Curtis Thompson Linked To Second Sexual Assault

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By By Kevin Reece

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Investigators say they now have evidence that Curtis Thompson raped a woman in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood.

Story Published: Sep 1, 2004 at 2:38 PM PDT

Story Updated: Jul 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM PDT

Curtis Thompson Linked To Second Sexual Assault
SEATTLE - A convicted sex predator arrested for allegedly attacking two women in Seattle's University District has been linked to another sex attack.

Investigators say they now have evidence that Curtis Thompson raped a woman in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood just a few days before the U-District attack.

Prosecutors argued that this guy should never be let out of jail; that after four brutal rapes and 18 years in prison, Thompson was a continued threat and couldn't be rehabilitated.

In court documents released Wednesday, prosecutors say fingerprints prove that Curtis Thompson brutally raped a woman again.

On Aug. 23, KOMO 4 News showed surveillance video from a Univeristy District apartment building where police say Curtis Thompson attacked two women, beat up an older man, made one woman take off her blouse, and threatened to kill them all.

911 calls got police there quickly. They tackled Thompson as he left. He's been in jail ever since.

But six days before that happened, someone broke into an apartment on Minor Avenue East in Seattle at 2 o'clock in the morning. There, a 29-year-old woman was brutally raped for up to two hours.

At one point, police say she hit the attacker with a lamp, but he grabbed it away from her and tied her up.

He finally left taking her car, police say.

Now, police say fingerprints on an open window and that lamp positively match the fingerprints of Curtis Thompson.

This has been a frustrating case for prosecutors. They begged a jury to agree that Thompson should be committed indefinitely in prison as a sexual predator. But that jury, in the first of its kind decision, decided to set him free.

Now within a year of that release, he's charged in two brutal attacks.

This time, however, if convicted, he'll get life in prison and never have a chance to attack again.

Earlier KOMO 4 News story on Eastlake Rape -- www.komonews.com.