The hit on the state’s DNA database – 20 years after the first killing – startled Yonkers police who said they had looked at more than 100 potential suspects in the case, but not Acevedo.
“I was ecstatic,” Detective John Geiss, the cold case specialist in Yonkers, said Tuesday after attending the sentencing. He said he hopes eventually “everyone who gets locked up” is required to give up DNA.
“It’s a great tool,” he said. “DNA doesn’t lie.”
Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said the Acevedo case is “the most compelling example” supporting expansion of the DNA database.
Cuomo has said that since 1996, the database has provided leads to 2,700 convictions while helping free 27 people who were wrongly accused.
Acevedo’s victims were Maria Ramos, 26, and Tawana Hodges, 38, both of the Bronx, and Kimberly Moore, 30, of Greenburgh.
Acevedo was acquitted of three counts of rape. Police had said Ramos and Hodges were prostitutes.

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