Booking photograph of Donald Lee NorredA federal DNA indexing system has helped bring an almost 16-year-old Georgia rape case to a close.
Donald Norred, 41, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday in Chattooga County Superior Court for the 1998 rape of a woman in rural Lookout Mountain, Ga.
Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Herbert “Buzz” Franklin said the case might have remained unsolved had it not been for the Combined DNA Index System, kept up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“At the time, it was a stranger-on-stranger assault, so those are more difficult to investigate,” Franklin said.
On Aug. 2, 1998, police responded to a report of a woman and her male friend being attacked by a man who had claimed to be an undercover police officer. They told police that the attacker approached their parked car and asked them to step out of the vehicle.