DNA links serial rapist to two rapes from 1993

CLEVELAND - A serial rapist is facing up to 50 years in prison for a pair of sexual attacks that happened more than 20 years ago.

DNA fingerprints linked 55-year-old Kenneth Parker to the rapes of two Cleveland women from April and June of 1993.

In both cases Parker forced the victims into vacant dwellings using weapons or the threat of a weapon.

Last week Parker entered a plea of guilty to three counts of rape and four counts of kidnapping for the Cleveland rapes.

Parker was sentenced byCuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Steven E. Gall to spend 16 to 50 years in prison for those rapes.

Parker is currently serving 18 years in prison for two rapes he committed in Columbus in 1996.

Judge Gall ordered the new sentence to begin in August 2015 when he would have been released from the 18-year sentence.

But for the DNA evidence, the victims in this case might never have gotten justice, and this serial rapist would have been free next year to resume attacking innocent women, said Assistant County Prosecutor Maxwell Martin, who prosecuted Parker for the State of Ohio. Now this community will stay remain from Mr. Parkers depravity.

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DNA links serial rapist to two rapes from 1993