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Kevin Coe, born Frederick Harlan Coe on February 2, 1947,〔http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=5347081&nav=menu484_2 KNDO〕 is a convicted rapist from Spokane, Washington, often referred to in the news media as the "South Hill Rapist". As of May, 2008, Coe is still a suspect in dozens of rapes. His notoriety is due to much more than the fact that he is a suspect and convict. The number of victims he has been suspected of having raped is unusually large; his convictions received an unusual amount of attention from appeals courts; his mother, Ruth Coe, was convicted for hiring a hit man against her son's judge and prosecutor after the initial convictions; and the bizarre relationship between Coe and his mother became the subject of a nonfiction book, ''Son: A Psychopath and his Victims'', by the crime author, Jack Olsen. On July 31, 1982, he legally changed his first name to Kevin.〔 ==Arrest and trial== During the wave of sexual assaults perpetrated in Spokane between 1978 and 1981, many involved an extreme level of physical injury to the victims,.〔(Rape victim tells her story: "He's always right there". Seattle Times, Sept. 3, 2006 )〕〔(Woman who helped convict Kevin Coe steps forward. KXLY 920, no date )〕〔(State is fighting to keep infamous rapist locked up. Seattle Times, Aug. 31, 2006 )〕 Due to a distinctive 'signature', a gloved fist or fingers rammed in the mouth and throat of his victims, police suspected the rapes to be the work of a single offender, whom the media soon dubbed the "South Hill rapist". In 1981, after a school custodian observed a car illegally parked in a bus drop-off zone during the time a daylight rape occurred, police traced the vehicle registration to Gordon Coe, the managing editor of the ''Spokane Chronicle''. The senior Coe, ironically, was in charge of a program to receive tips on the rapist's identity. He was ruled out due to his age; his son, Fred, a former radio announcer in Las Vegas and unsuccessful real estate agent, who was also known as "Kevin", had the use of the car. Police placed a tracking device on his car and discovered, that in addition to targeting lone female joggers, he was apparently stalking city buses for victims. After several victims identified him in photo lineups, Coe was arrested on six charges of first degree rape, although authorities believe he was actually responsible for numerous incidents of peepings, flashings, indecent assaults and at least 43 rapes.〔(''Spokesman-Review'', 2007-12-27 ) A forensic psychologist has since testified in court to her professional assessment that Kevin Coe may be responsible for 53 sexual assaults.〕 One of Coe's victims was former KREM 2 meteorologist and former KHQ 6 morning anchor Shelly Monahan,〔http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=17256〕 but her case was not one of the six; she underwent hypnosis but was not able to identify her attacker. Coe was originally put on trial in 1981 and convicted on four of the six charges of rape. The case was a strong circumstantial one: in addition to positive identification given by the six victims, Coe had received speeding tickets in the same areas right after the rapes occurred, his blood type matched that left at the scene, and like the rapist, he was a secretor, meaning his blood type showed up in his bodily fluids. Coe's alibi was that he was either breakfasting or dining with his parents during the time the attacks occurred, or else, as his socialite mother, Ruth, testified, teaming up with her in a mother-and-son vigilante squad to follow local buses and try and capture the real rapist themselves. At sentencing, a psychiatrist hired by the defense testified that Coe had confessed to the sixth rape; this did nothing to reduce his consecutive sentences, which amounted to life plus 75 years. Coe would later recant this, claiming he had concocted the story thinking he'd be sentenced to a psychosexual treatment center instead of prison. In June 1984, three years after Coe's trial, Washington's Supreme Court tossed out all of Coe's convictions because many of the victims had been hypnotized before formally identifying him, in the hope of providing more details to the rapist's identity.〔(''Spokesman-Review'', Kevin Coe timeline, August 31, 2006 )〕 Coe was released on bail for a year before the new proceeding, where he was retried on the four counts for which he had been convicted, and was convicted again on three and sentenced to Life plus 55 years. His appeal of the new convictions also made it all the way to the state Supreme Court, which in 1985 overturned two and upheld one (where his accuser clearly saw his face during the attack, so there had been no need to hypnotize her). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Coe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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