Authorities said Phillip Cerf has been accused of several sex crimes since 1997 and was identified after officials' DNA confirmation this year.
"He was our hero, and now to see this, it's just devastating," John QuiƱones told Eyewitness News, sharing his insight as a former farmworker himself who looked up to Chavez.
Crystal Mangum made headlines in 2006 for falsely accusing three Duke lacrosse players of rape.
A man has been convicted in the 1982 rape and murder of a young girl after investigators were able to use a cigarette to link him to the murder.
The "That '70s Show" actor has filed a petition to overturn his two rape convictions and long prison sentence. He claims his trial lawyer failed to call key witnesses and present crucial evidence.
A man who sent a Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," to a woman he admits sexually assaulting in college has been sentenced to two to four years in prison.