Timothy Bachicha, Kidnapping with Intent to Commit a Sexual Assault, New Mexico 2023

New Mexico Serial Rapist Convicted

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A federal jury convicted Timothy Bachicha, 41 of Albuquerque, of two counts of Kidnapping with Intent to Commit a Sexual Assault on December 15, 2023.

The jury convicted Bachicha after two and a half hours of deliberation. Judge Matthew L. Garcia presided.

A federal grand jury issued a first indictment against Bachicha with Count 1 on July 25, 2019, and added Count 2 on January 29, 2020.

According to evidence presented at trial and other publicly available court records, on October 30, 2018, Bachicha observed Jane Doe 1 walking down a residential street in Northeast Albuquerque. He stopped his vehicle and asked her if she wanted a ride. When Jane Doe 1 declined, he forcibly abducted her, pulling her into his vehicle by her neck.

Once in the vehicle, Bachicha drove from the area of San Mateo and Indian School to a dirt lot near the UNM Cancer Center just east of Interstate 25. There, Bachicha held Jane Doe 1 for twenty hours while he strangled and sexually assaulted her.

He released her the early afternoon of October 31, 2018, after receiving alerts that the battery on his court-ordered GPS monitor was dying.

Following news coverage of this crime, Jane Doe 2 came forward to disclose that, weeks earlier, she had been held for sixteen hours by Bachicha in a semi-truck in Albuquerque near Interstate 25 and Comanche Road.

During the attack, Bachicha strangled Jane Doe 2 and sexually assaulted her. Bachicha’s GPS monitor confirmed his presence at the location and time described by Jane Doe 2.

Both women fought Bachicha during their attacks, and both testified against him in trial. The jury also heard from two other women who suffered similar attacks by Bachicha in 2017 and 2018.

Bachicha will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled. At sentencing, Bachicha faces up to two life sentences.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation adopted and continued the investigation of this case following extensive investigation by the Albuquerque Police Department, with assistance from the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office and the New Mexico State Probation and Parole Office.

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