DNA Connects Sex Offender To Old Murder
Blake Found Dead Along Freeway 17 Years Ago
POSTED: 5:01 p.m. PDT April 11, 2003
UPDATED: 5:22 p.m. PDT April 11, 2003
SAN DIEGO -- DNA allegedly links a repeat sex offender to the 1986 killing of a 14-year-old Chula Vista girl, 10News reported.
George Williams Jr., 47, (pictured, left) could face the death penalty if convicted in connection with the death of Rickie Blake.
Prosecutors also charged Williams with a special-circumstance allegation of rape during the commission of a murder.
Williams pleaded not guilty Friday to rape and murder charges, according to 10News.
The decision on whether to ask for the death penalty will be made after a preliminary hearing, Deputy District Attorney Jeff Dusek said.
The child disappeared the night of April 10, 1986. The teen's body was found near a Barrio Logan freeway offramp the next morning. She had been raped and strangled, Dusek said.
The prosecutor told Superior Court Judge David Szumowski that Williams molested his 6-year-old daughter in 1984.
Two years later -- a week after Blake's murder -- Williams raped a woman in San Diego at knifepoint, sexually molested her 6-year-old daughter, then raped the woman again, Dusek said.
After spending time in prison, Williams moved to Indiana and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old in February 1998, the prosecutor said.
"I'm so thankful that they got him," said the victim's mother, Alicia, outside court. "He's hurt too many people."
George Williams Jr., 47, (pictured, left) could face the death penalty if convicted in connection with the death of Rickie Blake.
Prosecutors also charged Williams with a special-circumstance allegation of rape during the commission of a murder.
Williams pleaded not guilty Friday to rape and murder charges, according to 10News.
The decision on whether to ask for the death penalty will be made after a preliminary hearing, Deputy District Attorney Jeff Dusek said.
The child disappeared the night of April 10, 1986. The teen's body was found near a Barrio Logan freeway offramp the next morning. She had been raped and strangled, Dusek said.
The prosecutor told Superior Court Judge David Szumowski that Williams molested his 6-year-old daughter in 1984.
Two years later -- a week after Blake's murder -- Williams raped a woman in San Diego at knifepoint, sexually molested her 6-year-old daughter, then raped the woman again, Dusek said.
After spending time in prison, Williams moved to Indiana and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old in February 1998, the prosecutor said.
"I'm so thankful that they got him," said the victim's mother, Alicia, outside court. "He's hurt too many people."
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