Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Altemio Sanchez, also known as the "Bike Path Rapist", has died while serving a 75 year-to-life sentence for the murders of three women in the Buffalo area.
Sanchez was taken from prison to an Amherst hospital, where he died Friday at the age of 65.
"The official cause of death will be determined and released by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office," the state said in a statement.
Prosecutors ultimately used DNA evidence to link him to the murders, which were committed in Erie County.
Other rapes linked to him could not be tried because of statute of limitations.