Police in California seeking proof Sean Patrick McNulty raped two Ventura County women four decades ago found it in a saved DNA sample from a 1993 Bloomington rape investigation.

McNulty died in Michigan by suicide as investigators were closing in to arrest him in 1997 for the Bloomington rape.

A Sept. 4 news release from the Ventura County District Attorney details how the serial rapist was tied to six sexual assaults committed when McNulty broke into homes and terrorized women.

Multi-state connection

After years of investigating, McNulty was connected in 2024 to two unsolved Venture County home invasion rapes, in 1982 and 1983, as well as three others committed in Michigan and Ohio in 1994, 1995 and 1997 .

Last year, Ventura County’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative tested the evidence

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