A Johnson City man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for raping a woman on the East Tennessee State University campus two years ago. David Franklin Creech, 43, was apparently not very difficult for law enforcement to identify as the rapist after he showed up at a hospital ER with a bite wound â which was inflicted by the woman he raped. Creech, who was charged after the February 2019 incident, entered an Alford plea, also called a best interest plea, to charges of aggravated rape, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault and criminal exposure to hepatitis C. A best interest plea means the defendant believes the state has sufficient evidence that a jury could reach a guilty verdict and chooses to plead guilty instead of taking their chances at a trial.