North Carolina man charged with rape in Maryland more than 40 years later

A North Carolina man with a historical past of indecent publicity and peeping-tom arrests has been charged in Montgomery County, Maryland, with rape and sexual assault that was dedicated greater than 40 years in the past.

Police stated Chilly Case Detectives Alyson Dupouy and Tara Augustin, together with forensic specialists from the Montgomery County Crime Lab recognized an open rape case from April 1981 in March 2022.

After coming throughout the case, the group submitted collected proof from the case to the Mixed DNA Index System, or CODIS, for added testing.

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The proof was additionally checked towards the FBI’s Nationwide DNA Index System, or NDIS, and matched to Marion Edward Pearson, Jr., 65, of Durham, North Carolina, on Oct. 31.

Pearson was a resident of Prince Georges County, Maryland, and frequented the College of Maryland-Faculty Park space. Between 1980 and 1999, he was arrested a number of occasions for assault, indecent publicity and peeping-tom, based on police.

Pearson was launched from a North Carolina jail in 2020 after serving 22 years for a collection of first-degree rapes, a press launch from the Montgomery County Police Division learn.

Montgomery County police arrested Marion Edward Pearson, Jr. on rape and sexual assault circumstances from greater than 40 years in the past.
(Montgomery County Police)

Together with peeping-tom, Pearson’s North Carolina prison historical past contains fees of trespassing, rape, theft, and occupied burglaries with sexual assault intent.

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Police stated on April 20, 1981, a lady was assaulted and raped on College Boulevard West in Silver Spring, Maryland. On the time, Pearson was dwelling in Prince Georges County.

DNA was recovered from the sufferer, in addition to from one other sufferer who on June 13, 1981, was attacked and sexually assaulted on Connecticut Avenue in Silver Spring.

The sufferer of the second incident offered police with an outline of the suspect, and, based on police, it was much like the suspect description given within the April 20 rape.

Primarily based on the DNA match and similarities of the suspect descriptions, investigators obtained an arrest warrant and charged Pearson with first-degree rape, false imprisonment, theft and assault for the April 1981 rape.

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Pearson was additionally charged with tried first-degree rape, false imprisonment, and assault for the June 1981 assault.

The Durham County Sheriff’s Division arrested Pearson on Nov. 28, 2022, with out incident, and he’s presently awaiting extradition to Maryland, police stated.

Detectives imagine there may very well be extra victims, primarily based on Pearson’s prison historical past, in each Maryland and North Carolina.

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Police encourage anybody who believes they could be a sufferer of Pearson’s to contact the Montgomery County Division of Police Main Crimes Division at 240-773-5070 or Crime Solvers of Montgomery County at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).