A Navy diver who died nearly three decades ago has been linked to half a dozen home invasion and rape cases across four states after a yearslong investigation, California officials said Thursday.

All of the attacks were cold cases dating back to the 1980s and 90s, where women were sexually assaulted by a home intruder. The intruder terrorized the women, sometimes calling their homes or threatening to kill them if they reported the incidents to police, the district attorney's office said.

The Ventura County District Attorney's Office said that Sean Patrick McNulty was connected to the crimes. McNulty died by suicide in Michigan in 1997, after becoming a suspect in a 1993 Indiana rape case.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office Forensic Services Bureau oversaw the testing of two rape kits

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