DNA Tests Crack 1993 Rape Case

Four separate rape cases in three central Kentucky counties have all been linked to one man.

39-year-old Trevor Devon Johnson is just now being charged with the rape of a Lexington woman that happened back in 1993.

Through DNA testing, authorities also linked Johnson to rapes in 1996 -- two sexual assaults in Woodford County and one in Anderson County.

Sergeant Keith Broughton of the Versailles Police Department said the tests did not only help law enforcement officials solve cases.

"After ten years to be able to go back to my victim and to be able to say we know who he is and be able to see the relief on her face..." Broughton said.

Investigators were able to crack these cases due to a grant which was given to Kentucky to work cold cases.

The grant allowed lab experts to compare DNA in cold cases with the DNA of convicted felons. That's how the match came about in these four cases.