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Sandoval had just left the post office when her assailant forced her by knifepoint into her car and sexually assaulted her multiple times, Rhodes said. A police officer ultimately pulled the vehicle over for failure to dim headlights, allowing Sandoval to escape, Rhodes said.

\"She believed he was going to kill her,\" Rhodes said. \"He had said to her, 'I can't let you go because you've seen my face.'\"

Rhodes said the sheriff's office has closed all four cases but Sposito's; there were multiple contributors of DNA on the evidence so they are continuing to investigate.

\"Even though there's an extraordinarily high degree of likelihood that Bryan Scott Bennett killed her, we always take new information,\" the sheriff said.

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PHOTO: Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes speaks at a press conference on Aug. 25, 2023, in Prescott, Ariz.
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Though Bennett won't be tried in the cases, Rhodes said it \"doesn't mean that it's any less significant.\"

\"The other role here is exactly what happened is that we're giving voice back to the survivors. You're giving answers back to the survivors. You're giving answers back to the community,\" he said.

Bennett withdrew from Prescott High School in 1988 and was briefly in the Army before deserting in 1989, according to the sheriff's office. He was convicted of forgery charges in 1991 and received three years probation, though was not convicted of any violent crimes, the sheriff's office said.

Rhodes said investigators believe there may be more than four victims linked to the suspect.

\"What we know of serious violent predators like this is that it is very unlikely, given the frequency in which he was willing to act, that these are the only four cases that exist,\" he said.

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