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https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/11/27/homewood-kidnapping-sexual-assault-6-year-old-girl-2013/


Christopher Young Charged With Kidnapping, Sexual Assault Of 6-Year-Old Homewood Girl, 6 Years After Girl Is Found
November 27, 2019 at 9:41 pm

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (CBS) — A south suburban man has been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl – six years after the girl reported the crime.

Christopher Young, 52, of Flossmoor, stood charged Wednesday with aggravated kidnapping and predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, according to Homewood police.

On Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, around 1:55 a.m., Flossmoor police were called for a found child in the 1300 block of Bunker Avenue in Flossmoor.

According to a proffer from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, the girl told police that a man came into her home on Hood Avenue in Homewood while she was sleeping, picked her up, took her to his car, and then drove her to another house sometime between 9:30 p.m. Dec. 27 and 2:04 a.m. Dec. 28.

The girl was able to describe the bedroom of the house and the furniture in the living room there, the proffer said.

Afterward, the girl said the man put her back in his car and dropped her off on Bunker Avenue in Flossmoor, the proffer said.

The girl’s parents told police she had been sleeping in the living room that night because repairs were going on in her bedroom, and said the girl was not known to walk out of the house at night. Meanwhile, there were marks on the front door of the girl’s family’s house indicating that it had been pried open, the proffer said.

Meanwhile, the girl was then taken to a hospital for an external examination and the collection of a sexual assault kit. In June 2014, Homewood police received a report from Illinois State Police that they did find seminal DNA on the girl’s body and clothes, the proffer said.

But the DNA did not match anyone in state police records.

However, it turned out that the DNA found with the girl matched recovered DNA from another sexual assault incident in Flossmoor five years earlier, on Dec. 28, 2008, the proffer said.

An investigation of both incidents led to Young, the proffer said. Meanwhile, a computer search confirmed that residents of two houses near Young’s had taken out orders of protection against him, the proffer said.

Young’s home on Bob O Link Road in Flossmoor is also the same area that was described by the 6-year-old girl about where she was taken in the car, prosecutors said.

Police took garbage from Young’s house and submitted it to the state police Crime Lab, prosecutors said. The DNA profile was consistent with the seminal DNA found with the girl, prosecutors said.

Police then obtained a search warrant to take DNA swab directly from Young, and on Nov. 21, the girl, now 12, identified him in a photo array as her assailant, prosecutors said.

 

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https://www.koin.com/news/crime/backlog-project-leads-to-indictment-in-2013-rape/

Backlog project leads to indictment in 2013 rape

The alleged sexual assault occurred on February 24, 2013

Updated: Dec 4, 2019 / 11:19 AM PST

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Almost 7 years after the alleged crime occurred, Frank Domont Hall Jr. has been indicted for allegedly raping a woman.

The alleged sexual assault occurred on February 24, 2013, in a multi-unit dwelling in downtown Portland. Hall was arrested on November 27, 2019, when police found him near the intersection of Northeast Clackamas Street and Grand Avenue.

A Multnomah County grand jury returned a single indictment against Hall and charged him with one count of rape on Tuesday.

This indictment is part of an ongoing Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Elimination Project, a collaborative effort between Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill, the Portland Police Bureau, the Gresham Police Department, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon State Police Forensic Laboratory. This is the 12 indictment to come from the project.

 

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https://www.wlky.com/article/dna-te...1990-rape-of-jefferson-county-woman/30158450#

DNA test leads to arrest in 1990 rape of Jefferson County woman
Updated: 11:37 PM EST Dec 7, 2019

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Authorities have made an arrest in the 1990 rape of a woman in Jefferson County.

According to the arrest slips, Roscoe Smith, knocked on the door of the victim and presented her with an envelope addressed to her house, saying he wanted to return it. When she answered the door, Smith allegedly forced entry into the home, tied her up and raped her.

After the incident, the victim filed a report with the Louisville Metro Police Department and a rape kit was performed.

The case was reopened nearly 30 years later at the request of the victim. Officials discovered two untested items from her rape kit and sent those to the lab for DNA testing. The results of this test identified Smith's DNA was present in the victim's rape kit.

Smith was arrested shortly after and charged with sodomy, rape and burglary.

 

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https://www.salisburypost.com/2019/...lve-35-year-old-murder-of-reesa-dawn-trexler/

Salisbury Police solve 35-year-old murder of Reesa Dawn Trexler
Published 11:17 am Tuesday, December 3, 2019

SALISBURY — Salisbury Police detectives say they have solved the 35-year-old murder of Reesa Dawn Trexler, a local teen who was found stabbed to death at her grandfather’s North Shaver Street home, according to details revealed during a morning press conference.

Officials would only say that the suspect was a black male and that the case has been cleared. However, the Post obtained a petition for the exhumation of Curtis Edward Blair, whose body, court records show, was exhumed to conduct a forensic evaluation.

The petition indicates witnesses saw a black male running in the area of the crime scene at the time of the homicide. Investigators received information that Blair was employed by Frito-Lay in Salisbury, two blocks from the crime scene.

According to the court documents, a case summary says investigators seized a knife belonging to C. Blair, which was submitted to the state crime lab for analysis, but no blood was detected.

Salisbury Police submitted a DNA swab from a sexual assault kit and the lab was able to extract DNA and developed a male DNA profile. Police consulted with Parabon NanoLabs and submitted the profile for a genetic genealogy report. Based on genetic, genealogical and circumstantial evidence, Blair was a “very strong candidate to be the subject of the unidentified male extracted DNA profile,” court documents said.

Blair died Aug. 6, 2004, court records show, and at the time of his death, he lived in San Diego County, California. His remains were interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in Salisbury a few weeks later.

Trexler, 15, was found June 15, 1984, nude on the floor in a bedroom of the home. She had been stabbed several times in the upper chest and neck. An autopsy would later reveal the blade of a knife had broken off and was found in her right shoulder.

Trexler’s grandfather, Walt Monroe, had been to the grocery store and his wife, to the hairdresser, at the time of the murder. There was no forced entry into the home, and the family said nothing was taken. The teenager was still wearing a bracelet, watch and ring.

Several people, including family members, were rumored to be suspects through the years, but no arrest was ever made.

Trexler’s sister, Jodie Trexler Laird, appeared on “The Dr. Phil Show” in 2018 and passed a polygraph test, which renewed interest in the case. She has been exonerated by the new evidence, as well. Police say she was instrumental in closing the case.

 

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https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019...or-1992-stabbing-of-st-pauls-annette-seymour/


DNA Results In Murder Count For 1992 Stabbing Of St. Paul’s Annette Seymour
December 11, 2019 at 1:01 pm

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the 1992 stabbing of a St. Paul woman whose partially clothed body was found near an old entrance to a streetcar tunnel, prosecutors said Wednesday.

John Robert Capers, 65, is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Thursday.

He’s charged in the death of 39-year-old Annette Seymour. A citizen discovered Seymour’s body on July 14, 1992 near the entrance to the old Selby Avenue streetcar tunnel below the St. Paul Cathedral.

She was clothed in only a T-shirt, and had 11 stab wounds to her neck, chest, back and arms. An autopsy showed she died of blood loss from her wounds.

The case went unsolved for years. According to the criminal complaint, in 2009, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tested some evidence in the case and found that DNA from a semen stain matched Capers.

Further testing in 2011 confirmed the match, the complaint said.

It was not immediately clear if Capers has an attorney to comment on his behalf. When authorities interviewed Capers in 2011, they showed him a picture of Seymour. He denied knowing her, meeting her or having anything to do with her death, the complaint said.

 

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https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...charge-phoenix-shooting-rape-case/2700807001/

Trespassing charge leads to arrest in 2001 Phoenix rape case and recent shooting
Updated 6:26 p.m. MT Dec. 19, 2019

A man arrested this week for trespassing in Glendale has been connected to two other crimes: The recent shooting and killing of a 35-year-old man in north Phoenix, and the 2001 rape of a then-16-year-old girl in Phoenix, police said.

Rodney T. Vinson, 44, is suspected of shooting Javon Hatcher Dec. 13 near 25th Avenue and Ocotillo Road, Phoenix police spokesman Detective Luis Samudio said on Thursday.

Police say Vinson was also booked on suspicion of sexual assault after DNA testing linked him to the rape of the teenage girl 18 years ago in Phoenix.

 

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https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/l...ounty/67-10800c69-e3a7-4d61-bd51-fff36627b914

Man convicted of rape in 30-year-old cold case
Phillip Coward was convicted on two counts of sexual battery with a weapon for the rape of a young mother in 1988.

Updated: 9:59 AM EST December 23, 2019

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — A 60-year-old man has been convicted of sexual battery that happened more than 30 years ago.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said this week Phillip Coward was convicted on two counts of sexual battery with a weapon for the 1988 rape of a young mother.

Deputies said in November 1988, the woman fell asleep on the couch and woke up to an unknown man holding a knife to her throat. The man threatened to stab her if she screamed or fought back. Deputies said the man sexually battered the woman twice before leaving the home.

Responding deputies found a knife outside the woman's home and said it had been taken from her kitchen knife block. A physical exam was done on the woman, but the case eventually went cold.

Two years ago, as part of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's rape kit backlog purge, the exam kit was analyzed and a DNA profile of a man was identified. The investigation was reactivated and Coward was arrested on June 11, 2018.

Deputies said the woman did not know him.

Coward's sentencing is set for Feb. 13, 2020.

 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...exonerated-DNA-analysis-leads-new-arrest.html

Texas man, 42, who was convicted in a fatal 2010 stabbing is exonerated after DNA analysis leads to a new arrest

Lydell Grant, 42, was freed on bond last month following new analysis of DNA
Grant served seven years of life sentence after he was convicted of murder
He was convicted of stabbing to death 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn in 2010
But now investigators believe that 41-year-old Jermarico Carter is the killer
New DNA found under Scheerhoorn's fingernails pointed to Carter as a suspect
Authorities tracked down Carter in Georgia, where he was arrested Thursday
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Carter admitted to killing victim

Updated: 05:43 EST, 23 December 2019

Lydell Grant (pictured), 42, was freed on bond last month after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim's fingernails pointed to his innocence in the killing of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn

Authorities now believe 41-year-old Jermarico Carter (left) killed Aaron Scheerhoorn (right)


https://www.chron.com/news/houston-...killing-could-be-crime-of-passion-1706315.php

'Brutal' killing could be crime of passion
Police seek suspect in very public Montrose slaying
Man chased, stabbed victim in front of witnesses

Houston police spent Saturday searching for a clean-cut man who chased down a 28-year-old in Montrose late Friday, stabbing him multiple times in front of several witnesses before calmly walking away.

Authorities, who are still investigating the motive, said the killing could possibly be a crime of passion. Police have determined that it wasn't a robbery or hate crime.

"It was brutal," said Houston homicide Sgt. W. Meeler.

The suspect pursued Aaron Scheerhoorn on foot in the 800 block of Hyde Park Boulevard late Friday. Scheerhoorn had already been stabbed once when the pair arrived on the front steps of Club Blur on the corner of Pacific and Crocker around 11:40 p.m.

The suspect proceeded to stab Scheerhoorn several more times, including wounds to the chest, abdomen, forearm, left side and hand, authorities said.


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https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...rest-chandler-sexual-assault-case/4438531002/

DNA from brandy bottle cap leads to arrest in Chandler sexual assault case
Updated 10:03 p.m. MT Jan. 10, 2020

A Chandler man was arrested Thursday after DNA evidence tied him to a sexual assault case eight months ago, according to court documents.

Michael W. Burks, 33, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman on May 3 inside her Chandler home near Queen Creek and Dobson roads, according to a probable cause statement submitted to the court.

At the time, the woman, who was not identified because she is a victim, told police she was sexually assaulted about 1 a.m. after a man she didn't know entered her home, court documents said.

During the assault, she bit him on his arm as she tried to get away, screamed for help and attempted to call the police, according to court documents.

Although her phone was taken away during the assault, the woman was able to activate an emergency button on her phone, which successfully connected her with Chandler police dispatch, court documents said.

Her screams could be heard on an audio recording of the call, according to court documents.

On the night of the sexual assault, Chandler police officers at the scene found a bottle cap near the woman's front door that matched the description of a bottle of brandy she said her attacker held when he knocked at her door, court documents said.

The bottle cap was processed for DNA evidence that later matched to Burks, court documents said.

 

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https://fox42kptm.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-19-year-old-cold-case-murder

Man arrested for 19-year-old cold case murder
Tuesday, January 14th 2020

OMAHA, Neb. (FOX 42 KPTM) — The family of a man who was murdered 19 years ago is now getting justice.

Metro Area Fugitive Task Force arrested 51-year-old Christopher Martin Tuesday for first-degree murder.

On December 5, 2000, Omaha Police responded to 2907 Q Street after receiving a call of a person found lying on the ground in south Omaha.

When they arrived officers found 35-year-old Todd Schumacher with multiple gunshot wounds. Schumacher was pronounced dead at the scene.

https://www.omaha.com/news/crime/om...cle_66984126-b875-5d90-a6e5-4ca29e98edf6.html

Todd Schumacher

 

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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/ge...ictim-breaks-silence-after-major-breakthrough

Georgia cold case rape victim breaks silence after major breakthrough
1/22/20

COBB COUNTY, Ga - Advanced DNA technology led investigators to a major breakthrough in three rape cases from more than two decades ago.

The crimes may have been more than 20 years ago, but to the women who lived through the horror, it seems like yesterday.

"The worst day of my life happened 21 years ago," Nicole Ebbeskotte said.

It was 1999. Ebbeskotte was in her own Cobb County bedroom when she was raped by a stranger. Investigators were able to link one man to the rapes of Ebbeskotte and two other women in the same area near Windy Hill Road, but they didn't know who that man was.

"That was what was frustrating that there was nobody on the other side of the DNA," said Ebbeskotte.

That is until last year. With the help of a $10,000 federal grant, investigators used advanced genealogy testing and identified relatives of Williams. They built the genetic tree forward and it led them to 48-year-old Lorinzo Novoa Williams.

 

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https://abc7ny.com/new-dna-tests-solve-1991-nj-boardwalk-rape-murder-case/5898863/

New DNA tests solve 1991 New Jersey boardwalk rape, murder case

2/2/20
FREEHOLD, New Jersey -- Authorities say new DNA tests have allowed them to solve the rape and murder of a woman whose body was found at the boardwalk of a seaside city in New Jersey nearly three decades ago.

The Monmouth County prosecutor's office said Friday that Clarence Turnage, who died in 2014, has been identified as the attacker, but they are still trying to confirm that Christa Engel was the woman whose body was found under a ramp at the Asbury Park boardwalk in March 1991.

Prosecutors said Engel, who was born in West Germany and was married in New Jersey in 1961, had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. A suspect was charged initially but later exonerated after initial tests on DNA taken from the crime scene.

New tests were sought in 2018 from a private forensic laboratory "in light of the more recent advances and innovations in DNA testing technology," prosecutors said. Authorities also received permission to exhume Turnage's body to obtain a DNA sample for a direct comparison.

In February 2019, prosecutors said, tests confirmed that Turnage's DNA matched DNA profiles from the victim's dress, stockings and body, three profiles not tested in 1991 when the case was originally under investigation. Tests on other items also confirmed the exclusion of the original suspect, prosecutors said.

At the time of the homicide, Turnage lived about 300 yards away from where the victim's body was found and a block away from the hotel where she was living at the time, prosecutors said.


http://ahherald.com/newsbrief/local-news/26829-asbury-park-homicide-cold-case-solved-after-28-years

Asbury Park Homicide Cold Case Solved After 28 Years

FREEHOLD – A 1991 Asbury Park murder has been solved after new DNA evidence testing provided a crucial break in the case, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

On the morning of March 27, 1991, the Asbury Park Police Department contacted the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office after a deceased white female was found under a ramp of a building at the Asbury Park Boardwalk near Fourth Avenue. Police were notified of the body’s location at 7:37 am, and officers responded to secure the scene. The victim was believed to have been Christa Engel, though at that time there were no next of kin located to confirm Engel’s identity. The medical examiner later concluded Engel had been severely beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled to death.


https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=clarence-wilson-turnage&pid=172739134


Clarence Wilson Turnage

Published in Asbury Park Press on Oct. 9, 2014

 

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https://fox40.com/2020/02/07/sacramento-detectives-arrest-homicide-suspect-in-24-year-old-cold-case/

Sacramento detectives arrest homicide suspect in 23-year-old cold case
Updated at 10:17PM, February 7, 2020

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Sacramento detectives made an arrest Thursday in a decades-old homicide case.

The Sacramento Police Department reports 58-year-old Irvin Parnell was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail and faces homicide charges after the 1996 killing of 33-year-old Linda Garcia.

More than 20 years ago, Garcia was found dead in her Massie Court hotel room. Investigators say she died from blunt force trauma.

Parnell was already in custody for charges unrelated to the homicide case when cold case detectives uncovered new information about Garcia’s death.

 

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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/n...-2012/83-5ef19e94-0cf4-411f-b600-f8310887da11

Man charged with murder of woman found dead behind Greensboro church in 2012
Police say 33-year-old Paula Joy Nicks died of blunt force trauma.

Updated: 10:49 AM EST February 12, 2020

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro Police say they've charged a man with the murder of a woman who was found dead behind a church back in 2012.

Police found the body of 33-year-old Paula Joy Nicks on May 25, 2012, behind a church on Randolph Avenue. Investigators say she died from blunt force trauma.

According to a release, detectives working off new information were able to determine 27-year-old Jack Leon Coker, Jr. was involved in Nicks' murder. They say he lived in Greensboro when the murder happened.

Police arrested Coker on Tuesday, February 11 after he was released from the NC Department of Corrections. Police say he was serving a sentence for Attempted Second Degree Rape, which happened in the Kinston, NC area.

 

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https://www.newschannel5.com/news/4-arrested-in-2015-hickman-co-cold-case

4 arrested in 2015 Hickman Co. cold case
Updated: 8:51 PM, Feb 14, 2020

HICKMAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Four people were charged in the cold case Paul JR Hayward, who was killed in 2015.

Lindsey Barnes, Jamie Swarthout, Mustafa Slater, Tramell Sparkman were charged with first degree murder, robbery and kidnapping Friday.

Hayward was found shot to death along Highway 230 in Hickman County on Dec. 27, 2015. His vehicle was found the next day at a bar located in Columbia.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials say Hayward was the target of a planned robbery attempt and that all four individuals were responsible for his death.


https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/451/hickman-county-paul-jr-hayward-ii

Paul 'JR' Hayward II

 

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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2...d-in-2004-sex-assault-at-mountain-view-hotel/

DNA Leads To Arrest Of Man Wanted In 2004 Sex Assault At Mountain View Hotel
February 15, 2020 at 11:30 pm

Mountain View (KPIX) – A man suspected in sexual assault case first reported to police 15 years ago, is behind bars after DNA evidence put investigators on his trail.

At the time of his arrest, Van Overton, Jr. was not shying away from attention. He was very involved in his community in Albuquerque as a child advocate, spoke at a TEDx event last year, and was honored by the city as volunteer of the year

On Friday, the 45-year-old became a suspect, after authorities in Albuquerque were able to test a rape kit that sat in a backlog for more than 20 years.

“They zeroed in on Mr. Overton and it matched exactly from these two alleged rapes,” said Gilbert Gallegos with the Albuquerque Police Department.

Albuquerque Police say the alleged rape happened back in 1997. Overton was in his early 20s. In a police report, a woman claims he asked her to step outside with him at a party, and then sexually assaulted her.

“Once we outsourced that, got the results back, detectives started looking for that and they discovered that there had been a hit on that case of another rape in 2004 in California,” said Gallegos.

Mountain View police say a woman, who was 42 at the time, told police a suspect broke into her motel room and sexually assaulted her for nearly half an hour before leaving. DNA evidence was collected from her pillow.

“APD detectives started working immediately with the Mountain View police to try to piece together exactly who the perpetrator might be,” Gallegos said.

 

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https://www.localdvm.com/news/virgi...lved-with-blood-sample-from-suspects-autopsy/

1998 sexual assault cold case solved with blood sample from suspect’s autopsy
News

The suspect died in 2014, but his fingerprint and blood sample matched DNA collected in 1998

Updated: Feb 21, 2020 / 07:46 PM EST


FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WDVM) — Police say their cold case team has solved a 1998 sexual assault case by matching a blood sample collected from the suspect’s autopsy with DNA from the scene.

On August 17, 1998, a man posing as an exterminator forced entry to a 32-year-old woman’s apartment and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. This happened in the 7200 block of Parkwood Court in Falls Church, Virginia, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. The victim was able to break free from the suspect and escaped by jumping from her second-story balcony.

Although police said they entered the DNA and fingerprints into a nationwide database at the time, no match came up. In 2019, detectives from the Major Crimes Bureau’s Cold Case Squad resubmitted the evidence collected in 1998.

There was a match.

Police said there was a fingerprint match with Juan Johnson, who died in 2014 at age 48. For further confirmation, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science examined Johnson’s blood sample, which was on file in Baltimore, Maryland from his autopsy. It also matched the DNA evidence.

 

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https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/de...-decades-arrested/SZ23JWJGQFEL3PW2NU553NURAY/

Man linked to 8 cold case rapes spanning 2 decades arrested

Updated: March 4, 2020 - 3:41 PM

CONYERS, Ga. — A man linked to eight sexual assault cold cases has been arrested, police said Wednesday.

Wesley Cooley, 58, was arrested near his Conyers home Feb. 24 on charges he raped a women in Tucker on Northlake Parkway in 2017.

DNA evidence from that case links the same attacker to seven other unsolved sexual assault cases in metro Atlanta dating back to 1999, officials say.


The victims range in age from 15 to 38 years old. Four of the crimes happened in DeKalb County, two in metro Atlanta and one in Conyers, according to the DeKalb County district attorney.

“A dangerous predator whom we believe has been terrorizing women for at least two decades is off the street,” said District Attorney Sherry Boston. “This is a huge moment for the victims on whose behalf we advocate. We will continue to fight for them to seek answers and justice, no matter how long it takes.”

Cooley has been charged with felony rape in connection with the Conyers case. He faces separate charges of criminal attempt to commit a felony in connection with an attempted sexual assault that also happened in 2017.

 

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https://lasvegassun.com//news/2020/mar/26/las-vegas-police-make-arrest-in-2008-cold-case-sla/

Las Vegas police make arrest in 2008 cold-case slaying

Thursday, March 26, 2020 | 7 p.m.

More than a decade after a man turned up dead, strangled and beat to death, DNA evidence led detectives to his alleged killer, according to Metro Police.

Richard Cline's 2008 slaying had gone unsolved, its leads exhausted, until cold case investigators took another look and got a hit after they resubmitted DNA for testing in November.

The results gave them a name: Quincy Cook, 44. The suspect, who was already being held at the Clark County Detention Center on unrelated charges, was rebooked Tuesday on one count each of murder and burglary, jail logs show.

Detectives were dispatched to a suspicious death call on Dec. 12, 2008, in the 5800 block of West Harmon Avenue, near Jones Boulevard, police said.

Eight days later, an autopsy and investigation confirmed that the death had in fact been a homicide: Cline had struggled with someone, that his neck was compressed and that he'd suffered "blunt force trauma."

 

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https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/04/24/robin-brooks-cold-case-murder-arrest-sacramento-rosemont/


Suspect In Rosemont Woman’s Killing Arrested 40 Years Later
April 24, 2020 at 4:52 pm

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Exactly forty years from the day Robin Brooks was found murdered in her Rosemont-area apartment, detectives announced that a suspect has been arrested.

The Sacramento County sheriff’s and district attorney’s office announced on Friday that Phillip Lee Wilson had been arrested in connection to Brooks’ murder.

Brooks was 20-years-old when she was killed. A friend who went to check on her after she didn’t show up to work on April 24, 1980 found Brooks’ body inside her apartment; she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.

COLD CASE ARREST: Phillip Lee Wilson, 71, has been arrested for the murder of Robin Brooks on April 24, 1980. pic.twitter.com/EGaXkUBZLA

— Sacramento Sheriff (@sacsheriff) April 24, 2020

District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert was on hand Friday to announce the arrest of Wilson. She detailed how the case had gone cold until forensic DNA was uncovered in 2004, giving a glimmer of hope that one day a suspect would be identified.

With the help of genetic genealogy – the technique that has now resulted in the arrest of suspects in several cases that had gone cold, like the Golden State Killer – Schubert said detectives were able to identify Wilson as the suspect in Brooks’ killing.

Wilson, who is now 71-years-old, was arrested at his North Sacramento area home on Thursday, Schubert said. He has been booked into Sacramento County Jail and is facing a charge of murder.