Orange County judge grants motion to dismiss charges for 2 alleged victims in rape case
Dr. Grant Robicheaux and girlfriend Cerissa Riley, pictured in October 2018, were charged with drugging and raping multiple women. An Orange County Superior Court judge on Wednesday granted a motion by prosecutors to dismiss charges related to two alleged rape victims in the case
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An Orange County Superior Court judge on Wednesday granted a motion by prosecutors to dismiss charges related to two alleged rape victims in the case against a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting several women.
Judge grants motion to dismiss charges for 2 victims in rape case against Newport Beach surgeon, girlfriend
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - An Orange County Superior Court judge granted a motion by prosecutors to dismiss charges related to two alleged rape victims in the case against a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who are accused in drugging and sexually assaulting several women.
Prosecutors from the Attorney General s Office have said previously they wanted to chip down charges to one alleged victim in the case against Dr. Grant Robicheaux, 40, and Cerissa Laura Riley, 34. Robicheaux was charged initially with seven alleged victims and Riley with five.
By City News Service
Jul 15, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County prosecutors announced today that investigators have determined who raped and killed a 19-year-old Garden Grove nursing student 44 years ago, thanks to a DNA match made through a genealogical connection.
Terry Dean Hawkins, who died in the Orange County Jail in 1977, was deemed responsible for the rape and murder of Janet Stallcup in December 1976, according to the Orange County District Attorney s Office.
Stallcup was reported missing after she failed to show up for a party on Dec. 19, 1976. Her body was found in her car about eight days later, just 2 1/2 miles from her apartment.
Police Use Genetic Technology to Solve Teen’s 1976 Murder
Law authorities say they used investigative genetic geology to solve the 1976 rape and murder of a 19-year-old nursing student.
Investigators said the technology helped identify the man who attacked Janet Stallcup at Christmastime that year while she was on her way to a party. Her body found eight days later inside her car, about two- and-a-half miles from her Garden Grove apartment.
Her alleged killer, who police identified as Terry Dean Hawkins, died in 1977 while inside an Orange County jail for an unrelated reason. He was 45.
Despite the case going cold for decades, the Orange County crime lab obtained a single source male DNA profile in 2002 from swabs taken from the crime scene, the Orange County District Attorney’s (OCDA) office said. The profile did not find a match in the Combined DNA Index System database.
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