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South Hill Rapist
In the summer of 1979, a series of rape were committed on the south side of Spokane, Washington. About a year and a half later, this crime wave was still raging v Early in the Spokane of the media identified the attacker hereinafter referred to as "Jogging oppressor," because one common element in almost every one of the rape was that the attacker was dressed in jogging equipment. However, all these attacks happened in Spokane on the south side of the oppressor has been renamed the "South Hill oppressor." The nickname zasekl.

South Hill Rapist
The media whipped the public into quite perplexed over South Hill oppressor. Svíčkách vigils were held in Spokane parks. Mace and weapon sales went through the roof. Pozemkový the work was done in T-shirts sporting different designs and slogans referring to the South Hill oppressor, and guard groups sprung up everywhere. It was generally thought that the police were doing nothing of the dreaded South Hill oppressor.

South Hill Rapist
By early 1981, South Hill oppressor-mánie reached boiling point and beyond. Paranoia has been extended. Nevinných men jogging destroyed, have been treated palcát, fearful of women. News was full of stories of bizarre incidents related to the alarm over South Hill oppressor. In this dangerous beer was tossed on the caustic and one stupid remark Captain Richard Olberding of the Spokane Police Department. Oberding ungrammatically and irresponsibly commented Spokane, that women should "just lay back and enjoy it" is a victim of South Hill oppressor. Keystone Kop Olberding is astounding error is already very turbulent situation to a new height of public madness. With the beleaguered principal inspector career on the ropes, Spokane at 18-monthly neovladatelný rape dovádění was about to be magically 'resolve'.

South Hill Rapist
I was pro-growth advocate - as was my father, Gordon Coe, the managing editor of the Spokane Chronicle. After my return to Spokane in the late 1970s, my father and I started to Spokane Metro growth as a private booster unit to support the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area.

South Hill Rapist
As an activist for the 'bigger and better' Spokane, I was increasingly linked to the stunning news of South Hill oppressor to dovádění receives. For someone who seeks to promote Spokane as a wonderful place for raising families, the ongoing series of rape is not useful. Gordon Coe Chronicle had covered the South Hill oppressor story in a responsible low-key manner, but the rest of the Spokane media, both print and electronic, has been handling the case very sensational journey.

South Hill Rapist
In January 1981 the Spokesman-Review, the area is the morning paper, published a report on its South Hill oppressor working group, which theorized that the attacker went coaches looking for his prey. I have decided to do some investigative work on my own. In time, I have a bus to Spokane on the south side and koukal to any suspicious activity. I intended to search results provided to my Secret Witness, which is the organization that paid cash rewards tracks, which led to convictions for serious crimes. Secret Witness used Gordon Coe Chronicle office phone the number as one of the methods for receiving guidance. But it was better, my father and I agreed, when I discovered I have no traces of the Secret Witness postal address.

South Hill Rapist
This theory is the speaker-Review was published proved to be defective. Soon it was clear to me that it would be almost impossible for the South Hill oppressor act in the way it was suggested in a newspaper. I dropped my search for clues. Before I made when I stopped the car one night watchman in mid-January on the lower side. The patrol officer found me parked on bus lines (I've been waiting for a bus to drive) and find their behaviour curious. The bobby asked that my driving licence and asked me what I did. When I told him that the cop stroze responded: "Stay the police." There is no doubt about the incident report on this matter has been lodged. I do not doubt that the report would have come across the table to Captain Olberding. It is likely that Olberding made note of the name Coe, ten years earlier, Olberding brought a lawsuit against the Spokesman-Review, sister publication Chronicle, and was lost. He harbored great hatred for the local media. Olberding, who is in overall charge of the South Hill oppressor investigations unit, said his rough "like" comment in the first week of February 1981. Two weeks later, full of nothing, I became a Spokane police is the main suspect in incomprehensible South Hill oppressor case. Creating, smearing, and railroading the innocent man began.

Police placed an electronic "bug" on the underside of the car. After two weeks inspection team shadowed me everywhere. Policajti I saw commit no crimes. The investigation has come empty. This would likely have resulted in my being dropped as a suspect was not in an independent matter that came less than a week into the surveillance effort.


On 1 March 1981 in my abilities as a realtor I preview luxury home of Fire Chief Al O'Connor. As I have already visited the property, I heard voices argue angry. The woman was shouted at O'Connor, blaming it sees another woman. Since the free-for-all, I decided to simply leave their card and realtor call in a few days. While leaving home, I caught a glimpse of the women nepříčetný. Two days later, the management of the highway, I was surprised to hear on the radio that Al O'Connor died. At dinner that evening, I chatted with parents about O'Connor's death. My mother, Ruth, it was said, "... amazing that Linda O'Connor had again lost her husband in a special situation."


Ruth then relates how, a decade before, or so Linda O'Connor has been married to a prominent doctor, who died suddenly. "Many people think that it was murder," Ruth related. "But, Linda Lipp, then her name, was never charged." I am of the opinion in a few days, then wrote the prosecutor, Don Brockett, a letter offering testimony about what I saw and heard while controlling O'Connor home, as Linda O'Connor was charged with murder. Brockett would have received my letter, sometimes from 6 March 9 March. For some reason, Brockett has no intention of charging Al O'Connor widow of the murder, even if an autopsy revealed the presence of seven drugs in the main body of fire.

South Hill Rapist
Months later, the coroner of the investigation, divided jury came together with Brockett and no murder charges against Linda O'Connor. Eventually, however, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of abuse of the prescription drugs. Koroner Lois Shanks, is insatiable Brockett-hater, was rozzuřený on the outcome of this investigation. It was vigorously denounced Brockett, as well as members of Al O'Connor family.


The two police lineups, I was identified in five of the twenty-two South Hill oppressor victim to the police managed to gather the views farce. The lineups and photo team viewed one of the victims, I was charged with six counts of rape, even though I was not at all like the attacker described in the original police report filed in South Hill oppressor of the victims.


The best criminal lawyers in the Spokane case was a public defender office. Then I went with public defenders to defend me in what I assumed would be easy victory, because the bad man was arrested and on the basis of the evidence to prove this obvious fact.


I Hledala way to scientifically prove my innocence. I asked Bill Beeman, the public defender office investigator assigned to my case, that this option. -- In mid-May, Beeman has become the main break, which should have closed the case and resulted in my liberation. Beeman got hot tip from an old friend, kriminalista the Eastern Washington State Crime Lab: There was no sperm motility in any of the rape-kit semen samples taken in the forty-three South Hill oppressor attacks.

South Hill Rapist
I knew that from 1978 semen test that my sperm motility was not zero. Roger Gigler, the lead lawyer, wanted a new test done. In mid-June test results, carried out by Spokane Valley General Hospital returned. My sperm motility was normal 80%. A pre-trial hearing would be held, replete with expert testimony and the allegations against me should be dropped. Yet, despite fantastic bungling or darker because there is no such pre-trial hearing. On the court there was no expert testimony on sperm motility, and in fact this is not my lawyers, and gave the sperm motility-the results of tests on evidence. In July 1981 he was acquitted on two counts and convicted on four counts. In August 1981, four days after my conviction, Don Brockett ordered the destruction of all physical evidence in my case, even if they were fully aware of the mobility of sperm-conflict and the fact that I was interested in re-testing of rape-kit specimens.

South Hill Rapist
In November 1981, Don Brockett, acting on false information from the massage parlor prostitute who had criminal charges pending, ordered a sting operation on polapit my mother, Ruth Coe, the murder of rental scheme. The objectives of this allegedly "hit man" - the secret cop - were Brockett, and the judge of my process. Ruth Coe was emotionally excited to see it innocent son was sent to prison and she was very sensitive to the police trapping. In May 1982, a judge sentenced Ruth at the request of the murder, namíchaný idea of Brockett and Spokane police, not Ruth. She was booked on a flight to Honolulu and a long vacation in the day when the police called in the assassination scheme. Setting Ruth Coe attracted the attention of a excentrik a little-known novelist who announced that he would write a book on the Coe case. At the end of 1983, its idiotic and offensive book on hypothetical cases have been published. The work was carried out in a feeble-minded and offensive TV movie aired on CBS in 1991. The book fell on a national level, but are sold well in the State of Washington. This Zničil my chances of a fair trial as re-jurors brought with them cemented took part (concerned) on my 'guilt'.

South Hill Rapist
I became aware of PGM testing, the forensic methods that were used in California for years, in January 1982. I was happy subpena-rape kits and prove my innocence through the PGM. In March 1982 I vyhodil my Spokane public defender and hired two of Seattle most private lawyers, David Allen and Richard Hansen. I like to stress that PGM tests done. Allen and Hansen were attracted to the case the police, because hypnosis used on all but one of the victims of rape. New lawyers implored me to discard the PGM and let them carry out the hypnosis issue, which was a certain feeling of a winner. "We'll have you out of prison at any moment," Hansen assured me.


Two and three years later, as a result of hypnosis and Don Brockett that refuses to provide a police report for the defence, the Washington Supreme Court reversed my beliefs. In December 1984, in pre-repetition phase, I insisted that Allen and Hansen subpena-rape kits. And they did so. Several days later, the prosecution (minus Brockett, who had after the removal of the case on the injunction), sheepishly said, the retrial judge, as the Brockett his direction, the report has been destroyed more than three years earlier. One set remained, but the sample was too small to test.

South Hill Rapist
There would be no showing me innocent of PGM, or DNA, which was then emerging technologies. In February 1985 I was reconvicted in three of the four counts, the second jury verdict of guilty without becoming inculpatory evidence submitted, only the massive negative publicity, and will have no idea that my sperm motility does not rape kits. The Washington Supreme Court overturned two of those convictions in January 1988 and confirmed one. I Writ petition for habeas corpus on the disposal of rape kits as the leading issue. At Seattle federal district court and Ninth Circuit Court denied writ, then, in March 1994, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear my argument.

South Hill Rapist
It is not a long time, while watching an old episode of the television programme, Quincy, I have found that sperm motility is identified evidence of how the doctor saves innocent men accused of rape. I need a lawyer interested in justice and who recognizes the enormous potential here) to file a personal restraint petition to charge me based on the mobility of sperm evidence of innocence. I have evidence that clears me and wanted results in my release from prison. Civil rights litigation must be strictly implemented. I am an innocent man who has spent 23 years imprisoned if there is no evidence of guilt was referred to court and present proof of my innocence has never been submitted to the court.

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