Phoenix police have arrested a man they say is linked to at least four kidnappings and sexual assaults dating back to the 1990s.
In 1994, Abraham Ramirez was arrested in California on suspicion kidnapping and sexual assault. He was never convicted but DNA was collected.
Then between 1998 and 2013, four more kidnappings and sexual assaults went unsolved in the Phoenix area.
All five cases went unsolved until last month when the Phoenix Crime Lab was notified of a match between the DNA profiles from the Phoenix cases and the California case, which identified now 54-year-old Ramirez as the suspect.
Phoenix detectives located and arrested Ramirez, who now faces multiple counts of kidnapping and sexual assault.
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