{"id":1317,"date":"2026-05-30T07:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:05:39","slug":"raleigh-police-make-arrest-in-2001-sexual-assault-case-heres-how-they-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh police make arrest in 2001 sexual assault case. Here\u2019s how they did it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of a century after two people were sexually assaulted at gunpoint in Raleigh, investigators found their alleged attacker in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1315\">Disease-carrying \u2018kissing bugs\u2019 are in NC. Info about the dangerous insects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reginald Taylor, 48, was arrested Friday in Orange County, Virginia \u2014 roughly four hours north of Raleigh \u2014 in connection the December 2001 incident, the Raleigh Police Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense, possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts each of first-degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 10, 2001, police were called to the 7700 block of Mourning Dove Road in North Raleigh, after a man and a woman were \u201cintercepted\u201d by a man who forced them at gunpoint to undress, police said. The attacker then allegedly raped the woman before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, a married couple, were walking on Mourning Dove Road about 12:30 a.m. when a man stopped them to ask for a cigarette, The News &amp; Observer reported at the time. The man then pulled out a shotgun and forced the couple to walk behind some nearby townhomes, where he assaulted the woman while he forced her husband to lay on the ground, according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1314\">\u2018Bringing Up Bates&#8217; Alum Warden Bates and Kaybrie Patterson Are Married<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect took off with the couple\u2019s clothes, the 2001 article states.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators linked the assault to a similar incident in Charlotte, also in 2001. Police submitted clothing from both crime scenes to the Department of Justice State Crime Laboratory for DNA testing, according to the Raleigh Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A hit came back May 8 of this year, when the crime lab notified police Taylor\u2019s DNA matched the evidence. Raleigh police worked with the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Virginia and the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest Taylor, a news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Taylor was charged in June 2005 with first-degree rape and a first-degree sexual offense in a September 2004 incident in Charlotte, but prosecutors dismissed the charges in October 2005. It\u2019s not clear why those charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1312\">NC\u2019s private school voucher program will get a state audit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking story and will be updated as more information is released.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published <span class=\"inline-block\">May 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM<span>.<\/span><\/span><!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 25 years later, a DOJ crime lab DNA match prompted the arrest in Orange County, Virginia, of a man charged in a 2001 assault at gunpoint in Raleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raleigh police make arrest in 2001 sexual assault case. 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