Charges have been filed for an assault and rape that happened 31 years ago in St. Louis County after new DNA testing linked a man to the unsolved case from 1989.
The victim of the crime was walking to work around 4 a.m. Sept. 30, 1989, in the 2200 block of Hudson Road in North County, when she was attacked at gunpoint and taken to a nearby carport, assaulted and raped, according to a St. Louis County Police Department account.
Quincy Smith
The suspect and the victim were strangers, and the victim reported the crime to police immediately. At the time, the victim was 29 years old. She is now 61.