NEW YORK (AP) — A jury took less than two hours Wednesday to convict a man of raping a woman 32 years ago at knifepoint — a verdict made possible by DNA technology that did not exist when the suspect escaped conviction in the 1970s.
Fletcher Anderson Worrell, 58, was found guilty of rape and robbery in the 1973 attack on Kathleen Ham in her Manhattan apartment.
Ham, 58, a lawyer who lives in California, testified in chilling detail the attack; she asked that her name be made public to show she is not ashamed.
Worrell's 1974 trial ended in a hung jury.
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He could get 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison on each of the two counts at sentencing Nov. 28.