Bike Path Rapist Pleads Guilty!!!

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Just out this morning-



Sanchez Plea Deal

May 16, 2007 11:38 AM EDT

(Buffalo, NY, May 16, 2007) - - You saw this one First on News 4.

There has been a startling development in the case of the accused bike path rapist and killer. Altemio Sanchez has taken a guilty plea to three murders. He entered a guilty plea in State Supreme Court this morning in connection with the murders of Majane Mazur, Linda Yalem and Joan Diver. Sanchez now faces 75 years to life behind bars. He has given up his right to trial and will be sentenced August 2.

Prosecutors have said that DNA evidence has linked Sanchez multiple rapes since 1981 but the statute of limitations has run out, but District Attorney Frank Clark says if he can be linked to any other crimes he will be prosecuted.

News 4 reporters Melissa Holmes and Lorey Schultz were both in the court room and say it was packed with victims, family members of victims, investigators, detectives and prosecutors. Mrs. Sanchez was also there, she wept as Altemio admitted to killing all the victims. Mrs. Sanchez wrote a letter to the press expressing how her husband's crimes were unimaginable and what a shock it was to her.

We'll have much more on this developing story throughout the day here on News 4 and on WIVB.com.

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Here's a link to the newscast-

http://http://www.wivb.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=1442080&h1=News%204%20at%20 Noon%3A%20part%20one%205/16/07&vt1=v&at1=News - Special Coverage&d1=539766&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&active Pane=info&playerVersion=1&hostPageUrl=http%3A//www.wivb.com/Global/category.asp%3FC%3D1707%26nav%3Dmenu41_1&rnd=40941 581

My prayers go out to the family and friends of Altemio Sanchez, Anthony Capozzi, and all the victims.

[Uriel]

Wow, I missed the whole story! Too busy thinking about hockey.

That will teach me to be obsessed with the Sabres.


This is major news. Guess the evidence was just too much for sanchez.

His wife must truly be horrified knowing she's been sleeping with a monster all these years.

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Yeah-all major local stations were interrupted for the broadcast, and my mom called to tell me. I was blown away! I knew I had to post it.

As for obsessing about the Sabres-I'm assuming you're a WNYer, too.

Howdy, neighbor!!!!

Our boys let the Senators have it tonight...Let's have 3 more nights like tonight!!!!

LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO!!! Ya know we're gonna win that Cup...

[Uriel]

Originally Posted by samanthajane13

Yeah-all major local stations were interrupted for the broadcast, and my mom called to tell me. I was blown away! I knew I had to post it.

As for obsessing about the Sabres-I'm assuming you're a WNYer, too.

Howdy, neighbor!!!!

Our boys let the Senators have it tonight...Let's have 3 more nights like tonight!!!!

LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO!!! Ya know we're gonna win that Cup...

Oh hey yeah, Niagara County.

I feel sorry for sanchez's wife. I think she was in denial and she was forced today to see reality as is really is.


If the sabres won tonight by five or six goals, then I'd think the sens would collapse. Unfortunately, the sabres barely won tonight, were outshot badly in the third period once again, and only hung on to win thanks to the great play of Miller. The sens will win either saturday here or mon in ottawa. I hate saying that, but it's true.

There's been a black cloud hanging over buffalo these past days. Tonight gave us a glimmer of sunshine, but the dark clouds are gathering once again. But it was nice to enjoy the victory.

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Considering Buffalo and the surrounding area have only the Bills and the Sabres to root for in pro sports, and the Bills are useless oxygen-sucking wastes...well-I guess I just prefer to say a lot of prayers and devote my energies towards the Sabres.

I'm not counting them out yet...they have to concentrate on 1 game at a time-and not let the Senators intimidate them or out-score them.

I DO BELIEVE!!!

LET'S GO BUF-FA-LO!!!

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Posted by: Lynne Dixon, Reporter

Created: 7/24/2007 5:27:22 PM
Updated: 7/25/2007 7:15:03 AM


Altemio Sanchez has now been linked by DNA to eight more rapes across Western New York, mostly in the City of Buffalo.

The man investigators have called the bike path rapist has been linked to these other crimes through DNA tests from old rape kit slides stored at ECMC.

Sanchez has admitted his guilt to the rapes and murders of Linda Yalem and Majane Mazur, and the murder of Joan Diver last September. He was arrested in January and will be sentenced next month for the murders.

Not long after his arrest, the old rape kits were found at ECMC. The discovery was made after investigators looking into another old rape case asked ECMC if they stored the slides. The investigators had begun to believe that an innocent man was behind bars for an old rape in Delaware Park. When the slide was discovered and a DNA test was conducted on the slide, it was found that Altemio Sanchez, not Anthony Capozzi, committed the rape.

As a result, prosecutors then went to look for
other slides at ECMC from unsolved rape cases that might link Altemio Sanchez.

Here is what they found: "We have eight cases right now where we have DNA confirmation that Sanchez was the rapist," said Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark. "We have three other cases where it appears that we're going to have DNA confirmation, but we still have to do a few further tests before that's confirmed." He added that four other cases link Sanchez by method, although no slides were found that could link him by DNA, and there are two or three more cases "which we'll have to look at to see because we know we have the slides."

The earliest rape case that DNA can now link to Altemio Sanchez is April, 1981. A woman was raped at knifepoint in Delaware Park. "In that particular case the victim saw his (Altemio Sanchez) picture as he appears now at 50 years old and she thought it strongly resembled the person who attacked her..." Frank Clark said, adding that "we were able to later confirm that identification by DNA testing."

Another case that now connects Sanchez to the crime through DNA is the 1985 rape of a woman who was later dumped in Hamburg.

"If Sanchez truly is remorseful for what he did, as he said he was, and he truly wants the court to impose a sentence less than the 75 year maximum it could impose, then it's up to him to come forward to us," said Clark.

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Story Published: Jul 24, 2007 at 6:34 PM EDT
Story Updated: Jul 24, 2007 at 6:34 PM EDT
By John Borsa

From the time he was arrested, to his conviction as the Bike Path Killer, investigators have long wondered: How many woman were sexually attacked by Altemio Sanchez?

The district attorney's office made a list of suspected cases.

"And out of that list, which might have been 21 or 22 cases," said Erie County D.A. Frank Clark. "We went to ECMC to see how many of those cases had slides."

ECMC told his office that 15 slides existed, Clark said. The slides contained samples collected from victims at the time of their attacks.

Clark said eight of the 15 slides showed a positive match for Sanchez's DNA. Three slides are still being tested, and will probably come back with match, he added.

Four slides contained only the victim's DNA.

Sanchez is awaiting sentencing on Aug. 14 on three counts of murder, but he will not be charged with any of the rape cases. Clark said the statute of limitations at the time of the attacks was five years. The last attack linked to Sanchez occurred in 1994.

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Last Update: Jul 25, 2007 7:39 AM

(Buffalo, N.Y.) AP -- Prosecutors say DNA evidence has connected a man dubbed the "Bike Path Rapist" to at least eight more rapes in the Buffalo area between 1981 and 1994.

Altemio Sanchez, 49, pleaded guilty May 16 to murdering three women since 1990, including two whose bodies were found on bike paths.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark said a laboratory analyzed 15 slides that the Erie County Medical Center provided to the Bike Path Rape Task Force.

Of those, the hospital confirmed eight were connected to Sanchez by DNA. Clark says three others may be linked to Sanchez, pending further lab work.

Sanchez can't be prosecuted for any of the unsolved cases because of the statute of limitations. But Clark said the findings may bring closure to the victims.

Another man served 22 years in prison for two rapes that are now tied through DNA to Sanchez. Anthony Capozzi's convictions were erased earlier this year.
Sanchez faces 75 years to life in prison at sentencing August 2.
©2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Associated Press

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Posted by: Robyn Young, Reporter
Created: 3/29/2007 7:25:39 PM
Updated: 3/31/2007 7:44:25 AM


Anthony Capozzi's family says before he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and later wrongfully convicted and sent to prison, he was a kind and protective son and brother.

"My brother was protective. My brother was kind, soft spoken," said Pam Guenther, Anthony Capozzi's younger sister.

Looking back over Anthony's life, it seems his family essentially lost him in two tragic turn of events.

The good student at Hutch Tech High School, the young man who loved to play football and basketball and watched over his sisters, suddenly changed in his early twenties.

Anthony had attended Erie Community College for a short time, then started working for his uncle's business, "Good Pies," helping to distribute the product.

"He was making a lot of money at a young age," Guenther recalled.

But, Anthony changed.

"I hope nobody (else) goes through that, that change in his life," said Anthony's father, Albert. "He did so many terrible things, burned tv sets because he was hearing voices and it was driving him crazy."

The family consulted doctors and specialists, and received a diagnosis: schizophrenia.

Anthony was on medication, living back at home, and his weight ballooned to over 200 pounds.

"The person I always knew, that always just had it together, was falling apart," Guenther said.

At this time in the early 1980's, when Anthony was in his early 20's, rapes were occuring in Delaware Park, many near the Statue of David.

While Anthony was eating in a former Perkins restaurant on Delaware Avenue, someone noticed him and thought he acted strangely. He also matched many of the suspect descriptions in the ongoing rape investigation. The police were called.

"And that was the beginning of our nightmare," Guenther said.

Though Anthony was about 100 pounds heavier and had a distinctive scar on his forhead, he was convicted of two 1984 park rapes by witness identification, and sent to prison.

His family says he got the scar when he hallucinated, and thought he saw an
ex-girlfriend in a restaurant with another man. He approached them, a fight ensued, and Anthony ended up being pushed into a window.

Through the years, his parents visited weekly, even when it meant driving to Marcy prison near Utica, and the family never gave up their belief that he was innocent.

Twenty-two years later, new DNA evidence from rape victim test slides was found at ECMC, and a match was made with suspected bike path rapist Altemio Sanchez. He has been indicted on three murders and has DNA links to ten attacks.

Capozzi's family realizes that Anthony will need to live in a facility, but hope it will be close to home so that he can once again be there for their regular family dinners and events.

"He lost 22 years of his life. That's what we want. We want to forget the past," said Mary Capozzi, Anthony's mother.

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From The Innocence Project-

Anthony Capozzi

Incident Year: 1985

Jurisdiction: NY

Charge: 2 Counts of Rape, Sodomy, Sexual Abuse

Conviction: 2 Counts of Rape, Sodomy, Sexual Abuse

Sentence: 11 - 35 Years

Year of Conviction: 1987

Exoneration Date: 4/2/07

Sentence Served: 20 Years

Real perpetrator found? Yes

Contributing Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification

Compensation? Not Yet


Biological evidence stored for two decades in a hospital drawer was the key to the 2007 exoneration of Anthony Capozzi, a Buffalo, New York, man who spent 20 years in prison for two rapes he didn’t commit.

DNA tests in March 2007 showed that another man, currently awaiting trial on three murders, actually committed the 1985 attacks, know as the Delaware Park rapes.

Capozzi was charged with three similar rapes and went to trial in 1987. The rape victims told police their attacker was about 160 pounds – Capozzi weighed 200 to 220 pounds. None of the victims mentioned a prominent three-inch scar on Capozzi’s face. All three victims identified Capozzi in court as the attacker. He was convicted by a jury of two rapes and acquitted of the third. He was sentenced to 35 years.

Biological evidence was collected from two victims in 1985 and stored in a hospital drawer. When the evidence was tested in 2007 at the request of Capozzi and his attorney, sperm collected during the rape examinations of both victims matched the profile of a man currently in state custody – and proved that Capozzi could not be the rapist.

Capozzi was exonerated and released from state custody in April 2007.


© Innocence Project, All rights reserved.
info@innocenceproject.org



Also see the Crime Library's story-

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/ori...th_rapist.html

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By CAROLYN THOMPSON
May 13, 2007

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) _ Mary Capozzi looks for a moment at the white kitchen door as if she is seeing once more the policemen leaving through it, with her son, Anthony.

Police had been to the house before looking for a tank top, shorts, a ski mask, a gun-the tools of a rapist who was striking victims in the city's Delaware Park.

"Go ahead and look anyplace you want," Mary Capozzi had told them. Not only was her Anthony not a rapist, he wouldn't be caught dead in the gym clothes police described. Not Anthony, with his crisp, white shirts and trousers pressed so particularly that she had to take extra care so the crease didn't fall too sharply on his shoes.

A gun?

"My son was afraid of a needle this big," the slight, feisty mother of five said, holding her thumb and index finger two inches apart. "He would never own a gun."

But now, two officers were here in her kitchen, leading away 29-year-old Anthony as she and her husband, Albert, watched, panic-stricken. It was her middle daughter, Kathy's, birthday: Sept. 13, 1985.

"Don't worry, Mom," Anthony told her. "I'll be back."

She believed him. And waited for technology not yet imagined, for people whose names she did not yet know, for the next 22 years.

On Feb. 5, 1987, Mary Capozzi wept in state Supreme Court as a jury convicted her son of two of three rapes he had been accused of committing between December 1983 and July 1984. The victims had picked Capozzi out of lineups after a former policeman pointed investigators in his direction. Capozzi, who has schizophrenia, had been acting strangely at a coffee shop about a mile from the park, the policeman reported.

Capozzi was sentenced to 11 2/3 to 35 years in prison on two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of sexual abuse and two counts of sodomy.

"Please don't take comfort in the fact that Anthony Capozzi has been convicted of these two crimes, because he didn't do them," Capozzi's attorney, Thomas D'Agostino, told women through news cameras that converged after the verdict. "Don't feel that you can go running without company in Delaware Park."

Hope that the legal system would save Capozzi was quickly fading.

His mother had already put her faith in something bigger.

Every day after her son's arrest, Mary Capozzi prayed inside Holy Angels Church, a 150-year-old sanctuary with two soaring steeples a block from her home. Seven days a week, there were rosaries and novenas to Our Lady of Hope, prayers for her son's freedom and for peace for her, for her Anthony.

"You have to have faith," Mary Capozzi, now 75, says. "You've got to have something to hold on to."

She would pass that faith on to Anthony during the heartbreaking prison visits that went on year after year.

"Dad, what am I still doing here? I didn't do anything. I didn't hurt anyone. I wouldn't do anything to hurt a lady," the son would say to his father, who was 59 when the visits started, 81 and white-haired now.

It was his wife's faith in her son that strengthened his own when doubt would creep into his thoughts, Albert Capozzi says. His son had shown signs of mental illness, after all, and three victims seemed so sure it was him.

"But my wife said no. My son never did that," Albert Capozzi said. "She made a better person out of me because of that."

Anthony Capozzi spent 15 years at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy, a taxing 400-mile roundtrip drive for his family. There were shorter stays at Wende Correctional Facility outside Buffalo and Attica, a dismal fortress closer to home.

His mother's prayers continued through them all, and through other family trials: two daughters' battles with breast cancer, another's with multiple sclerosis.

"We told Anthony, we're a big family and we've got to stay together," Mary Capozzi said, "because you stay together, you're strong. Pull apart, you break and you're nothing."

Every two years beginning in 1997, Anthony Capozzi appeared before a parole board, but his family learned quickly not to get their hopes up.

To be considered for release, Capozzi would have to complete mandatory sex offender programming-something that would have required him to admit to the crimes and show remorse.

"Ant," his younger brother, Albert Jr., would say, "just say that you did it because if you say that you did it, you're going to get out."

"I can't," came the reply. "I didn't do it."

Five times, parole was denied.

A sixth parole hearing was set for April 3, 2007. This time, finally, there was reason to hope.

D'Agostino and a second lawyer, a parole expert named Norman Effman, had built what they believed was a strong case for Capozzi's release. It was based on the January arrest of a man whose DNA linked him to three murders and at least eight rapes from 1981 to 2006.

Two of the so-called "Bike Path Rapist's" crimes, in 1981 and 1986, occurred in the same park where Capozzi was accused of attacking women, and the description of the crimes was similar. In all the rapes, victims said they were surprised from behind or as the rapist ran by them, and the assailant told victims to wait 10 or 20 minutes before fleeing.

Snapshots from the 1970s and '80s of Capozzi and newly arrested Altemio Sanchez show similar dark hair and mustaches. The men are a year apart in age.

The parallels were enough to convince a half dozen detectives working the Bike Path case that Sanchez-a married factory worker who raised two sons while Capozzi was locked away-was responsible for all the park rapes.

"We thought we had a reasonable shot at parole," Effman said.

Sanchez has pleaded not guilty to three murders. He cannot be charged with the rapes because the statute of limitations has passed.

With the hearing approaching, there was a stunning find.

DNA evidence from Capozzi's alleged crimes-evidence no one knew existed-was located at Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo hospital where the victims had been treated.

No one has been able to explain why law enforcement did not know of the hospital's large catalog of glass slides that had been part of victim rape kits dating from 1973. The cache came to light only after a police officer working other unsolved rapes, on a hunch, asked the hospital whether such evidence might exist.

"The DNA was not of Anthony Capozzi," Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark announced five days before the hearing. "It was Altemio Sanchez."

"I don't want anybody to take this away from me," Mary Capozzi said that day, as she reveled in the news with her family.

The next day, Mary Capozzi returned to Holy Angels church to set flowers before the Blessed Mother. "Just a little token for her for what she's done for me and my family and for my dear, dear son."

Within days, Erie County Judge Shirley Troutman threw out Capozzi's conviction and ordered him freed. 21 years and 201 days after he was first imprisoned.

The Capozzis were reunited at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, where Anthony Capozzi is being evaluated. He greeted his mother with hugs and kisses.

On Easter, parishioners applauded the family at Mass.

"I'm not angry at all," said Capozzi, now 50, his dark hair close cropped and graying. "I'm glad to be home. It's all over now."

For his mother, there is sadness over time lost and memories of the empty ache of absence at so many holidays and birthdays.

But overriding are happy vows to make up for all of that-and then some.

Because his schizophrenia must be treated, Capozzi will likely live in an assisted living setting.

Throughout their neighborhood, blue vinyl ribbons rustle on trees and telephone polls. Neighbors tied them there as a welcome home for a returning son, and as thanks to the heavens for a mother's answered prayers.

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I live less than a mile from the Capozzi home.

I've never met Anthony, but someday I'd like to.
Just to hug him and welcome him home.

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NY Court of Claims Act

S 8-b. Claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment. 1. The legislature finds and declares that innocent persons who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and subsequently imprisoned have been frustrated in seeking legal redress due to a variety of substantive and
technical obstacles in the law and that such persons should have an available avenue of redress over and above the existing tort remedies to seek compensation for damages. The legislature intends by enactment of the provisions of this section that those innocent persons who can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that they were unjustly
convicted and imprisoned be able to recover damages against the state. In light of the substantial burden of proof that must be carried by such persons, it is the intent of the legislature that the court, in exercising its discretion as permitted by law regarding the weight and admissibility of evidence submitted pursuant to this section, shall, in
the interest of justice, give due consideration to difficulties of proof caused by the passage of time, the death or unavailability of witnesses, the destruction of evidence or other factors not caused by such persons or those acting on their behalf.
2. Any person convicted and subsequently imprisoned for one or more felonies or misdemeanors against the state which he did not commit may, under the conditions hereinafter provided, present a claim for damages against the state.
3. In order to present the claim for unjust conviction and imprisonment, claimant must establish by documentary evidence that:
(a) he has been convicted of one or more felonies or misdemeanors against the state and subsequently sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and has served all or any part of the sentence; and
(b) (i) he has been pardoned upon the ground of innocence of the crime or crimes for which he was sentenced and which are the grounds for the complaint; or (ii) his judgment of conviction was reversed or vacated, and the accusatory instrument dismissed or, if a new trial was ordered, either he was found not guilty at the new trial or he was not retried and the accusatory instrument dismissed; provided that the judgement of conviction was reversed or vacated, and the accusatory instrument was dismissed, on any of the following grounds: (A) paragraph (a), (b), (c), (e) or (g) of subdivision one of section 440.10 of the criminal procedure law; or (B) subdivision one (where based upon grounds set forth in item (A) hereof), two, three (where the count dismissed was the sole basis for the imprisonment complained of) or five of section 470.20 of the criminal procedure law; or (C) comparable provisions of the former code of criminal procedure or subsequent law; or (D) the statute, or application thereof, on which the accusatory instrument was based violated the constitution of the United States or the state of New York; and
(c) his claim is not time-barred by the provisions of subdivision seven of this section.
4. The claim shall state facts in sufficient detail to permit the court to find that claimant is likely to succeed at trial in proving that (a) he did not commit any of the acts charged in the accusatory instrument or his acts or omissions charged in the accusatory instrument
did not constitute a felony or misdemeanor against the state, and (b) he did not by his own conduct cause or bring about his conviction. The claim shall be verified by the claimant. If the court finds after reading the claim that claimant is not likely to succeed at trial, it
shall dismiss the claim, either on its own motion or on the motion of the state.
5. In order to obtain a judgment in his favor, claimant must prove by clear and convincing evidence that:
(a) he has been convicted of one or more felonies or misdemeanors against the state and subsequently sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and has served all or any part of the sentence; and
(b) (i) he has been pardoned upon the ground of innocence of the crime or crimes for which he was sentenced and which are the grounds for the complaint; or (ii) his judgment of conviction was reversed or vacated, and the accusatory instrument dismissed or, if a new trial was ordered, either he was found not guilty at the new trial or he was not retried
and the accusatory instrument dismissed; provided that the judgement of conviction was reversed or vacated, and the accusatory instrument was dismissed, on any of the following grounds: (A) paragraph (a), (b), (c), (e) or (g) of subdivision one of section 440.10 of the criminal procedure law; or (B) subdivision one (where based upon grounds set forth in item (A) hereof), two, three (where the count dismissed was the sole basis for the imprisonment complained of) or five of section 470.20 of the criminal procedure law; or (C) comparable provisions of the former code of criminal procedure or subsequent law; or (D) the statute,
or application thereof, on which the accusatory instrument was based violated the constitution of the United States or the state of New York; and (c) he did not commit any of the acts charged in the accusatory instrument or his acts or omissions charged in the accusatory instrument did not constitute a felony or misdemeanor against the state; and
(d) he did not by his own conduct cause or bring about his conviction.
6. If the court finds that the claimant is entitled to a judgment, it shall award damages in such sum of money as the court determines will fairly and reasonably compensate him.
7. Any person claiming compensation under this section based on a pardon that was granted before the effective date of this section or the dismissal of an accusatory instrument that occurred before the effective date of this section shall file his claim within two years after the effective date of this section. Any person claiming compensation under
this section based on a pardon that was granted on or after the effective date of this section or the dismissal of an accusatory instrument that occurred on or after the effective date of this section shall file his claim within two years after the pardon or dismissal.

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Story Published: Jul 25, 2007 at 7:29 PM EDT
Story Updated: Jul 25, 2007 at 7:29 PM EDT
By Melanie Pritchard


Altemio Sanchez faces up to 75 years to life behind bars when he is sentenced next month for the bike path murders. There are other victims of Sanchez who feel they'll never have any closure. He raped them, but he won't spend any time in jail for it.

"He put the rope around my neck and then drove out to Hamburg and that's when he raped me and then strangled me." We're calling her Janet and hiding her face to protect her identity. She had a clear memory man who attacked her in 1985 and she knew it was Altemio Sanchez when she saw news of his arrest early this year. "Basically got all choked up. The tightness in my throat felt like I was being strangled again."

But prosecutors can't go after Sanchez in Janet's case and the other rapes he's been linked to because of a prior statute of limitations. "It's always funny how the law moves with about the speed of a glacier." The law finally changed last fall, giving Frank Clark and other District Attorneys across the state the power to prosecute first degree rape and sexual assault cases without any time limit. Clark sees a moral obligation to Sanchez's victims to definitively link all the rapes they can him. Investigators can only afford to review cases that fit his behavior pattern. "We have strained our resources to the breaking point. We're not going to go on a general hunt without anything specific in mind."

At Crisis Services in Buffalo, they know how important dna has become in solving rapes and sexual assaults...helping to eliminate the time limit on prosecutions. "It's opened the doors tremendously for any of this movement to happen and I'm hoping that it will open the doors even more with the statute of limitations being removed even more so than they already are."

But for Janet, it's a burden she will always bear. "Where's the justice? Where's my closure?" Janet plans to be in the courtroom for Sanchez's sentencing August 14th. The District Attorney says there's now two or three more rapes they're looking to link to Sanchez - in addition to the 11 we heard about Tuesday.