The district attorneys of Orange, Sacramento, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties met Friday to discuss the prosecution of a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, but no formal decisions were made as to how and where the high-profile killings will be tried.

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas joined his counterparts in a meeting at the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office to discuss the next steps in the prosecution of Joseph James DeAngelo.

“Many important issues were discussed, but no decisions were made regarding where the case may be tried or the composition of the trial team,” Orange County District Attorney’s Office officials said in a written statement released Friday afternoon. “All agencies are united in their resolve to ensure DeAngelo is held accountable for the crimes he is accused of committing throughout California.”

The prosecutors from the various agencies expect to meet again in late June.

DeAngelo, 72, has been charged with a dozen slayings, including four in Orange County, four in Santa Barbara County, two in Ventura County and two in Sacramento County.

Authorities last month identified DeAngelo as the suspected Golden State Killer, a long sought serial killer also believed to have raped at least 45 women and burglarized hundreds of homes during a dozen-year crime wave that began in Northern California in 1974 before spreading across the state.

DeAngelo has not yet entered a plea. He is scheduled to return to a Sacramento courtroom on May 14.

Yet to be worked out is whether DeAngelo will face a series of trials in the various counties, or whether the murder charges will be consolidated for a single trial in one of the counties.

If the cases were consolidated, a team comprised of prosecutors from all of the affected counties could be put together.

The Orange County part of the Golden State Killer investigation began with the August 1980 slaying of a newlywed couple in Dana Point. Keith and Patty Harrington were tied up, Patty was raped, then the two were covered with bedding and bludgeoned to death.

In 1981, the same killer is believed to have broken into the Irvine home of Manuela Witthuhn and killed her while her husband was at a hospital with an illness.

In 1986, the killer is suspected of targeting Janelle Cruz, who was alone at her Irvine’s home while they were on vacation. Cruz was attacked shortly after her boyfriend left, raped and bludgeoned to death.

Prior to DeAngelo being named as the suspected Golden State Killer, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had created a team led by former Senior Deputy District Attorney Debora Lloyd to investigate the then-cold case. That team has since turned its attention to trial preparation, going over decades of evidence collected in connection to the Golden State Killer case by Orange County law enforcement.