‘NorCal Rapist’ convicted of attacking 9 women between 1991 and 2006
A California man known as the “NorCal Rapist” was convicted Wednesday of raping nine women from 1991 to 2006.
Roy Charles Waller, 60, would study potential victims before attacking them, tying them up and assaulting them multiple times, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Waller pleaded not guilty to 46 crimes, but was convicted on all counts, according to local NBC affiliate KCRA. His DNA was found at all six of seven crime scenes.
“Your DNA can’t show up at every rape case and you’re innocent,” one juror told reporters after the trial. “We all knew it was a slam-dunk case.”
The 12 jurors took two and a half-hours to deliberate after the four-week trial, the Bee reported. Waller is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18. He faces life in prison.
Waller worked for 25 years at the University of California, Berkeley before he was arrested in 2018, according to the Bee. He raped women across six northern California counties, from cities far west as Rohnert Park, north as Chico and east as Sacramento.
Prosecutors described how Waller would seek out Asian women, grading their appearance and then studying their daily routines so he could find the best time to attack, the Bee reported.
Waller’s own sick “rape kits” were found in two storage lockers, complete with duct tape, zip ties and handcuffs.
In some assaults, Waller forced the women to withdraw money from ATMs and stole their personal items.
With News Wire Services
