An “avid golfer” in Michigan is facing charges of raping two women at golf courses more than 20 years ago after police pulled DNA from a coffee cup he threw away. Police say DNA links Kurt Alan Rillema, 51, of West Bloomfield, to a September 1999 attack at the Twin Lakes Golf Club in Michigan’s Oakland Township and a July 2000 attack near Pennsylvania’s Penn State Blue Golf Course, per USA Today. In the first case, a man asked an employee of the club for directions to the clubhouse before approaching her behind a building, per StateCollege.com. The second attack was similar, with a man asking a jogger for directions to the clubhouse before holding a knife to her throat. The man reportedly beat and raped the jogger, then threatened to “come after her” if she told anyone. “Despite the immediate notification of the police by the victim, her assailant fled and was able to avoid being apprehended, but he left behind a critical piece of evidence—his DNA,” Sean McGraw, First Assistant District Attorney for Pennsylvania’s Centre County, said at an April 18 press conference. A DNA profile was uploaded to the federal database CODIS in 2001. Three years later
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Discarded Coffee Cup Leads to Arrest for 2 Long-Ago Rapes – Newser
