GUILTY CA - Mark Manteuffel, 59, Arrested for 3 Rapes in the 1990s. Sacramento. DNA

[PastTense]

"A suspected serial rapist who committed at least three violent crimes in Sacramento and Davis in the early 1990s has been arrested after local and federal investigators linked his DNA to the crimes.

Mark Manteuffel, 59, a retired federal corrections officer, was arrested Friday outside his home in Decatur, Ga., 27 years after his first alleged rape in Sacramento, local officials said. Manteuffel, who is a former Sacramento State student and former part-time lecturer there, is believed to have brutally sexually assaulted three women here between 1992 and 1994, local officials said at a news conference held Monday afternoon at Sacramento police headquarters...

The first victim, a 52-year-old Rosemont resident, was attacked in May, 1992 in her home by a man who had been there waiting for her to return. He assaulted her for three hours before leaving. The second victim was bound and sexually assaulted by a masked intruder in her East Sacramento home in March, 1994. In both cases, Manteuffel will be charged with torture with use of a knife...

The other assault took place in Davis in January, 1994. A 22-year-old college student was jogging to a local market to get dinner when she was grabbed by a masked man who used a stun gun and dragged her away to commit “monstrous crimes,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said."
Sacramento serial-rape suspect from early 1990s arrested after DNA match, officials say

 

[dotr]

DNA leads to arrest in decades-old assault cases
"Prosecutors didn't identify a suspect in the '90s but filed charges against an anonymous snippet of DNA code in 2000, just two days before the statute of limitations was to run out.

“This case is about a forward-thinking DNA analyst from our crime lab who knew the value of preserving rape kits far longer than the law required at the time,” she added."

"Mark Manteuffel, 59, is facing a slew of charges, including torture and rape, in connection with assaults in Sacramento, Sacramento County and Davis in the '90s, Sacramento police said at a news conference Monday.
Manteuffel attended Sacramento State and worked as a part-time lecturer on criminal justice, police said"
Sacramento County District Attorney's Office

 

[Legally Bland]

A former Federal Bureau of Prisons employee and part-time Sacramento State lecturer who committed a string of assaults in the region during the 1990s pleaded guilty in a Yolo County court on Friday.

Through his attorney Justin Mixon, 60-year-old Mark Jeffery Manteuffel pleaded guilty to one count of digital penetration by force in Yolo County at his arraignment, and was sentenced to six years.

He was previously sentenced to 29 years in prison in Sacramento on Oct. 23 for two violent rapes that occurred in the city in 1992 and in 1994. He will now serve a combined sentence of 35 years in prison, and be released when he is 95 years old.

Former federal prisons worker sentenced in Davis sexual assault case – Daily Democrat

 

[Dallas Volunteer]

"Prosecutors didn't identify a suspect in the '90s but filed charges against an anonymous snippet of DNA code in 2000, just two days before the statute of limitations was to run out.

This is the first I've heard of charging the DNA profile instead of a named suspect to get around the statute of limitations window. Wow interesting.

 

[Legally Bland]

This is the first I've heard of charging the DNA profile instead of a named suspect to get around the statute of limitations window. Wow interesting.

I don't know if it's just a California thing, but they did the same with the Norcal rapist:

Ten years after the attack in Contra Costa County our office filed a John Doe complaint with the specific DNA profile of this same individual. With the complaint, there was a John Doe warrant for $500,000. We filed the complaint to preserve the statute of limitations for some of the counts in this case."

Alleged serial rapist caught after 27 years using genealogy search