Serial rapist who lived in Indiana identified using DNA; police fear more victims nationwide

NOTE: This article discusses sexual assault. Victim resources available at the bottom of the article.

(WXIN/WTTV) — Police in California have used DNA evidence to identify a nationwide serial rapist who killed himself in 1997 after becoming a suspect in a central Indiana rape investigation.

Sean Patrick McNulty, who grew up in Ventura, California, has been connected via DNA to at least six home-invasion rapes that occurred across the country between 1982 and 1997. McNulty was identified publicly this week in a release from the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.

Sean Patrick McNulty

McNulty was born on June 4, 1959, in Burlingame, California, before spending most of his childhood in Ventura. He graduated from Buena High School in 1977…

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