DNA used to track down Fresno serial rapist, other victims sought, police say

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A acold lawsuit serial rapist has been arrested aft his DNA was utilized to way him down pursuing years of investigations, the Fresno Police Department announced Tuesday.

Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto announced that 55-year-old Cesar Flores was arrested aft genealogy tests linked him to respective intersexual battle cases successful Fresno and Fresno County.

The probe began successful 2019 aft the recently formed Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit began, and detectives discovered 2 acold cases had a fishy that shared the aforesaid familial profile; however, astatine the time, the DNA did not lucifer anyone wrong the system.

Further investigations led to the find of 3 further cases wrong the county, each of which occurred betwixt 2016 and 2021, according to police. Detectives worked with the FBI and a genealogy adept successful Yolo County to way down a distant comparative lucifer to the fishy retired of state, and were yet led to a Fresno pistillate who had a adjacent familial narration to the suspect.

Police study Flores had matched the statement of the fishy provided by the victims and was aboriginal identified arsenic the antheral linked to the 5 acold cases. Flores had been surviving successful Fresno and was soon taken into custody.

"This lawsuit is not conscionable astir today's arrest, its astir achieving justness for the 5 Fresno women that we cognize astir who Flores encountered successful nationalist and aboriginal forcibly raped," Chief Casto expressed.

The territory attorney's bureau reports Flores had committed 14 intersexual assaults against 5 victims helium encountered successful nationalist and faces the pursuing charges:

• 5 counts of rape
• 4 counts of forcible sodomy
• 3 counts of forcible oral copulation
• 2 counts of kidnapping

If Flores is recovered blameworthy of each charges and allegations, the DA's bureau says helium could look 264 years to beingness successful authorities prison. Flores' bail is acceptable astatine $1,700,000 and volition look successful tribunal this week.

Anyone with further accusation regarding this lawsuit is asked to interaction Detective Steve Taylor astatine 559-621-2490.