After a decades-long investigation, police in California have identified a serial rapist who died by suicide in Michigan in 1997, linking him to multiple attacks in the state and across the country.

Former U.S. Navy diver Sean Patrick McNulty, who grew up in Ventura, California, was connected through DNA to at least six home-invasion rapes from 1982 to 1997, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday, Sept. 4.

McNulty took his life in Emmett Charter Township, Calhoun County, after becoming a suspect in a 1993 Bloomington, Indiana, rape investigation. Investigators later confirmed his DNA matched evidence from that case and others, including attacks in Okemos, Michigan, in 1994; Birmingham, Michigan, in 1995; and Columbus, Ohio, in 1997, as well as two assaults

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