It’s been nearly 20 years since a 17-year-old girl in McCleary, Washington was kidnapped and raped. On Friday, Paul Bieker of Enumclaw was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the sexual assault.
It’s been nearly 20 years since a 17-year-old girl in McCleary, Washington was kidnapped and raped after being bound and placed in her own vehicle when she arrived home, then taken to another location and sexually assaulted. On Friday, Paul Bieker of Enumclaw was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the sexual assault.
“This sends a message to survivors that we will not give up on cold cases,” Ferguson said. “My office will continue this initiative to help law enforcement close these cases.” To date, the Attorney General’s Office provided approximately $120,000 to local law enforcement agencies for testing. Ferguson’s Office has approximately $170,000 remaining to assist agencies with additional cold cases.
The Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office says anyone with any information in Lindsey’s case can call the Lindsey Baum tip line at 360-964-1799 or emailThe Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office first investigated the rape of a teenage girl in March 2003. The Attorney General’s Office agreed to provide the resources and assist the sheriff’s office with the case. The Attorney General’s Office paid $5,000 to send Bieker’s DNA to a private laboratory for genealogical testing. The main database used by law enforcement, the Combined DNA Index System , is limited by only having DNA from convicted offenders.
One of those names was Bieker, who also lived in McCleary and near the survivor’s home at the time of the rape.Information from a genetic genealogy company does not provide grounds for an arrest by itself. Grays Harbor County law enforcement had to independently match Bieker’s DNA to the evidence collected from the crime scene.
After receiving funding from the Attorney General’s Office for forensic genetic genealogy testing, Spokane police arrested Kenneth Downing of Elk, WA in March for two home invasions and multiple rapes. A Whitman County Superior Court judge will sentence him on August 19 and he faces a standard sentencing range of between 17 to 23 years in prison.Also in March, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office announced a match for the DNA left behind by the killer of 61-year-old Patricia Lorraine Barnes, who was murdered in 1995.
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