Suspect identified in Monroe girl’s 2000 rape
Published 11:48 pm Thursday, October 30, 2008
MONROE — Investigators believe they have identified the man who raped a teenage girl eight years ago.
Wayne Falcon, 32, was charged Thursday with second-degree rape in connection with a 2000 attack on a 15-year-old girl in Monroe. The victim, now 23, told investigators she was hitchhiking when a stranger picked her up in a black truck.
The man drove her to a secluded area and when she resisted his sexual advances, he beat and raped her, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Chris Dickinson wrote in a court document.
The girl remembered that the man told her his name was Wayne and he was from Montana, Dickinson wrote.
Prosecutors filed a rape charge against an unnamed person in 2003 based on genetic evidence collected during the investigation.
Last month the state crime lab reported that the sample matched the DNA of a man imprisoned in Montana.
Falcon was convicted in 2006 of forgery and burglary.
As a convicted felon, he would have been required to submit a DNA sample.
Falcon was scheduled to be released from prison soon. Monroe detectives will notify prison officials that Falcon has a warrant for his arrest, Dickinson said. He is expected to be returned to Washington to face the rape charge.
