Overview

• Officials named Sean Patrick McNulty as the person whose DNA links rapes in Ventura County (1982, 1983), Okemos, Michigan (1994), Birmingham, Michigan (1995), Columbus, Ohio (1997) and a 1993 Indiana case where he was a suspect.
• Ventura County’s 1982–83 sexual-assault kits were tested and uploaded to CODIS in March 2024, producing a multi-state perpetrator profile that prompted a joint investigation.
• An FBI crime analyst located a 1993 Bloomington, Indiana case with preserved biological material from McNulty, yielding an exact DNA match to the other assaults.
• McNulty died by suicide in 1997 after being named a suspect in the Indiana case, and his cremation prevented obtaining DNA from remains, so confirmation relied on archived evidence.
• Authorities are seeking information about possible additional crimes and are appealing to the public in multiple states and the Philippines, with notified survivors expressing long-awaited closure.