Nancy Crowden was living her best life in Alaska in March of last year when a call from Miami-Dade Police jolted her back to a time she’d rather forget.
“I thought it was a joke,” she told NBC6 Investigates. “I really had no memory of it.”
It was a night in January 1985 when she says two men she had just met in a Miami Beach bar raped her in a what was an open field along Northwest 9th Street west of Red Road.
“My mind had totally forgotten it,” she said. "I mean, it’s almost 40 years."
Within two hours of the attack, doctors collected DNA from her body that was eventually entered into a database that compares crime evidence to known offenders.
In March 2023, a hit: 63-year-old Gustavo Rivero, whose DNA was collected months earlier after he was convicted of cocaine possession.
In a Miami-Dade Police interrogation room 4,000 miles away from Crowden in Alaska, Rivero last May asked two detectives. “What’s going on, man?”
“You know how we know you raped her?” a detective asked after telling Rivero why he was being detained. “Because your DNA was inside her.”
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