorenos death, she convinced her spouse and kids that each of them would be incarcerated if they told outsiders. At his wifes command, David Knotek burned Lorenos corpse, and together he and Shelly scattered the ashes.If anyone asked, Shelly Knotek simply explained Loreno had run off with her lover. Shane, however, recognized the true horrors in his environment, which is why, in February 1995, he made a plan to get out.Shane had taken photos of Kathy while she was still alive, malnourished and beaten, living in a cold basement next to the radiator. He showed Nikki the photos and told her his plan: He was going to show the police.But Nikki, terrified of what might happen, told her mother about the photos. In retaliation, Shelly commanded David to shoot Shane in the head. He obliged.Like Loreno, the couple burned Shanes body in their yard and scattered his ashes over the water.The reason why my mom was able to control Dave was because while I love him hes just a very weak man, Sami Knotek reported. He has no backbone. He could have got happily married and been an amazing husband to somebody, because he really wouldve been, but instead, he just got his life ruined, too.Gregg Olsen/Thomas & Mercer PublishingSami Knotek and Shane Watson.Before justice found them, the Knoteks took one more victim: Shelly Knoteks friend Ron Woodworth, who moved in in 1999. Like the others, it didnt take long for the abuse to start.Woodworth was a 57-year-old gay veteran with a drug problem, an ugly lowlife, Shelly would tell him, who could use a steady diet of pills and beatings to get his life together. Shelly didnt allow him to use the bathroom, so he was instead forced to go outside.Then, in 2002, Shelly Knotek also took over the care of James McClintock, an 81-year-old retired merchant crewman who had reportedly willed Knotek his $140,000 estate once his black lab Sissy died.Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, McClintock died from a head wound he allegedly suffered after falling in his home. Police, however, were never able to officially link Knotek to his death.Back at her home, Knotek demanded that Woodworth cut ties with his family, forced him to drink his own urine, then ordered him to jump off the roof. He didnt die from the two-storey fall, but it left him badly injured.As a treatment, Knotek poured bleach over his wounds.In August 2003, Woodworth succumbed to the torture and died.Greg Olsen/Thomas & Mercer PublishingThe Knotek home in Raymond, Washington.Shelly Knotek hid Woodworths corpse in the freezer, telling his friends that he had gotten a job in Tacoma. David Knotek eventually buried him in their yard, but it was Woodworths disappearance that led now-14-year-old Tori to realize what was really happening in her home.Her older sisters had moved out by this time, but when Tori told them what she believed had happened, they urged her to gather Woodworths belongings so they could make their case to the authorities. She did.The Knotek Sisters Turn In Their MotherPolice investigated the Knotek property in 2003 and found Woodworths buried body. David and Shelly Knotek were arrested on August 8 of that year.Thomas & Mercer PublishingSami Knotek revisiting the home in 2018.While Tori Knotek was placed in her sister Samis custody, David Knotek confessed to shooting Watson and burying Woodworth five months later. He was charged with second-degree murder for shooting Watson. He served 13 years.Michelle Knotek, meanwhile, was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for the deaths of Loreno and Woodworth, respectively. She was sentenced to just 22 years.It didnt take long for her family to begin fearing what might happen upon her eventual release.If she ever turns up on my doorstep, Sami said, I can just see myself locking all my doors and barricading myself in the bathroom to call the police.Nikki and Sami are now in their mid-40s, living in Seattle. Tori, however, needed a change of scenery and moved to Colorado.In 2018, David Knotek was paroled and reached out to his daughters to ask for forgiveness. Sami and Tori have gone on record saying that, despite everything, they do forgive their father, whom they consider to be just another of Michelle Knoteks victims.Nikki, however, did not accept her fathers apology. For her, the abuse was unforgettable and unforgivable.Then, finally, after serving only 18 years, Shelly Knotek was released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor on November 8, 2022 at the age of 68. Since then, Knotek has stayed under the radar, leaving the next chapter in her chilling story yet to be written.After learning about the grisly murders of Shelly Knotek, read about how the Turpin children were trapped in a house of horrors made by their parents. Then, learn about prolific serial killers most people have never heard of.The post The Chilling Story Of Shelly Knotek, The Serial Killer Mom Who Now Walks Free appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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