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A man convicted of raping a college student inside her apartment was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday.

Jancys Santiago was found guilty of the offense in June. This is New York’s first sexual assault cold case with an indictment based on investigative genealogy.

The 2001 crime was unsolved for more than two decades before the technique help crack the case.