DNA match links LaGrange man to alleged assault

Troup County authorities cracked a 13-year-old rape case after a DNA match linked a LaGrange man to the alleged assault, Lt. Rick Massie of the Troup County Sheriff's Office said.

Willie Charles Glaze, 36, was recently charged in connection with a rape that occurred in April 1994. Glaze served time in a Georgia Department of Corrections facility in Macon for armed robbery and had just been released when he was scooped up by the criminal investigations division of the Troup County Sheriff's Office, Massie said.

Troup County deputies received a call from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Crime Lab Jan. 23 in regard to a possible DNA match with a rape case the sheriff's office had been working on since 1994. Massie said all inmates going into or coming out of the jail and prison system in Georgia must have a DNA swab. When Glaze was released from the institution in Macon, the GBI found a link between Glaze's DNA and that which the Troup County Sheriff's Office logged into CODIS sometime after the 1994 rape and robbery of a LaGrange woman.