State v. Jackson

GARYD. WITT, Judge.

In 1983 and 1984, four single women, all living in the Waldo/Armour Hills area of Kansas City, were attacked in their homes in the late evening and early morning hours. All four were blind-folded, robbed, sodomized, and repeatedly raped. In each case, after the assailant fled and the attack ended, the victim went to a hospital and underwent a “rape kit” examination, which included the collection of samples for use in DNA analysis. In several cases additional DNA evidence, fingerprints and hair samples were recovered from the scene of the crimes. The crimes remained unsolved…