VENTURA, Calif. (KABC) -- Ventura County officials announced a major breakthrough Thursday in a decades-long sexual assault investigation.

According to the district attorney's office, Sean Patrick McNulty has been connected to two home invasion rapes that happened in Ventura in the early '80s along with four additional home invasion rapes in Michigan and Ohio.

McNulty, who grew up in Ventura, died in Michigan in 1997. An investigative genealogist tied McNulty to the crimes through his DNA profile.

"In March 2024, the perpetrator DNA profile from the 1982 case was determined to match the perpetrator DNA profile from the 1983 case," read a statement released by the district attorney's office. "Additionally, the same perpetrator DNA profile matched that recovered from rapes occurring in 1

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