Kevin Michael Konther was sentenced to 140 years in prison for raping a 9-year-old girl, raping a jogger, and sexually abusing his ex-girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter in separate incidents. (Mug shot: Orange County District Attorney’s Office)
A convicted rapist whose attorney tried to put the crimes on his twin brother received the maximum sentence on Friday for sexually assaulting three victims decades ago in California .
In separate incidents, Kevin Michael Konther, 58, raped a 9-year-old girl, raped a 32-year-old jogger, and sexually abused his ex-girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, authorities said.
The crimes went unsolved for years, but prosecutors said that sheriff’s office investigators started using 2018 genetic genealogy to zero in on a culprit. That perpetrator, they said, is Konther.
“DNA was the lynchpin that gave that monster a name — and that name is Kevin Konther,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement . “The relentless pursuit of justice by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office has ensured that another monster who preys on young girls and young women will never be free to jump out of the bushes again.”