DNA Connects Lake View Man to 2013 Rape: Prosecutors

CHICAGO, IL - A Lake View man was arrested this week on accusations he raped a woman he picked up from a now-defunct nightclub more than three years ago.

Prosecutors say DNA evidence has provided the connection between the crime and 43-year-old Robert Walters, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report.

Walters was charged with aggravated kidnapping and criminal sexual assault Monday and held on $5 million bail Tuesday for the alleged string of events that began outside the River North’s Castle Chicago nightclub in 2013.

The 21-year-old woman had been drinking and became separated from her friends when Walters offered to give her a ride home, prosecutors have claimed in court.

The victim fell in and out of consciousness during the ride and woke up to find herself outside a building that wasn’t hers. It was Walters’ apartment in the 600 block of West Diversey Place.

There she was dragged to the man’s bedroom andsexually assaulted, according to prosecutors, who said Walters threw the victim’s clothes at her and ordered her to put them back on.

The woman reported the incident immediately.

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