ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- An Ohio robber has been linked by DNA evidence to an upstate New York break-in 19 years ago during which a woman was raped and her husband suffered fatal head injuries. Authorities on Monday unsealed an indictment charging 44-year-old Timothy Farrare with second-degree murder. A judge set a Sept. 9 trial date after Farrare pleaded not guilty. Prosecutor Sandra Doorley says a DNA sample Farrare surrendered after being convicted in 2000 of three robberies in Ohio was recently matched with crime-scene evidence from June 18, 1990, when Leo and Ann Rickless were attacked by an intruder in their apartment in Rochester. The 66-year-old Rickless died of head injuries three weeks later. His wife died in a nursing home in 2007.
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