The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced a major break in a sexual assault cold case that happened 16 years ago in San Jose.
The victim died of natural causes while waiting for justice.
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After a hit on a DNA database, investigators arrested the suspect in Indiana on Monday.
A 61-year-old woman living on the first floor of what is now known as the Redwood Senior Apartments of Willow Glen was brutally attacked in her apartment in January of 2008.
The DA’s office says someone wearing a ski mask punched her in the face, broke her nose, then choked her before sexually assaulting her multiple times.
“What’s really sad is that she had complained to the management that she felt someone had been looking in her window and she felt unsafe and this horrible thing happened to her,” Rob Baker, the Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney said.
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