"In all, Lashay Durisseau, 56, has been linked to a total of seven cold rape cases in the East Bay as well as in Texas, which occurred in four jurisdictions between 1994 and 2008, according to a Berkeley police news release. On Monday, Bay Area detectives traveled to Texas and, with local authorities, including a Houston-based FBI task force, they arrested Durisseau without incident at his home in Richmond, Texas."
"The Berkeley Scanner reported that the Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed charges against Durisseau on Tuesday, alleging two counts of forcible rape and one count of forced oral copulation. Citing court documents, the Berkeley Scanner said three of the cases involved a 17-year-old Texas girl who was assaulted in 1994, a 35-year-old woman who was raped in Berkeley in 2002 and a 19-year-old woman who was attacked in Oakland, also in 2002."
"Berkeley police didn't offer any specific information on the allegations against Durisseau, except to say that, in the majority of attacks, the suspect either physically assaulted the victims or threatened them with a firearm. The Berkeley police news release said that evidence from the Berkeley case was tested in 2015 through a grant obtained by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office to process previously untested rape kits. That testing resulted in a case-to-case DNA match linking five additional cases."
Lashay Durisseau, 56, has been linked by DNA to seven cold rape and kidnapping cases occurring in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond and Texas between 1994 and 2008. Bay Area detectives, working with Texas authorities and a Houston-based FBI task force, arrested Durisseau at his Richmond, Texas, home without incident. The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed charges including two counts of forcible rape and one count of forced oral copulation. Multiple victims included a 17-year-old in Texas in 1994, a 35-year-old in Berkeley in October 2002, and a 19-year-old attacked in Oakland in November 2002. Rape-kit testing funded by 2015 and 2021–22 grants produced DNA matches linking additional cases. In most attacks the suspect either assaulted victims or threatened them with a firearm.
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