Kidnapping

•The details of the kidnapping by DeAngelo on November 10, 1976, are identical to the known circumstances of Janet's disappearance—down to both the teen victim and Janet Kovacich being San Juan High School students—just like DeAngelo’s wife Sharon. The 1976 attack happened at dinnertime on DeAngelo's 3rd wedding anniversary, four blocks from his in-laws’ house. 

•DeAngelo entered the victim’s home immediately after her parents left unexpectedly to visit their son in the hospital. The house was staged to hide the broken living room window by replacing the screen, and turning off the TV. The victim was walked with her hands bound over a fence to the neighbor’s yard, into a culvert under the street, and 1/4 mile down a canal to a pre-planned outdoor attack site. 

•Luckily, DeAngelo left the victim alive, and she made her way home hours later with her parents still believing that she’d left the house voluntarily—they had no idea that there had been forced entry, and a kidnapping in their home.

•On October 18, 1976, DeAngelo was waiting for a 19-yr-old female in the shadows next to the garage at the girl’s home. As soon as she stopped her car in the driveway, DeAngelo forcibly removed her from the vehicle at knifepoint, took her into the shadows, tied her hands, then walked her out onto the sidewalk, around the corner, and assaulted her in the yard of a neighbor’s house. He had laid out additional bindings/gag/blindfold at that attack location before she got home. 

•DeAngelo admitted to kidnapping Beth Snelling from her bedroom, and shooting her father to death when he ran out of the house to save her. She had been stalked and watched for at least 18 months prior to the night of the attack. 

• Because the kidnapping was interrupted, police never determined exactly where DeAngelo had planned to take Beth.