American Military News by Emerson Clarridge - Fort Worth Star Telegram August 22, 2020
In the middle of four nights in Dallas in the mid-1980s, a man broke into separate homes, threatened a woman in each with a weapon and raped her.
During the 35 years that followed, the police did not know the assailant’s name.
On Wednesday, authorities arrested in connection with the cases David Hawkins, 74, at his home in Keene, Texas.
He was identified this year when his DNA was “subjected to genealogical research and analysis,†Dallas police said.
The path to Hawkins’ arrest began in 2005 when Dallas police encouraged victims of sexual assaults that occurred in the 1970s or 1980s to contact them to ask about the status of their case and the possibility of solving it.
Then, earlier, this year, genealogical research yielded a connection to Hawkins. Police did not describe the circumstances of the research.
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