Roy Charles Waller was arrested on September 20, 2018 and charged in a series of sexual assaults that took place in Northern California over a 15-year period, from 1991 to 2006. The suspect was known as the NorCal Rapist. This series consisted of several extremely violent home invasion rapes in which the victims were bound, brutally raped multiple times, and threatened with deadly weapons.
There is no information on who conducted the FGG investigation. DNA profiles were obtained through evidence left at the crime scenes. In one case, the suspect’s blood was collected because the victim had stabbed him with a pair of scissors. The initial confirmation was made through police surveillance followed by the surreptitious sampling from items Waller had discarded in the trash outside his home. John Doe warrants had been filed in 2006 to stop the statute of limitations from running.
Waller was charged with 46 counts, including 21 counts of rape against 9 different victims, as well as kidnapping, burglary, and other related charges. The trial began on October 19, 2020.
Waller took the stand in his defence and testified that he could not explain how his DNA ended up at the crime scenes. The jury deliberated for only 2 ½ hours before finding Waller guilty. After the trial, his attorney told Murray, “‘It didn’t matter what I did,’ … ‘It was a DNA case. We could not overcome the fact that his DNA was at nearly all the crime scenes.’”
There is no data on the ethnicity of his victims, but he is reported to have targeted young Asian females. Waller has been sentenced to 897 years.
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