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BJA’s SAKI Program Solves 36-Year-Old Sexual Assault Cold Case, Bringing Long-Sought Justice to the Victim


One early morning in 1985, a masked intruder broke into Carrie Krejci’s apartment. At gunpoint, he tied her hands behind her back. Hearing stories on the news of a masked man roaming the neighborhood raping women at gunpoint and fearing for her own life, she begged for mercy. After ransacking her home, the assailant brutally raped her.

On August 19, 2020, David Thomas Hawkins, 75...