State v. Gillespie

Mary Small 1 identified the defendant Julius Lee Gillespie as the man who threatened her with a broken bottle and raped her at her Lakewood residence on December 2, 1975. Betty Short identified defendant as the man who raped her at knife-point in her Tillicum home on March 10, 1976, and left with several items of her personal property. Among the things taken from the Short home was a camera with which the rapist had first taken pictures of the partially nude and blindfolded Mrs. Short after the assault.

After defendant was arrested and taken into custody his wife, with whom he lived…