A North Carolina man received a 30-year sentence Tuesday related to a 30-year-old cold case involving an assault in Indiana.
According to Indiana State Police, in the 1994 case a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped in Owensboro, Kentucky, and was forced to drive to Spencer County, where she was sexually assaulted. The woman was ordered to lay down in the back of her vehicle while the person who assaulted her drove back to Kentucky, parked the car and fled.
North Carolina television station WBTV reported in March 2023 that the woman was kidnapped near Brescia University, a private Catholic women’s college in Owensboro.
The Jasper District of the Indiana State Police submitted DNA evidence from the incident into the FBI’s national database. The DNA matched 60-year-old Robert D. Shelton of Hickory, North Carolina.
ISP Detective Josh Greer traveled to North Carolina to interview Shelton and confirm the DNA sample. Shelton was arrested in March 2023.
