Larry Crompton and East Area Rapist Attacks (1976-1979)
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Crompton investigated the EAR cases in Contra Costa County and documented the crimes in "Sudden Terror."
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Larry Crompton
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Retired Contra Costa County sheriff's lieutenant who joined the East Area Rapist task force in 1978 and wrote the 2010 book Sudden Terror about the case.
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East Area Rapist Attacks (1976-1979)
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Series of home-invasion sexual assaults in Sacramento and the East Bay from June 1976 to July 1979, later tied by DNA to the Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo.
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DNA analysis linked the EAR Sacramento rapes to the ONS Southern California murders.
DeAngelo committed at least 50 sexual assaults across the Sacramento area from 1976 to 1979.
Shelby was a lead detective on the original EAR investigation in Sacramento County.
Sacramento Sheriff's Department was the primary agency investigating the EAR attacks from 1976 to 1979.
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