Dereck Jermaine Sanders, The roaming rapist, Sacramento Ca
Dec 10, 2016 7:10:28 GMT
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Post by nick on Dec 10, 2016 7:10:28 GMT
Viewers I placed this case on here not for the MO but rather how the offender was caught by a familial DNA hit. This was done by Sacramento County Sheriff's Investigators.
Sheriff’s detectives identified the rapist as Dereck Jermaine Sanders, who is now 41. Two years ago, prosecutors filed a 28-count complaint against him related to nine attacks that ranged from North Highlands to Carmichael to south Sacramento. The 10 victims included teenage girls, a young wife and two Stockton Boulevard prostitutes.
According to authorities, the assaults started with the April 20, 1998, attack on the woman who was 18 when her assailant ran her down in the field at the intersection of Roseville Road and Watt Avenue.
The last one took place March 21, 2003, when a man detectives identified as Sanders duped a woman who walked out of The Raven, a neighborhood bar in East Sacramento, into believing he was a cabbie.
The rapes were reported all over town, the rapist was to become known as the Roaming Rapist. Three months after the rape of the bicyclist in the North Highlands field, two teenage girls were abducted at Madison Avenue and Dewey Drive in Carmichael. Two more attacks followed on women in Arcade Creek Park in December 1998 and Howe Avenue Park in November 2000. A woman who had been drinking in a bar near California State University, Sacramento, in February 2001 was abducted and raped when she got into a traffic accident not too far away. Two Stockton Boulevard prostitutes were raped in March and May 2002, followed by an attack on a woman at La Mancha Way and Tangerine Avenue in the south area in March 2003. The last assault linked to “the roaming rapist” was the one on the wife who was coming out of The Raven on J Street.
The victims, varied case by case in their descriptions of their attacker, but here had been a transference from the suspect and victim in the form of Sanders’ DNA that the prosecutor said matched the genetic material extracted from the sperm found in nine of the victims. The question was how did they get to this point? The defendant’s brother, Ladell Lamont Sanders, 44, had been arrested and charged with rape in 2011. He has since been convicted and sentenced to prison for 25 years to life.
Officials said at the time of Dereck Sanders’ arrest the next year that it was Ladell’s DNA that led them to their man in the case. Investigators arrested Sanders on Nov. 9, 2012 – more than nine years after the last rape. Prosecutors ultimately charged him based on what they called a “familial” DNA hit. The brother was not metioned to the jury at trail, but they were told detectives somehow “developed an investigative lead” that directed them to Dereck Sanders. They put him under surveillance and followed the suspect to a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant near CSUS and later to White Rock Park in Rancho Cordova where Sanders threw trash in a garbage can when he was finished eating. Detectives retrieved the trash, and the crime lab snagged some DNA off the cup and straw, Gold said. Overwhelming statistical probability, the prosecutor said, established that Sanders’ DNA was the same as the serial rapist. Dereck Jermaine Sanders, 41, was sentenced to 396 years to life in prison in a Sacramento County court.
Sheriff’s detectives identified the rapist as Dereck Jermaine Sanders, who is now 41. Two years ago, prosecutors filed a 28-count complaint against him related to nine attacks that ranged from North Highlands to Carmichael to south Sacramento. The 10 victims included teenage girls, a young wife and two Stockton Boulevard prostitutes.
According to authorities, the assaults started with the April 20, 1998, attack on the woman who was 18 when her assailant ran her down in the field at the intersection of Roseville Road and Watt Avenue.
The last one took place March 21, 2003, when a man detectives identified as Sanders duped a woman who walked out of The Raven, a neighborhood bar in East Sacramento, into believing he was a cabbie.
The rapes were reported all over town, the rapist was to become known as the Roaming Rapist. Three months after the rape of the bicyclist in the North Highlands field, two teenage girls were abducted at Madison Avenue and Dewey Drive in Carmichael. Two more attacks followed on women in Arcade Creek Park in December 1998 and Howe Avenue Park in November 2000. A woman who had been drinking in a bar near California State University, Sacramento, in February 2001 was abducted and raped when she got into a traffic accident not too far away. Two Stockton Boulevard prostitutes were raped in March and May 2002, followed by an attack on a woman at La Mancha Way and Tangerine Avenue in the south area in March 2003. The last assault linked to “the roaming rapist” was the one on the wife who was coming out of The Raven on J Street.
The victims, varied case by case in their descriptions of their attacker, but here had been a transference from the suspect and victim in the form of Sanders’ DNA that the prosecutor said matched the genetic material extracted from the sperm found in nine of the victims. The question was how did they get to this point? The defendant’s brother, Ladell Lamont Sanders, 44, had been arrested and charged with rape in 2011. He has since been convicted and sentenced to prison for 25 years to life.
Officials said at the time of Dereck Sanders’ arrest the next year that it was Ladell’s DNA that led them to their man in the case. Investigators arrested Sanders on Nov. 9, 2012 – more than nine years after the last rape. Prosecutors ultimately charged him based on what they called a “familial” DNA hit. The brother was not metioned to the jury at trail, but they were told detectives somehow “developed an investigative lead” that directed them to Dereck Sanders. They put him under surveillance and followed the suspect to a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant near CSUS and later to White Rock Park in Rancho Cordova where Sanders threw trash in a garbage can when he was finished eating. Detectives retrieved the trash, and the crime lab snagged some DNA off the cup and straw, Gold said. Overwhelming statistical probability, the prosecutor said, established that Sanders’ DNA was the same as the serial rapist. Dereck Jermaine Sanders, 41, was sentenced to 396 years to life in prison in a Sacramento County court.