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Following a 25-years long career at UC Berkeley, Roy Charles Waller was sentenced to nearly 900 years in prison Friday after being convicted in the “NorCal Rapist” case.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Arguelles imposed two consecutive sentences a 459-year term followed by a 438-to-life term, which constitute the maximum sentence allowed by law, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office press release. Waller is ineligible for parole.
Before being arrested in September 2018, Waller worked in the UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health and Safety as a safety specialist.
Waller was convicted by a jury of 46 charges leveled against him earlier this year, including 21 counts of rape and seven counts of kidnapping. The case pertained to the assault of nine women across six counties and seven different cases between 1991 and 2006, according to the press release.
Published December 18, 2020 •
Updated on December 18, 2020 at 10:06 pm
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A man nicknamed the NorCal Rapist was sentenced Friday to 897 years in prison for attacks on women in their homes between 1991 and 2006.
Roy Charles Waller, 60, was found guilty last month by a Sacramento jury on all 46 counts after investigators used DNA technology to identify him in the rapes of nine women.
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NorCal Rapist sentenced to 897 years in prison
Roy Charles Waller was convicted for the assault of nine women in six counties and seven different cases between 1991-2006. Author: Staff (ABC10) Updated: 7:34 PM PST December 18, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Roy Charles Waller, also known as the NorCal Rapist, has been sentenced to 897 years in prison.
According to a press release from the Sacramento County District Attorney s Office, Waller was convicted on 46 counts of kidnap, forcible rape, oral copulation, sodomy, and foreign penetration for the assault of nine women in six counties and seven different cases between 1991-2006. The assaults took place in Sacramento, Yolo, Butte, Sonoma, Solano, and Contra Costa counties.
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Roy Charles Waller, 60, was given two life sentences of 459 years and 438 years to life to be served consecutively in Sacramento Superior Court Friday
Superior Court Judge James Arguelles branded him a serious danger to society
He raped nine women across six Northern California counties from 1991 to 2006
He broke into his victims homes late at night and bound them before raping them repeatedly; sometimes he forced them to withdraw money from ATMs
He has also been linked to at least eight other sexual assaults
Waller was found guilty of 46 counts back in November
He was arrested in 2018 when DNA websites were used to solve the cold cases