CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The victim in a 1991 rape case in Clinton Township that had gone unsolved until now is speaking out in hopes that other potential victims will come forward.
Police announced this week they had matched DNA in the case to 51-year-old Roderick Hunter.
Hunter hasbeen in prison since 2005on an unrelated conviction forcriminal sexual conduct.
Local 4's policy is to not show the faces or print the names of sexual assault victims; however, the victim in the case willingly went on camera in hopes of convincing other possible victims to come forward.
"My DNA came back positive. He was my perpetrator," the victim said. "He just ran at me and threw me down on the floor and proceeded to rape me. I just remember crying the whole way through it and my dog was licking the tears off my face."
When investigators knocked on her door to tell her they had a DNA match, the victim said she breathed a sigh of relief.
"I had chills go up and down me and I just knew it was him," she said.
But, because of statute of limitations, Hunter cannot be charged with her rape.
"The system stinks as far as that goes," the victim said.
She wants other women who may have been targeted by Hunter to come forward.
"He probably has done other women and the more women that will come forward, like I am, and say, ‘Yes, he is the person,' I think we have a really good chance of keeping him in jail for the rest of his life," she said.