DNA Evidence Points to Rape Suspect

The Niceville Police Department arrested an Alabama man after laboratory tests tied him to a seven-year-old rape case.

Kelvin Lamar Moore, 26, of Prichard, Ala., has been charged with kidnapping a woman at gunpoint in the former Delchamps Food Store parking lot in December 1998 and forcing her to have sex with him in his car, according to a Niceville police report.

Following the assault, investigators believe Moore dropped the woman off on Willow Avenue where she ran to a house and called for help.

In September 2001 DNA was found on the woman’s clothing saved as evidence from the rape, according to the report.

In March 2006, test results showed the DNA matched a sample taken in 2005 from Moore, an inmate in an Alabama jail on unrelated charges.

Moore has been charged with aggravated sexual battery, grand theft of a vehicle and kidnapping, according to the report.