
Eduardo Mendez, 51, was convicted of aggravated rape in Fall River Superior Court on Thursday for a 1994 attack in Attleboro, Massachusetts. The conviction came after testing an untested rape kit, which identified Mendez, originally from Guatemala, as the perpetrator.
A 36-year-old woman was attacked, dragged into an apartment hallway, and raped by Mendez. After the men fled, a 14-year-old girl found the victim and took her to the Attleboro Police Station—a sequence of events noted by Quinn and cited by both WCVB and Boston 25 News. The case was solved when an untested evidence kit was submitted to the lab in 2019 as part of a project to test old rape kits. DNA analysis found a match, leading to Mendez's arrest in New York City in 2022.
Mendez is set for sentencing on January 27 at 9 a.m. The case began in 1994 when a young teen discovered a crime scene, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced, according to WCVB.