Sex charges laid in 3 decades-old Calgary cold cases
CBC
Police have laid charges against an Edmonton man stemming from a series of sexual assaults in Calgary nearly four decades ago.
Officers said advances in forensic technology and investigative techniques aided them in their investigation of the three attacks in 1984 and 1985.
"These are violent and traumatizing crimes perpetrated against people in their own homes, a place everyone should feel safe," Staff Sgt. Michelle Doyle of the Calgary Police Service said in a statement.
"Even after nearly 40 years, we will not stop investigating cold cases," added Doyle, a member of CPS's sexual assault investigative unit.
The first of the three assaults occurred in February of 1984 when a teen was babysitting her sibling. That's when a man entered the Thorncliffe residence and sexually assaulted the teenager before fleeing, police said.
A month later, a woman and her child were at home in the 2100 block of Seventh Avenue N.W. Investigators said the woman awoke in her bed to find an unknown man in her room.
"As she tried to escape, the man forced her into another bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her," police said in a news release. "Before fleeing, the man threatened the victim with physical harm."
The third assault happened the following year in June. A woman was asleep in her residence in the 11200 block of Sixth Street S.W. and awoke to a man covering her face, police said. He then sexually assaulted the victim, alleging he had a knife. Police said he then fled the scene.
"With the advancement of forensic technology and investigative techniques, these three cases have been determined to be linked," the police service said in a statement.
On Monday, police charged Richard Hubert Jones, 69, of Edmonton, in relation to the three cases. Investigators said the man also lived in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
Jones faces nine charges.
Among the charges, he faces one count of sexual intercourse with a female person who was not his wife and who was under the age of 14 (under the 1984 Criminal Code of Canada).
He has also been charged with the 1985 Criminal Code offences of break and enter into a dwelling house and commit sexual assault, and sexual assault.
Jones is scheduled to appear in court in Calgary on June 12.
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