650 year sentence for Indiana rapes: How police solved Hessler case
Steven Ray Hessler was sentenced to 650 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults committed in the 1980s. Here's how the case came together.
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Steven Ray Hessler was sentenced to 650 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults committed in the 1980s. Here's 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.