The warrants described the grotesque murders of a brother and sister at a DeKalb County dwelling all the best way again in 1990.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A horrific crime that took the lives of a brother and sister again in 1990 in DeKalb County seems to have lastly been solved.
On Thursday, June 6, Kenneth P Perry, of Loganville, was booked into the DeKalb County Jail and charged with two counts of homicide and one depend of rape.
Perry’s arrest warrants, which 11Alive obtained on Friday, are closely redacted, together with the placement of the crime and the victims.
Nonetheless, the warrants do present particulars on the double murder that occurred on Sunday, July 15, 1990.
The warrants allege between midnight and simply after 4:00 a.m., the person who was killed, who shouldn’t be recognized, introduced Perry again to his dwelling, the place his sister was additionally staying.
Someday throughout that four-hour interval, the district lawyer’s workplace alleges Perry stabbed the person, killing him inside the house.
The district lawyer’s workplace then alleged Perry entered the person’s sister’s room, the place he put a pillow over her head, raped her and stabbed her a number of occasions.
The warrant states she tried to name 911 for assist, however Perry “pulled the chord out of the wall.”
She died two weeks after the brutal assault.
It will be years — 22 years, in truth, earlier than the sufferer’s sexual assault package might be examined.
In a earlier chilly sexual assault case, DeKalb County District Legal professional Shery Boston defined that previous to 1998, investigators might solely check DNA proof if that they had a suspect with whom they may examine the samples. In consequence, most of the rape kits from earlier than 1999 went untested and have been housed within the GBI.
Perry’s arrest warrant states that in 2022, his alleged sufferer’s sexual assault package was examined and produced a male DNA profile.
In 2024, the warrant states the district lawyer’s workplace had the DNA profile uploaded right into a nationwide database. Their technique labored as a result of they acquired a DNA hit greater than 700 miles away in Detroit.
Perry’s arrest warrant states the DNA hit was tied to an unsolved sexual assault case, and the accused suspect was Perry.
It will be 33 years after the alleged crime that the district lawyer’s workplace would take their proof to a decide.
On June 5, his arrest warrants have been signed, and the next afternoon, on June 6, Perry was arrested by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Workplace.
On June 7, Perry appeared earlier than a Justice of the Peace decide who, as a result of critical nature of his costs, couldn’t set bond. His subsequent look shall be within the coming weeks in entrance of a Superior Courtroom decide.
