A man suspected in at least three sexual assaults in the Sacramento region in the early 1990s was arrested last week at his home in Georgia after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes, law enforcement officials announced Monday.
Mark Manteuffel, 59, will be brought back to Sacramento to face charges in three sexual assaults that occurred in Sacramento, Sacramento County and Davis, officials said at a multi-agency press conference.
The first victim was attacked in her East Sacramento home in 1992, Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn said.
The second victim, also attacked in 1992, in Sacramento County, was a 52-year-old woman who arrived home and was accosted and sexually assaulted for more than three hours by a man lying in wait inside her home, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said.
The third victim was a 22-year-old college student who went out for a jog in a Davis neighborhood and was tased and assaulted by a masked man, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said.
Charges are able to be filed this many years later because back in 2000, a "John Doe" arrest warrant was issued based on that DNA, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.
"So for 19 years we have waited to put a face to that DNA profile,” she said. “For the victims in this case, they have waited well over two decades to put a face to the man who sexually assaulted them."
Manteuffel was linked to the crimes through DNA evidence uploaded to a genealogy website, officials said.
Last year, the district attorney's office used the same method in the arrest of suspected Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, in April and suspect Roy Charles Waller in the NorCal Rapist case in October.
Officials said Manteuffel lived in Sacramento while attending Sacramento State and worked for a short time as a part-time lecturer at the university. He worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Atlanta for about two decades and retired from a corrections job in Miami five years ago.
Investigators say there could be additional victims throughout the country.
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