DNA match leads to charges in 1995 attack in St. Louis, police say

ST. LOUIS DNA has linked a St. Louis man to an alleged rape and robbery downtown in 1995, police say.

Prosecutors charged Terrence L. Walker, 38, of the 3500 block of Plover Avenue, with first-degree robbery on Monday. No sex charges have been filed, but police said in court documents that Walker's DNA matched evidence from a rape kit after an alleged rape in December 1995 in the 300 block of North Seventh Street.

According to a probable cause statement by police, a woman accused a man of raping her at gunpoint and taking her wallet. Police said investigators received a DNA match to Walker through a national law enforcement database of DNA in November. Lauren Trager, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Officewould not say when or how the DNA sample was obtained, citing an ongoing investigation.

Walker was charged in October with misdemeanor assault. He was released on that charge but was arrested in March on a bench warrant for missing a court hearing, court records say. On May 2, Walker posted bail on that charge and was released.

No sex charges were filed in the case because the statute of limitations has expired on various sex crimes applicable to the allegations in the case, Trager said.

Walker was not in custody Wednesday. A judge set his cash-only bail at $50,000.

Walker's criminal history includes several convictions of vehicle tampering and resisting arrest.

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DNA match leads to charges in 1995 attack in St. Louis, police say