California Man Arrested In Decatur, Suspected Of Violent Rapes

DECATUR, GA -- A Decatur man was arrested Friday on charges that he violently raped three California women between 1992 and 1994. On Monday, Sacramento, California officials said Mark Manteuffel, 59, was arrested on three counts of rape, two counts of torture with the use of a knife and one count of sodomy. Authorities said Mantueffel was linked to the crimes by DNA evidence.

"The message should be clear: If you committed a violent crime in this community and you left your DNA, you can expect that we’re going to try to solve that crime, bring you to justice," said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert in a news conference carried by Fox 40.

The first crime happened on May 5, 1992, when a woman reported being assaulted in her Sacramento County home over a period of about three hours. In January 1994, a 22-year-woman in Yolo County was attacked while jogging and assaulted. Then, on March 23, 1994, an East Sacramento woman was assaulted in her home.

Manteuffel was a student at Sacramento State and part-time criminal justice guest lecturer at the time of the attacks. He would later, according to the AJC, work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Atlanta, as well as similar bureaus in Oklahoma City and Miami.

Manteuffel will be extradited back to California.