Jose Hernandez is a serial rapist, a jury has ruled.
Prosecutors used DNA to connect the 35-year-old to separate rapes in 1998 and 2002. He'll face a life prison term when he's sentenced next month.
Hernandez was convicted in 2004 of assault with intent to commit rape.
A then-new law required him to give a DNA sample after that conviction.
That DNA was compared to DNA left at the scenes of unsolved crimes, and Hernandez was linked to the Bakersfield rapes of two women, 27 and 53.