New York Daily News

Calif. serial susp eyed in slay of ma, tot

- Terence Cullen

SUSPECTED Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo may have another two victims in his reckoning — a mother and her son — on top of the dozen people he’s accused of killing.

Now the man wrongfully convicted of the brutal November 1978 Southern California slaying of Rhonda Wicht and her young son Donald just wants closure in the case.

“I just hope this guy matches it,” Craig Coley, who spent almost 40 years in prison for the killings, told the Daily News on Monday. “That will give the family some final closure.”

Coley said he’d recently split with Wicht, 24, when cops found her strangled and 4-year-old Donald suffocated in her Simi Valley apartment. “Rhonda and Donny were very dear to me,” said Coley, 70. California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned Coley in 2017.

DeAngelo (photo), a 72-year-old retired cop, is believed to have killed 12 and raped up to 50 more throughout California from 1974 to 1986.

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