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| Registered Sex Offender Released From Prison, Arrested For Rape |
| By KMBC |
| Published: 06/20/2003 |
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A registered Missouri sex offender released from prison has been arrested after DNA evidence linked him to another rape, KMBC reported. Michael Crane, 41, was arrested Wednesday in connection with an attack on a Kansas City woman near Whispering Lake Apartments in March. He faces six counts -- including rape, kidnapping and sodomy. 'She saw a man matching Crane's description 50 feet away from her. (She) stayed in her car until she thought the gentleman had left,' said Michael Sanders, the Jackson County prosecutor. Sanders said Crane followed the victim and then raped her for 30 minutes, even asking her during the attack if she liked it. After a search of a sex-offender database, prosecutors said Crane's DNA matched evidence found on the victim's skirt. KMBC reported Crane's criminal past is lengthy and violent. In 1993, Leawood police charged Crane with attempting to rape and kidnap a video store clerk. A jury found him guilty and gave Crane 20 years to life in prison. However, in 1996, the Kansas Supreme Court reversed the ruling on a technicality, KMBC reported. Crane pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, registered as a sex offender and gave a DNA sample to the offender database. Then, in 1998, the state tried to get Crane committed under the violent sexual predator act. The state Supreme Court stopped that as well, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. In Kansas v. Crane, the high court said the state couldn't commit Crane or any alleged dangerous sexual predator without first proving the offender has difficulty controlling his impulses, KMBC reported. After the decision last year, the Larned State Hospital removed Crane's violent sexual predator status and let him go. Staff said Crane was 'almost cured.' Police arrested Crane Wednesday at his mother's home in Blue Springs, Mo. Officers said Crane denied raping the woman at Whispering Lake. Prosecutors said Kansas v. Crane defined the nationwide standard for the confinement of sexually violent criminals. |
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