Florida inspectors said the DNA helped them commit a brutal rape 36 years ago that was recently reopened after the victim came to remind them that his case was still unresolved.
Police in Coral Springs announced Friday that the woman was raped in her bed on August 22, 1983 after being woken in the middle of the night by an armed foreigner who had entered her home through a back door.
The woman contacted detectives in March after seeing social media accounts reporting that Coral Springs police had used DNA to arrest 59-year-old Frank Montana for a rape committed in 1987 by a man wearing a suit. a ski mask.
The detectives discovered that Norris's current residence, at the age of 60, was a federal prison in West Virginia where he was serving a sentence for armed robbery.
Norris has already been arrested for armed robbery, aggravated assault, assaulting a woman and kidnapping.
