60-year-old North Carolina man, Robert Daniel Shelton, sentenced to 30 years for 1994 cold rape case in Indiana, with DNA match in 2023.

60-year-old North Carolina man, Robert Daniel Shelton, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 1994 cold rape case in Indiana. The victim, a 19-year-old woman, was kidnapped in Owensboro, Kentucky, and driven to Indiana where she was sexually assaulted by an unknown man. DNA evidence submitted to CODIS in 2022 led to a match with Shelton in January 2023, resulting in his arrest and conviction.

April 24, 2024
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