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A judge on Thursday sentenced a rapist to 130 years-to-life in state prison for the 1999 kidnapping and rape of a young woman in Escondido.
Evidence collected at the time did not match anyone in a statewide offender database, but genealogy DNA technology later linked the DNA to Mark Hunter.
A man convicted of abducting and raping a 19-year-old woman in Escondido nearly 25 years ago was sentenced Thursday to 130 years to life in state prison.
A man was sentenced Thursday to 130 years-to-life in state prison for kidnapping and raping a woman multiple times over two decades ago in Escondido, prosecutors said.
Genetic genealogy, which uses DNA, is often used to help solve cold-case murders. But a few years ago, investigators used it to solve a decades old rape, leading them to arrest a now 66-year-old man. A North County jury convicted him at trial last fall.