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room without waking the victim or her roommates. Montes was arrested by
Sergeant (later Major) Angel Vazquez of the Miami Beach Police Department. Major Vazquez obtained DNA samples from Montes, which were matched to semen sample DNA from the youth hostel attack on the Irish student. In addition, Major Vazquez linked Montes to four other similar incidents on Miami Beach. Montes' DNA was later matched to the DNA samples from the Caroline Dickinson murder investigation. The State of Florida suspended its charges against Montes to allow for his extradition to France to stand charges for the murder of Dickinson.
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The principal evidence against Montes was provided by DNA analysis. Montes was evaluated by a psychologist, who told the court that he displayed evidence of the "evident, male pedophile attitude". During the trial, a statement was read from Montes' mother in which she disavowed him, saying that she
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Montes had been arrested in Miami Beach for a lewd and lascivious assault on a female Irish tourist at a youth hostel, as detailed in the "Real Crime" documentary "The
Caroline Dickinson Murder". The crime was similar to the modus operandi in the Dickinson case, with Montes able to enter the girls'
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but fled when one of the girls woke and turned the light on. Police continued to search for other similar incidents at youth hostels across France and continually came across the name of a
Spanish man named Francisco Arce Montes staying at many of these hostels around the time of the attacks. French
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Montes told investigators that he had a miserable childhood. He was born the only son of middle-class parents who ran a corner grocery store. During his teens, he began to obsess over his personal hygiene and began doing things such as operating doorknobs and light-switches with a handkerchief. At
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In 1981, Montes broke into the room of a girl in a youth hostel in the
Netherlands and "touched her sexually against her wishes". The girl, now a woman, testified against Montes during a trial in 2005. Montes was also jailed in Germany during the mid-1980s for armed rape. Montes left a swath of
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immigration search to see if a man by that name had ever traveled to the United States. He found the name of a
Francisco Arce-Montes, who in fact was in police custody in Miami Beach. Ontko contacted the French and British authorities and was able to confirm Montes' date of birth and hometown.
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would rather "sleep rough" than share a house with him. Montes was sentenced to 30 years in prison on 14 June 2004. On appeal a year later, Montes' conviction and sentence were upheld and he abandoned a subsequent further appeal.
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