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Following a 25-years long career at UC Berkeley, Roy Charles Waller was sentenced to nearly 900 years in prison Friday after being convicted in the “NorCal Rapist” case.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Arguelles imposed two consecutive sentences a 459-year term followed by a 438-to-life term, which constitute the maximum sentence allowed by law, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office press release. Waller is ineligible for parole.
Before being arrested in September 2018, Waller worked in the UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health and Safety as a safety specialist.
Waller was convicted by a jury of 46 charges leveled against him earlier this year, including 21 counts of rape and seven counts of kidnapping. The case pertained to the assault of nine women across six counties and seven different cases between 1991 and 2006, according to the press release.
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Roy Charles Waller, 60, was given two life sentences of 459 years and 438 years to life to be served consecutively in Sacramento Superior Court Friday
Superior Court Judge James Arguelles branded him a serious danger to society
He raped nine women across six Northern California counties from 1991 to 2006
He broke into his victims homes late at night and bound them before raping them repeatedly; sometimes he forced them to withdraw money from ATMs
He has also been linked to at least eight other sexual assaults
Waller was found guilty of 46 counts back in November
He was arrested in 2018 when DNA websites were used to solve the cold cases
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By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media
Dec 18, 2020
When convicted serial rapist Roy Charles Waller appears in a Sacramento Superior Court today, he can expect prosecutors to pull no punches.
Waller was convicted last month on 46 counts of rape among other counts. The jury determined he was the notorious NorCal Rapist who attacked nine women in a series of assaults between 1991 and 2006. Prosecutors are expected to ask the court to sentence Waller to 900-years in prison.
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