From the moment he was sentenced to life in prison for three sexual assaults, Luis Lorenzo Vargas maintained that someone else had carried out the heinous crimes. But it took more than a decade ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan exonerated Luis Vargas after DNA evidence linked the crimes to the so-called “teardrop rapist,” who is suspected of more than 30 rapes in the Los ...

Luis Vargas has been in prison for 16 years for crimes he didn't commit, according to the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law, which took up his case in 2012 ...

Moments before he was sentenced to life in prison for three sexual assaults, Luis Lorenzo Vargas proclaimed his innocence. “You can sentence me to all the years you want,” he warned a judge in ...

Luis Vargas, now 46, sat before a judge on Monday emotionally as his lips quivered. Vargas served 16 years in prison after being convicted of raping three women, victims of the "Teardrop Rapist." ...

Vargas's daughter, Crystal, was 10 when her father was taken into custody. "Not having a father figure is difficult. You don't have that sense of protection, the sense of security," she told CBS LA.

Luis Lorenzo Vargas, 46, was convicted of sexually assaulting three women in 1999 after jurors decided he was the so-called ‘teardrop rapist’, an unidentified attacker who is now believed to ...