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DNA leads to conviction in 1990 rape

Published 07/11/08

A Baltimore County man was convicted yesterday of raping a woman 18 years ago in Linthicum.

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It took a jury less than three hours to find Wendell Keys, 40, of Gwynn Oak, guilty of first- and second-degree rape and false imprisonment in connection with the July 31, 1990, rape of a 26-year-old woman he met at the Safari nightclub near BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Keys faces the possibility of life in prison. He will be sentenced Aug. 5.

Prosecutors credited DNA for cracking the case. Police arrested Keys in August 2007 after the county's crime lab matched his DNA to semen left at the scene.

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