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serial rapist
unmistakable DNA match
Utrecht
Friday, August 1, 2014 - 12:03
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Serial rapists pre-detention extended

The suspect rapist who was arrested in June in Utrecht after evading capture for almost 20 years, will not go free any time soon, it has been decided in court.

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So far there has been a 100 percent DNA match established in these three cases; police are investigating if 14 other open rapes that had been committed in the city around that time were also his work.

T. was already a suspect back in 1995, but he could not be prosecuted because he did not allow authorities to take a DNA sample from him then. When he was held and sentenced in June this year for bicycle theft, a mandatory DNA sample was taken and a match made.

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