PARK HILLS, Ky. (AP) Authorities in Kentucky said they've arrested a Blairsville man who raped a woman in 1978 and who may be responsible for other crimes.
News outlets reported 77-year-old Michael Dean Tate was charged Thursday, Nov 14 with rape, sodomy and kidnapping.
In October 1978, a woman told Park Hills police that a man grabbed her throat as she exited her car. She said he then kidnapped and raped her.
Boone County detectives Timothy Adams and Coy Cox reopened the case in 2017 while investigating a similar unsolved murder. Adams and Cox ran fingerprints from the case, which matched Tate's.
The pair interviewed Tate in Union County, Georgia, where authorities said he confessed to the rape and other sexual assaults. An inmate population list for the Union County Jail showed Tate remained in custody with no set bond.
Tate is to be extradited to Boone County, Kentucky.
AccessWDUN staff contributed to this report.
