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Sketch of Serial Rapist Released
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Last Modified: 10/13/2004 7:08:10 PM
A composite sketch of a suspect who has been directly tied by DNA evidence to the rape of a 13-year-old gir
and the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl was released Wednesday.
The 13-year-old East Point girl was raped last June and the DNA from that case was sent to the GBI crime lab and put into a DN
A database known as CODIS (Combined DNA Index System
).
CODIS found a match. The same DNA was found on a 14-year-old girl, Nicole Smit
h, who was raped and murdered in southwest Atlanta 10 years ago.
Nicole Smith was a 14-year-old middle school student in 1995. She was raped and murdered along a shortcut through the woods behind her house that she used to get to the bus that took her to school
My biggest fear was that this person would attack another person and he did just that, said the 14-year-old's mother, Aquinella Smith.
The 13-year-old victim has given authorities their best lead yet ' a description that has led to a composite sketch.
Hopefully somebody will speak out this time, and speak out about what they know, Aquinella Smith said. "f they know this p
erson I would like them to come forward.
She said she stayed awake for three days after the first time she looked at the sketch.
" was afraid to close my eyes 'cause every time I c
lose
d my eyes I could see his eyes over my child doing the things he did to her and I wouldn't close my eyes because I didn't want to see
his eyes, she said.
The two crimes happened almost 10 years apart, but in distance, only a couple of miles.
Authorities asked anyone who may recognize the suspect in the sketch to call the Multi-Agency Cold Case Squad at (1 888) OLD TIPS.
Sketch of Serial Rapist Released
http://www.11alive.com/news (article link expired)
Latest Google News on Atlanta Serial Rapist
Last Modified: 10/13/2004 7:08:10 PM
A composite sketch of a suspect who has been directly tied by DNA evidence to the rape of a 13-year-old gir
and the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl was released Wednesday.
The 13-year-old East Point girl was raped last June and the DNA from that case was sent to the GBI crime lab and put into a DN
A database known as CODIS (Combined DNA Index System
).
CODIS found a match. The same DNA was found on a 14-year-old girl, Nicole Smit
h, who was raped and murdered in southwest Atlanta 10 years ago.
Nicole Smith was a 14-year-old middle school student in 1995. She was raped and murdered along a shortcut through the woods behind her house that she used to get to the bus that took her to school
My biggest fear was that this person would attack another person and he did just that, said the 14-year-old's mother, Aquinella Smith.
The 13-year-old victim has given authorities their best lead yet ' a description that has led to a composite sketch.
Hopefully somebody will speak out this time, and speak out about what they know, Aquinella Smith said. "f they know this p
erson I would like them to come forward.
She said she stayed awake for three days after the first time she looked at the sketch.
" was afraid to close my eyes 'cause every time I c
lose
d my eyes I could see his eyes over my child doing the things he did to her and I wouldn't close my eyes because I didn't want to see
his eyes, she said.
The two crimes happened almost 10 years apart, but in distance, only a couple of miles.
Authorities asked anyone who may recognize the suspect in the sketch to call the Multi-Agency Cold Case Squad at (1 888) OLD TIPS.
