DNA Evidence Used To Track Down Arizona Man In Connection With Riverside County Rape Cases Dating Back Nearly 25 Years
LAPPL News Watch
June 18, 2020
DNA evidence was used to track down a suspected serial rapist who has
been charged with 16 felony counts in cases that involve six different
women in Riverside County dating back almost 25 years, officials
announced Wednesday.
Darin Edward Cooke, 50, of Chino Valley, Arizona,
has been charged with six counts of forcible rape, four counts of
forcible oral copulation, three counts of assault with the intent to
commit rape or oral copulation during a first-degree burglary, two
counts of kidnapping with intent to commit rape or oral copulation, and
one count of forcible sexual penetration.
Eleven counts involve crimes
that occurred in the city of Riverside in 1996 and 1998, while five
counts are in connection with crimes that occurred in Corona in 2007,
according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
EDITOR'S NOTE: In NY, the forcible rapes would have been classified as illegal entry.
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