Arrest of Altemio Sanchez
On January 15, 2007, a police task force in Erie County, New York, arrested Sanchez and charged him with the murders. On January 19, 2007, an Erie County grand jury voted to indict Sanchez for the murders of Yalem and Mazur.
Police say DNA found at eight crime scenes matches DNA secretly taken from Sanchez before his arrest.
Diver was the only one of the victims who was not raped. It is believed she died during the strangulation before Sanchez could rape her.
Many of the rapes attributed to Sanchez will go unprosecuted due to the statute of limitations on the prosecution of rape that was in effect in New York at the time those crimes were committed. He is also a suspect in an ongoing investigation for the murder of a 15-year-old girl in 1985.
On August 15, 2007, Sanchez was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison. He is currently being held in the Clinton Correctional Facility; he may be moved to a facility closer to his family if he confesses to further murders. DNA linked him to some 25 sexual assaults from 1975.
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