Roy Charles Waller

Roy Charles Waller is an American serial rapist. He was arrested in September 2018 as a suspect in a series of more than ten rapes and kidnappings committed between 1991–2006 in six Northern California counties. DNA evidence from crime scenes were matched on the online DNA-matching service, GEDmatch, to a relative of Waller and he was identified through genetics-based genealogy.

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Summary Roy Charles WallerRoy Charles Waller is an American serial rapist. He was arrested in September 2018 as a suspect in a series of more than ten rapes and kidnappings committed between 1991–2006 in six Northern California counties. DNA evidence from crime scenes were matched on the online DNA-matching service, GEDmatch, to a relative of Waller, and he was identified through genetics-based genealogy.

The same genetic genealogy technique had been used in the identification and arrest of the suspect known as the Golden State Killer.