ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

Timothy Bachicha, 43, who a jury convicted in federal court after just two-and-a-half hours of deliberation, was sentenced to life in prison, a news release from the U.S. Attorney District of New Mexico's Office said.

There is no parole for those convicted in federal cases, so Bachicha's is a true life sentence.

According to court documents, Bachicha abducted at least four women in 2017 and 2018 and held them captive, strangling them unconscious and sexually assaulting them multiple times.

At the time, Bachicha was wearing an ankle monitor after being granted pretrial release in district court, and investigators used the monitor GPS to locate him at the last two crime scenes. Surveillance video and DNA evidence also implicated him, and a grand jury indicted him in S

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