Nigga's Caught By White Man's Voodoo! DNA/Cold Case

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https://www.fayobserver.com/news/20181102/raeford-man-charged-in-2001-rape-kidnapping

Raeford man charged in 2001 rape, kidnapping

Updated Nov 2, 2018 at 10:16 AM

A Raeford man has been charged in connection with a cold case rape that happened in 2001, the Fayetteville Police Department said Friday.

Detectives investigated the case in 2001, and it was recently reopened by the Fayetteville Police Department’s Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit after sending off the sexual assault kit for DNA testing, police said in a news release.

Kunte Kinte Bethea, 39, of the 100 block of Lincoln Drive in Raeford, is charged with three counts of first degree rape, first degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of stolen property.

The victim was at an ATM on March 1, 2001, when Bethea forced his way into her car, kidnapped her, drove her to Hoke County and sexually assaulted her, the release said.

Bethea then stole the victim’s car, which was later recovered by the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office, the release said.

 

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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/d...leads-to-arrest-in-2001-murder-of-ucf-student

DNA match from genealogy site leads to arrest in 2001 murder of UCF student
Case marks 15th instance of arrest through genealogy evidence

Updated: 2:56 PM, November 05, 2018

ORLANDO, Fla. - A match from a genealogy website help Orlando police detectives make in an arrest in a 2001 slaying of a University of Central Florida student.

Authorities announced Monday afternoon that Benjamin Holmes had been arrested in connection with the death of Christine Franke, 25. Police said Christine Franke was shot in the head on Oct. 21, 2001, during a robbery at her Audubon Park apartment.

 

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http://www.wlox.com/2018/11/13/suspect-arrested-four-years-after-rape-biloxi-bridge/

Suspect arrested four years after rape on Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge

Updated November 13 at 3:51 PM

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Four years after a woman was raped on the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge, the man police believe attacked her is behind bars.

Aaron Roy McMillian, 32, is waiting extradition to Ocean Springs in the rape of a South Mississippi woman. The rape happened on Nov. 14, 2014.

It was a cold night when the victim said she was out walking the bridge. According to her report, there were not as many people out on the bridge as usual due to the cold weather. She said she was less than 50 feet from the top of the bridge on the Ocean Springs side when the suspect passed her.

The man then turned and approached her from behind, she said, pushing her to the ground and sexually assaulting her. The woman was able to get away from the suspect, running down the bridge into Ocean Springs. The victim said she drove home and told her husband, who immediately took her to Ocean Springs Hospital for an examination.

For the last four years, police have weeded through numerous leads, hoping to gather information that would help them solve this case. Last month, they got lucky.

The Mississippi state crime lab notified detectives that a DNA sample matching the one taken from the victim at the hospital had matched to a suspect.

 

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...st-90-murders-n936316?cid=public-rss_20181114

Suspected serial killer Samuel Little may be connected to at least 90 murders
Little, also known as Samuel McDowell, is currently serving three life sentences for strangling three women in the Los Angeles area between 1987 and 1989.
Nov. 14, 2018 / 12:52 PM PST

A man convicted of murdering three women in California and recently charged with killing a woman in Texas could be connected to more than 90 murders committed across more than a dozen states and three decades, Texas authorities said Tuesday.

Samuel Little, 78, has provided investigators details on a "multitude" of murders he may have committed from 1970 to 2005 in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Indiana, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, according to the Wise County Sheriff’s Office. Little is currently incarcerated at the office's jail.

If Little is found guilty of the murders he's provided information about, he "will be confirmed as one of, if not the most, prolific serial killers in U.S. history," according to a statement from Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland.

Little, also known as Samuel McDowell, is serving three life sentences for strangling three women in the Los Angeles area from 1987 to 1989. He was convicted of those murders in 2014, according to NBC Los Angeles.

In July, Little was charged in the 1994 murder of Denise Christie Brothers in Ector County, Texas, and extradited from California. A Texas investigator "was able to use this case as a catalyst to continue to gain trust and information from Little in order to solve dozens of other cases," said Bland in the statement.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...-Cold-Case-Killings-From-1980s-273642141.html

74-Year-Old Serial Killer Convicted in Cold Case Strangling Deaths
Samuel Little was accused of murdering three women between 1987-1989 and dumping their bodies in alleyways near downtown Los Angeles.

https://www.cbs7.com/content/news/S...ying-Odessa-woman-in-cold-case-500416562.html

Serial killer admits to slaying Odessa woman in cold case
Updated: Wed 2:12 PM, Nov 14, 2018

Authorities say that Samuel Little confessed to killing Denise Christie Brothers in 1994.

 

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https://www.klfy.com/news/local/ville-platte-man-arrested-for-23-year-old-rape-case/1600365385

Ville Platte man arrested for 23-year-old rape case
Updated: Nov 15, 2018 04:19 PM CST

VILLE PLATTE, La. - A man wanted for a rape that occurred in 1995 is behind bars.

Allen Reed Richard, 57, is charged with one count of aggravated rape. Richard is accused of raping the victim back in June of 1995.

The original police report filed back then stated that a black male subject stopped at a residence and asked for water, then kicked in the door of the residence and raped the homeowner.

The victim was 47 years old at the time of the reported attack and died in 2004 before the suspect was identified.

 

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https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article221664065.html

DNA from Kansas man leads to suspect in 1998 rape case, Columbus police say

Updated November 15, 2018 10:33 AM

DNA evidence from a case in Olathe, Kan., linked a former Columbus resident to a sexual assault and burglary 20 years ago near Cusseta Road, Columbus police said.

Sirret Arrington, 45, of Olathe pleaded not guilty to one count of rape and burglary Wednesday in separate cases in Columbus. Despite an argument from defense attorney Ray Tillery to dismiss the burglary charge due to stature of limitations, Recorder’s Court Judge Julius Hunter denied the motion and bound both charges without bond over to Muscogee Superior Court.

Police Sgt. John Bailey of the Special Victims Unit at the Columbus Police Department said local officers were notified in September about a CODIS, or Combined DNA Index System, hit that matched the suspect’s DNA to an April 6, 1998, case in Columbus. Authorities collected the sample from Arrington after he was accused of forcing himself on a co-worker and masturbating on her in February 2018.

A 26-year-old mother went home at 6:45 a.m. after finishing her shift at a nearby gas station. She entered through the back door of her apartment about 7:05 a.m. to grab some clothes for her child who was at a relative’s house and leave.

When she returned to the living room, she found a man standing there. She offered the man $15 she had to leave her apartment but he refused and told her to cooperate.

No weapon was used but the man threatened physical violence, Bailey said. While leaning the 5-foot-2-inch tall woman over the sofa, the man raped the woman.

 

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http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/20/jane-britton-michael-sumpter-cold-case

Killer Identified By DNA In Unsolved 1969 Cambridge Murder, DA Says
November 20, 2018

Nearly five decades after the heinous murder of a Harvard University graduate student, law enforcement officials said Tuesday they’ve identified her killer using DNA technology and a genealogy website.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said Michael Sumpter raped and bludgeoned 23-year-old Jane Britton in her Cambridge apartment on Jan. 7, 1969.

Sumpter died in 2001.

Ryan said Sumpter raped five women and killed three of them, including Britton. He has been linked to all three of the killings after his own death.

 

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https://abc11.com/dna-evidence-links-man-to-1990-cold-rape-case-in-fayetteville/4771862/

DNA evidence links man to 1990 cold rape, kidnapping case in Fayetteville

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 07:46AM
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) --
Fayetteville police are asking a man to turn himself in after recent DNA evidence linked him to a rape that happened 28 years ago.

Wilbur McGill, 53, is wanted for the rape and kidnapping of a woman at Mazarick Park on Nov. 20, 1990.

Reports said the victim and her 1-year-old child were at the park when McGill approached her and forced her to the back of the park.



Officials said McGill then raped the woman and stole her car.

The case went unsolved in 1990; however, recently discovered DNA evidence has linked him to the crime.

 

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https://cbs12.com/news/local/west-palm-beach-rape-case-solved-after-almost-20-years

Arrest made in 18-year-old West Palm Beach rape case

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) —

An 18-year-old rape case from West Palm Beach had a major breakthrough after DNA analysis helped investigators locate a possible suspect, authorities said.

The West Palm Beach Police department arrested 50-year-old Michael Vantez Hunter for the rape of a 17-year-old girl in 2000.

According to the arrest report, a 17-year-old girl reported being sexually assaulted by a man known as "Dred" on Mar. 18, 2000. The girl said she and a friend were staying at the Red Roof Inn, when her friend left the room one day and came back with "Dred."

The friend left after bringing Dred, leaving the girl and Dred alone in the room together. The man locked the door and tried to force the girl to perform oral sex on him, the police report says.

The girl refused, so Dred continued to try and force her. He then forcibly held her down, removed her clothes and tried to have intercourse with her while covering her mouth so she could not scream, according to the arrest report. After he was done, he left the room.

While a sexual assault kit was collected from the girl, it was not sent for DNA analysis until April of 2017, investigators said. A September 2018 report from the Forensics Biology unit showed that there was a preliminary association between the vaginal swabs taken from the girl and a specimen identified as Michael Hunter.

 

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https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article222569635.html

She was killed 30 years ago. Police say DNA technology helped them solve the cold case

December 04, 2018 02:02 PM

DNA helped solve another decades-old homicide investigation in Sarasota, police say.

On Tuesday, Sarasota police announced they served an arrest warrant in connection with the death of Judith Elaine Doherty, a 23-year-old Venice resident who was killed 30 years ago.

Officers were sent to Booker High School, 3201 N. Orange Ave., around 10:30 a.m. on July 31, 1988, when a jogger found Doherty’s body in a nearby field. Investigators determined she had been killed.

Sarasota Police detective Anthony DeFrancisco said Tuesday it was an “extremely violent” death. Doherty was beaten, strangled and sexually battered. Her body was found next to her car.

Police had evidence from Doherty’s case tested in 2009 at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement labs with technology that did not exist in 1988.

On Monday, an arrest warrant was served by detectives to David L. Stephens, 62, for homicide and sexual battery in connection with Doherty’s death, according to police. His DNA, they said, was at the crime scene.

 

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https://www.jacksonville.com/news/2...xual-battery-of-10-year-old-jacksonville-girl

Jackson guilty of murder, sexual battery of 10-year-old Jacksonville girl

Posted Dec 1, 2018 at 10:03 AM Updated Dec 1, 2018 at 5:00 PM

James Leon Jackson faces a possible death sentence after a jury found him guilty Friday night of first-degree murder and sexual battery of a 10-year-old Jacksonville girl 34 years ago.

A Duval County jury deliberated about nine hours before convicting Jackson, 66, of Jacksonville, in the killing and sexual assault of Tammy Welch, who was found slain Aug. 27, 1984, in a courtyard behind her family’s Westside apartment.

The jury now will decide whether Jackson receives the death penalty or life in prison. The sentencing hearing will begin Dec. 19 with Circuit Court Judge James Daniel presiding.

Florida law requires a unanimous jury recommendation before the death penalty can be imposed by a judge, who has the discretion to impose a life sentence.


Jackson had testified Thursday that he didn’t know Tammy and didn’t harm or kill her.

Prosecutors presented evidence showing that on the day she died, Tammy was home with her mother, older brother and younger sister, as the Navy family prepared to move from the apartment to on-base housing. Tammy’s father was deployed at the time.

About 9:30 a.m., Tammy and her younger sister went outside to play while their mother and brother helped movers. At some point, her sister went back inside the home and left Tammy alone. About 10 a.m., Tammy’s sister went back outside to look for her. She found Tammy dead, lying on the ground in the courtyard, the evidence showed.

An autopsy revealed Tammy had been strangled and was the victim of a brutal sexual assault, prosecutors said.

Jackson insisted he didn’t know or harm Tammy. However, he had “Tammy Welch 1984” tattooed on his back, which prosecutors described as a confession written in ink. Jackson said he didn’t know it was there and characterized the tattoo as a jailhouse prank that he wanted removed immediately.

Evidence showed Jackson lived in the apartment next to the Welch family. When interviewed by police detectives, Jackson said he had been home alone and sleeping at the time the crime happened, according to the evidence.

The case went cold until 1999 when it was reactivated as a joint investigation by the Cold Case units of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

Voluntary DNA samples were collected from neighbors as well as witnesses at the time Tammy was murdered. In 2002, Jackson was re-interviewed and provided a DNA sample. He again told detectives that he’d been alone and asleep at the time of the crime. He also told investigators that his cousin had awakened him and told him that a girl had been found dead just outside his apartment.

A forensic laboratory examined Jackson’s DNA sample and compared it to a DNA profile obtained from Tammy’s sexual assault kit. The DNA profile from the sexual assault kit linked Jackson to her sexual battery and murder.

 

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https://www.wgal.com/article/dna-leads-to-arrest-in-rape-four-years-ago-police-say/25347527

DNA leads to arrest in rape four years ago, police say
Updated: 12:22 PM EST Nov 29, 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa. —

Harrisburg police say DNA led to the arrest of a man in connection with a rape that happened four years ago.

Lamarr Washington was arraigned on charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, burglary, aggravated assault and terroristic threats, police announced Thursday.

Investigators said that, in June 2014, someone forced open the window of the victim's home in the 2100 block of Derry Street and attacked her while she was asleep in bed. She was sexually assaulted, badly beaten and strangled to the point of losing consciousness, police said.

DNA evidence from the scene was submitted to the Pennsylvania State Police crime lab, according to police, but only this week was that evidence linked to Washington.

 

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https://www.wdsu.com/article/accused-serial-rapist-arrested-in-new-orleans/25472854

Suspect in serial rapes arrested in New Orleans

Authorities said a man was booked Monday linked to rapes in New Orleans and Kansas City.

Updated: 12:38 PM CST Dec 11, 2018

NEW ORLEANS —

Authorities said a man was booked Monday linked to rapes in New Orleans and Kansas City.

The suspect, 34-year-old Daniel Meridy, was arrested on four counts of first-degree rape and four counts of aggravated kidnapping.

A law enforcement source said Meridy's DNA also connected him to three unsolved sexual assaults in Kansas City which occurred from 2004-2005. Investigators called those cases "stranger attacks," in which a gun or knife was used.

The attacks in New Orleans happened within the past three years on Bayou Road, South Genois Street, Washington and Clara Streets, and South Johnson St.

Meridy was arrested Monday at NOPD Headquarters after a buccal swab matched the cases.

 

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https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/so...estry-site-to-arrest-murder-suspect/887283319

For 1st time in Georgia history, police use ancestry site to arrest murder suspect
Updated: Dec 11, 2018 - 3:01 PM

SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - For more than 20 years, investigators had no idea who killed Lorrie Ann Smith.

But they had blood and DNA from the crime scene. And that turned out to be the key evidence.

For the first time ever in Georgia, police used an ancestry site to match DNA and arrest a suspect.

Smith was killed May 25, 1997, inside her South Fulton County home. According to police, the killer -- identified as Jerry Lee -- lived less than a half-mile from Smith.

 

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https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...wo-rapes-kidnappings-from-1990s/289-623366771

Angola inmate indicted for two rapes, kidnappings from 1990s
Jones faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of either rape charge or aggravated kidnapping count. The DA's office says the bond amount has been set to $1.2 million.

Updated: 2:00 PM CST December 13, 2018

An Angola inmate has been indicted Thursday on two sexual assaults that occurred in New Orleans in the early 1990s.

According to District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, 44-year-old Tyrone Jones was charged with two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated kidnapping. The attacks took place 34 days apart.

The first incident occurred on Dec. 9, 1991 when a 21-year-old woman was walking to a bus stop after her shift at a fast-food restaurant shift in New Orleans East. A She was then abducted by gunpoint and raped in the 6800 block of Mayo Boulevard.

The second incident occurred Jan. 12, 1992 when a 19-year-old woman was arguing with her boyfriend and demanded to be let out of a car to walk home in New Orleans East. A man who passed her on a bicycle around 2 a.m. circled back, abducted her at knifepoint and raped her in the backyard of an abandoned home in the 6900 block of Bunker Hill Road.

Jones faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of either rape charge or aggravated kidnapping count. The DA’s office says the bond amount has been set to $1.2 million.

Samples collected in rape kits of the two victims were found to match a sample taken from Jones stored in the federal CODIS database. The results were confirmed by the Louisiana State Crime Lab.

Jones, who is also known to use aliases of Kim Jones and Derrick Holiday, is currently serving a life sentence for the attempted rape and attempted murder of her daughter in a 1995 incident.

 

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https://www.stltoday.com/news/local...cle_12d69d67-faaa-5399-8fe1-4825214ad53d.html

Man who was stabbed during St. Louis County sexual assault pleads guilty after DNA links him to crime
12/19/18

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A Kansas man linked to a 2007 sexual assault here by DNA from the knife used to stab him pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Andre R. Kelly, 38, pleaded guilty to a forcible sodomy charge in St. Louis County Circuit Court. Judge David Vincent ordered his sentence to run consecutively to a 32-year prison sentence he is serving in Kansas for burglary, sodomy and rape, court records show.

Kelly was in prison when his DNA matched samples from a knife that the 13-year-old daughter of the St. Louis County victim used to stab him and stop the attack, investigators said last year.

The victim, then 33, was watching television in her apartment in the 11500 block of Tivoli Lane on the evening of June 5, 2007, when a man entered through an unlocked rear door and forced her into sex acts at knifepoint, authorities said at the time. The woman’s daughter was in the basement and stabbed her mother’s attacker with a paring knife, scaring him off.

Kelly did not know the woman but sought her out after spotting her at the hotel where he was staying while he underwent professional training, Joe Burgoon, a St. Louis County police cold case investigator, said last year. Testing of a rape kit did not result in any suspects, and police did not test the knife for DNA until three years before Kelly was charged, Burgoon said.

 

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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/cr...eson/283-f3cecc16-0f80-4774-b7a4-000c99d156d0

Arrest made in 2009 killing of prominent Portland public defender Nancy Bergeson
Nancy Bergeson was found dead in her home on Nov. 24, 2009. Police arrested a man on Friday in connection to her murder.
Updated: 11:29 PM PST January 19, 2019

PORTLAND, Ore. — An arrest was made Friday in a 2009 homicide case that left a prominent Portland defense attorney dead.

Christopher Alexander Williamson, 28, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on one count of murder in connection with the death of 57-year-old Nancy Bergeson.

Bergeson was an assistant federal public defender, a lawyer who defended people accused of federal crimes who could not afford an attorney.

Bergeson was found dead in her home at 4146 SW Hamilton St. on Nov. 24, 2009. At first it appeared she died from natural causes but an autopsy revealed she was strangled. At the time of her death, there was no suspect information and very few clues, Portland police said.

No information about how police connected Williamson to Bergeson's death was released.

 

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https://www.al.com/crime/2019/01/man-charged-in-2017-mardi-gras-rape-of-disabled-woman.html

Man charged in 2017 Mardi Gras rape of disabled woman
Updated 1/24/19 6:23 AM

The case was notorious: On Ash Wednesday 2017 an autistic woman was found naked near Bienville Square, the victim of a rape that occurred after a lapse in supervision left her wandering the streets alone in the final hours of Mardi Gras.

Almost two full years later, a lucky break in the case has resulted in a man being charged in a crime that Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich has called "a horrible, horrible thing."

The details that emerged after the woman’s family filed a civil lawsuit were disturbing. An attorney said the victim, then 25, suffered Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, was unable to communicate verbally and required one-on-one care. She’d been placed in a group home for full-time care; according to the suit, caregivers took her to a downtown hotel on Mardi Gras day, then left her untended that evening.

DNA evidence was collected in a rape kit during her treatment, but her autism made her unable to describe what had happened to her. Her assailant remained unknown.

In October, police arrested Cecil Lavon Jackson Jr., 43, on a felony charge of 1st degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor 3rd degree assault, after another man complained Jackson has subjected him "to sexual contact by forcible compulsion."

 

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http://www.live5news.com/2019/01/24/years-later-dna-leads-arrest-sexual-assault-boy/

25 years later, DNA leads to arrest in sexual assault of boy

Updated January 24 at 2:19 PM

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Charleston Police say forensic technology has resulted in an arrest in a 25-year-old sexual assault of a child.

Tomogo James William McCord, 43, of Ridgeville, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, according to Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis.

The victim was 10 years old on Aug. 10, 1993, when he was playing in a wood area behind a shopping center in the 2000 block of Savannah Highway, police say.

The victim told police he was approached by a man he had never seen before who asked him to help him look for something. A short time later, police say, the man pulled out a knife and assaulted the boy.

In 2018, the Charleston Police Department’s Family Violence Unit reopened the investigation into the assault and submitted evidence to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for further analysis.

Investigators were able to obtain a DNA profile from the evidence and ran it through the Combined DNA Index System, also known as CODIS, Francis said.

The DNA profile matched that of McCord, investigators say.

 

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https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/...sted-in-west-palm-rape-cold-case?rssfeed=true

Bail denied for man arrested in West Palm rape cold case

Posted Jan 24, 2019 at 5:10 PM Updated at 10:43 AM

WEST PALM BEACH — City police are crediting yet another cold-case rape arrest to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office work on a backlog of rape test kits.

On Thursday morning, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Tommy Kelvin Neloms in a 20-year-old sexual battery, one involving a girl who was then 15 years old, West Palm Beach police said.

In court Friday morning at the Palm Beach County Jail, Circuit Judge Ted S. Booras ordered Neloms held without bail. Assistant State Attorney Mary Ann Duggan said the alleged victim was in the courtroom, but Duggan did not point her out, and the woman did not speak.

On the morning of June 4, 1999, police said, the 15-year-old was walking to a family member’s home when a man sexually assaulted her on the 700 block of 21st Street, near the Florida East Coast Railway tracks.