Roy Charles Weller was raped between 1991 and 2006 from Rohneart Park in Chicago and Sacramento in Northern Northern California on Wednesday.
Valer was convicted on a total of 46 counts, including rape, sodomy and kidnapping..
Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippy said in a statement that the nine victims waited more than 20 years for the moment and that it only came from the use of genetic pedigree and DNA science to investigate. This is their day.
“It took a long time to get justice in this case. However, law enforcement officers and detectives involved in the investigation never stopped searching for the truth. Their alleged efforts and the arrival of the IGG have fulfilled that truth.”
Veller will be sentenced on December 18 and could face life in prison. His attorney plans to file an appeal. Valar was arrested in 2018 in an investigation after being led by genetic pedigree.
“It doesn’t matter what I did,” said Farrina, Waller’s defense attorney. “It was a DNA case. We couldn’t cross the fact that his DNA was on almost all crime scenes.”
While his attorney was not surprised by the verdict, he told CNN that Waller is.
“He never seemed to understand that it was a DNA case. He thought he would be acquitted. He denied having anything to do with it.”
Veller was arrested at his workplace in 2018 – at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked as a security specialist.
Authorities were able to obtain other evidence against him, including handcuffs, zip tins, ski masks and duct tapes found in Lor’s storage unit.
“He kept everything,” Farina said. “It was a pack of mice.”
Sacramento Police Detective Avis Berry said Waller usually struck at night.
Describing Wheeler’s method, she said, “It will beat them.”
“He tied them up and repeatedly sexually abused them. He ransacked their homes, and sometimes he would kidnap victims and take them to ATMs where he could get money from their accounts and other times he would steal personal items from their homes.”
In many cases, Valer used a weapon or tied up and bound his victims, making his crimes punishable by life imprisonment. California has no law limiting crimes punishable by prison life.
Baylor spoke to one of the victims after Veller’s arrest and said he was “on top of the spirit and joy.”
“In this case the victims may stop paying attention to their shoulders,” Barry said. “No one needs to worry about this happening to them.”
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