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Investigator's discovery cracks two 1988 rape cases

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 11/25/08

The rapist left a fingerprint behind in the Eastport condominium in August 1988, police said.

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William Joseph Trice, 47, is awaiting extradition from Easgle Bridge, New York in relation to two 1988 rape cases.
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Seventeen years later, detectives learned through DNA that the same man was responsible for another 1988 rape in Arnold.

But detectives weren't able to crack the two cases until a keen-eyed investigator noticed over the summer that the original fingerprint had never been entered into a national database.

William Joseph Trice, 47, a former delivery man in the Annapolis area who moved to New York two years ago, is awaiting extradition this morning from Eagle Bridge. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4.

Mr. Trice, most...

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twenty year old rape case - 2008-12-11 12:00:04

I am glad that william was caught with dna.i for one know this person personally i am appald that what he did and look forward to seeing this man in jail for life.

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