Opinion ID: 844257
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Heading: The Burglary and Rapes of Julia K., and Robbery of Joseph C.

Text: On the evening of December 10, 1992, while Julia K. was alone in her Moreno Valley home, a man suddenly appeared on her staircase. He had apparently gained entry through an upstairs bedroom window that had been left ajar. He was dressed in [a]ll black, from head to toe; only his eyes were visible through his black hood. Julia ran for the door, but he caught her, forced her upstairs at gunpoint, and raped her. Afterwards, he gave her a towel and told her to clean herself, which she did. Later, concerned that he might react violently if surprised, Julia advised the rapist that her fiancé Joseph C. was due home from work. He said he might have to kill Joseph. Later, as Joseph started to enter the house, Julia, dressed only in a sweater, warned him not to move. She said: We're being robbed, and there's a man in the house. He's dressed like a ninja, and he has a gun and a knife. The rapist put a three-foot sword to Joseph's throat, hog-tied him, and put him in an upstairs closet. Telling Julia to put on a teddy, he raped her twice, first with her astride him, and then by entering her from behind. During Julia and Joseph's five-hour-long ordeal the rapist was oddly chatty. He said that he usually operated in Riverside, but that he liked Moreno Valley and would be back. He gave them advice on home security, saying that they should get a meaner dog and should mount their motion detector lights higher so that a burglar could not unscrew them. Similarly, the rapist of Regina M. had lectured her on home security, saying he had entered through an unlocked window. The rapist took Joseph's paramedic identification, which the police later found in a briefcase on defendant's bed, along with defendant's driver's license and college transcripts. A wallet found in defendant's living room contained a photograph of Julia and Joseph, as well as defendant's Social Security card, his library card, and a photograph of defendant and Stephanie Compton. The rapist had asked Julia and Joseph whether they thought this was going to make it into the newspaper. A newspaper clipping regarding a burglary and rape in Moreno Valley was also found in the briefcase on defendant's bed. The rapist's pistol was a silver automatic, similar in shape, size, and appearance to the pistol found in defendant's garage. The rapist's sword was similar to two swords found in defendant's garage. Defendant's girlfriend Stephanie Compton had given him one of the swords and had seen the other in his house. Defendant told police he trained with a ninja sword. The rapist was wearing black gloves with gray duct tape on the fingers, like gloves found in defendant's bedroom. He was also wearing ninja slippers with a separation for the big toe, like the ones found in defendant's garage. The semen stain on the towel the rapist gave Julia matched the genetic profile that defendant shares with 8 percent of the population, just as in the murder of Brenda Kenny and the rapes of Regina M. The rapist's skin color, visible through the eyeholes of his hood, was described by Julia as light black and by Joseph as light brown. According to Joseph, it was identical to defendant's. According to Julia, the rapist was six feet tall.