CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday, thirty years after he broke into a Charlotte apartment and raped two teenage girls.
The victims, a 15-year-old girl and 16-year-old girl, were having a sleepover in September 1985 at the older girl’s apartment on Park Fairfax Drive in Charlotte. They were asleep when a man forced his way into the apartment with a crowbar and entered their bedroom. He bound the victims and sexually assaulted them before fleeing the scene. The case went cold as investigators were unable to identify a suspect.
Decades later, investigators reexamined evidence in the case and submitted evidence for DNA testing. That testing resulted in a match that identified 47-year-old Anthony Wyrick as the assailant.
The trial began on May 16th. Wyrick was found guilty of second-degree rape, second-degree sexual offense, and second-degree kidnapping.
He was sentenced to a total of 260 years in prison.
