Another Calif. serial rapist is identified through DNA and genealogy websites
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-norcal-rapist-case-20180921-story.html
Sacramento authorities arrest UC Berkeley employee as NorCal Rapist suspect
By Ruben Vives
Sep 21, 2018 | 6:30 PM
Five years after the Golden State Killer had mysteriously stopped terrorizing California, a new serial rapist emerged.
For more than 15 years, fear spread across six counties in Northern California as word spread of a man who had broken into homes and raped at least 10 women. Law enforcement officials, already trying to hunt down one notorious rapist and killer, now had to hunt down another attacker.
He was dubbed the NorCal Rapist.
On Friday, standing with a row of men and women in suits and police uniforms, Sacramento County Dist. Atty. Anne Marie Schubert identified Roy Charles Waller, 58, a UC Berkeley employee, as the suspect in the NorCal Rapist case.
Schubert says her office used DNA and genealogy websites to zero in on Waller. His arrest comes five months after similar strategies were used to identify and arrest Joseph James DeAngelo, who is suspected of being the Golden State Killer, the East Area Rapist and Visalia Ransacker.
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