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Steven Ray Hessler was sentenced to 650 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults committed in the 1980s. Heres how the case came together.

Steven Ray Hessler, 59, of Greensburg, was convicted March 3 of 19 felony charges for crimes against 10 victims between 1982 and 1985.

The conviction came after investigators got ahold of a DNA sample on a utility bill. An Indiana man linked to a chain of sexual assault cases more than 30 years ago has been sentenced to 650 years in prison due to DNA tracing on a utility bill....

Steven Ray Hessler "derived great pleasure from his unnecessarily brutal methods of terrorizing and sexually torturing his victims," prosecutors said.

Steven Ray Hessler was found guilty of ten sex crimes on March 3. In all of the cases, he broke into the victims homes and attacked them then fled. For decades, his crimes went undetected.

Forty years after a masked man terrorized Shelby County, Ind., breaking into multiple homes and attacking and raping women, Steven Ray Hessler has been sentenced for his string of assaults.

An Indiana man has been sentenced to 650 years in prison in relation to sexual assault cases 30 years back.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- A man linked to a series of sexual assaults in central Indiana more than 30 years ago by his DNA on an envelope was sentenced Friday to 650 years in prison.

DNA on an envelope helped to seal the fate of Steven Ray Hessler, who prosecutors said violently assaulted seven women, a 16-year-old girl and two men in Shelby County, Ind., from 1982 to 1985.

Steven Ray Hessler was found guilty for a series of home invasion sexual assaults in Shelbyville and Shelby County between 1982 and 1985.