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For 30 years, David Witthuhn would answer the sickening phone calls.

His wife, Manuela Witthuhn, was allegedly murdered by suspected Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, on Feb. 5, 1981.

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But for the serial killer, sending a vivacious young woman to the morgue wasn’t enough.

“We would get calls, creepy breathing calls,” David’s second wife, Rhonda, told Radar. “One time we had a call where he said, ‘I’ll kill you,’ or ‘I’m going to kill you!’”

The relentless torrent of bile-fuelled phone calls drove the family from their home to escape the Golden State Killer’s sick taunts.

And when Rhonda heard DeAngelo’s voice following his April 25 arrest, she was convinced he was the sinister voice that tormented them for years.

Rhonda said her husband never really recovered from the gruesome murder of his young wife and died of natural causes in 2008.

“It destroyed him,” she said. “David started to drink heavily because he didn’t know how to handle the anger he was left with.”