Credit: Fayetteville Police Department
Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit have charged a suspect in connection with a rape that occurred in October 1997. Linford Deamoris Moore (55), of Fayetteville, has been charged with First Degree Rape, First Degree Kidnapping, and Felony Breaking and Entering.
On Wednesday, Moore was located in Hope Mills and arrested by members of the Fayetteville Police Department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team and Hope Mills Police Department. Moore is currently being held at the Cumberland County Jail under a $250,000 secured bond.
In 1997, the victim was was asleep in her residence when she was awakened by an unidentified male shining a flashlight in her face. The suspect placed a bag over her head and proceeded to sexually assault her. The case was investigated, but eventually went unsolved.
However, the case was reopened after the victim observed the 2015 press conference awarding the Fayetteville Police Department the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s FY2016 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Grant.
Due to the ongoing advancements in DNA technology, and collaboration from Parabon Nanolabs, Inc., the NC State Crime Laboratory, analysts with the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, and other members of Fayetteville Police Department’s Sexual Assault Cold Case Multidisciplinary Team, Moore was identified as a suspect.
Anyone with information concerning a sexual assault case is asked to contact the Fayetteville Police Department’s Special Victim’s Unit at (910) 433-1851 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-8477. If you have been, or are, a victim of sexual assault, victim advocates from the Phoenix Center work with detectives to ensure victims receive appropriate care and access to resources. The Phoenix Center can be reached by phone at 910-485-7273.
Anonymous tips can be submitted through Fayetteville/Cumberland County Crime Stoppers by calling (910) 483-TIPS (8477). Crime Stoppers information can also be submitted electronically by visiting http://fay-nccrimestoppers.org and completing the anonymous online tip sheet.
Republished courtesy of Fayetteville Police