“Joseph DeAngelo Raped My Girlfriend”: 41 Years Later, Male GSK Victim Speaks Out

The first male victim of the Golden State Killer to speak out publicly has revealed horrific details about what happened the night his girlfriend was raped by Joseph DeAngelo nearly 41 years ago.

Victor Hayes was 21 years old on October 1, 1977, when a masked intruder broke into his East Sacramento apartment, shined a flashlight in his face, and forced his girlfriend to tie him up.

He told the San Jose Mercury News that he felt helpless as DeAngelo took his girlfriend into another room and raped her – and said what happened that night has affected his entire life.

Hayes has said that he decided to go public because he hoped that talking about the experience would be therapeutic.

In the months before he and his girlfriend were attacked, the GSK — also known as the East Area Rapist — was terrorizing couples in Sacramento.

Hayes told the press he took precautions, including sawing wooden 2x4s to create stoppers on all the windows and sliding glass doors on his home, as well as sleeping with two guns in his bedroom.

But one night Hayes went to bed early, and his girlfriend forgot to put a wooden stopper on one of the sliding glass door tracks.

Around 1:30am on the night of the attack, Hayes woke up to a flashlight shining in his face – and saw a masked man holding a gun who told him “something to the effect of ‘don’t move or I’ll kill you’.”

The man forced Hayes to lie on his stomach and gave his girlfriend shoelaces to tie his hands behind his back.

Joseph James DeAngelo [Sacramento Sheriff’s Office]

Hayes said the man then told Hayes’ girlfriend to place cups and saucers from the kitchen on the small of his back so that he would hear him if he moved.

The masked man then raped Hayes’ girlfriend in the living room.

Hayes described his anger as the rapist came back into the room and whispered “I’m gonna party with Sharon” — which was the name of Hayes’ mother.

He said the rapist fled when some of Hayes’ friends came to his apartment at around 2:00 a.m. and started banging on the door. The noise caused the attacker to flee, and Hayes was able to untie his girlfriend.

A neighbor called police, and Hayes said he became upset when he heard an officer laughing as he dusted the crime scene for prints. Hayes said he burned with anger:

“That was it for me … What could possibly be appropriate to be laughing at this time in my house after this just happened? A thought goes in my head: ‘This is exactly why these dumb b-stards haven’t caught the guy because they’re so damn unprofessional’.”

Joseph DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was arrested in connection with the Golden State Killer murders in April after being linked to the attacks through DNA evidence.

When Hayes learned about DeAngelo’s arrest in April he said that he felt angry that the statute of limitations had run out on his case, stating:

“Since this guy got caught, I beat the s*** outta myself bad cause I shoulda found this guy a long time ago. This guy has been all around me. It’s shaped the way I’ve been my whole life. It’s made me distrustful of people in authority. I’m quick to be able to notice faults in people.”

The paper was unable to get in touch with Hayes’ former girlfriend to get her account of the attack.

Joseph DeAngelo is accused of killing 13 people and raping more than 50 women in California during the 1970s and ’80s. Investigators have told Hayes they believe he and his girlfriend were attack number 24.

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Main photo: Victor Hayes [San Jose Mercury News / YouTube (screenshot)]

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