‘Norcal’ rapist sentenced to 897 years

12/19/2020 USA


The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said Veller, known as a “narcissistic rapist,” was sentenced Friday to 89 years in a state prison, while the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said.

Last month, a Sacramento jury convicted him of 46 counts in a series of attacks on nine women between 1991 and 2006, all of which testified to his decades-long quest for justice.

V 60 Ler, now 60, attacked women in six counties in Northern California. In many cases, he will break into homes, tie up his victims and repeatedly sexually assault them, according to Sacramento Police Detective Avis Berry.

“Usually at night the rapist would strike at night and sometimes kidnap women and take them to ATMs where he would rob or steal things from the house,” Barry said.

‘It was a DNA case’

Since 2006, police have found DNA evidence, six of which have been linked to a single suspect.

They were unable to determine if the attacker was a vulture, although their DNA is not in the state’s criminal database.

According to the district attorney’s office, progress was finally made in September 2018, when biological evidence was used at the scene of a woman’s sexual abuse, according to the district attorney’s office, to develop a special DNA profile.

Using the genetic pedigree of the Cutting Edge probe, (IGG), investigators found a list of possible relatives of the offender, which could narrow Veller as a suspect.
None of these potential relatives shared DNA or other genetic material with law enforcement, according to the district attorney, but investigators created family trees that allowed them to focus on vultures. The same DNA technique was used to identify the Golden State killer.

Within days, Veller was arrested at his workplace in Berkeley, according to prosecutors.

“It doesn’t matter what I did,” said Farrina, Veller’s defense attorney, following Veller’s sentencing. “It was a DNA case. We couldn’t cross the fact that his DNA was on almost all crime scenes.”

Farrina told reporters outside the courthouse on Friday that Veller was confident he was not guilty and would appeal the sentence, according to CNN-affiliated KPIX.

In addition to the nine women who testified, retired officers, spy assault and sexual assault forensic nurse examiners traveled to Sacramento from several states to present their testimony.

Judge James Argules hears the victim's statement of effect during Roy Charles Weller's sentencing hearing on December 18, 2020.

Some of these witnesses retired and were in their 80s, according to the district attorney.

The district attorney’s office said in a new release that the victims had waited for decades for justice and that the use of IGGs had made it possible to identify and arrest Veller.

“The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office wants to thank the original spies of the agencies in each jurisdiction over these cases who have never stopped pursuing the offender.”

CNN’s Sarah Moon also contributed to the story.

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