ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- An Ohio inmate whose DNA unlocked a 19-year-old unsolved murder case in western New York has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Timothy Farrare drew the maximum penalty Monday after being convicted of murder in September for bludgeoning retired cab driver Leo Rickless during an apartment break-in in Rochester in June 1990.   

Rickless, who was 66, died of his head injuries three weeks later.

His widow, Ann, who was raped, died in a nursing home in 2006.

The next year, Farrare's DNA was found to match evidence from the couple's apartment.   

The 44-year-old Farrare, sent to prison for 13 years in 2000 for three robberies in Ohio, was not charged with rape because the statute of limitations had expired.

He'll serve his New York sentence after the prison term in Ohio.