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A Racine man suspected in a series of unsolved rapes from several years ago has been charged in two cases after investigators tracked him down using a DNA profile of his broader family.
Matthew P. Crockett, 46, faces one count of first-degree sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman in November 2014, and a count of second-degree sexual assault of a 40-year-old woman in spring of 2015, and two counts of false imprisonment.
Both attacks took place in Kenosha, according to the criminal complaint, and each victim reported a short man pulling them into a white car where he assaulted them.
Investigators from the state Department of Justice s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative have been reviewing evidence from backlogged rape kits, the evidence collected from victims by nurses. They noted the same suspect DNA from the two Kenosha assaults matched suspect DNA from two more in Racine from around the same time.
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Michael Graveley announced he would not seek criminal charges against Sheskey for shooting Blake.
Kenosha Police Lt.
Joseph Nosalik said in a television interview that the Kenosha police chief had all the information about the theft but wanted to see what the decision regarding charges would be. After Shesky returned to work on March 31, Nosalik said the chief authorized the investigation into the gun theft.
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WISN reported Sheskey told investigators he regularly left the weapon in his girlfriend’s locked vehicle. The officer said he had secure locations for firearms at his Kenosha home, but after receiving death threats he moved and “did not have an opportunity to provide a safe location inside the home in which he was now living in.”