NorCal rapist sentenced to 897 years in prison for rape of nine women
By Keith Burbank article
This undated photo released by the Sacramento Police Department shows Roy Charles Waller. (Sacramento Police Department via AP)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Roy Charles Waller, the NorCal Rapist, was sentenced Friday to 897 years in prison following a conviction for assaulting nine women from 1991 to 2006.
Waller was convicted of 46 counts including kidnapping, forcible rape, oral copulation, sodomy, and foreign penetration in six counties, including Sonoma, Solano, and Contra Costa counties in the Bay Area.
Waller lived in Benicia and worked at the University of California at Berkeley for about 25 years before his arrest in September 2018.
UpdatedFri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:29 pm PT
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Roy Charles Waller, 60, whose case became known as the NorCal Rapist series, received the maximum sentence allowed by law: 897 years to life in California state prison. (Shutterstock)
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA A North Bay man convicted in the NorCal Rapist series was sentenced Friday to 897 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting nine women in Sonoma, Solano, Contra Costa, Yolo, Butte and Sacramento counties.
In a Sacramento County jury trial that concluded Nov. 18, Benicia resident Roy Charles Waller, 60, was found guilty of 46 counts involving kidnap, forcible rape, oral copulation, sodomy and foreign penetration in a case that spanned six counties and seven different investigations between 1991 and 2006.
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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.